• Carolina and Virginia are tied for first place in the ACC with 15-2 records; Duke is one game
behind at 14-3.
• An “ACC seeding scenario” for the Tar Heels is on page 2 of these notes.
• The Tar Heels are 27-22 when playing host to a top-five (AP) opponent (all home sites).
• UNC is 5-3 in previous AP top-5 matchups in the Smith Center (3-2 vs. Duke).
• Carolina has played Duke eight previous times under Roy Williams in the final game of the
regular season with first place in the ACC at stake for UNC (outright or a share) – the Tar Heels
are 8-0 in those games (2005, ‘07, ‘08, ‘09, ‘11, ‘12 , ‘16 and ‘17).
• This is the final game at the Smith Center for seniors Luke Maye and Kenny Williams and
graduate student Cameron Johnson. Over the past four years, UNC is 117-30 overall, 54-17 in
ACC regular-season play and 56-6 at home (55-6 in the Smith Center). In Johnson’s two years
as a Tar Heel, UNC is 51-16 overall, 26-9 in regular-season ACC games and 25-5 at the Smith
Center. Carolina played in the national championship game in 2016 in Maye’s and Williams’
freshman year, and won the national title in 2017. The 117 wins tie the fifth most over any
four-year period in Carolina Basketball history.
• Carolina leads the ACC scoring, rebounding, rebound margin and assists and is second in the
conference in three-pointers and assist-turnover ratio.
• UNC leads the nation in rebounding, is second in assists and rebound margin and third in scoring.
• This is the 19th time in 31 seasons as a head coach that Roy Williams’ team is ranked in the
top 10 in the NCAA in scoring (eighth time at Carolina).
• This is the seventh season in which the ACC has played 18 regular-season conference games.
Carolina became the second team to go 9-0 on the road (with Virginia in 2018). This marks
the seventh time the Tar Heels have gone undefeated in ACC road games (1957, 1960, 1976,
1984, 1987, 2008 and 2019).
• Carolina is the only team in the Atlantic Coast, American, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 12
or Southeastern Conferences with 11 road wins.
• This is the ninth AP top-5 matchup in Smith Center history; the Tar Heels are 5-3 in those games, including 3-2 against Duke.
TOP-5 AP GAMES, SMITH CENTER HISTORY
1-18-1986: No. 1 UNC 95, No. 3 Duke 92
1-25-1986: No. 1 UNC 85, No. 4 Georgia Tech 77
12-20-1986: No. 4 UNC 90, No. 5 Illinois 77
2-21-1988: No.1 Temple 83, No. 5 UNC 66
2-3-1994: No. 2 UNC 89, No. 1 Duke 78
2-5-98: No. 2 UNC 97, No. 1 Duke 73
3-4-2001: No. 2 Duke 95, No. 4 UNC 81
2-6-2008: No. 2 Duke 89, No. 3 UNC 78
• Carolina is assured of a top-three finish in the ACC for the 57th time in 65 seasons and a double bye in the 2019 ACC Tournament in Charlotte.
• Carolina has earned a double bye in the ACC Tournament for the fourth time in the six seasons
in which the double bye has existed.
• The Tar Heels have won 13 of their last 14 ACC games, their best stretch in conference play
since 2013-14, when they won 13 of 14 games. UNC last won 14 out of 15 ACC games (including the ACC Tournament) in 2010-11.
• Carolina went 11-1 on the road this year. That included a 9-0 ACC record and a 2-1 record in
non-conference play. UNC won at Wofford and Elon to open the season, and lost at Michigan on
11/28/18 in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.
• This was the eighth time UNC has won 10 or more road games in a season (12 in 1924, 11 in
1935, 14 in 1946, 11 in 1976, 11 in 1987, 10 in 1993, 13 in 2007 and 11 in 2019).
• Carolina is No. 7 in the NCAA’s NET rankings and is 8-5 in Q1 games. All five of UNC’s losses are to Quadrant 1 teams. UNC is one of 10 teams in the country whose losses all have come against Q1 teams (with Gonzaga, Houston, Michigan, UNCG, Tennessee, Texas Tech, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wofford).
• Carolina has 15 combined Q1 and Q2 wins; only two schools have more (Michigan 17 and
LSU 16).
HALL OF FAME HONORS FOR STEVE ROBINSON
• Steve Robinson, in his 16th season as assistant men’s basketball coach at Carolina, is one of
eight Division I coaches selected to the A STEP UP Assistant Coaches’ Hall of Fame.
