MBB To Host Clemson For Senior Night Tuesday

Tuesday, March 3

Chapel Hill

7 p.m.

North Carolina

Clemson

Tickets From $37 - $49

Henri Veesaar

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March 2, 2026 | Men's Basketball

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GAME 30: CLEMSON
• The Tar Heels play host to Clemson on Tuesday, March 3, in the final game this season in the Dean E. Smith Center.
• Gametime is 7 p.m. Note that parking passes printed for the Clemson game list a 9 p.m. start. Those passes were printed before the gametime was changed to 7 p.m.
• Kevin Brown and Jay Williams have the call on ESPN.
• The Tar Heels and Tigers are both 11-5 in ACC play and are tied for fourth place in the conference standings.
• This is the 40th time the Tar Heels have won at least 11 regular-season ACC games, including all five seasons under head coach Hubert Davis. UNC has won 12 or more 29 times, including three previous seasons under Davis.
• Davis has led the Tar Heels to a 67-29 record in ACC play, the second-most wins by any team in the last five seasons.
• Tuesday is the final home game for seniors Seth Trimble and Elijah Davis as well as managers James Rolf Blizzard, Zach Dunn and Avery Wilkerson.
• Trimble was named ACC Player of the Week for his play against Louisville and Virginia Tech, when he made 18 of 28 field goals, totaled 50 points and eight assists. It was Trimble's first career ACC Player-of-the-Week award.
• Carolina has won three in a row and is 23-6 overall. The Tigers broke a four-game skid with a win Saturday over Louisville and are 21-8.
• Henri Veesaar matched his career high with 26 points and Seth Trimble capped a 50-point week with 20 points in an 89-82 win over Virginia Tech Saturday evening in the Smith Center.
• Veesaar, Trimble, Jonathan Powell (15) and Zayden High (12) all scored in double figures in the same game for the first time this season in the win over the Hokies.
• The game was tied at 44 at the half as the Hokies shot 53.1% from the floor, hit four 3FGs and went 6 for 6 from the line, while the Tar Heels turned the ball over eight times that led to 12 VT points. In the second half, Carolina shot 60.7% from the floor and allowed just two points off turnovers. Veesaar scored 18 of his 26 points and Trimble scored 13 of his 20 in the second half, as UNC eventually built an 11-point lead.
• UNC made 14 of 23 shots from the floor over the final 20 minutes. It marked the first time UNC shot 60% from the floor in a half in three consecutive games since the 2006-07 season (74.1% in the first half vs. Florida Atlantic, 60.0 in the second at St Louis and 64.5% in the second at Rutgers).
• Powell, High and Kyan Evans combined for 32 points off the bench, 14 more than the bench scored in any of the five games Caleb Wilson has missed due to injury and the most since the non-starters scored 35 against Notre Dame on January 21.

UNBEATEN AT HOME
• Carolina is 17-0 in the Smith Center this season. The 17 wins equal the most home wins in any of the 116 seasons of Carolina Basketball.
• The 2011-12 Tar Heels went 17-1 in the Smith Center.
• No UNC team has won 18 home games in a season.
• Carolina has gone undefeated at home in 23 previous seasons, including 11 seasons with 10 or more wins.
• The record for most home wins without a loss is 16 in 2016-17, when the Tar Heels went 15-0 in the Smith Center and beat Notre Dame in Greensboro in a game the NCAA determined a home game (unlike previous games UNC hosted in the Greensboro Coliseum).
• Carolina has won 17 consecutive home games, all this season. The 17-game winning streak is the longest in the Smith Center since a 22-game streak that began with a win over Miami 2/20/2016 and ended with a loss to Wofford on 12/20/2017.

