FINAL PRE-ACC GAME ON THE 28TH
• Carolina concludes regular-season non-conference play against Monmouth on 12/28 at 7 p.m. at the Dean E. Smith Center.
• Carolina begins ACC play on 12/31 at Georgia Tech and 1/3 at Clemson before returning to the Smith Center for the ACC home opener against NC State on 1/7.
• The ACC will announce the gametime for the NC State game on 1/1 (depends on the NFL Playoff schedule). • Monmouth head coach King Rice played at Carolina from 1987-91 and was a tri-captain and starting point guard on the 1991 team that won the ACC Tournament title and NCAA East Regional and played in the Final Four.
• That 1991 team played in the national semifinal against Kansas whose head coach was Roy Williams.
• Williams was an assistant coach at UNC under Dean Smith and recruited King Rice out of Binghamton, N.Y.
HOLIDAY CLINIC
• Carolina’s annual holiday clinic for youths in first through sixth grades will take place on Thursday, 12/29, at the Smith Center.
• Cost is $40 per child, and all proceeds will benefit Chapel Hill-area charities. Payment must be made in cash only (no checks). The Smith Center concourse ATM machine will be available.
• For children in grades 1 through 3, registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. and the clinic will run from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• For children in grades 4 through 6, registration is at 11:30 a.m. and the clinic will run from noon to 2 p.m. Registration will be at Entrance A of the Smith Center. There is no pre-registration.
• Parking will be available in the Williamson Drive Lot directly across the street from the Smith Center and the Manning and Bowles Lots next to the Smith Center.
CAROLINA-MONMOUTH SERIES
• Carolina is 1-0 against Monmouth.
• The Tar Heels beat the Hawks, 102-65, on 1/1/2012 in King Rice’s first season at Monmouth.
* John Henson (21) and Harrison Barnes (20) led four Tar Heels in double figure scoring.
• UNC had 27 assists on 37 baskets (11 assists by Kendall Marshall) and out-rebounded Monmouth 55-26 (11 by Tyler Zeller).
• King Rice, Monmouth’s head coach, played at Carolina from 1987-91. He was a captain as a senior with Pete Chilcutt and Rick Fox, leading the Tar Heels to the 1991 ACC Tournament title, NCAA East Regional title (beat Temple in Final 8) and Final Four in Indianapolis (where they played Kansas coached by Roy Williams).
• Rice is sixth in UNC history with 629 assists, fifth in assist-turnover ration and had the third-best assist-turnover ratio in a season in school history (2.7 in 1990-91).
• Rice scored 861 points in 140 games as a Tar Heel.
• Rice was a teammate with UNC assistant coach Hubert Davis and radio analyst Eric Montross.
TAR HEEL NOTES
Scoring/Shooting
• The Tar Heels are shooting 49.0 percent from the floor over the first 13 games, UNC’s highest field goal percentage in a season since shooting .499 in 2006-07.
• Carolina is holding the opponents to 39.9 percent shooting.
• Carolina is seventh in the nation in scoring margin, 12th in points per game and 15th in assists.
• Carolina is fourth nationally in offensive efficiency and ninth in defensive efficiency (KenPom’s version of points per 100 possessions). UNC is one of four teams (with Duke, Kansas and Kentucky) ranked in the top 10 in both offense and defense.
• Carolina shot 53.0 percent from the floor against Kentucky and 52.3 percent against Northern Iowa with Joel Berry II back in the lineup after he missed two games with a sprained ankle. The Tar Heels have averaged 92.5 points in the last two games and 90.6 in Berry’s 11 games this season. In the two home games Berry sat out (Davidson and Tennessee) UNC shot 38.8 percent from the floor and averaged 78.0 points.
• Three different perimeter players have led UNC in scoring in 10 of the 13 games (Joel Berry II and Justin Jackson four times apiece and Kenny Williams twice.)
• Forward Isaiah Hicks led UNC in scoring twice (consecutive games against Hawai’i and Chaminade) and forward Kennedy Meeks topped the Tar Heels with 18 points vs. Northern Iowa.
• Justin Jackson leads the team with 11 double-figure scoring games. Isaiah Hicks and Kennedy Meeks are second with 10 apiece.
• Four Tar Heels have scored 20 or more points in a game this year. Joel Berry II and Justin Jackson have done it five times apiece, and Isaiah Hicks and Kennedy Meeks each reached that mark once.
Rebounding
• Carolina is third in the country in rebound margin (13.6 per game), sixth in total rebounds per game (44.5) and ninth in offensive rebounding (15.2 per game).
• Carolina has 198 offensive rebounds, while the opponents have 272 defensive rebounds. The Tar Heels are getting 42.1 percent of their own missed shots. On the defensive end of the floor, UNC is grabbing 74.6 percent of the missed shots.