• A STEP UP is in its 10th year of educating andinspiring collegiate assistant coaches at all NCAA levels. A STEP UP will induct its inaugural Hall of Fame class on May 7 in Atlanta at its annual professional development symposium.
• Robinson came to Chapel Hill with head coach Roy Williams in 2003 and has helped lead the
Tar Heels to NCAA championships in 2005, 2009 and 2017, two additional Final Four
appearances, three ACC Tournament championships and eight ACC regular-season titles. Robinson also was an assistant on Williams’ staff at Kansas for eight seasons, helping the Jayhawks reach the Final Four three times.
• Robinson will enter the assistant coaches’ Hall of Fame with seven other D-I coaches: Gonzaga’s Donny Daniels, Connecticut’s Chris Dailey, Mickie DeMoss, Florida State’s Stan Jones, Notre Dame’s Carol Owens, Michigan State’s Dwayne Stephens and Stanford’s Amy Tucker.
MAYE, LITTLE EARN ACADEMIC HONORS
• Senior forward Luke Maye is the 2019 winner of the Skip Prosser Award, given by the ACC
to the league’s top scholar-athlete in men’s basketball.
• Maye also won the Prosser Award in 2018. Tar Heels have won the award six times in the last
nine years.
• Freshman forward Nassir Little joined Maye on the 2019 Academic All-ACC team. Little is
the fifth UNC freshman to earn a spot on the Academic All-ACC team.
• Maye, a candidate for Academic All-America, is the fourth Tar Heel to earn Academic All-ACC honors four times.
SKIP PROSSER AWARD, ACC’S TOP SCHOLAR-ATHLETE
Luke Maye 2018, 2019
Marcus Paige 2015, 2016
Tyler Zeller 2011, 2012
FOUR-TIME ACADEMIC ALL-ACC
Luke Maye 2016-19
Marcus Paige 2013-16
Tyler Zeller 2009-12
Henrik Rödl 1990-93
ACADEMIC ALL-ACC TEAM, UNC FRESHMEN
Nassir Little 2019
Luke Maye 2016
Marcus Paige 2013
Tyler Zeller 2009
Henrik Rödl 1990
behind at 14-3.
• An “ACC seeding scenario” for the Tar Heels is on page 2 of these notes.
• The Tar Heels are 27-22 when playing host to a top-five (AP) opponent (all home sites).
• UNC is 5-3 in previous AP top-5 matchups in the Smith Center (3-2 vs. Duke).
• Carolina has played Duke eight previous times under Roy Williams in the final game of the
regular season with first place in the ACC at stake for UNC (outright or a share) – the Tar Heels
are 8-0 in those games (2005, ‘07, ‘08, ‘09, ‘11, ‘12 , ‘16 and ‘17).
• This is the final game at the Smith Center for seniors Luke Maye and Kenny Williams and
graduate student Cameron Johnson. Over the past four years, UNC is 117-30 overall, 54-17 in
ACC regular-season play and 56-6 at home (55-6 in the Smith Center). In Johnson’s two years
as a Tar Heel, UNC is 51-16 overall, 26-9 in regular-season ACC games and 25-5 at the Smith
Center. Carolina played in the national championship game in 2016 in Maye’s and Williams’
freshman year, and won the national title in 2017. The 117 wins tie the fifth most over any
four-year period in Carolina Basketball history.
• Carolina leads the ACC scoring, rebounding, rebound margin and assists and is second in the
conference in three-pointers and assist-turnover ratio.
• UNC leads the nation in rebounding, is second in assists and rebound margin and third in scoring.
• This is the 19th time in 31 seasons as a head coach that Roy Williams’ team is ranked in the
top 10 in the NCAA in scoring (eighth time at Carolina).
• This is the seventh season in which the ACC has played 18 regular-season conference games.
Carolina became the second team to go 9-0 on the road (with Virginia in 2018). This marks
the seventh time the Tar Heels have gone undefeated in ACC road games (1957, 1960, 1976,
1984, 1987, 2008 and 2019).
• Carolina is the only team in the Atlantic Coast, American, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 12
or Southeastern Conferences with 11 road wins.
• This is the ninth AP top-5 matchup in Smith Center history; the Tar Heels are 5-3 in those games, including 3-2 against Duke.