CAROLINA'S Undefeated Home Records
16-0 – 2025-26
16-0 – 2016-17 (15-0 at Smith Center, 1-0 at Greensboro Coliseum)
15-0 – 2004-05, 2010-11
13-0 – 1986-87
12-0 – 1992-93
11-0 – 1937-38
10-0 – 1923-24, 1925-26, 1927-28, 1955-56, 1977-78
9-0 – 1934-35, 1968-69, 1970-71, 1971-72, 1978-79, 1983-84
8-0 – 1956-57
7-0 – 1917-18, 1920-21, 1922-23, 1960-61
6-0 – 1958-59

GENERAL
• Carolina will play without leading scorer and rebounder Caleb Wilson for the sixth straight game. The 6-10 freshman forward from Atlanta broke a bone in his left hand at Miami on February 10. Despite Wilson's absence, the Tar Heels have won four of the previous five games.
• Five Tar Heels have averaged 10 or more points in the last five games, including Henri Veesaar (19.0), Seth Trimble (17.2), Luka Bogavac (10.8), Zayden High (10.6) and Jarin Stevenson (10.4).
• The Tar Heels are 17th in the Associated Press poll and 25th in the NET.
• Carolina has six Quad 1 wins in the NET and has defeated four teams currently ranked higher in the NET – Duke (1), Virginia (14), Kansas (15) and Louisville (17).
• Duke and Virginia, the top two teams in the ACC standings, are a combined 28-4 in ACC play and 52-6 overall. The Tar Heels have two of the four wins against the Blue Devils and Cavaliers in league play. Carolina is the only team to win in Charlottesville this season.
• The Tar Heels have played only 15 of 29 games this season with all three of their top scorers in the lineup (Caleb Wilson, Henri Veesaar and Seth Trimble). UNC went 11-4 in those 15 games.
• UNC went 8-1 without Trimble, who missed nine games from November 11-December 16, 1-1 against Pitt and NC State without Veesaar and Wilson and 3-0 without just Wilson (wins over Syracuse, Louisville and Virginia Tech).

500+ WINS IN THE SMITH CENTER
• This is the 41st season the Tar Heels are playing in the Dean E. Smith Center.
• The win over Wake Forest on January 10 was UNC's 500th in the Smith Center.
• Carolina is 506-90 in regular-season and NIT games in the Smith Center.
• UNC became the ninth current ACC team with 500 or more wins in their respective home venues.
• Carolina has won 84.9% of its games in the Smith Center. Only one team in the ACC that has 500 or more wins in its current venue has a higher winning percentage.
• Carolina is 265-71 (.789) in ACC games in the Smith Center.
• UNC has played 46.6% of its home games in the Smith Center (596 of 1,280).
• Carolina has played 154 different opponents in regular-season or NIT games in the Smith Center.
• The Smith Center is the fifth home venue for the Tar Heels. Carolina has won 506 games and four NCAA titles in the Smith Center, 210 games and one NCAA title in Woollen Gym (1939-65), 170 games and one NCAA title in Carmichael Auditorium (1965-86, 2010), 130 in the Indoor Athletic Court (1924-38) and 63 in Bynum Gym (1911-23).

UNC-CLEMSON
• The Tar Heels are 136-25 all-time against the Tigers, including 60-2 in Chapel Hill and 29-2 in the Smith Center.
• Clemson has won the last two games and four of the last seven overall, including an 85-65 win at Clemson last season. The 20-point margin equaled the Tigers' largest win over the Tar Heels (also in 1977).
• The Tar Heels set an NCAA record by winning the first 59 games at home against Clemson, but the Tigers have two of the last three in Chapel Hill (2020 and 2024).

