ALABAMA 103, UNC 101 (4 overtimes)
PHIL KNIGHT INVITATIONAL THIRD PLACE GAME
SUNDAY, NOV. 27, 2022
VETERANS MEMORIAL COLISEUM, PORTLAND, ORE.
UNC Scoring Leader: Caleb Love (career-high 34)
UNC Rebound Leader: Armando Bacot 10
UNC Assist Leader: RJ Davis and Love 4
Team Records: UNC 5-2, Alabama 6-1
• UNC scoring by period: 34-43-4-8-7-5 (101)
• Alabama scoring by period: 37-40-4-8-7-7 (103)
• This was the second four-overtime game in UNC history, 46 years to the day after the first. UNC beat Tulane, 113-106, on 11/27/1976 in the Superdome in New Orleans.
• UNC had not played at least three overtimes since a 119-113 loss to Wake Forest on 12/20/2003, in what was Roy Williams’ first ACC game as UNC’s head coach.
• Caleb Love was one of three Tar Heels to play 50 or more minutes. Love played 57:24, Leaky Black played 53:52 and RJ Davis played 50:36.
• Love’s 57 minutes were one off the UNC record of 58 by Phil Ford in the 1976 quadruple-OT game at Tulane.
• In addition to career highs in minutes for Love, Black and Davis, Puff Johnson (48) and D’Marco Dunn (15) also played career-high minutes.
• Love tied his career high with nine rebounds.
• Dunn led UNC in plus/minus at +19 and Johnson was next best at +11.
• Johnson scored a season-high 10 points, his fourth career game in double figures. He added five rebounds, two assists, a block and a career-high three steals (five steals in the last two games).
• UNC is now 8-3 all-time in games when both teams score 100 points.
• It was UNC’s first game in which both teams scored 100 points since since a 103-100 (regulation length game) loss to Kentucky in Las Vegas on 12/27/2016.
• Carolina is 208-3 when it scores 100 points.
• Love scored a career-high 34 points. His previous high was 30 vs. UCLA on 3/25/22 in the NCAA Sweet 16 in Philadelphia.
• Love made a career-high 13 field goals (previous high was 11 vs. UCLA and Duke in the national semifinals).
• Love’s 36 field goal attempts are the fourth most in a game by a Tar Heel. Lennie Rosenbluth attempted 43 in the 1957 NCAA triple-OT semifinal vs. Michigan State, Billy Cunningham attempted 39 vs. Tulane on 12/10/64 and Rosenbluth attempted 37 vs. Furman on 12/4/1956.
• Armando Bacot scored 20 points and had 10 rebounds for his third double-double of the season and 52nd of his career. He is second in UNC history in double-doubles behind Cunningham (60) and second in games with 10 or more rebounds with 59 (Cunningham had 10 or more 61 times).
• Bacot had six offensive rebouns, the third time in the first seven games this season he had at least six offensive rebounds.
• Leaky Black had 10 points, eight rebounds, a career-high tying three blocks and two steals. He was the only Tar Heel and one of two players on either team to make a three-pointer in any of the overtimes (he gave UNC a 101-100 lead with 1:34 left in OT No. 6).
• Carolina falls to 193-33 as the No. 1 team in the AP poll.
• It’s the first time UNC has lost consecutive games as the AP No. 1 team since February 1986 when it lost, 77-72, Maryland in overtime and, 76-65, to NC State.
• Carolina made 18 of 20 free throws, a season-high percentage of .900.
• Will Shaver made his collegiate debut for UNC and was 2 for 2 fromn the free throw line for his first points.
• Alabama came into the game No. 1 in the nation in rebounds per game and rebound margin. The Tide out-rebounded the Tar Heels, 58-54, but Carolina out-scored Alabama in second-chance points, 18-15.
• Alabama made 16 of 38 threes. The 16 threes are a season high by an opponent and equal the sixth most in a game by an opponent.
• The 16 threes were the most by an opponent since Iowa made 17 on 12/8/2020.
• Alabama committed 22 turnovers. It was the first time an opponent committed 20 or more and beat UNC since Michigan State had 24 in the final game of PK80 in Portland on 11/26/2017.
• Mark Sears made 7 of 11 threes and led the Tide with 24 points. It was the second game in a row an opponent went 7 for 11 from three (Caleb Grill of Iowa State was 7 for 11 and finished with 31 points).
Series vs. Alabama
• Carolina leads, 8-5. It was Alabama’s first win over UNC in four games. Its previous win over Carolina was 11/30/1989 in Tuscaloosa.
Next Game
Wednesday, Nov. 30 at Indiana (9:15 p.m.) in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.