TOP-5 AP GAMES, SMITH CENTER HISTORY
1-18-1986: No. 1 UNC 95, No. 3 Duke 92
1-25-1986: No. 1 UNC 85, No. 4 Georgia Tech 77
12-20-1986: No. 4 UNC 90, No. 5 Illinois 77
2-21-1988: No.1 Temple 83, No. 5 UNC 66
2-3-1994: No. 2 UNC 89, No. 1 Duke 78
2-5-98: No. 2 UNC 97, No. 1 Duke 73
3-4-2001: No. 2 Duke 95, No. 4 UNC 81
2-6-2008: No. 2 Duke 89, No. 3 UNC 78
• Carolina is assured of a top-three finish in the ACC for the 57th time in 65 seasons and a double bye in the 2019 ACC Tournament in Charlotte.
• Carolina has earned a double bye in the ACC Tournament for the fourth time in the six seasons
in which the double bye has existed.
• The Tar Heels have won 13 of their last 14 ACC games, their best stretch in conference play
since 2013-14, when they won 13 of 14 games. UNC last won 14 out of 15 ACC games (including the ACC Tournament) in 2010-11.
• Carolina went 11-1 on the road this year. That included a 9-0 ACC record and a 2-1 record in
non-conference play. UNC won at Wofford and Elon to open the season, and lost at Michigan on
11/28/18 in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.
• This was the eighth time UNC has won 10 or more road games in a season (12 in 1924, 11 in
1935, 14 in 1946, 11 in 1976, 11 in 1987, 10 in 1993, 13 in 2007 and 11 in 2019).
• Carolina is No. 7 in the NCAA’s NET rankings and is 8-5 in Q1 games. All five of UNC’s losses are to Quadrant 1 teams. UNC is one of 10 teams in the country whose losses all have come against Q1 teams (with Gonzaga, Houston, Michigan, UNCG, Tennessee, Texas Tech, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wofford).
• Carolina has 15 combined Q1 and Q2 wins; only two schools have more (Michigan 17 and
LSU 16).
HALL OF FAME HONORS FOR STEVE ROBINSON
• Steve Robinson, in his 16th season as assistant men’s basketball coach at Carolina, is one of
eight Division I coaches selected to the A STEP UP Assistant Coaches’ Hall of Fame.
• A STEP UP is in its 10th year of educating andinspiring collegiate assistant coaches at all NCAA levels. A STEP UP will induct its inaugural Hall of Fame class on May 7 in Atlanta at its annual professional development symposium.
• Robinson came to Chapel Hill with head coach Roy Williams in 2003 and has helped lead the
Tar Heels to NCAA championships in 2005, 2009 and 2017, two additional Final Four
appearances, three ACC Tournament championships and eight ACC regular-season titles. Robinson also was an assistant on Williams’ staff at Kansas for eight seasons, helping the Jayhawks reach the Final Four three times.
• Robinson will enter the assistant coaches’ Hall of Fame with seven other D-I coaches: Gonzaga’s Donny Daniels, Connecticut’s Chris Dailey, Mickie DeMoss, Florida State’s Stan Jones, Notre Dame’s Carol Owens, Michigan State’s Dwayne Stephens and Stanford’s Amy Tucker.
MAYE, LITTLE EARN ACADEMIC HONORS
• Senior forward Luke Maye is the 2019 winner of the Skip Prosser Award, given by the ACC
to the league’s top scholar-athlete in men’s basketball.
• Maye also won the Prosser Award in 2018. Tar Heels have won the award six times in the last
nine years.
• Freshman forward Nassir Little joined Maye on the 2019 Academic All-ACC team. Little is
the fifth UNC freshman to earn a spot on the Academic All-ACC team.
• Maye, a candidate for Academic All-America, is the fourth Tar Heel to earn Academic All-ACC honors four times.
SKIP PROSSER AWARD, ACC’S TOP SCHOLAR-ATHLETE
Luke Maye 2018, 2019
Marcus Paige 2015, 2016
Tyler Zeller 2011, 2012
FOUR-TIME ACADEMIC ALL-ACC
Luke Maye 2016-19
Marcus Paige 2013-16
Tyler Zeller 2009-12
Henrik Rödl 1990-93
ACADEMIC ALL-ACC TEAM, UNC FRESHMEN
Nassir Little 2019
Luke Maye 2016
Marcus Paige 2013
Tyler Zeller 2009
Henrik Rödl 1990
