CAROLINA 86, LOUISVILLE 70
JANUARY 17, 2024
ROY WILLIAMS COURT AT THE DEAN E. SMITH CENTER
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.

UNC Scoring Leader: RJ Davis 21
UNC Rebound Leader: Jae’Lyn Withers 10
UNC Assist Leader: Davis 6
Team Records: UNC 14-3, 6-0 ACC; Louisville 6-11, 1-5 ACC

• Carolina has won seven in a row, longest stretch since winning eight straight in 2018-19.
• UNC is 6-0 in the ACC for the first time since starting 8-0 in 2015-16.
• It’s the 14th time UNC has started 6-0 in the ACC.
• The Tar Heels are 8-0 at the Smith Center this season.
• Carolina has won five consecutive ACC games by double digits for the first time since the 2007-08 season. Carolina beat Virginia Tech (92-53), NC State (84-70), Wake Forest (89-73), Boston College (90-80) and Florida State (90-77) that season.

• RJ Davis led UNC with 21 points. It was the 13th time this season and 32nd time as a Tar Heel he led UNC in scoring.
• It was Davis’ 11th 20-point game of the season and 23rd career. UNC is 8-3 this season and 18-5 in his career when he scores 20.
• Davis made four three-pointers. It was his third straight game with four. He is the first Tar Heel to make four in three straight games since Brady Manek in 2021-22 (five vs. NC State, four at Louisville and six vs. Duke).
• Davis scored at least 20 points and had five assists for the fourth time this season and eighth time in his career. Carolina is 4-0 this season and 8-0 overall when Davis has 20/5.
• Davis went 5 for 5 from the free throw line and is 67 of 70 for the season. His percentage of .957 is on pace to break the ACC single-season record.

• Davis also had six assists and six rebounds, the first time in his career he totaled at least 20 points, six rebounds and six assists.
• Bacot passed Lennie Rosenbluth for fourth in UNC all-time scoring with 2,061 points. Rosenbluth scored 2,047 points from 1954-57.
• Bacot had five assists in the first half, which tied his previous season high (also vs. UConn).
• Bacot had three blocks. He passed Warren Martin for fourth most by a Tar Heel with 191.
• Bacot passed Virginia’s Ralph Sampson for fourth all-time in ACC history in rebounds. Bacot has 1,5

• Ryan tied/set his season high for three-pointers with four. His previous high was four against Kentucky.
• Carolina went on an 11-0 run in the first half. It was the 11th time in 17 games UNC scored at least 10 straight points.
• Carolina has led by double figures in all six ACC games.
• Elliot Cadeau made a season-high three steals (all in the first half). It was his first game with multiple steals as a Tar Heel.
• Harrison Ingram made his 100th career three-pointer.

• Carolina shot 50% from the floor in the first half (17 of 34). It was the second straight game (51.4% vs. Syracuse) the Tar Heels shot at least 50% in the first half.
• Jae’Lyn Withers had season highs in scoring (15) and rebounds (10).
• Withers had his first double-double as a Tar Heel and sixth of his career.
• It was UNC’s first double-double by a non-starter since Manek against App State in 2021-22.
• Withers was a game-high plus 24. It was the first time he led UNC in plus/minus and was his best of the season (was plus 18 vs. UNI and Charleston Southern).

• Carolina has won both games this season when the opponent shot 60% in a half. Louisville shot 64.0% in the second half (UNI shot 60.0% in the first half on November 22). Louisville’s percentage is the highest in a half against UNC this season.
• It was the second straight game five Tar Heels scored in double figures.
• It was the sixth straight game UNC allowed 70 points or less. Florida State and Louisville both scored 70, most in an ACC game against UNC this season.
• Carolina made 10 of 22 from three-point range. The Tar Heels shot 45.5% from three, second-best percentage this season (46.2% vs. UNI). It was the sixth time this season UNC shot 40% or higher from three. UNC is 6-0 in those games.
• Carolina out-rebounded the Cardinals, 40-28. It was the sixth straight game UNC has out-rebounded its opponent. The Tar Heels are plus 85 on the boards on those six games.

Carolina-Louisville
• Carolina is 20-7 vs. the Cardinals, including 11-4 since Louisville began competing in the ACC in 2014-15.
• The Tar Heels are 6-1 in Chapel Hill (all in the Smith Center).
• Carolina has won the last five games in the series.
• The Tar Heels are 6-1 when UNC is ranked No. 4 or higher in the AP poll.

Next Game: Saturday, January 20, at Boston College (2:15 p.m., The CW)

They were pretty awful in the out of conference games. They entered the ACC with a horrific NET ranking... and have run off 5 straight wins. Their only loss was to UNC, and we needed a big comeback to win that game.

Not sure they can make the NCAA as an at-large selection. But they have already dinged Miami and Wake's NET rating.

it was around 2000 and we were at GT. Jason Capel and Collier got at it somehow and the end result was Dan Bonner saying that Capel thrown out of the game and suspended or something like that.

I am having this discussion with a buddy and I have no recollection whereas he recalls it plain as day. Somebody chime in and tell us who is right

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Over/Under 156.5


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I don't usually have time to sit around and do a full game break down seeing that I have a full time job as a teacher/coach. But I did for this one. I just wish it could have been a liitle bit more of a competitive matchup. I have crunched the analytics, and there is nothing Louisville does that should make UNC sweat. No critical offensive stats inside the top 148 nationally. No defensive numbers inside the top 230.

I did see a couple of things that are interesting about North Carolina. Forget points given up per game because the pace of play is fast even though they are on a great run of giving up under 70. Defensive efficiency which is points per possession is 24th in the country. Offensive efficiency is 33rd. That is the mark of a solid team. They are gaining almost two-tenths of a point every possession. Multiply that by 75.1 trips per game, and you can do the math.

They are doing some of the familiar things. Rebounding has been a sore spot at times, but they are 31st in rebounding percentage which isn't bad. They have also made 31 more foul shots than the opponents have attempted. The one number that needs to come up is two-point percentage. North Carolina is usually one of the best at that, but their 50.8% clip is only 158th nationally. That needs to go up to at least 54% to get into the top-50.

Statistically I see about a 17 to 18 point difference tonight. Throw in the home court, and the final number should be somewhere around 87-67.

They have some very good young guys ,they took it to Clemson and beat then on the tigers home floor in double overtime. We will have to play good perimeter defense against them because they shoot it very good from outside. They made 14 3 pointers tonight in pulling off the upset.