• Carolina and Duke meet for the 246th time overall and the ninth consecutive game in which both teams are ranked in the AP top 25.
• This is the 146th consecutive Carolina-Duke game in which at least one of the teams is ranked in the AP poll.
• Carolina’s game against Duke on Thursday, Feb. 8th, begins a three-game stretch in five-days in which UNC also plays at NC State (Feb. 10) and Notre Dame (Feb. 12).
• This is the first time UNC has played three regular-season ACC games in a span of five or fewer days since February 1991, when the Tar Heels played at NC State (2/6), NC State (2/7) and Virginia (2/9) in a span of four days. The second of those games was a makeup game from January when the NC State game in Chapel Hill was postponed due to the start of the Gulf War.
• This is the first time UNC had three regular-season ACC games scheduled in a five-day span since 1980.
• UNC is the only team in the ACC that is scheduled to play three regular-season conference games in a five-day span this season.
• Carolina last seven regular-season games include five games against teams in the top 50 in the NCAA’s RPI (No. 7 Duke twice, No. 18 Miami , at No. 42 Louisville and at No. 43 Syracuse).
• Carolina plays home-and-home series this year against three of the top five teams in the current ACC standings (Clemson, Duke and NC State as of 2/6). UNC plays one game each against six of the seven teams at the bottom of the current ACC standings.
• Carolina is ranked in the AP poll for the 75th consecutive week and the 891st time overall.
• Carolina is coming off a 96-65 win over Pitt on 2/3, a 31-point victory that snapped a three-game losing streak. Duke lost at St. John’s, 82-78, that same day.
• UNC is 17-7 overall, 6-5 in the ACC, and is ranked No. 21 in the AP poll. The ninthranked Blue Devils are 19-4, 7-3.
• Carolina and Duke are No. 1-2 respectively in the country in rebounds per game, and first and fourth in rebound margin. Duke is second nationally in scoring, fourth in assists and fourth in offensive rebounding; the Tar Heels are ninth in assists, 11th in offensive boards and 31st in scoring.
• Carolina is 12th in KenPom’s overall rankings – including 14th in offensive efficiency and 29th in defensive efficiency. Duke is fourth overall in KenPom – second in offense and 74th in defense.
• Carolina is 11th in the NCAA’s RPI. UNC’s Carolina’s opponents have an average RPI of 86, which is the third highest in the country, and its strength of schedule is ranked the fifth-most difficult in the nation.
• Carolina’s first 24 opponents average the fourth-best defensive efficiency and the 15thbest offensive efficiency in the nation.
• Carolina has four wins over teams ranked this week in the AP top 20 (over No. 14 Ohio State, No. 15 Tennessee, No. 16 Clemson and No. 20 Michigan). Two of UNC’s seven losses have come against current top-five teams (No. 2 Virginia and No. 4 Michigan State).
• Joel Berry II is one of 10 finalists for the Bob Cousy Award (this is the second year in a row Berry is a finalist). Three Tar Heels have won the Bob Cousy Award, given to the top point guard in the nation – Raymond Felton in 2005, Ty Lawson in 2009 and Kendall Marshall in 2012.
• Luke Maye is one of 20 players on the John R. Wooden Award (national player of the year) late-season watch list. Maye and Duke’s Marvin Bagley III are the only ACC players on the list.
CAROLINA-DUKE SERIES
• Carolina leads the all-time series with Duke, 135-110.
• The Blue Devils have won 13 of the last 18 meetings (since the start of the 2009-10 season). UNC had won six of seven from 2006-09. • Carolina is 63-36 in Chapel Hill, including 17-15 in the Smith Center.
• Head coach Roy Williams is 12-18 against Duke as Carolina’s head coach, including 6-8 at the Smith Center.
• The Tar Heels have played 245 games against Duke, more than any other opponent.
• This is the first time in six meetings Duke is ranked higher than UNC.
• Carolina is 42-45 against Mike Krzyzewski’s Duke teams.
• Carolina and Duke have won 38 of the ACC’s 64 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championships, including 20 by Duke and 18 by UNC.
• Carolina and Duke are No. 1 and 2 all-time in the ACC in wins, ACC regular-season wins, ACC Tournament wins and NCAA Tournament wins.
• Carolina has won the ACC regular-season title 31 times. The Blue Devils are second with 19 regular-season crowns.
• Either Carolina or Duke have played in the NCAA Final Four 25 times in the last 37 seasons (Carolina in 1981, 1982, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2016 and 2017). Both teams reached the 1991 Final Four.
• The Tar Heels and Blue Devils have won 10 national championships in the last 36 seasons, five by Carolina and five by Duke.