WITHOUT CALEB
• Carolina's fabulous freshman Caleb Wilson played in the first 24 games before suffering a hand injury that has sidelined him the last five games.
• With Wilson, the Tar Heels went 19-5, averaged 81.9 points (82.5 in ACC play), shot 47.7% from the floor, were a plus 5.1 in rebound margin and shot 68.8% from the line (Wilson attempted 32.4% of the team's free throws and was shooting 71.3%).
• The Tar Heels are 4-1 without Wilson. In those games, Carolina is averaging 76.0 points, shot 47.5% from the floor and has outrebounded its opponents by fewer than one per game.
• In the first 24 games, three Tar Heels were averaging double figures – Wilson (19.8), Henri Veesaar (16.4) and Seth Trimble (13.5). In the last five games, five Tar Heels are averaging double figures, led by Veesaar (19.0) and Trimble (17.2).
• In Wilson's last six games (UNC was 5-1), the Tar Heels were 17th in the nation in offensive efficiency and 56th defensively. In the last five games, Carolina is 33rd in offensive efficiency and 63rd defensively.

HUBERT THE FIRST WITH FIVE
• With 23 wins this season, Carolina has won 20 or more games an ACC-record 66 times (Duke is second with 60).
• Nationally, Kentucky is first with 68 20-win seasons (the Wildcats enter the week 19-10). UNC is second and Duke is third.
• Hubert Davis is the first men's basketball coach in ACC history to win 20 or more games in each of his first five seasons.
• Only three other ACC coaches ever won 20 or more in their first four seasons (Duke's Jon Scheyer, NC State's Mark Gottfried and Wake Forest's Skip Prosser).
• Bill Guthridge won 20 or more in his only three seasons as head coach of the Tar Heels.
• Davis has led the Tar Heels to 20 wins over nationally-ranked opponents, including nine top-10 teams (No. 4 Duke, No. 4 Baylor and No. 9 Duke in 2022; No. 6 Virginia in 2023; and No. 10 Tennessee, No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 7 Duke and No. 9 Duke in 2024 and No. 4 Duke in 2026).
• Carolina has beaten Kansas, Kentucky and Duke this season, the second time ever and first time since 1981-82 the Tar Heels have wins over those three teams in the same season.

CAROLINA & THE ACC
• This is the 73rd season of competition in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Tar Heels were a charter member of the league, which began play in the 1953-54 season.
• Carolina is the only school with 50 or more combined ACC men's basketball championships (33 regular season and 18 Tournament). Duke is second with 44 (21 regular season and 23 Tournament) and NC State is next with 18 (seven regular season and 11 Tournament).
• Hubert Davis is 67-29 in regular-season ACC games. Only one other team has more ACC wins in the last five seasons.
• Davis led the Tar Heels to ACC records of 15-5, 11-9, 17-3 and 13-7 in the previous four seasons. The 2023-24 team won the regular-season title, Carolina's 33rd.
• Carolina is 782-325 (.706) in regular-season ACC games. The 782 wins are the most in ACC history. Duke is second with 752.

SETH'S 50-POINT WEEK
• Senior guard Seth Trimble scored 50 points in Carolina's two wins last week – a career-high 30 against Louisville and 20 vs. Virginia Tech – to earn ACC Player of the Week.
• His previous two-game scoring high in back-to-back games was 44 points last season (27 vs. Dayton and 17 vs. Auburn) and 42 points earlier this season (20 vs. Florida State and 22 at SMU).
• The senior guard made a career-high 11 field goals (11 for 16) in leading UNC to a 77-74 win over Louisville.
• It is the most points by a Tar Heel this season and the first 30-point game since RJ Davis scored 30 in Maui against Dayton last season. Ironically, Trimble's previous career high (27) came in that same game, a 92-90 win over the Flyers.
• Trimble is averaging a career-high 14.5 points this season, an increase of 2.9 per game from last season. He averaged 1.8 as a freshman, 5.2 as a sophomore and 11.6 as a junior.
• It was the first 30-point game by a Tar Heel in the Smith Center since RJ Davis set the arena record with 42 vs. Miami on 2/26/2024.
• Trimble also led the Tar Heels with four assists against Louisville and Virginia Tech. He has led UNC in assists five times this season.

