• Seventh-ranked Carolina (6-2) plays at No. 5 Virginia (7-1) in the 2019-20 ACC road opener for the Tar Heels. UNC is coming off a 25-point loss to Ohio State, while the Cavaliers are playing for the first time since losing to Purdue by 29.
• Carolina has not dropped consecutive games since 2/27/18 (Miami) and 3/3/2018 (at Duke).
• Carolina is in a stretch of games which includes now No. 4 Michigan (7-1), No. 13 Oregon
(6-2), No. 6 Ohio State (8-0), No. 5 Virginia (7-1), Wofford (3-4) and No. 9 Gonzaga (9-1).
• Two Tar Heel coaches now rank in the top five in all-time wins by a Division I coach. Dean
Smith is fourth (retired in the No. 1 spot) with 879; Roy Williams is fifth with 877.
• Freshman forward Armando Bacot is very doubtful for the game due to a sprained left ankle, an injury he suffered with 12:48 to play in the first half of the Dec. 4 loss to Ohio State. The Buckeyes were leading 16-12 at that point. Bacot is averaging 13.7 points and 11.0 rebounds in the six games other than the two games he left early due to injuries (played three minutes at UNCW and seven vs. Ohio State). The 11.0 rebounds would rank Bacot 11th in the nation and tied for first among freshmen.
• Freshmen guards Jeremiah Francis (Reynoldsburg, Ohio) and Anthony Harris (Woodbridge, Va.) were in uniform for the first time this season at the Ohio State game. They have begun to practice full court. Neither has played in a game at UNC, but their availability to play is now a coach’s decision.
• Garrison Brooks has won Carolina’s defensive player of the game five times this season and 25 times in his career.
• Freshman point guard Cole Anthony is tied for second in the nation in scoring among freshen. Anthony is averaging 20.0 points and has led the Tar Heels in scoring five times.
• Senior Brandon Robinson has led UNC in assists (outright or shared) in each of the last three games. He had done that one time in his first three seasons.
• Following the game at UVA Carolina returns to action on Sunday, Dec. 15, against Wofford
in Carmichael Arena. This is UNC’s first regular-season game in Carmichael since a 90-79 win over NC State on 1/4/1986.
AP TOP-10 MATCHUPS, CAROLINA VS. VIRGINIA
1-15-72: #3 UNC 85, #8 UVA 79 (Charlottesville)
3-28-81: #6 UNC 78, #5 UVA 65 (Philadelphia) ^
1-9-82: #1 UNC 65, #2 UVA 60 (Chapel Hill)
2-3-82: #3 UVA 74, #2 UNC 58 (Charlottesville)
3-7-82: #1 UNC 47, #3 UVA 45 (Greensboro) *
2-10-83: #1 UNC 64, #3 UVA 63 (Chapel Hill)
2-25-01: #9 UVA 86, #2 UNC 66 (Charlottesville)
2-27-16: #3 UVA 79, #7 NC 74 (Charlottesville)
3-12-16: #7 UNC 61, #4 UVA 57 (Washington, D.C.) *
2-11-19: #4 Virginia 69, #8 UNC 61 (Chapel Hill
12-8-19: #5 Virginia vs. #7 UNC (Charlottesville)
^ NCAA Final Four
* ACC Tournament championship game
UNC-VIRGINIA SERIES
• Carolina leads, 131-57, including 16-11 under head coach Roy Williams.
• Virginia has won the last four and seven of the last 11 games against the Tar Heels. Four of those seven wins came in Charlottesville, two were in Chapel Hill and one in Brooklyn (2018 ACC Tournament final).
• Carolina is 44-35 in Charlottesville, including 4-5 at John Paul Jones Arena. UNC’s last win in Charlottesville was on 2/25/2012.
• Neither team has scored in the 80s in the last 10 games. UNC is 3-7 in those games.
• The Tar Heels are 7-9 against Tony Bennett’s Virginia teams and 1-0 against Bennett at Washington State (2008 NCAA Tournament).
• UNC has scored more than 75 points once in the last 16 games against Virginia and under 65 points 11 times (3-8 in those 11 games).
STAT TRENDS
• The Tar Heels lead the ACC in rebounding (47.5), rebound margin (12.6) and offensive rebounds (15.8), but will be without its leading rebounder, freshman Armando Bacot (8.9 per game) for an undetermined length of time due to a sprained left ankle.
• Carolina is seventh in the league in field goal percentage defense (Virginia leads).
• UNC has scored less than 80 points in each of the first eight games for the first time since 1949-50 (UNC scored less than 80 in all 29 of their games that season).
• Carolina has shot under 50 percent from the floor in the first eight games. That’s the longest stretch to open a season since the 1959-60 team shot 53.6 percent against Duke in the 16th game of the season.
• Carolina’s field goal percentage (.404) is its lowest since the 1957-58 season and its three-point percentage (.303) is its lowest ever.