• Carolina has played in an NCAA-record 20 Final Fours. Duke has played in 16 Final Fours.
• Roy Williams is 13-21 against Duke – 12- 18 at Carolina and 1-3 while the head coach at Kansas. During his 10-year tenure as Dean Smith’s assistant, Carolina was 16-11 against the Blue Devils.
• Last year, Carolina beat the Blue Devils, 90- 83, in the Smith Center behind Joel Berry II’s 28 points. Berry tied a UNC record by making all five of his three-point attempts (all in the first half).
• Berry scored 15 in the loss at Duke last year. He played only 24 minutes due to foul trouble and scored 10 in Duke’s win in Brooklyn in the ACC Tournament semifinals.
• Theo Pinson tied his career high with eight assists against Duke in Brooklyn.
• Luke Maye made his first career start at Duke last season. He was starting in place of Isaiah Hicks, who had a hamstring injury
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• Joel Berry II reached the 400-career assist mark in the game at Clemson. He joined Walter Davis, Phil Ford, Kenny Smith, Jeff Lebo and Marcus Paige as the sixth Tar Heel with 1,500 points and 400 assists.
• Berry has scored 1,593 points and has 407 assists.
• Berry made four three-pointers against Pitt and passed Shammond Williams for second all-time at UNC in three-pointers with 234. Berry’s made 61 threes in 23 games this year, the second most per game (2.65) ever by a Tar Heel.
Single-Season 3FGs Per Game
2.71 – Shammond Williams, 1996-97
2.65 – Joel Berry II, 2017-18 (61 in 24 games)
2.63 – Justin Jackson, 2016-17
2.62 – P.J. Hairston, 2012-13
2.58 – Hubert Davis, 1991-92
Single-Season Free Throw Percentage
.911 – Shammond Williams, 1997-98
.894 – Joel Berry II, 2017-18 (76 of 85)
.878 – Jeff Lebo, 1987-88
.877 – Marcus Paige, 2013-14
.876 – Steve Hale, 1984-85
.871 – Darrell Elston, 1973-74
.868 – York Larese, 1959-60
.867 – Joel Berry II, 2015-16
• Berry will be making his 100th career start.
• Luke Maye (18.3) and Joel Berry II (17.3) lead Carolina in scoring. The last time two Tar Heels averaged 17 points or more in the same season was 1983-84, when Michael Jordan (19.6) and Sam Perkins (17.6) were UNC’s top scoring duo.
• The 96-65 win over Pitt was the 100th win Joel Berry II has played in as a Tar Heel.
• Maye is on pace to become the sixth Tar Heel to average a double-double in the last 40 years with Brice Johnson (2016), John Henson (2011), Tyler Hansbrough (2008), Sean May (2005) and Antawn Jamison (1998).
• The Tar Heels lead the country in rebounds per game (43.4) and rebound margin (11.7).
REBOUNDS PER GAME
43.4 – North Carolina
42.7 – Duke 42.2 – Texas A&M
42.1 – Wichita State
41.6 – Bethune-Cookman
REBOUND MARGIN
11.7 – North Carolina
10.6 – Michigan State
10.5 – Wichita State
10.4 – Duke
9.2 – Gonzaga
• Carolina has had a plus-10 or more rebound margin four previous times in its history – three of those four seasons have come in the Roy Williams era (2007-08, 2011-12 and 2016-17 under Williams and the undefeated season in 1956-57).
• Roy Williams’ teams have finished in the top 10 nationally in rebound margin in 14 of his previous 29 seasons as a head coach, including ninth, ninth and first in the last three seasons.
• Carolina is third in the country in rebounding its own missed shots. The Tar Heels grab 38.3 percent of their own missed shots.
• Carolina has scored 29.7 percent of its points on three-point field goals. That’s the highest percentage in Roy Williams’ 15 seasons as UNC’s head coach.
SCORING FROM THREE-POINT FGs (last 15 seasons)
29.7 percent – 2017-18
29.3 percent – 2012-13
26.2 percent – 2005-06
25.5 percent – 2004-05
25.3 percent – 2016-17
• Carolina is attempting 34 percent of its field goals from three-point range. That is the highest percentage in the Roy Williams era. The previous high was 31.7 percent in 2005-06.
• This is the fifth time in the last 15 seasons UNC attempted at least 30 percent of its field goals from three-point distance. UNC attempted 39.9 percent from beyond the arc under head coach Matt Doherty in 2002-03.
Duke at UNC
Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018
Dean E. Smith Center
Chapel Hill
TV: ACC Network (Tim Brando, Dan Bonner) ESPN (Dan Shulman, Jay Bilas, Maria Taylor)
Radio: Tar Heel Sports Network Jones Angell, Eric Montross
Satellite Radio: Sirius/XM 84
• This is the 146th consecutive Carolina-Duke game in which at least one of the teams is ranked in the AP poll.