WILSON REWRITING THE RECORD BOOK
• Caleb Wilson is on the Late-Season Watch Lists for the John R. Wooden National Player of the Year and Naismith Trophy. He was a mid-season candidate for the Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year, Naismith National Defensive Player of the Year, USBWA's Oscar Robertson Trophy and Wayman Tisdale National Freshman of the Year awards.
• The 6-10 Atlanta native has made an immediate impact on the Tar Heel record book, becoming the first freshman to score 20 or more points in six consecutive games (from Georgetown through Florida State). The previous record was five by Phil Ford in 1974-75.
• Wilson had another five-game streak of 20-point games ended in the loss at Miami. He is the only UNC freshman with two streaks of five or more 20-point games.
• Wilson has scored 20 or more points 17 times, including a season-high 26 at Stanford. His 17 20-point games have already surpassed Tyler Hansbrough's previous UNC single-season rookie record. Hansbrough scored 20 or more 14 times in earning first-team All-America and first-team All-ACC honors in 2005-06.
• Wilson, Hansbrough, Rashad McCants and Ford are the only UNC freshmen with 10 or more 20-point games.

20-Point Games by a UNC Freshman
Caleb Wilson, 2025-26 17
Tyler Hansbrough, 2005-06 14
Rashad McCants, 2002-03 12
Phil Ford, 1974-75 10

• Wilson leads the Tar Heels in scoring, rebounding, offensive rebounds, steals and free throws (made and attempted), is tied for first in blocks, is second in field goal percentage and fourth in assists (second in assists per game).
• His scoring average of 19.8 points per game is on pace to set the UNC freshman record.

SINGLE-SEASON SCORING, UNC FRESHMAN
19.8 Caleb Wilson, 2025-26
18.9 Tyler Hansbrough, 2005-06
18.5 Cole Anthony, 2019-20
17.0 Rashad McCants, 2002-03
16.7 Joseph Forte, 1999-2000

• Hansbrough (in 2005-06) is the only Tar Heel freshman to lead the team in both scoring and rebounding. He also led the team as a freshman in steals. No Tar Heel freshman has ever led the team in scoring, rebounding, blocks and steals.
• Joseph Forte (16.7 ppg in 1999-2000), McCants (17.0 in 2002-03), Hansbrough (18.9 in 2005-06), Harrison Barnes (co-leader at 15.7 in 2010-11) and Cole Anthony (18.5 in 2019-20) have led UNC in scoring as freshman.
• Hansbrough (7.8 rpg in 2005-06), Antawn Jamison (9.7 in 1995-96) and J.R. Reid (7.4 in 1986-87) led UNC in rebounding as a freshman.
• Wilson is averaging 9.4 rebounds, second-most by a UNC freshman behind only Jamison.

SINGLE-SEASON REBOUNDING, UNC FRESHMAN
9.7 Antawn Jamison, 1995-96
9.4 Caleb Wilson, 2025-26
8.3 Armando Bacot, 2019-20
7.8 Tyler Hansbrough, 2005-06
7.8 Sam Perkins, 1980-81

• He scored in double figures in the first 24 games and has 11 double-doubles, the second-most by a Carolina freshman. He had 12 or more rebounds in 10 of his 11 double-doubles, including a season-high 16 vs. Florida State.

Double-Doubles by a UNC Freshman
(all points and rebounds)
13 Antawn Jamison, 1995-96
11 Caleb Wilson, 2025-26
11 Armando Bacot, 2019-20
9 J.R. Reid, 1986-87
9 Sam Perkins, 1980-81

• Wilson is third in the ACC in rebounding, field goal percentage and double-doubles and fourth in scoring.
• Wilson and Duke's Cameron Boozer are the only players in the top five in scoring, rebounding, field goal percentage and double-doubles.
• Wilson set a UNC freshman record with four consecutive double-doubles against Radford, NC Central, Navy and St. Bonaventure. Bacot (twice), Jamison and O'Koren were the only Tar Heel freshmen with three in a row.