• Carolina is second in the country in offensive rebound percentage behind only Kent State. UNC is one of eight teams with an offensive rebounding percentage of at least .400.
• Freshman Tony Bradley has 45 offensive rebounds and leads in the nation in offensive rebounding percentage. Kennedy Meeks has 46 offensive boards and is 10th in offensive rebounding percentage.
• Bradley has seven or more offensive rebounds in three of his first 13 college games (eight at Hawai’i, seven vs. Chattanooga and seven vs. Tennessee).
• Brice Johnson had three games in his career (all as a senior) with seven or more offensive rebounds. Bradley’s and Johnson’s three-such games are the most since James Michael McAdoo had four over three seasons from 2011-14.
• Senior forward Isaiah Hicks and sophomore guard Kenny Williams are tied for third with 20 offensive rebounds.
• Carolina averages 9.9 more second-chance points per game, 9.3 more points off turnovers and 17.1 more points in the paint than the opponents.
• The Tar Heels have scored 20 or more second-chance points in five games this year: 28 at Hawai’i, 26 vs. Chaminade, 25 vs. Tennessee, 21 vs. Chattanooga and 21 vs. Oklahoma State. The opponents have 10 or more second-chance points four times, including 18 by Oklahoma State and 17 by Long Beach.
• Justin Jackson has led UNC in rebounding four times, something he did twice in 78 games over his first two seasons.
• Kennedy Meeks is averaging a career-high 9.0 rebounds this season.
Three-Pointers
• Carolina is making 6.9 three-pointers per game, up from 5.6 a year ago.
• UNC is shooting 37.8 percent from three-point range, up from a school-record low of 32.7 percent last season.
• Carolina has made nine or more three-pointers in three of its last four games (nine vs. Radford, 10 vs. Davidson and nine vs. Kentucky).
• Carolina has made seven or more three-pointers in nine of the 13 games.
• Justin Jackson leads UNC with 27 threes and is shooting 37.5 percent.
• Joel Berry II leads UNC in three-point percentage at .436 and is second in made threes with 24.
• Kenny Williams, who made one 3FG as a freshman, is third in makes (15) and second in percentage (.405).
• Justin Jackson is 23 for 41 (.561) from three-point range in games where he makes more than one and 4 for 31 in games where he makes none or one.
• Jackson has 27 three-pointers in 13 games. He made his 27th 3FG in his 38th game as a freshman and his 35th game as a sophomore.
• Justin Jackson has made four or more three-pointers four times this season. Prior to this season, he made four in a game once (vs. Virginia in the 2015 ACC Tournament).
• Thirty-one percent of the opponents’ baskets have been three-point field goals. Twenty-two percent of UNC’s field goals are from behind the arc.
• The opponents have attempted 39 percent of their shots from three-point range. UNC has attempted 28 percent of its field goals from behind the arc.
• The opponents are making 0.6 more three-pointers per game than the Tar Heels. Last year, Carolina made 2.1 fewer threes per game than the opponents.
Free Throws
• Carolina has made 237 free throws, while the opponents have attempted 207.
• Three starters are shooting 75 percent or better from the FT line– Joel Berry II (.917), Isaiah Hicks (.795) and Justin Jackson (.783).
Miscellaneous
• Carolina has 239 assists and 162 turnovers, while the opponents have 139 assists and 203 turnovers.
• The Tar Heels have assists on 58 percent of their baskets. The opponents have assists on 44 percent of their field goals.
• Ten Tar Heels are averaging 10 or more minutes per game led by Justin Jackson at 30.2 per game.
• Tar Heels have won ACC player of the Week honors three times already this season. Joel Berry II won twice for his play against Tulane/ Chattanooga and the Maui Invitational and Justin Jackson won his 34-point performance against Kentucky.
NORTH CAROLINA VS. MONMOUTH
Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016
7 p.m. Smith Center
Chapel Hill, N.C.
TV: ESPNU (Anish Shroff, Cory Alexander)
Radio: Tar Heel Sports Network (Jones Angell, Eric Montross, Adam Lucas, Dave Nathan)
Satellite: Sirius 134, XM 193 and Internet 955
North Carolina Tar Heels
2016-17 Record: 11-2
Head Coach: Roy Williams (UNC ‘72)
Williams’ Overall Record: 794-211 (29th year)
Williams’ Record at UNC: 376-110 (14th year)
Rankings: #9 AP, #10 USA Today/Coaches
Monmouth Hawks
2016-17 Record: 10-2
Head Coach: King Rice Overall Record: 89-87 (6th year)
Record at Monmouth: same
Rankings: none
• Carolina concludes regular-season non-conference play against Monmouth on 12/28 at 7 p.m. at the Dean E. Smith Center.