• Carolina’s game against Duke on Thursday, Feb. 8th, begins a three-game stretch in five-days in which UNC also plays at NC State (Feb. 10) and Notre Dame (Feb. 12).
• This is the first time UNC has played three regular-season ACC games in a span of five or fewer days since February 1991, when the Tar Heels played at NC State (2/6), NC State (2/7) and Virginia (2/9) in a span of four days. The second of those games was a makeup game from January when the NC State game in Chapel Hill was postponed due to the start of the Gulf War.
• This is the first time UNC had three regular-season ACC games scheduled in a five-day span since 1980.
• UNC is the only team in the ACC that is scheduled to play three regular-season conference games in a five-day span this season.
• Carolina last seven regular-season games include five games against teams in the top 50 in the NCAA’s RPI (No. 7 Duke twice, No. 18 Miami , at No. 42 Louisville and at No. 43 Syracuse).
• Carolina plays home-and-home series this year against three of the top five teams in the current ACC standings (Clemson, Duke and NC State as of 2/6). UNC plays one game each against six of the seven teams at the bottom of the current ACC standings.
• Carolina is ranked in the AP poll for the 75th consecutive week and the 891st time overall.
• Carolina is coming off a 96-65 win over Pitt on 2/3, a 31-point victory that snapped a three-game losing streak. Duke lost at St. John’s, 82-78, that same day.
• UNC is 17-7 overall, 6-5 in the ACC, and is ranked No. 21 in the AP poll. The ninthranked Blue Devils are 19-4, 7-3.
• Carolina and Duke are No. 1-2 respectively in the country in rebounds per game, and first and fourth in rebound margin. Duke is second nationally in scoring, fourth in assists and fourth in offensive rebounding; the Tar Heels are ninth in assists, 11th in offensive boards and 31st in scoring.
• Carolina is 12th in KenPom’s overall rankings – including 14th in offensive efficiency and 29th in defensive efficiency. Duke is fourth overall in KenPom – second in offense and 74th in defense.
• Carolina is 11th in the NCAA’s RPI. UNC’s Carolina’s opponents have an average RPI of 86, which is the third highest in the country, and its strength of schedule is ranked the fifth-most difficult in the nation.
• Carolina’s first 24 opponents average the fourth-best defensive efficiency and the 15thbest offensive efficiency in the nation.
• Carolina has four wins over teams ranked this week in the AP top 20 (over No. 14 Ohio State, No. 15 Tennessee, No. 16 Clemson and No. 20 Michigan). Two of UNC’s seven losses have come against current top-five teams (No. 2 Virginia and No. 4 Michigan State).
• Joel Berry II is one of 10 finalists for the Bob Cousy Award (this is the second year in a row Berry is a finalist). Three Tar Heels have won the Bob Cousy Award, given to the top point guard in the nation – Raymond Felton in 2005, Ty Lawson in 2009 and Kendall Marshall in 2012.
• Luke Maye is one of 20 players on the John R. Wooden Award (national player of the year) late-season watch list. Maye and Duke’s Marvin Bagley III are the only ACC players on the list.
CAROLINA-DUKE SERIES
• Carolina leads the all-time series with Duke, 135-110.
• The Blue Devils have won 13 of the last 18 meetings (since the start of the 2009-10 season). UNC had won six of seven from 2006-09. • Carolina is 63-36 in Chapel Hill, including 17-15 in the Smith Center.
• Head coach Roy Williams is 12-18 against Duke as Carolina’s head coach, including 6-8 at the Smith Center.
• The Tar Heels have played 245 games against Duke, more than any other opponent.
• This is the first time in six meetings Duke is ranked higher than UNC.
• Carolina is 42-45 against Mike Krzyzewski’s Duke teams.
• Carolina and Duke have won 38 of the ACC’s 64 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championships, including 20 by Duke and 18 by UNC.
• Carolina and Duke are No. 1 and 2 all-time in the ACC in wins, ACC regular-season wins, ACC Tournament wins and NCAA Tournament wins.
• Carolina has won the ACC regular-season title 31 times. The Blue Devils are second with 19 regular-season crowns.
• Either Carolina or Duke have played in the NCAA Final Four 25 times in the last 37 seasons (Carolina in 1981, 1982, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2016 and 2017). Both teams reached the 1991 Final Four.
• The Tar Heels and Blue Devils have won 10 national championships in the last 36 seasons, five by Carolina and five by Duke.
• Carolina has played in an NCAA-record 20 Final Fours. Duke has played in 16 Final Fours.