VEESAAR MAKING ACC HISTORY
• Red-shirt junior center Henri Veesaar, a transfer from Arizona, leads the team in field goal shooting and three-point accuracy (41.8%), is tied for first in blocks and is second in scoring (16.7) and rebounding (8.4).
• Veesaar could become the first player in ACC men's basketball history to block 30 shots, make 30 three-pointers and shoot 60% from the floor in a season. He enters the Clemson game with 33 blocks, 33 threes and is shooting 61.0% from the floor.
• Veesaar is one of only seven Tar Heels to make 30 three-pointers and block 30 shots in the same season. The list includes Jerry Stackhouse in 1994-95, Vince Carter in 1997-98, Jawad Williams in 2002-03, Danny Green in 2007-08 and 2008-09, Luke Maye in 2017-18, Pete Nance in 2022-23 and Veesaar.
• Veesaar is 16th in the country with 50 dunks. He is the only player in the country with 50 or more dunks and 30 or more three-pointers.
• The Estonia native nearly had a double-double in the second half in the win over Duke. In the first half, Duke built a 41-29 lead as Veesaar was 0 for 2 from the floor, scoreless, had two rebounds and was minus 20. However, in the second half, he made six of seven shots from the floor, scored 13 points, pulled down nine rebounds, hit the game-tying three-pointer with 1:40 to play and was a plus 15.
• Veesaar is second in the ACC and 16th in the country with 13 double-doubles, the first 13 of his collegiate career. He played in 66 games over two seasons at Arizona.
• He is also second in the ACC and 19th nationally in field goal percentage, fifth in the ACC in rebounding and ninth in points per game.
• He has scored in double figures in 26 of his 27 games (except Virginia, when he scored seven).
• Veesaar has set numerous career bests as a Tar Heel, including points (26 vs. ETSU, Stanford and Virginia Tech), field goals (11 vs. VT), rebounds (15 vs. Georgetown), offensive rebounds (six vs. Florida State), blocks (five vs. NC Central), assists (five vs. Ohio State) and three-pointers (four vs. ECU).
• He has scored 20 or more points seven times – 26 vs. ETSU, Stanford and Virginia Tech, 25 vs. Wake Forest, 24 vs. the Bonnies, 20 vs. Kansas and 20 at Georgia Tech. He had one 20-point game in his first two seasons at Arizona.
• Veesaar leads UNC in plus/minus at plus 323 and has led the Tar Heels in plus/minus eight times, the most on the team.

HENRI FROM 3
• Henri Veesaar is Carolina's first 7-footer ever to make multiple three-pointers.
• Veesaar is 33 for 79 from three and leads the team in three-point percentage (.418).
• He is fourth on the team in three-pointers.
• Prior to this season, two seven-footers made one three apiece. Serge Zwikker made a three in the ACC semifinals vs. Tim Duncan's Wake Forest Demon Deacons on 3/8/1997 and Walker Kessler made one vs. Northeastern on 2/17/2021.
• Veesaar has made two or more three-pointers nine times this season, including a career-high four vs. ECU.

NATIONAL RANKINGS
• Offensively, the Tar Heels are 15th in turnover percentage, 19th in the country in assist/turnover ratio, 20th in turnover percentage and 31st in offensive efficiency.
• The Tar Heels are 50th in the country in field goal percentage defense, holding their opponents to a combined 41.5% from the floor. They've held seven opponents below 35% and 12 under 40%.
• Including the win over Louisville, UNC is 12-0 this season and 57-4 under head coach Hubert Davis when holding opponents under 40% from the floor. By contrast, Carolina is 1-4 this season and 7-19 under Davis when the opponents make 50% (including Saturday's win over Virginia Tech).
• The Tar Heel defense is 14th in the country in two-point field goal percentage defense (45.8%) and 41st in effective field goal percentage (47.8%).