• Carolina is 10th in the ACC in scoring (71.4 ppg), 12th in scoring margin (+4.3) and 13th in
field goal percentage (.404). Virginia is 15th in scoring and field goal percentage and eighth in scoring margin.
• Carolina has finished first, first, second and first in the ACC in scoring in the last four seasons.
• In Roy Williams’ previous 16 seasons, Carolina has led the ACC in scoring eight times, finished second five times and third three times.
DECEMBER GAUNTLET
• Carolina concluded the month of November losing to Michigan, which is now No. 4 in the country in the AP poll, and beating Oregon, which was No. 11 when the Tar Heels beat the Ducks, 78-74, and is now 13th.
• Carolina began the December with a 74-49 loss to No. 6 Ohio State. Next up are games at No. 5 Virginia, Wofford in Carmichael Arena and at No. 9 Gonzaga.
• The Ohio State-Virginia games mark the first time UNC has played back-to-back games against top-10 opponents since beating No. 5 Duke and losing to No. 1 Virginia in the semifinals and final, respectively, in the 2018 ACC Tournament in Brooklyn.
• It’s the first time UNC has played back-to-back games in which both teams were top 10 since the 2017 Final Four (No. 5 UNC beat No. 9 Oregon and No.2 Gonzaga).
• It’s the first time UNC has played consecutive games against top-10 teams in December since the 2009-10 season, when UNC beat No. 9 Michigan State in Chapel Hill on 12/1 and lost at No. 5 Kentucky on 12/5.
• It’s the first time UNC could play three top-10 teams in December since 2009-10, when UNC played host to No. 9 Michigan State, played at No. 5 Kentucky and lost to No. 2 Texas in the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.
WILLIAMS NO. 5 IN ALL-TIME WINS
• The win over Oregon was Carolina head coach Roy Williams’ 877th, moving him ahead of Kenucky’s Adolph Rupp for fifth place all time in wins by a Division I head coach. Fellow Naismith Hall of Famer Dean Smith, under whom Williams spent 10 years as an assistant coach, is fourth with 879.
• Roy Williams has won 459 games as UNC’s head coach, fourth most at an ACC school. He is three wins from passing Gary Williams, who won 461 games at Maryland.
MOST WINS AS ACC HEAD COACH, ALL GAMES
1067 Mike Krzyzewski Duke (through 12/4)
879 Dean Smith North Carolina
461 Gary Williams Maryland
459 Roy Williams North Carolina
354 Bobby Cremins Georgia Tech
1140 Mike Krzyzewski (through 12/4)
950 Jim Boeheim
902 Bob Knight
879 Dean Smith
877 Roy Williams
876 Adolph Rupp
MOST WINS AS ACC HEAD COACH, ALL GAMES
1067 Mike Krzyzewski Duke (through 12/4)
879 Dean Smith North Carolina
461 Gary Williams Maryland
459 Roy Williams North Carolina
354 Bobby Cremins Georgia Tech
• Carolina has not dropped consecutive games since 2/27/18 (Miami) and 3/3/2018 (at Duke).
• Carolina is in a stretch of games which includes now No. 4 Michigan (7-1), No. 13 Oregon
(6-2), No. 6 Ohio State (8-0), No. 5 Virginia (7-1), Wofford (3-4) and No. 9 Gonzaga (9-1).
• Two Tar Heel coaches now rank in the top five in all-time wins by a Division I coach. Dean
Smith is fourth (retired in the No. 1 spot) with 879; Roy Williams is fifth with 877.
• Freshman forward Armando Bacot is very doubtful for the game due to a sprained left ankle, an injury he suffered with 12:48 to play in the first half of the Dec. 4 loss to Ohio State. The Buckeyes were leading 16-12 at that point. Bacot is averaging 13.7 points and 11.0 rebounds in the six games other than the two games he left early due to injuries (played three minutes at UNCW and seven vs. Ohio State). The 11.0 rebounds would rank Bacot 11th in the nation and tied for first among freshmen.
• Freshmen guards Jeremiah Francis (Reynoldsburg, Ohio) and Anthony Harris (Woodbridge, Va.) were in uniform for the first time this season at the Ohio State game. They have begun to practice full court. Neither has played in a game at UNC, but their availability to play is now a coach’s decision.
• Garrison Brooks has won Carolina’s defensive player of the game five times this season and 25 times in his career.
• Freshman point guard Cole Anthony is tied for second in the nation in scoring among freshen. Anthony is averaging 20.0 points and has led the Tar Heels in scoring five times.
• Senior Brandon Robinson has led UNC in assists (outright or shared) in each of the last three games. He had done that one time in his first three seasons.
• Following the game at UVA Carolina returns to action on Sunday, Dec. 15, against Wofford
in Carmichael Arena. This is UNC’s first regular-season game in Carmichael since a 90-79 win over NC State on 1/4/1986.
