• The Tar Heels enter the 2018 ACC Tournament with a 22-9 overall record after an 11-7 mark in league play.
• Carolina finished in a four-way tie for third in the ACC and is the No. 6 seed in the Tournament.
• This is the first time UNC has ever been the No. 6 seed.
• This is the 56th time in 65 seasons the Tar Heels have finished in the top three in the ACC regular-season standings.
• Carolina is 10-6 away from the Smith Center this season. That includes a 7-5 record in road games and 3-1 at neutral sites (2-1 in Portland, Ore., in PK80, and 1-0 in New Orleans in the CBS Sports Classic).
• Carolina is 97-45 in ACC Tournament play with 18 championships and 34 appearances in the finals.
• Carolina is 36-24 in New York City (6-10 in the original Madison Square Garden, 28-13 in the current Garden and 2-1 in Barclays Center).
• The Tar Heels posted a winning record in ACC regular-season play for the 58th time in 65 seasons (the 13th time in 15 seasons under head coach Roy Williams).
• This is the 42nd time in 65 seasons the Tar Heels have won at least 10 ACC regular-season games and 34th time (13th time in 15 seasons under Roy Williams, including eight years in a row) UNC won at least 11.
RPI, TOUGHEST SCHEDULE NOTES
• UNC’s strength of schedule is the most difficult in the nation.
• Carolina is No. 6 in the NCAA’s RPI (as of 3/5). UNC’s opponents have an average RPI of 75, which is the second highest in the country.
• Carolina has played 10 games against teams in the top 25 in the RPI. The Tar Heels are 5-5 with wins over Duke (4), Tennessee (10), Clemson (11), Michigan (13) and Ohio State (23).
• The top five strength of schedules are: 1- North Carolina, 2- Kansas, 3- Vanderbilt, 4- Kentucky and 5- Alabama.
• Carolina has 11 wins over current Quadrant I opponents, most in the country ahead of Kansas (10), Florida (9), Virginia (9) and Villanova (8).
• The Tar Heels’ non-conference strength of schedule was the 11thmost difficult. It is the highest-rated non-conference schedule in the ACC.
• Carolina won road games at Stanford, Davidson, Tennessee, Notre Dame, NC State, Louisville and Syracuse. Those teams had a combined home record of 90-26.
RANKINGS
• Carolina is ranked No. 12 in the Associated Press poll and No. 11 in the coaches poll.
• This is the 79th consecutive week and the NCAA-record 895th time overall the Tar Heels are ranked in the AP poll.
• Carolina has five wins this season over teams in this week’s AP poll – No. 5 Duke, No. 7 Michigan, No. 13 Tennessee, No. 17 Ohio State and No. 19 Clemson.
• Carolina is No. 7 in KenPom’s overall rankings – fourth in offensive efficiency and 49th in defensive efficiency.
• How challenging a schedule have the Tar Heels played? Carolina’s opponents average the second-best offensive efficiency and the No.1 defensive efficiency in the nation (KenPom).
• Carolina, Oklahoma and Texas are the only teams whose opponents rank in the top 10 in the country in efficiency on both ends of the court.
• Carolina’s KenPom offensive efficiency of 122.2 is its second highest in the last eight years, trailing only 2015-16 (124.1).
• The Tar Heels have played 11 games against teams who are in the top 20 nationally in defensive efficiency. UNC is 7-4 in those games (wins over Michigan, Tennessee, Clemson, Duke, Louisville and Syracuse; and losses to Michigan State, Virginia, Clemson and Duke).
CAROLINA IN THE ACC TOURNAMENT
• Carolina has won 18 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championships and played in the championship game a record 34 times.
• The Tar Heels have an 97-45 record in ACC Tournament history. UNC has the second-most wins and second-most titles (UNC and Duke have combined to win 38 of the 64 championships).
• Joel Berry II was the Most Valuable Player of the 2016 ACC Tournament in Washington, D.C., after UNC beat Pitt, Notre Dame and Virginia for the Tar Heels’ 18th title. The sophomore scored 19 points against Virginia in the championship game, averaged 17 points and was 7 for 10 from three-point range in the three wins.
• Roy Williams is 22-11 with three titles and seven appearances in the championship game in 14 seasons. Williams has led UNC to the finals seven times against seven different opponents.
• Dean Smith was the first coach to win 13 ACC Tournaments. Smith’s teams were 58-23 and played in the championship game 21 times.