THREES
• Carolina is making 8.41 three-pointers per game, on pace to equal the second-highest average in a season behind only 2018-19, when the Tar Heel lineup included Cameron Johnson, Coby White, Kenny Williams and Luke Maye.
• The Tar Heels also averaged 8.41 threes in 2021-22, Hubert Davis' first season as head coach.
• Five different Tar Heels have made at least 30 three-pointers – Luka Bogavac (43), Jonathan Powell (36), Derek Dixon (35), Henri Veesaar (33) and Kyan Evans (32).

MOST THREE-POINTERS MADE PER GAME
8.67 in 2018-19 (312 in 36 games)
8.41 in 2025-26 (244 in 29 games)
8.41 in 2021-22 (328 in 39 games)
8.29 in 2002-03 (290 in 35 games)
8.25 in 1982-83 (132 in 16 games – ACC games only)

• Carolina is attempting 24.8 three-pointers per game, which would break the previous school record of 23.9 in 2018-19.
• UNC is on pace to attempt more three-pointers than free throws for the second time ever. The Tar Heels have launched 720 threes and attempted 673 free throws. This would be the first season since 2001-02 when they take more threes than free throws.
• The Tar Heels attempted a season-high 34 threes against Notre Dame and made a season-best 13 vs. the Irish on January 21.

MOST THREE-POINTERS ATTEMPTED PER GAME
24.83 in 2025-26 (720 in 29 games)
23.94 in 2018-19 (862 in 36 games)
23.49 in 2021-22 (916 in 39 games)
23.49 in 2002-03 (822 in 35 games)
22.95 in 2017-18 (849 in 37 games)

• The Tar Heels are making 8.4 threes per game while allowing 8.0. UNC is in on track to make more 3FG than its opponents for the fifth consecutive year. From 2006-07 to 2019-20, Carolina made more 3FGs one time (in 2012-13).

TURNOVERS
• UNC is averaging 9.52 turnovers, its fewest ever (previous low is 10.08 in 2023-24).
• The Tar Heels have committed fewer than five turnovers three times this season (four at Virginia, two at Georgia Tech and four vs. Pitt). This is the first time UNC ever had three games in one season with four or fewer turnovers. The 2014-15 Tar Heels had two games with four or fewer; in no other season did UNC have more than one.
• Carolina has turned the ball over fewer than 10 times in 12 games (the Tar Heels have won 11 straight and are 11-1 in those 12 games).
• Carolina has committed 10 or more turnovers in each of the last five losses.
• Including this season, Hubert Davis' teams have produced the four-lowest turnover per game averages and five of the six-lowest in UNC history.
• The Tar Heels also force 9.48 turnovers per game, the fewest forced by UNC in a season (previous 9.7 in 2021-22). Carolina is 340th in the nation in forced turnovers.

ASSIST/TURNOVERS
• Carolina's assist/turnover ratio of 1.70 is the best in UNC history (previous 1.65 in 2015-16).
• Every player on the team who plays at least 10 minutes a game has more assists than turnovers.
• The Tar Heels are on track to make this the first season when every player who averages double-figure minutes has more assists than turnovers since turnovers were officially recorded beginning in 1979-80.
• Among the eight players who average 10 or more minutes, Jonathan Powell (2.56) has the best assist/turnover ratio. He is followed by Kyan Evans (2.48), Derek Dixon (2.26) and Luka Bogavac (2.17).
• Caleb Wilson has 64 assists and 47 turnovers (1.36). He is the first Tar Heel to average 9.0 or more rebounds and have more assists than turnovers since Luke Maye in 2017-18 and 2018-19. Maye is the only Tar Heel to accomplish that.