• Roy Williams is 13-21 against Duke – 12- 18 at Carolina and 1-3 while the head coach at Kansas. During his 10-year tenure as Dean Smith’s assistant, Carolina was 16-11 against the Blue Devils.
• Last year, Carolina beat the Blue Devils, 90- 83, in the Smith Center behind Joel Berry II’s 28 points. Berry tied a UNC record by making all five of his three-point attempts (all in the first half).
• Berry scored 15 in the loss at Duke last year. He played only 24 minutes due to foul trouble and scored 10 in Duke’s win in Brooklyn in the ACC Tournament semifinals.
• Theo Pinson tied his career high with eight assists against Duke in Brooklyn.
• Luke Maye made his first career start at Duke last season. He was starting in place of Isaiah Hicks, who had a hamstring injury
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• Joel Berry II reached the 400-career assist mark in the game at Clemson. He joined Walter Davis, Phil Ford, Kenny Smith, Jeff Lebo and Marcus Paige as the sixth Tar Heel with 1,500 points and 400 assists.
• Berry has scored 1,593 points and has 407 assists.
• Berry made four three-pointers against Pitt and passed Shammond Williams for second all-time at UNC in three-pointers with 234. Berry’s made 61 threes in 23 games this year, the second most per game (2.65) ever by a Tar Heel.
Single-Season 3FGs Per Game
2.71 – Shammond Williams, 1996-97
2.65 – Joel Berry II, 2017-18 (61 in 24 games)
2.63 – Justin Jackson, 2016-17
2.62 – P.J. Hairston, 2012-13
2.58 – Hubert Davis, 1991-92
Single-Season Free Throw Percentage
.911 – Shammond Williams, 1997-98
.894 – Joel Berry II, 2017-18 (76 of 85)
.878 – Jeff Lebo, 1987-88
.877 – Marcus Paige, 2013-14
.876 – Steve Hale, 1984-85
.871 – Darrell Elston, 1973-74
.868 – York Larese, 1959-60
.867 – Joel Berry II, 2015-16
• Berry will be making his 100th career start.
• Luke Maye (18.3) and Joel Berry II (17.3) lead Carolina in scoring. The last time two Tar Heels averaged 17 points or more in the same season was 1983-84, when Michael Jordan (19.6) and Sam Perkins (17.6) were UNC’s top scoring duo.
• The 96-65 win over Pitt was the 100th win Joel Berry II has played in as a Tar Heel.
• Maye is on pace to become the sixth Tar Heel to average a double-double in the last 40 years with Brice Johnson (2016), John Henson (2011), Tyler Hansbrough (2008), Sean May (2005) and Antawn Jamison (1998).
• The Tar Heels lead the country in rebounds per game (43.4) and rebound margin (11.7).
REBOUNDS PER GAME
43.4 – North Carolina
42.7 – Duke 42.2 – Texas A&M
42.1 – Wichita State
41.6 – Bethune-Cookman
REBOUND MARGIN
11.7 – North Carolina
10.6 – Michigan State
10.5 – Wichita State
10.4 – Duke
9.2 – Gonzaga
• Carolina has had a plus-10 or more rebound margin four previous times in its history – three of those four seasons have come in the Roy Williams era (2007-08, 2011-12 and 2016-17 under Williams and the undefeated season in 1956-57).
• Roy Williams’ teams have finished in the top 10 nationally in rebound margin in 14 of his previous 29 seasons as a head coach, including ninth, ninth and first in the last three seasons.
• Carolina is third in the country in rebounding its own missed shots. The Tar Heels grab 38.3 percent of their own missed shots.
• Carolina has scored 29.7 percent of its points on three-point field goals. That’s the highest percentage in Roy Williams’ 15 seasons as UNC’s head coach.
SCORING FROM THREE-POINT FGs (last 15 seasons)
29.7 percent – 2017-18
29.3 percent – 2012-13
26.2 percent – 2005-06
25.5 percent – 2004-05
25.3 percent – 2016-17
• Carolina is attempting 34 percent of its field goals from three-point range. That is the highest percentage in the Roy Williams era. The previous high was 31.7 percent in 2005-06.
• This is the fifth time in the last 15 seasons UNC attempted at least 30 percent of its field goals from three-point distance. UNC attempted 39.9 percent from beyond the arc under head coach Matt Doherty in 2002-03.
Duke at UNC
Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018
Dean E. Smith Center
Chapel Hill
TV: ACC Network (Tim Brando, Dan Bonner) ESPN (Dan Shulman, Jay Bilas, Maria Taylor)
Radio: Tar Heel Sports Network Jones Angell, Eric Montross
Satellite Radio: Sirius/XM 84