• Carolina begins ACC play on 12/31 at Georgia Tech and 1/3 at Clemson before returning to the Smith Center for the ACC home opener against NC State on 1/7.
• The ACC will announce the gametime for the NC State game on 1/1 (depends on the NFL Playoff schedule). • Monmouth head coach King Rice played at Carolina from 1987-91 and was a tri-captain and starting point guard on the 1991 team that won the ACC Tournament title and NCAA East Regional and played in the Final Four.
• That 1991 team played in the national semifinal against Kansas whose head coach was Roy Williams.
• Williams was an assistant coach at UNC under Dean Smith and recruited King Rice out of Binghamton, N.Y.
HOLIDAY CLINIC
• Carolina’s annual holiday clinic for youths in first through sixth grades will take place on Thursday, 12/29, at the Smith Center.
• Cost is $40 per child, and all proceeds will benefit Chapel Hill-area charities. Payment must be made in cash only (no checks). The Smith Center concourse ATM machine will be available.
• For children in grades 1 through 3, registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. and the clinic will run from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• For children in grades 4 through 6, registration is at 11:30 a.m. and the clinic will run from noon to 2 p.m. Registration will be at Entrance A of the Smith Center. There is no pre-registration.
• Parking will be available in the Williamson Drive Lot directly across the street from the Smith Center and the Manning and Bowles Lots next to the Smith Center.
CAROLINA-MONMOUTH SERIES
• Carolina is 1-0 against Monmouth.
• The Tar Heels beat the Hawks, 102-65, on 1/1/2012 in King Rice’s first season at Monmouth.
* John Henson (21) and Harrison Barnes (20) led four Tar Heels in double figure scoring.
• UNC had 27 assists on 37 baskets (11 assists by Kendall Marshall) and out-rebounded Monmouth 55-26 (11 by Tyler Zeller).
• King Rice, Monmouth’s head coach, played at Carolina from 1987-91. He was a captain as a senior with Pete Chilcutt and Rick Fox, leading the Tar Heels to the 1991 ACC Tournament title, NCAA East Regional title (beat Temple in Final 8) and Final Four in Indianapolis (where they played Kansas coached by Roy Williams).
• Rice is sixth in UNC history with 629 assists, fifth in assist-turnover ration and had the third-best assist-turnover ratio in a season in school history (2.7 in 1990-91).
• Rice scored 861 points in 140 games as a Tar Heel.
• Rice was a teammate with UNC assistant coach Hubert Davis and radio analyst Eric Montross.
TAR HEEL NOTES
Scoring/Shooting
• The Tar Heels are shooting 49.0 percent from the floor over the first 13 games, UNC’s highest field goal percentage in a season since shooting .499 in 2006-07.
• Carolina is holding the opponents to 39.9 percent shooting.
• Carolina is seventh in the nation in scoring margin, 12th in points per game and 15th in assists.
• Carolina is fourth nationally in offensive efficiency and ninth in defensive efficiency (KenPom’s version of points per 100 possessions). UNC is one of four teams (with Duke, Kansas and Kentucky) ranked in the top 10 in both offense and defense.
• Carolina shot 53.0 percent from the floor against Kentucky and 52.3 percent against Northern Iowa with Joel Berry II back in the lineup after he missed two games with a sprained ankle. The Tar Heels have averaged 92.5 points in the last two games and 90.6 in Berry’s 11 games this season. In the two home games Berry sat out (Davidson and Tennessee) UNC shot 38.8 percent from the floor and averaged 78.0 points.
• Three different perimeter players have led UNC in scoring in 10 of the 13 games (Joel Berry II and Justin Jackson four times apiece and Kenny Williams twice.)
• Forward Isaiah Hicks led UNC in scoring twice (consecutive games against Hawai’i and Chaminade) and forward Kennedy Meeks topped the Tar Heels with 18 points vs. Northern Iowa.
• Justin Jackson leads the team with 11 double-figure scoring games. Isaiah Hicks and Kennedy Meeks are second with 10 apiece.
• Four Tar Heels have scored 20 or more points in a game this year. Joel Berry II and Justin Jackson have done it five times apiece, and Isaiah Hicks and Kennedy Meeks each reached that mark once.
Rebounding
• Carolina is third in the country in rebound margin (13.6 per game), sixth in total rebounds per game (44.5) and ninth in offensive rebounding (15.2 per game).
• Carolina has 198 offensive rebounds, while the opponents have 272 defensive rebounds. The Tar Heels are getting 42.1 percent of their own missed shots. On the defensive end of the floor, UNC is grabbing 74.6 percent of the missed shots.
