• Carolina opens a two-game homestand when the Tar Heels play host to Pitt on Tuesday, Jan. 31. Game time is 7 p.m. at the Smith Center.
• The Tar Heels finish the week with a 6 p.m. home game vs. Notre Dame on Saturday, Feb. 4.
• Carolina enters the contest with a half-game lead over Virginia in the ACC. The Tar Heels are 7-2; Virginia is 6-2. Florida State, Notre Dame and Louisville are a game back of UNC at 6-3.
• The Tar Heels are playing their third ACC game in six days (Thursday, 1/26 vs. Virginia Tech; Saturday, 1/28 at Miami; and Tuesday, 1/31 vs. Pitt).
• The Tar Heels are 19-4 overall and 7-2 in the ACC.
• Pitt is 12-9 overall, 1-7 in the ACC. The Panthers opened league play with an overtime loss to Notre Dame, then beat Virginia before losing their next six games.
• The Panthers feature Jamel Artis and Michael Young, who rank first and third in the ACC in scoring at 21.1 and 20.3 points per game, respectively.
• UNC is ranked 12th in the Associated Press and 10th in the USA Today/Coaches polls.
• Carolina is one win away from its 58th 20- win season and its 12th in 14 years under head coach Roy Williams. The Tar Heels won 19 games in 2004 and 2010 and 20 or more in Williams’ 11 other seasons.
• Theo Pinson will not play against Pitt. He rolled his right ankle on 1/26 vs. Virginia Tech and did not play at Miami. He was in a walking boot until Monday and continues to be evaluated. There is no timetable for his return.
UNC-PITT SERIES
• Carolina is 10-3 vs. Pitt, including 3-2 since the Panthers joined the ACC.
• Carolina has won all five games in the series in Chapel Hill, including 4-0 in the Smith Center.
• Roy Williams is 4-2 against Pitt (1-0 at Kansas and 3-2 as UNC’s head coach).
• Pitt head coach Kevin Stallings was an assistant coach for five seasons under Roy Williams at Kansas (1989-94), helping the Jayhawks reach the 1991 and 1993 Final Fours.
• This is the second meeting as head coaches between Williams and Stallings. On 11/21/10, Stallings was the head coach at Vanderbilt when the Commodores beat the Tar Heels, 72-65, in San Juan, P.R., in the Puerto Rico Shootout.
PREVIOUS GAME MIAMI 77, UNC 62
• Carolina shot 20.7 percent and scored just 22 points in the first half en route to a 77-62 loss at Miami on 1/28.
• The Tar Heels made 6 of 29 shots from the floor in the opening half, the second-worst shooting half in Roy Williams’ 14 years as UNC’s head coach. UNC shot 20.0 percent in the second half in a 78-58 loss at Georgia Tech on 1/16/11.
• Carolina made a season-low 21 field goals, scored a season-low 62 points and was out-rebounded for just the second time this year.
• Miami out-rebounded UNC, 41-36. Kentucky out-rebounded UNC by four.
• The Tar Heels scored 22 points on 42 possessions in the first half, a season-low points per possession of .52. UNC fared better in the second half, scoring 40 points on 41 possessions (.98).
• Bruce Brown led the Canes with 30 points, making four three-pointers and 10 of 13 from the free throw line.
• UNC’s 62 points snapped an unprecedented streak of seven straight ACC games with 85 or more points.
• The Tar Heels came into the game shooting 40 percent or better from three-point range in six of their previous seven games, but made 7 of 24 (.292).
• Justin Jackson led UNC with 21 points, but that was five more points than the rest of the starting five combined to score.
• Joel Berry II opened the scoring with a pair of free throws (UNC led 11-2), but was 0 for 8 from the floor. Kenny Williams was 1 for 8, Kennedy Meeks attempted a season-low three shots and had a season-low five points, and Isaiah Hicks was 3 for 6 from the floor.
• Carolina’s bench was 0 for 10 from the floor in the opening half, but 9 for 9 in the second half.