WINS VS. LOSSES
• Notable statistical comparisons between Carolina's 23 wins and six losses:
• UNC averages 83.2 points in the wins and 72.2 in the losses.
• The Tar Heels allow 67.7 points in the wins and 84.5 points in the losses.
• The opponents are shooting 52.2% from the floor, including 49.2% from three, in the six losses and 38.9/30.9 in Carolina's 23 wins.
• The Tar Heels have a rebound margin of 5.4 in the wins and have the same number of rebounds as the opponents in the losses.
• Carolina makes 1.4 more three-pointers than the opponents in the wins, while the opponents have averaged 2.9 more in the losses. The Tar Heels have been outscored by a total of 51 points from three in the six losses.

IN-SEASON AWARDS
• Senior guard Seth Trimble became the second Tar Heel to win ACC Player-of-the-Week honors. Trinble scored a career-high 30 points vs. Louisville, followed that with 20 points against Virginia Tech and led UNC with four assists in both games.
• Freshman forward Caleb Wilson has earned National Player-of-the-Week honors three times this season. He was one of five players named National Player of the Week by the USBWA for the week of November 3-9, he won the award from Andy Katz at NCAA March Madness for this play the week of December 15-21 and the Naismith Trophy tabbed him for his play against Syracuse and Duke.
• Wilson also was named ACC Freshman of the Week three times, following the games against Central Arkansas/Kansas, ETSU/Ohio State and Syracuse/Duke.
• He is the first Tar Heel to win three ACC Freshman-of-the-Week awards since Coby White was a five-time recipient in 2018-19.
• Wilson also was the ACC's Co-Player of the Week after Central Arkansas and Kansas.
• Wilson was the first Tar Heel freshman to also win ACC Player-of-the-Week honors since Cole Anthony in 2019-20.
• Wilson became the eighth Tar Heel to win ACC Player-of-the-Week honors as a freshman, joining Jerry Stackhouse (1994), Antawn Jamison (1996), Rashad McCants (2003), Tyler Hansbrough (2006), Brandan Wright (2007), White (2019) and Anthony.

PRESEASON ALL-ACC, POLL
• The Tar Heels were picked to finish third in the 18-team Atlantic Coast Conference by the media at the ACC's preseason media day in Charlotte.
• Caleb Wilson was voted to the league's preseason All-ACC second team and the All-Freshman team.
• UNC was picked No. 25 in the country in the Associated Press preseason poll.
• This is the 69th different season in the 78-year history of the AP poll the Tar Heels have been ranked at any point in the AP poll.

HUBERT DAVIS: YEAR FIVE
• The 2025-26 season is Hubert Davis' fifth as head coach at the University of North Carolina and his 14th on the coaching staff at his alma mater.
• He is the only head coach in ACC men's basketball history to win 20 or more games in each of his first five seasons.
• Davis, 55 (turns 56 on May 17, 2026), has won National and ACC Coach-of-the-Year honors, led the Tar Heels to a national title game appearance, 120 wins, a 67-29 record and 27 road wins in ACC regular-season play, a regular-season ACC title and a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Only one other team has won more ACC games in the last five years.
• Two of his players – RJ Davis and Armando Bacot – rank second and third, respectively, in all-time UNC scoring, set numerous records and earned national and All-ACC awards.
• Carolina won its 100th game under Davis in the 2025 ACC Tournament, making him the third-fastest coach in UNC history and the sixth-fastest in ACC history to win 100 games. Only Duke's Vic Bubas, UNC's Roy Williams and Frank McGuire, Wake Forest's Skip Prosser and Maryland's Lefty Driesell reached 100 wins in fewer games than Davis (who won his 100th in 143 games).
• Under Davis, Carolina is 8-3 in NCAA Tournament play, including wins against three national championship-winning coaches (Baylor's Scott Drew, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and Michigan State's Tom Izzo) and three other coaches who have taken teams to the Final Four (Marquette's Shaka Smart, UCLA's Mick Cronin and San Diego State's Brian Dutcher).
• Davis has led the Tar Heels to 20 wins over nationally-ranked opponents, including nine over top-10 teams (No. 4 Duke, No. 4 Baylor and No. 9 Duke in 2022; No. 6 Virginia in 2023; and No. 10 Tennessee, No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 7 Duke, No. 9 Duke in 2024 and No. 4 Duke in 2026).

