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UNC-Duke Pre-Game Notes

andrew jones

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Jul 21, 2014
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• Carolina leads the ACC in points (87.5), rebounds (42.5) and assists (19.6) per game and
rebound margin (+9.4 per game).
• Carolina is second in the ACC in three-point field goals per game (a school-record 9.1), its
highest ACC ranking since leading the league in 2012-13 (7.6 per game).
• Luke Maye is the 21st Tar Heel with 800 or more rebounds. He had seven at Wake Forest and
has 806 in his career. Jason Capel is 20th with 807; Mike O’Koren is 19th (815).
• Cameron Johnson has made 230 career three-pointers – 116 in three seasons at Pitt and
114 in 51 games over the last two seasons as a Tar Heel. Only three Tar Heels ever made more
three-pointers than Johnson – Marcus Paige (299), Joel Berry II (266) and Shammond Williams
(233).
• This is the 65th season of ACC Basketball. Carolina (10-2) has clinched a winning record in
league play for the 59th time in 65 seasons.
• Carolina’s 38-point win at Wake Forest was its largest margin ever in an ACC road game, the
largest in series history and the largest by a visiting team at the LJVM Coliseum. It also was
UNC’s 20th win of the season, the 29th 20-win season in Roy Williams’ career, which ties him
with Bob Knight for fourth all-time.
• February 20 is the latest in the calendar for the first scheduled Carolina-Duke game. The
teams played for the first time in the 2013-14 season on February 20, but that game was originally scheduled for Feb. 12 and was postponed eight days due to a winter storm.
• Carolina has 13 wins over AP No. 1-ranked teams, most all-time. Seven of those 13 wins
have come against Duke. Roy Williams has four wins over No. 1 (2004 vs. Connecticut, 2005
vs. Illinois in the national championship game, 2006 at Duke and 2013 at Michigan State).
• Carolina is 6-0 on the road in ACC play this season, its best start on the road since going 8-0
in 2008.
• Williams is second all-time in ACC road winning percentage (.644) and third all-time in ACC
road wins (85).

UNC-DUKE SERIES
• Carolina leads the all-time series against Duke, 137-111.
• The Tar Heels have played 248 games against Duke, more than any other opponent.
• Carolina is 47-54 at Duke, including 36-45 at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
• Carolina and Duke are playing for the 249th time overall and the 12th consecutive game in
which both teams are ranked in the AP top 25.
• This is the 149th consecutive Carolina-Duke game in which at least one of the teams is
ranked in the AP poll.
• This is the 83rd game in which both schools are ranked in the AP poll. UNC is 40-42 in those
games.
• This is the 30th time in 34 games in the Williams-Krzyzewski era that both teams are ranked
in the AP poll.
• This is the 46th game in which both teams are ranked in the AP top 10. UNC is 22-23 in the
previous 45 top-10 games.
• Carolina is 7-10 against Duke when the Blue Devils are ranked No. 1 in the AP poll. Three of
UNC’s seven wins have come at Cameron Indoor Stadium, including the last time the teams
played, when the Blue Devils were No. 1 on 3/4/2006. Tyler Hansbrough led UNC to the first
of his four wins at Cameron with a game-high 27 points and 10 rebounds.