• The Tar Heels have earned the No. 1 seed 26 times. Duke is second with 17 No. 1 seeds; NC State is third with six.
• This is the third time in ACC Tournament history the Tar Heels are seeded lower than fifth – sixth in 2018, seventh in 2002 and 2003, and 10th in 2010.
• Carolina went 1-1 in Brooklyn last year.
• Carolina is the only school that has won three consecutive ACC outright regular-season titles and ACC Tournament championships. UNC accomplished that feat in 1967-68- 69.
• Roy Williams is one of seven coaches to win the Tournament at least three times.
• A Tar Heel has won the Most Valuable Player award 19 times – Lennie Rosenbluth (1957), Larry Miller (1967, 1968), Charles Scott (1969), Lee Dedmon (1971), Robert McAdoo (1972), Phil Ford (1975), John Kuester (1977), Dudley Bradley (1979), Sam Perkins (1981), James Worthy (1982), J.R. Reid (1989), Rick Fox (1991), Jerry Stackhouse (1994), Shammond Williams (1997), Antawn Jamison (1998), Brandan Wright (2007), Tyler Hansbrough (2008) and Joel Berry II (2016).
• Tyler Hansbrough is the only Tar Heel to earn firstteam All-Tournament honors three times.
SERIES INFO VS. SYRACUSE
• The Tar Heels will play No. 11 seed Syracuse, which defeated No. 14 seed Wake Forest.
• Carolina won at Syracuse, 78-74, on Feb. 21st.
• Carolina is 10-4 all-time against Syracuse, including 6-1 since the Orange joined the ACC. The Tar Heels have won the last six games.
• UNC and Syracuse have never played in the ACC Tournament.
• Syracuse beat the Tar Heels in 1987 in the Meadowlands in New Jersey and on 11/20/2009 in Madison Square Garden in the Coaches vs. Cancer tournament.
TV/RADIO/SATELLITE
• Wednesday’s second round game will be televised on ESPN2 (Mike Couzens, LaPhonso Ellis and Allison Williams) and the ACC Network (Wes Durham, Dan Bonner).
• Jones Angell and Eric Montross will provide the call on the Tar Heel Sports Radio Network.
• The game may be heard on satellite radio on channel 80 and the new ACC Channel (371).
• Carolina finished in a four-way tie for third in the ACC and is the No. 6 seed in the Tournament.
• This is the first time UNC has ever been the No. 6 seed.
• This is the 56th time in 65 seasons the Tar Heels have finished in the top three in the ACC regular-season standings.
• Carolina is 10-6 away from the Smith Center this season. That includes a 7-5 record in road games and 3-1 at neutral sites (2-1 in Portland, Ore., in PK80, and 1-0 in New Orleans in the CBS Sports Classic).
• Carolina is 97-45 in ACC Tournament play with 18 championships and 34 appearances in the finals.
• Carolina is 36-24 in New York City (6-10 in the original Madison Square Garden, 28-13 in the current Garden and 2-1 in Barclays Center).
• The Tar Heels posted a winning record in ACC regular-season play for the 58th time in 65 seasons (the 13th time in 15 seasons under head coach Roy Williams).
• This is the 42nd time in 65 seasons the Tar Heels have won at least 10 ACC regular-season games and 34th time (13th time in 15 seasons under Roy Williams, including eight years in a row) UNC won at least 11.
RPI, TOUGHEST SCHEDULE NOTES
• UNC’s strength of schedule is the most difficult in the nation.
• Carolina is No. 6 in the NCAA’s RPI (as of 3/5). UNC’s opponents have an average RPI of 75, which is the second highest in the country.
• Carolina has played 10 games against teams in the top 25 in the RPI. The Tar Heels are 5-5 with wins over Duke (4), Tennessee (10), Clemson (11), Michigan (13) and Ohio State (23).
• The top five strength of schedules are: 1- North Carolina, 2- Kansas, 3- Vanderbilt, 4- Kentucky and 5- Alabama.
• Carolina has 11 wins over current Quadrant I opponents, most in the country ahead of Kansas (10), Florida (9), Virginia (9) and Villanova (8).
• The Tar Heels’ non-conference strength of schedule was the 11thmost difficult. It is the highest-rated non-conference schedule in the ACC.
• Carolina won road games at Stanford, Davidson, Tennessee, Notre Dame, NC State, Louisville and Syracuse. Those teams had a combined home record of 90-26.