2025-26 SCHEDULE NOTES
• The Tar Heels played 10 home games prior to New Year's Day for the first time since 2009-10.
• UNC was not scheduled to play Boston College.
• This is the first time since 1919 the Tar Heels are not playing NC State in Chapel Hill.
• The Tar Heels played Kansas in Chapel Hill for the first time ever. Last year, the Jayhawks defeated UNC in Lawrence. The November 7 game was just the third on-campus matchup in 14 games between the Tar Heels and KU.
• The Tar Heels made their first trips as ACC opponents to SMU, Stanford and Cal.

TAR HEELS IN THE NBA
• Eleven former Tar Heels were on NBA Opening Day rosters or are playing in the league, including Cole Anthony (Phoenix), Harrison Barnes (San Antonio), Tony Bradley (Indiana), Harrison Ingram (San Antonio), Cameron Johnson (Denver), Walker Kessler (Utah), Caleb Love (Portland), Pete Nance (Milwaukee), rookie Drake Powell (Brooklyn), Day'Ron Sharpe (Brooklyn) and Coby White (Charlotte).
• Leaky Black (Washington/Capital City) and Cormac Ryan (Milwaukee/Wisconsin) recently have signed two-way contracts.
• Several other Carolina alumni are playing in the G League: Garrison Brooks (Birmingham), RJ Davis (South Bay) and Ingram (Austin).
• At least a dozen Tar Heels are playing internationally, including Armando Bacot (Turkey), Ty Claude (Serbia), Isaiah Hicks (South Korea), Brice Johnson (Dominican Republic), Christian Keeling (Finland), Nassir Little (Japan), Brady Manek (China), Luke Maye (Japan), James Michael McAdoo (Japan), Kennedy Meeks (Taiwan), J.P. Tokoto (Poland) and Jae'Lyn Withers (The Netherlands).

CAROLINA-DUKE A RATINGS HIT
• The Tar Heels' 71-68 win over Duke on February 7 was ESPN's most watched college men's basketball game in the last four seasons.
• The game drew an average of 3.5 million viewers with a peak of 4.8 million.

RJ DAVIS IN THE RAFTERS
• RJ Davis, the 2024 ACC Player of the Year, will be honored at halftime.
• Davis is the 54th player to have his number retired or honored (his is the 46th honored jersey). He qualified under the current criteria as ACC Player of the Year and a first-team All-America, an honor he also unanimously earned in 2024.
• Davis is averaging 18.8 points and 4.8 assists for the South Bay Lakers.
• His honors, awards and records at Carolina include:
– 2024 unanimous first-team All-America and first-team All-ACC (second-team All-ACC in 2025)
– 2024 ACC Player of the Year
– 2024 Jerry West Award as the Best Shooting Guard in the Country
– Three-time winner of UNC's Dean Smith Award (Most Valuable Player)
– helped lead UNC to the 2022 Final Four and national championship game appearance (he scored 18 points in the national semifinal win over Duke)
– UNC career record for points by a guard (2,725)
– UNC career record for three-pointers (359)
– Smith Center scoring record 42 points vs. Miami, February 26, 2024
– UNC single-season scoring record by a guard (784 points in 2023-24)
– UNC single-season records for three-pointers (113) and most three-pointers per game (3.05) in 2023-24
– Second in career scoring by a Tar Heel and third in ACC history
– UNC career record for highest free throw percentage (86.1%)
– UNC-record 23 consecutive games with multiple three-pointers
– Tied UNC record for consecutive free throws made (41)
– ACC-record 175 games played
– ACC-record 140 games scoring in double figures
– Only Tar Heel with 2,500 points, 600 rebounds, 500 assists, 300 three-pointers and 175 steals
– Only Tar Heel with 10+ assists in one NCAA Tournament game and 30+ points in the next