UNC WINS OVER NO. 1 DUKE (AP)
~Jan. 12, 1980 – No. 15 UNC 82, No. 1 Duke 67
~Jan. 18, 1989 – No. 13 UNC 91, No. 1 Duke 71
Feb. 5, 1992 – No. 9 UNC 75, No. 1 Duke 73
Feb. 3, 1994 – No. 2 UNC, 89, No. 1 Duke 78
Feb. 5, 1998 – No. 2 UNC 97, No. 1 Duke 73
March 8, 1998 – No. 4 UNC 83, No. 1 Duke 68
~March 4, 2006 – No. 13 UNC 83, No. 1 Duke 76
~ at Cameron Indoor Stadium
• Head coach Roy Williams is 14-19 against Duke as Carolina’s head coach.
• Carolina is 44-46 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 38 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 37 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.
• Luke Maye made his first career as a sophomore at Duke (in place of injured senior Isaiah
Hicks). He scored eight points in 20 minutes; he also scored eight points off the bench in the
90-83 Tar Heel win later in 2017.
• Last season, Maye averaged 15.0 points and 8.3 rebounds in the three games against Duke
(15 and eight rebounds in the home win, 13 points at Duke and 17 points, 10 rebounds, four
assists and two steals in the ACC semifinal win).
• Cameron Johnson has played two previous games at Cameron. He had three points (1 for 3
3FG), six rebounds, two assists and three steals as a Pitt Panther in 2017; last year as a Tar Heel
he was 4 for 12 from three and scored 16 points.
• Johnson averaged 14.7 points in three games against the Blue Devils in 2017-18 (had 18
points and a career-high 13 rebounds at home, 16 points at Duke and 10 in the ACC semifinal).
• Kenny Williams scored in double figures in all three games against Duke last year. He made a
career-high-tying six threes and had 20 points in the home win, scored 13 and had eight rebounds
and four assists at Duke and scored 10 points with a then-career-high six assists in the ACC
Tournament.
• Williams’ six 3FGs tied the UNC record against Duke (Hubert Davis also made six in 1992).
• Garrison Brooks had 10 points against Duke in Brooklyn.


MISCELLANEOUS
• Coby White leads the Tar Heels in scoring in conference play at 17.7 per game. He is second
in all games and is tied with Harrison Barnes with the fifth-highest scoring average by a freshman in UNC history.

HIGHEST SCORING AVERAGE, UNC FRESHMAN
18.9 – Tyler Hansbrough, 2005-06
17.0 – Rashad McCants, 2002-03
16.7 – Joseph Forte, 1999-2000
16.4 – Phil Ford, 1974-75
15.7 – Coby White
15.7 – Harrison Barnes, 2010-11

• White is second on the team with 57 three-pointers. That is already the fifth most by a UNC freshman in a season and the most since Harrison Barnes (67) in 2010-11.

MOST 3FGs, UNC FRESHMAN
72 – Rashad McCants, 2002-03
69 – Raymond Felton, 2002-03
67 – Harrison Barnes, 2010-11
66 – Wayne Ellington, 2006-07
57 – Coby White
56 – Joseph Forte, 1999-2000

• White also has the seventh-highest free throw percentage by a UNC freshman; it is the highest
since Marcus Paige in 2013.

HIGHEST FREE THROW PCT., UNC FRESHMAN
(Min. 50 FTs)
.854 – Jason Capel, 1998-99 (76 of 89)
.847 – Marvin Williams, 2004-05 (138 of 163)
.839 – P.J. Hairston, 2011-12 (52 of 62)
.836 – Marcus Paige, 2012-13 (51 of 61)
.836 – Wayne Ellington, 2006-07 (51 of 61)
.810 – Raymond Felton, 2002-03 (85 of 105)
.805 – Coby White (70 of 87)

• White scored 33 points against Miami on 2/9. He scored 33 against Texas in November, making him the 10th Tar Heel to score 33 or more twice in a season, joining: Tyler Hansbrough (2007-08), Joseph Forte (200-01), Antawn Jamison (1997-98), Hubert Davis (1991-92), Al Wood (1980-81), Charlie Scott (1968-69 and 1969-70), Bobby Lewis (1964-65 and 1965-66), Billy Cunningham (1962-63, 1963-64 and 1964-65) and Lennie Rosenbluth (1954-55, 1955-56 and 1956-57).
• Carolina has won 20 games this season, the 15th consecutive seasons the Tar Heels have won
at least 20 games under Roy Williams. This is Carolina’s 61st 20-win season.
• Luke Maye’s 31-point/12-rebound performance against NC State was his fourth career 30/10
game, which ties him for the sixth-most by a Tar Heel.
 
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