• Carolina is second in the country in offensive rebound percentage behind only Kent State. UNC is one of eight teams with an offensive rebounding percentage of at least .400.
• Freshman Tony Bradley has 45 offensive rebounds and leads in the nation in offensive rebounding percentage. Kennedy Meeks has 46 offensive boards and is 10th in offensive rebounding percentage.
• Bradley has seven or more offensive rebounds in three of his first 13 college games (eight at Hawai’i, seven vs. Chattanooga and seven vs. Tennessee).
• Brice Johnson had three games in his career (all as a senior) with seven or more offensive rebounds. Bradley’s and Johnson’s three-such games are the most since James Michael McAdoo had four over three seasons from 2011-14.
• Senior forward Isaiah Hicks and sophomore guard Kenny Williams are tied for third with 20 offensive rebounds.
• Carolina averages 9.9 more second-chance points per game, 9.3 more points off turnovers and 17.1 more points in the paint than the opponents.
• The Tar Heels have scored 20 or more second-chance points in five games this year: 28 at Hawai’i, 26 vs. Chaminade, 25 vs. Tennessee, 21 vs. Chattanooga and 21 vs. Oklahoma State. The opponents have 10 or more second-chance points four times, including 18 by Oklahoma State and 17 by Long Beach.
• Justin Jackson has led UNC in rebounding four times, something he did twice in 78 games over his first two seasons.
• Kennedy Meeks is averaging a career-high 9.0 rebounds this season.
Three-Pointers
• Carolina is making 6.9 three-pointers per game, up from 5.6 a year ago.
• UNC is shooting 37.8 percent from three-point range, up from a school-record low of 32.7 percent last season.
• Carolina has made nine or more three-pointers in three of its last four games (nine vs. Radford, 10 vs. Davidson and nine vs. Kentucky).
• Carolina has made seven or more three-pointers in nine of the 13 games.
• Justin Jackson leads UNC with 27 threes and is shooting 37.5 percent.
• Joel Berry II leads UNC in three-point percentage at .436 and is second in made threes with 24.
• Kenny Williams, who made one 3FG as a freshman, is third in makes (15) and second in percentage (.405).
• Justin Jackson is 23 for 41 (.561) from three-point range in games where he makes more than one and 4 for 31 in games where he makes none or one.
• Jackson has 27 three-pointers in 13 games. He made his 27th 3FG in his 38th game as a freshman and his 35th game as a sophomore.
• Justin Jackson has made four or more three-pointers four times this season. Prior to this season, he made four in a game once (vs. Virginia in the 2015 ACC Tournament).
• Thirty-one percent of the opponents’ baskets have been three-point field goals. Twenty-two percent of UNC’s field goals are from behind the arc.
• The opponents have attempted 39 percent of their shots from three-point range. UNC has attempted 28 percent of its field goals from behind the arc.
• The opponents are making 0.6 more three-pointers per game than the Tar Heels. Last year, Carolina made 2.1 fewer threes per game than the opponents.
Free Throws
• Carolina has made 237 free throws, while the opponents have attempted 207.
• Three starters are shooting 75 percent or better from the FT line– Joel Berry II (.917), Isaiah Hicks (.795) and Justin Jackson (.783).
Miscellaneous
• Carolina has 239 assists and 162 turnovers, while the opponents have 139 assists and 203 turnovers.
• The Tar Heels have assists on 58 percent of their baskets. The opponents have assists on 44 percent of their field goals.
• Ten Tar Heels are averaging 10 or more minutes per game led by Justin Jackson at 30.2 per game.
• Tar Heels have won ACC player of the Week honors three times already this season. Joel Berry II won twice for his play against Tulane/ Chattanooga and the Maui Invitational and Justin Jackson won his 34-point performance against Kentucky.
NORTH CAROLINA VS. MONMOUTH
Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016
7 p.m. Smith Center
Chapel Hill, N.C.
TV: ESPNU (Anish Shroff, Cory Alexander)
Radio: Tar Heel Sports Network (Jones Angell, Eric Montross, Adam Lucas, Dave Nathan)
Satellite: Sirius 134, XM 193 and Internet 955
North Carolina Tar Heels
2016-17 Record: 11-2
Head Coach: Roy Williams (UNC ‘72)
Williams’ Overall Record: 794-211 (29th year)
Williams’ Record at UNC: 376-110 (14th year)
Rankings: #9 AP, #10 USA Today/Coaches
Monmouth Hawks
2016-17 Record: 10-2
Head Coach: King Rice Overall Record: 89-87 (6th year)
Record at Monmouth: same
Rankings: none