• Nate Britt scored eight of his 10 points in the second half and Tony Bradley was 3 for 3 from the floor in the second after going 0 for 4 in the first.
• Justin Jackson was Carolina’s defensive player of the game. It was his first award of the season and seventh of his career.
HONORING THE 1957 UNDEFEATED CHAMPS
Five members of the 1957 undefeated national championship team are scheduled to be in attendance at the UNC-Notre Dame game on Saturday, Feb. 4. This is the 60th anniversary of Carolina winning the first of its five NCAA Tournament championships.
Carolina went 32-0 and won the title by winning consecutive triple overtime games on successive nights in Kansas City. The Tar Heels beat Michigan State, 74-70, and Kansas, 54-53, to win the title.
National Player of the Year Lennie Rosenbluth, Tom Kearns, Joe Quigg, Bob Young and Tony Radovich are scheduled to be on hand for the Notre Dame game.
The 32-0 mark is tied with the 1976 Indiana Hoosiers for the best record ever in Division One men’s basketball history.
UNC 3-Point Shooting
• Carolina is making 7.6 three-pointers per game, up from 5.6 a year ago. It’s tied for the third-most three-pointers per game in UNC history. It’s also the third-highest increase in three-pointers made from one season to the next (increases of 3.7 per game from 1994 to 1995, 2.5 from 2012 to 2013 and 2.0 from 2016 to 2017).
• This is the eighth season since 1986-87 in which the Tar Heels are averaging at least seven three-point field goals per game. UNC 3FGs Per Game 2002-03 8.3 per game 1994-95 7.8 2016-17 7.6 2012-13 7.6 2001-02 7.6 2004-05 7.5 1995-96 7.3 1991-92 7.0
• Carolina has attempted 20 or more three-pointers in 13 of 23 games and made seven or more 17 times. The Tar Heels are 10-3 this year when they attempt 20 or more three-pointers and 15-2 when they make seven or more.
• UNC is shooting 37.6 percent from three-point range, up from a school-record low of 32.7 percent last season.
• The Tar Heels have shot 40 percent or better 3FG in 12 games and are 11-1 in those games (lost to Kentucky despite making 9 of 17 3FGs).
• Carolina has shot 40 percent from threepoint range in six of its last eight games (.417 at Clemson, .444 vs. NC State, .444 vs. Wake Forest, .444 vs. Florida State, .429 at Boston College and .467 vs. Virginia Tech).
• Justin Jackson leads UNC with 61 threes and is shooting 40.1 percent from beyond the arc, up from 29.2 percent last year.
• Joel Berry II leads UNC in three-point percentage at .420 and is second in made threes with 50.
• Jackson has 61 three-pointers in 23 games. He made 28 in 38 games as a freshman and 35 in 40 games as a sophomore.
• Justin Jackson has made four or more three-pointers eight times this season. Prior to this season, he made four in a game once (vs. Virginia in the 2015 ACC Tournament).
• Jackson is the first Tar Heel since 2004 to make six or more three-pointers in three games in the same season.
• Thirty-two percent of the opponents’ baskets have been three-point field goals. Twenty-four percent of UNC’s field goals are behind the arc.
• The opponents have attempted 39 percent of their shots from three-point range. UNC has attempted 30 percent of its field goals from behind the arc.
NORTH CAROLINA VS. PITT
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
7 p.m.
Dean E. Smith Center
Chapel Hill, N.C.
TV: ESPN2 (Karl Ravech, Sean Farnham)
Radio: Tar Heel Sports Network (Jones Angell, Eric Montross, Adam Lucas, Dave Nathan)
Satellite: Sirius/XM and Internet 84
North Carolina Tar Heels
2016-17 Record: 19-4, 7-2 ACC
Head Coach: Roy Williams (UNC ‘72)
Williams’ Overall Record: 802-213 (29th year)
Williams’ Record at UNC: 384-112 (14th year)
Rankings: #12 Associated Press, #10 USA Today/Coaches
Pitt Panthers
2016-17 Record: 12-9, 1-7 ACC
Head Coach: Kevin Stallings
Overall Record: 467-292 (24th year)
Record at Pitt: 12-9 (first year)
Rankings: not ranked
• The Tar Heels finish the week with a 6 p.m. home game vs. Notre Dame on Saturday, Feb. 4.
