CAROLINA 54, VIRGINIA 44
FEBRUARY 24, 2024
JOHN PAUL JONES ARENA
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.

UNC Scoring Leader: Cormac Ryan (18)
UNC Rebound Leader: Armando Bacot (13)
UNC Assist Leader: Elliot Cadeau (6)
Team Records: Carolina 21-6, 13-3 ACC; Virginia 20-8, 11-6 ACC

• The 54 points are the fewest in any Carolina win since a 54-51 win at Virginia on 2/25/2012.
• Carolina scored 26 points in the first half and 28 in the second. It was the first time UNC scored fewer than 30 points in both halves in a win since the 2012 win at Virginia.
• UNC had lost the previous five times it scored fewer than 60 points.
• Cormac Ryan led UNC with 18 points, the first time this season he led UNC in scoring.
• Ryan made a season-high six three-pointers, most by a Tar Heel since Caleb Love made six vs. Clemson last season.

• Ryan made five threes in the first half (one more than his previous season high, which he had done four times, including each of the last two games).
• Ryan is the first Tar Heel to make five 3FGs in a half since Love made five in the second half vs. UCLA in the 2022 NCAA Sweet 16 in Philadelphia.
• Ryan scored 15 of UNC’s 26 first-half points. It was the first time a Tar Heel outscored the rest of the UNC team in a half since 12/2/23 when RJ Davis did that in the second half vs. UConn.
• Ryan’s 18 points matched his season high in an ACC game (two games ago at Syracuse).
• Ryan has made 24 threes in the last eight games.

• Armando Bacot grabbed a game-high 13 rebounds. It was his sixth straight double-double, the 14th of the season and 82nd of his career. UNC is 11-3 this season and 59-23 when he has a double-double.
• Harrison Ingram had 10 rebounds, the 11th time in 15 games he had double-figure rebounds.
• RJ Davis made a season-low one field goal (a three in the second half). The first half was the first in which Davis didn’t score in a half this season.
• Davis’ UNC-record streak making multiple threes ended at 23 (eight more games than the previous record). He has made at least one three in all 27 games.
• Davis scored in double figures for the 24th straight game.

• Davis has 1,870 career points. He passed Walter Davis (1,863) for 11th in UNC history.
• Elliot Cadeau had a game-high six assists, one more than Virginia had as a team. It was the 11th time this season he had five or more.
• Jalen Washington blocked a career-high four shots. His previous high was two; he had all four in the first half.
• Carolina’s 16 field goals were its fewest since it made 16 against Boston College on 1/26/2022 in a home win.
• Carolina held UVA to 16.7% from the floor in the first half, lowest by an opponent since Bostion College shot 16.7% in Chestnut Hill in the first half on 1/2/22.

• Virginia’s 16 first-half points were the fewest UNC has allowed in a half since the Cavaliers scored 13 in the first half in the 2022 ACC quarterfinal in Brooklyn.
• Carolina’s 26 points in the first half were its fewest in any half this season. The 54 points were the fewest in a game this season (previous low was 65 at Clemson).
• Virginia’s 44 points were the fewest UNC has allowed since UVA’s 43 on 3/10/2022 in Brooklyn.
• Carolina blocked a season-high 10 shots, the most since the Tar Heels had 10 in a four-OT loss to Alabama last season.
• Virginia’s 16 field goals were the fewest by an opponent since UVA had 16 on 12/8/2019 in a Cavalier win in Charlottesville.

UNC-Virginia
• The Tar Heels lead the series, 135-62.
• Carolina is 45-38 in Charlottesville. The win snapped an eight-game win streak by the Cavaliers in John Paul Jones Arena (from 2013-23).
• The eight straight games were the most consecutive losses for Carolina at any one arena or at any opponent’s home court. The previous high was seven at Duke from 1951-56 (played twice at Duke in the 1951-52 season).
• UNC is 5-8 in John Paul Jones Arena, winning in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012. UNC’s most recent win in Charlottesville came on 2/25/2012.