RANKINGS
• Carolina is ranked No. 12 in the Associated Press poll and No. 11 in the coaches poll.
• This is the 79th consecutive week and the NCAA-record 895th time overall the Tar Heels are ranked in the AP poll.
• Carolina has five wins this season over teams in this week’s AP poll – No. 5 Duke, No. 7 Michigan, No. 13 Tennessee, No. 17 Ohio State and No. 19 Clemson.
• Carolina is No. 7 in KenPom’s overall rankings – fourth in offensive efficiency and 49th in defensive efficiency.
• How challenging a schedule have the Tar Heels played? Carolina’s opponents average the second-best offensive efficiency and the No.1 defensive efficiency in the nation (KenPom).
• Carolina, Oklahoma and Texas are the only teams whose opponents rank in the top 10 in the country in efficiency on both ends of the court.
• Carolina’s KenPom offensive efficiency of 122.2 is its second highest in the last eight years, trailing only 2015-16 (124.1).
• The Tar Heels have played 11 games against teams who are in the top 20 nationally in defensive efficiency. UNC is 7-4 in those games (wins over Michigan, Tennessee, Clemson, Duke, Louisville and Syracuse; and losses to Michigan State, Virginia, Clemson and Duke).
CAROLINA IN THE ACC TOURNAMENT
• Carolina has won 18 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championships and played in the championship game a record 34 times.
• The Tar Heels have an 97-45 record in ACC Tournament history. UNC has the second-most wins and second-most titles (UNC and Duke have combined to win 38 of the 64 championships).
• Joel Berry II was the Most Valuable Player of the 2016 ACC Tournament in Washington, D.C., after UNC beat Pitt, Notre Dame and Virginia for the Tar Heels’ 18th title. The sophomore scored 19 points against Virginia in the championship game, averaged 17 points and was 7 for 10 from three-point range in the three wins.
• Roy Williams is 22-11 with three titles and seven appearances in the championship game in 14 seasons. Williams has led UNC to the finals seven times against seven different opponents.
• Dean Smith was the first coach to win 13 ACC Tournaments. Smith’s teams were 58-23 and played in the championship game 21 times.
• The Tar Heels have earned the No. 1 seed 26 times. Duke is second with 17 No. 1 seeds; NC State is third with six.
• This is the third time in ACC Tournament history the Tar Heels are seeded lower than fifth – sixth in 2018, seventh in 2002 and 2003, and 10th in 2010.
• Carolina went 1-1 in Brooklyn last year.
• Carolina is the only school that has won three consecutive ACC outright regular-season titles and ACC Tournament championships. UNC accomplished that feat in 1967-68- 69.
• Roy Williams is one of seven coaches to win the Tournament at least three times.
• A Tar Heel has won the Most Valuable Player award 19 times – Lennie Rosenbluth (1957), Larry Miller (1967, 1968), Charles Scott (1969), Lee Dedmon (1971), Robert McAdoo (1972), Phil Ford (1975), John Kuester (1977), Dudley Bradley (1979), Sam Perkins (1981), James Worthy (1982), J.R. Reid (1989), Rick Fox (1991), Jerry Stackhouse (1994), Shammond Williams (1997), Antawn Jamison (1998), Brandan Wright (2007), Tyler Hansbrough (2008) and Joel Berry II (2016).
• Tyler Hansbrough is the only Tar Heel to earn firstteam All-Tournament honors three times.
SERIES INFO VS. SYRACUSE
• The Tar Heels will play No. 11 seed Syracuse, which defeated No. 14 seed Wake Forest.
• Carolina won at Syracuse, 78-74, on Feb. 21st.
• Carolina is 10-4 all-time against Syracuse, including 6-1 since the Orange joined the ACC. The Tar Heels have won the last six games.
• UNC and Syracuse have never played in the ACC Tournament.
• Syracuse beat the Tar Heels in 1987 in the Meadowlands in New Jersey and on 11/20/2009 in Madison Square Garden in the Coaches vs. Cancer tournament.
TV/RADIO/SATELLITE
• Wednesday’s second round game will be televised on ESPN2 (Mike Couzens, LaPhonso Ellis and Allison Williams) and the ACC Network (Wes Durham, Dan Bonner).
• Jones Angell and Eric Montross will provide the call on the Tar Heel Sports Radio Network.
• The game may be heard on satellite radio on channel 80 and the new ACC Channel (371).