• Carolina enters the contest with a half-game lead over Virginia in the ACC. The Tar Heels are 7-2; Virginia is 6-2. Florida State, Notre Dame and Louisville are a game back of UNC at 6-3.
• The Tar Heels are playing their third ACC game in six days (Thursday, 1/26 vs. Virginia Tech; Saturday, 1/28 at Miami; and Tuesday, 1/31 vs. Pitt).
• The Tar Heels are 19-4 overall and 7-2 in the ACC.
• Pitt is 12-9 overall, 1-7 in the ACC. The Panthers opened league play with an overtime loss to Notre Dame, then beat Virginia before losing their next six games.
• The Panthers feature Jamel Artis and Michael Young, who rank first and third in the ACC in scoring at 21.1 and 20.3 points per game, respectively.
• UNC is ranked 12th in the Associated Press and 10th in the USA Today/Coaches polls.
• Carolina is one win away from its 58th 20- win season and its 12th in 14 years under head coach Roy Williams. The Tar Heels won 19 games in 2004 and 2010 and 20 or more in Williams’ 11 other seasons.
• Theo Pinson will not play against Pitt. He rolled his right ankle on 1/26 vs. Virginia Tech and did not play at Miami. He was in a walking boot until Monday and continues to be evaluated. There is no timetable for his return.
UNC-PITT SERIES
• Carolina is 10-3 vs. Pitt, including 3-2 since the Panthers joined the ACC.
• Carolina has won all five games in the series in Chapel Hill, including 4-0 in the Smith Center.
• Roy Williams is 4-2 against Pitt (1-0 at Kansas and 3-2 as UNC’s head coach).
• Pitt head coach Kevin Stallings was an assistant coach for five seasons under Roy Williams at Kansas (1989-94), helping the Jayhawks reach the 1991 and 1993 Final Fours.
• This is the second meeting as head coaches between Williams and Stallings. On 11/21/10, Stallings was the head coach at Vanderbilt when the Commodores beat the Tar Heels, 72-65, in San Juan, P.R., in the Puerto Rico Shootout.
PREVIOUS GAME MIAMI 77, UNC 62
• Carolina shot 20.7 percent and scored just 22 points in the first half en route to a 77-62 loss at Miami on 1/28.
• The Tar Heels made 6 of 29 shots from the floor in the opening half, the second-worst shooting half in Roy Williams’ 14 years as UNC’s head coach. UNC shot 20.0 percent in the second half in a 78-58 loss at Georgia Tech on 1/16/11.
• Carolina made a season-low 21 field goals, scored a season-low 62 points and was out-rebounded for just the second time this year.
• Miami out-rebounded UNC, 41-36. Kentucky out-rebounded UNC by four.
• The Tar Heels scored 22 points on 42 possessions in the first half, a season-low points per possession of .52. UNC fared better in the second half, scoring 40 points on 41 possessions (.98).
• Bruce Brown led the Canes with 30 points, making four three-pointers and 10 of 13 from the free throw line.
• UNC’s 62 points snapped an unprecedented streak of seven straight ACC games with 85 or more points.
• The Tar Heels came into the game shooting 40 percent or better from three-point range in six of their previous seven games, but made 7 of 24 (.292).
• Justin Jackson led UNC with 21 points, but that was five more points than the rest of the starting five combined to score.
• Joel Berry II opened the scoring with a pair of free throws (UNC led 11-2), but was 0 for 8 from the floor. Kenny Williams was 1 for 8, Kennedy Meeks attempted a season-low three shots and had a season-low five points, and Isaiah Hicks was 3 for 6 from the floor.
• Carolina’s bench was 0 for 10 from the floor in the opening half, but 9 for 9 in the second half.
• Nate Britt scored eight of his 10 points in the second half and Tony Bradley was 3 for 3 from the floor in the second after going 0 for 4 in the first.