Next Game: vs. Miami, Monday, Feb. 26 (7 p.m., ESPN)

I am here at JPJ flying solo today.

Huge game, obviously. I am looking forward to seeing how the Heels are today.

I expect this game to be very similar to the Duke/Wake contest presently going on a very close and competitive battle that will go down to the wire.

I really do not care that the Tar Heels have not won up there in 13 years because these are different teams and this is a different year. I believe Carolina fully understands the overall importance of this game and the effort with a week off since they played last will make for win for the visitors…

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OVER/UNDER 130.5


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As he showed against Duke when he hit five bombs from downtown he is capable of doing damage from long distance but I REALLY LIKE IT when he posts up on the left side and takes his defender into the paint and shoots from closer in.

Yes I realize he is shooting pretty close to 40 percent from three point land but I also realize he is either first or second in the league in rebounds so if he gets closer to the basket he has a great chance to get a offensive rebound and score or get fouled. He is just about a 60 percent free throw shooter but I still like him in the paint. Which do you think he helps the team the most?

NCAA has lost the right to enforce any rules on name, image and likeness compensation for student-athletes. Nice to hear that the NCAA will never be what they once were.

...and this was an absolute gem of scouting.

I've watched VaTech a few times and they STRUGGLE defending the post, which is why they are so danged grabby and handsy before the ball gets down there. Once we saw how they were gonna approach it, the staff was ready and it was an obvious practice point this week. On a day of meh 3-point shooting, this was won the old-fashioned way.

- Any time we saw Mando in a post before help was available we redirected to it, sometimes even in the Secondary. And in the second half we ran 3 different post-entry actions, all of which worked --- the old-school, iso wing entry, the backside baseline Flex-cut off ball reversal, and the quick P&R slip off the high up-screen to the Point (we coulda had even more on that one with some clean catches --- ALWAYS be looking when #2 has the rock),

- On that note, Mando looked way more spry today and flat took it to em, and was ready for kick-outs off doubles!

- We really had to toughen up after halftime. After a nicely called 1st half, it was predictable the foul numbers would go the other way, and they did. Their grabs caused more than one of our TO's and made it difficult to pull away.

- Speaking of tough, with so much of their attention on Mando, Ingram hit the boards like a grown-ass man and mostly finished strong on put-backs, using his width to clear space and going up strong.

- We missed some mismatches inherent in their 3-Guard lineup (a few times Withers had a Guard on him), but on the other end we were, except for unconscious #2 and Nickel (of course), able to contain their aggressive shooters. EC, RJ, Cormac, Seth and Woj all played hard D to make them work for most everything --- especially in the second half when we held them to 1/12 from deep.

- Also, there were a couple of times in the second half when our perimeter guys gave up fouls to protect Mando from getting #4 --- the subtle things that win games.

- Huge alpha play by RJ. With our continuity immediately stalled when EC went out late, RJ took on a perimter double and created a late-clock 3 just when we needed it most. And speaking of huge, Cormac's dagger 3 closed out any comeback chances.

- finally, our young Mr. Cadeau's next step of maturation into this level is to contain frustration, even when it's deserved. The last frustration foul (after being mugged like a Running Back vs a goal-line defense) was case-in-point. With a few exceptions, RJ is a good example to follow there. The little guy has taken more than his share of poundings over the years, but eventually realized that discretion is the better part of valor for a player so valuable. EC should follow suit. We survived it today (due to the reasons mentioned above) but Eliot was +19 in 23 minutes today --- we need ya on the floor, young fella!

Anyway, fun to watch a nice win utilizing old-school Carolina inside-out basketball! Now we have a week to prep for our nightmare arena --- time to change the narrative in Charlottesville, dadgummit!...

I haven't been following the conference realignments that closely so please straighten me out if I have this wrong.

As I understand it, we are adding Stanford, Cal and SMU, while still retaining FSU for a few more minutes. Is that right? My googling skills suck but that's what an article from last fall seemed to be saying.

Does that make the ACC better? Worse? More interesting? Less interesting?

Here's the list, in order of today's Pomeroy rankings: