UNC-ETSU Postgame Notes

POSTGAME NOTES
UNC 77, ETSU 58
DECEMBER 16, 2025
CHAPEL HILL

UNC Scoring Leader: Henri Veesaar 26
UNC Rebound Leader: Veesaar and Caleb Wilson 8
UNC Assist Leader: Kyan Evans 6
Team Records: Carolina 10-1, ETSU 8-4

• Carolina is 10-1 for the first time since the 2017-18 season.
• UNC improved to 109-8 all-time against current members of the Southern Conference.
• The 19-point margin was ETSU's largest loss of the season. It was the second consecutive game the Tar Heels have handed a team its worst loss of the season (beat USC Upstate by 18 on Saturday)
• Caleb Wilson opened the scoring with a three-pointer, marking the 999th consecutive game the Tar Heels have made at least one three-pointer.
• Henri Veesaar scored a career-high 26 points and made a career-high 10 field goals. It was his fourth career 20-point game, three of which have come this season. He also tied his career best with tw0 3FGs.
• Veesaar (26) and Caleb Wilson (20) scored 20 or more points in the same game for the second time this season (Kansas).
• Veesaar was 10 for 11 from the floor. His field goal percentage of .909 tied the fourth-highest field goal percentage by a Tar Heel in the Smith Center and tied the fifth-best by any player in the 41-year history of the Smith Center.

Highest Field goal Percentage IN THE SMITH CENTER (MIN. 10 FIELD GOALS)
1.000 Scott Williams vs. Virginia, Jan. 13, 1990 (12x12)
.929 J.R. Reid vs. NC State, Jan. 18, 1987 (13x14) (freshman)
.923 Scott Williams vs. Pepperdine, Jan. 6, 1990 (12x13)
.919 Randolph Morris, Kentucky vs. UNC, Dec. 2, 2006 (11x12)
.909 Henri Veesaar vs. ETSU, Dec. 16, 2025 (10x11)
.909 Armando Bacot vs. Brown, Nov. 12, 2021 (10x11)
.909 Scott Williams vs. Georgia Tech, Feb. 28, 1990 (10x11)
.909 Joe Wolf vs. Georgia Tech, Jan. 25, 1986 (10x11)

• Wilson scored 20 points, his seventh 20-point game this season.
• Wilson was 7 for 10 from the free throw line. This was the 11th straight game Wilson made at least five free throws. That equals the second-longest streak in Carolina history. Bobby Lewis (1965-66), Pete Brennan (1957-58), and Lennie Rosenbluth (1956-57) each had streaks of 12 games. Rosenbluth and Tyler Hansbrough also had streaks of 11 games when they made five or more free throws.
• Veesaar and Wilson have both scored in double figures in all 11 games.
• Jarin Stevenson had a career-high four assists.
• Kyan Evans' six assists/zero turnover ratio was his best of the season. Evans has 11 assists and zero turnovers in the past two games.
• Carolina has 38 assists (on 55 field goals) and only 13 turnovers in the last two games.
• Jaydon Young made a three-pointer in consecutive games for the first time as a Tar Heel. Young was a season-best plus 19, the best plus/minus by a non-starter tonight vs. ETSU.
• Carolina shot 63.6% from the field in the first half. It was the highest field goal percentage in a first half this season and highest in a half since shooting 66.7% in the second half against Kansas on 11/7/25.
• Carolina went on a 15-0 run in the second half. It was the second time this year the Tar Heels have gone on a run of at least 15 points (18-0 vs. Central Arkansas).
• Carolina committed seven turnovers, the fourth time in the last five games the Tar Heels have committed fewer than 10.
• Carolina held ETSU to 58 points. The Tar Heels have won 30-straight games when holding opponents under 60 points.
• The Tar Heels have allowed fewer than 75 points in all 11 games. It is the longest such-stretch to begin a season since 1997-98 (12 games to begin the season).
• Carolina held ETSU to 38.5% from the field, the 23rd-straight time UNC has won when holding opponents to under 40%.
• The Tar Heels are 7-0 this season and 52-4 under Davis when they hold opponents under 40% from the floor.
• Carolina shot 54.0% from the floor. The Tar Heels are 6-0 this season and 41-1 under Hubert Davis when shooting 50% or better from the field.
• Carolina outrebounded ETSU, 35-23, improving to 10-0 this season when it outrebounds the opponents.
• The Tar Heels are 497-90 in the Smith Center, including 240-19 against non-ACC opponents.
• The Tar Heels are 61-9 under Davis in the Smith Center.

Next Game: vs. Ohio State, Saturday, December 20, CBS Sports Classic, State Farm Arena, Atlanta, Ga. (3 p.m., CBS)

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