• Justin Jackson was Carolina’s defensive player of the game. It was his first award of the season and seventh of his career.
HONORING THE 1957 UNDEFEATED CHAMPS
Five members of the 1957 undefeated national championship team are scheduled to be in attendance at the UNC-Notre Dame game on Saturday, Feb. 4. This is the 60th anniversary of Carolina winning the first of its five NCAA Tournament championships.
Carolina went 32-0 and won the title by winning consecutive triple overtime games on successive nights in Kansas City. The Tar Heels beat Michigan State, 74-70, and Kansas, 54-53, to win the title.
National Player of the Year Lennie Rosenbluth, Tom Kearns, Joe Quigg, Bob Young and Tony Radovich are scheduled to be on hand for the Notre Dame game.
The 32-0 mark is tied with the 1976 Indiana Hoosiers for the best record ever in Division One men’s basketball history.
UNC 3-Point Shooting
• Carolina is making 7.6 three-pointers per game, up from 5.6 a year ago. It’s tied for the third-most three-pointers per game in UNC history. It’s also the third-highest increase in three-pointers made from one season to the next (increases of 3.7 per game from 1994 to 1995, 2.5 from 2012 to 2013 and 2.0 from 2016 to 2017).
• This is the eighth season since 1986-87 in which the Tar Heels are averaging at least seven three-point field goals per game. UNC 3FGs Per Game 2002-03 8.3 per game 1994-95 7.8 2016-17 7.6 2012-13 7.6 2001-02 7.6 2004-05 7.5 1995-96 7.3 1991-92 7.0
• Carolina has attempted 20 or more three-pointers in 13 of 23 games and made seven or more 17 times. The Tar Heels are 10-3 this year when they attempt 20 or more three-pointers and 15-2 when they make seven or more.
• UNC is shooting 37.6 percent from three-point range, up from a school-record low of 32.7 percent last season.
• The Tar Heels have shot 40 percent or better 3FG in 12 games and are 11-1 in those games (lost to Kentucky despite making 9 of 17 3FGs).
• Carolina has shot 40 percent from threepoint range in six of its last eight games (.417 at Clemson, .444 vs. NC State, .444 vs. Wake Forest, .444 vs. Florida State, .429 at Boston College and .467 vs. Virginia Tech).
• Justin Jackson leads UNC with 61 threes and is shooting 40.1 percent from beyond the arc, up from 29.2 percent last year.
• Joel Berry II leads UNC in three-point percentage at .420 and is second in made threes with 50.
• Jackson has 61 three-pointers in 23 games. He made 28 in 38 games as a freshman and 35 in 40 games as a sophomore.
• Justin Jackson has made four or more three-pointers eight times this season. Prior to this season, he made four in a game once (vs. Virginia in the 2015 ACC Tournament).
• Jackson is the first Tar Heel since 2004 to make six or more three-pointers in three games in the same season.
• Thirty-two percent of the opponents’ baskets have been three-point field goals. Twenty-four percent of UNC’s field goals are behind the arc.
• The opponents have attempted 39 percent of their shots from three-point range. UNC has attempted 30 percent of its field goals from behind the arc.
NORTH CAROLINA VS. PITT
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
7 p.m.
Dean E. Smith Center
Chapel Hill, N.C.
TV: ESPN2 (Karl Ravech, Sean Farnham)
Radio: Tar Heel Sports Network (Jones Angell, Eric Montross, Adam Lucas, Dave Nathan)
Satellite: Sirius/XM and Internet 84
North Carolina Tar Heels
2016-17 Record: 19-4, 7-2 ACC
Head Coach: Roy Williams (UNC ‘72)
Williams’ Overall Record: 802-213 (29th year)
Williams’ Record at UNC: 384-112 (14th year)
Rankings: #12 Associated Press, #10 USA Today/Coaches
Pitt Panthers
2016-17 Record: 12-9, 1-7 ACC
Head Coach: Kevin Stallings
Overall Record: 467-292 (24th year)
Record at Pitt: 12-9 (first year)
Rankings: not ranked