PHIL KNIGHT INVITATIONAL THIRD PLACE GAME
SUNDAY, NOV. 27, 2022
VETERANS MEMORIAL COLISEUM, PORTLAND, ORE.
UNC Scoring Leader: Caleb Love (career-high 34)
UNC Rebound Leader: Armando Bacot 10
UNC Assist Leader: RJ Davis and Love 4
Team Records: UNC 5-2, Alabama 6-1
• UNC scoring by period: 34-43-4-8-7-5 (101)
• Alabama scoring by period: 37-40-4-8-7-7 (103)
• This was the second four-overtime game in UNC history, 46 years to the day after the first. UNC beat Tulane, 113-106, on 11/27/1976 in the Superdome in New Orleans.
• UNC had not played at least three overtimes since a 119-113 loss to Wake Forest on 12/20/2003, in what was Roy Williams’ first ACC game as UNC’s head coach.
• Caleb Love was one of three Tar Heels to play 50 or more minutes. Love played 57:24, Leaky Black played 53:52 and RJ Davis played 50:36.
• Love’s 57 minutes were one off the UNC record of 58 by Phil Ford in the 1976 quadruple-OT game at Tulane.
• In addition to career highs in minutes for Love, Black and Davis, Puff Johnson (48) and D’Marco Dunn (15) also played career-high minutes.
• Love tied his career high with nine rebounds.
• Dunn led UNC in plus/minus at +19 and Johnson was next best at +11.
• Johnson scored a season-high 10 points, his fourth career game in double figures. He added five rebounds, two assists, a block and a career-high three steals (five steals in the last two games).
• UNC is now 8-3 all-time in games when both teams score 100 points.
• It was UNC’s first game in which both teams scored 100 points since since a 103-100 (regulation length game) loss to Kentucky in Las Vegas on 12/27/2016.
• Carolina is 208-3 when it scores 100 points.
• Love scored a career-high 34 points. His previous high was 30 vs. UCLA on 3/25/22 in the NCAA Sweet 16 in Philadelphia.
• Love made a career-high 13 field goals (previous high was 11 vs. UCLA and Duke in the national semifinals).
• Love’s 36 field goal attempts are the fourth most in a game by a Tar Heel. Lennie Rosenbluth attempted 43 in the 1957 NCAA triple-OT semifinal vs. Michigan State, Billy Cunningham attempted 39 vs. Tulane on 12/10/64 and Rosenbluth attempted 37 vs. Furman on 12/4/1956.
• Armando Bacot scored 20 points and had 10 rebounds for his third double-double of the season and 52nd of his career. He is second in UNC history in double-doubles behind Cunningham (60) and second in games with 10 or more rebounds with 59 (Cunningham had 10 or more 61 times).
• Bacot had six offensive rebouns, the third time in the first seven games this season he had at least six offensive rebounds.
• Leaky Black had 10 points, eight rebounds, a career-high tying three blocks and two steals. He was the only Tar Heel and one of two players on either team to make a three-pointer in any of the overtimes (he gave UNC a 101-100 lead with 1:34 left in OT No. 6).
• Carolina falls to 193-33 as the No. 1 team in the AP poll.
• It’s the first time UNC has lost consecutive games as the AP No. 1 team since February 1986 when it lost, 77-72, Maryland in overtime and, 76-65, to NC State.
• Carolina made 18 of 20 free throws, a season-high percentage of .900.
• Will Shaver made his collegiate debut for UNC and was 2 for 2 fromn the free throw line for his first points.
• Alabama came into the game No. 1 in the nation in rebounds per game and rebound margin. The Tide out-rebounded the Tar Heels, 58-54, but Carolina out-scored Alabama in second-chance points, 18-15.
• Alabama made 16 of 38 threes. The 16 threes are a season high by an opponent and equal the sixth most in a game by an opponent.
• The 16 threes were the most by an opponent since Iowa made 17 on 12/8/2020.
• Alabama committed 22 turnovers. It was the first time an opponent committed 20 or more and beat UNC since Michigan State had 24 in the final game of PK80 in Portland on 11/26/2017.
• Mark Sears made 7 of 11 threes and led the Tide with 24 points. It was the second game in a row an opponent went 7 for 11 from three (Caleb Grill of Iowa State was 7 for 11 and finished with 31 points).
Series vs. Alabama
• Carolina leads, 8-5. It was Alabama’s first win over UNC in four games. Its previous win over Carolina was 11/30/1989 in Tuscaloosa.
Next Game
Wednesday, Nov. 30 at Indiana (9:15 p.m.) in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.