AP TOP-10 MATCHUPS, CAROLINA VS. VIRGINIA
1-15-72: #3 UNC 85, #8 UVA 79 (Charlottesville)
3-28-81: #6 UNC 78, #5 UVA 65 (Philadelphia) ^
1-9-82: #1 UNC 65, #2 UVA 60 (Chapel Hill)
2-3-82: #3 UVA 74, #2 UNC 58 (Charlottesville)
3-7-82: #1 UNC 47, #3 UVA 45 (Greensboro) *
2-10-83: #1 UNC 64, #3 UVA 63 (Chapel Hill)
2-25-01: #9 UVA 86, #2 UNC 66 (Charlottesville)
2-27-16: #3 UVA 79, #7 NC 74 (Charlottesville)
3-12-16: #7 UNC 61, #4 UVA 57 (Washington, D.C.) *
2-11-19: #4 Virginia 69, #8 UNC 61 (Chapel Hill
12-8-19: #5 Virginia vs. #7 UNC (Charlottesville)
^ NCAA Final Four
* ACC Tournament championship game
UNC-VIRGINIA SERIES
• Carolina leads, 131-57, including 16-11 under head coach Roy Williams.
• Virginia has won the last four and seven of the last 11 games against the Tar Heels. Four of those seven wins came in Charlottesville, two were in Chapel Hill and one in Brooklyn (2018 ACC Tournament final).
• Carolina is 44-35 in Charlottesville, including 4-5 at John Paul Jones Arena. UNC’s last win in Charlottesville was on 2/25/2012.
• Neither team has scored in the 80s in the last 10 games. UNC is 3-7 in those games.
• The Tar Heels are 7-9 against Tony Bennett’s Virginia teams and 1-0 against Bennett at Washington State (2008 NCAA Tournament).
• UNC has scored more than 75 points once in the last 16 games against Virginia and under 65 points 11 times (3-8 in those 11 games).
STAT TRENDS
• The Tar Heels lead the ACC in rebounding (47.5), rebound margin (12.6) and offensive rebounds (15.8), but will be without its leading rebounder, freshman Armando Bacot (8.9 per game) for an undetermined length of time due to a sprained left ankle.
• Carolina is seventh in the league in field goal percentage defense (Virginia leads).
• UNC has scored less than 80 points in each of the first eight games for the first time since 1949-50 (UNC scored less than 80 in all 29 of their games that season).
• Carolina has shot under 50 percent from the floor in the first eight games. That’s the longest stretch to open a season since the 1959-60 team shot 53.6 percent against Duke in the 16th game of the season.
• Carolina’s field goal percentage (.404) is its lowest since the 1957-58 season and its three-point percentage (.303) is its lowest ever.
• Carolina is 10th in the ACC in scoring (71.4 ppg), 12th in scoring margin (+4.3) and 13th in
field goal percentage (.404). Virginia is 15th in scoring and field goal percentage and eighth in scoring margin.
• Carolina has finished first, first, second and first in the ACC in scoring in the last four seasons.
• In Roy Williams’ previous 16 seasons, Carolina has led the ACC in scoring eight times, finished second five times and third three times.
DECEMBER GAUNTLET
• Carolina concluded the month of November losing to Michigan, which is now No. 4 in the country in the AP poll, and beating Oregon, which was No. 11 when the Tar Heels beat the Ducks, 78-74, and is now 13th.
• Carolina began the December with a 74-49 loss to No. 6 Ohio State. Next up are games at No. 5 Virginia, Wofford in Carmichael Arena and at No. 9 Gonzaga.
• The Ohio State-Virginia games mark the first time UNC has played back-to-back games against top-10 opponents since beating No. 5 Duke and losing to No. 1 Virginia in the semifinals and final, respectively, in the 2018 ACC Tournament in Brooklyn.
• It’s the first time UNC has played back-to-back games in which both teams were top 10 since the 2017 Final Four (No. 5 UNC beat No. 9 Oregon and No.2 Gonzaga).
• It’s the first time UNC has played consecutive games against top-10 teams in December since the 2009-10 season, when UNC beat No. 9 Michigan State in Chapel Hill on 12/1 and lost at No. 5 Kentucky on 12/5.
• It’s the first time UNC could play three top-10 teams in December since 2009-10, when UNC played host to No. 9 Michigan State, played at No. 5 Kentucky and lost to No. 2 Texas in the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.
WILLIAMS NO. 5 IN ALL-TIME WINS
• The win over Oregon was Carolina head coach Roy Williams’ 877th, moving him ahead of Kenucky’s Adolph Rupp for fifth place all time in wins by a Division I head coach. Fellow Naismith Hall of Famer Dean Smith, under whom Williams spent 10 years as an assistant coach, is fourth with 879.
• Roy Williams has won 459 games as UNC’s head coach, fourth most at an ACC school. He is three wins from passing Gary Williams, who won 461 games at Maryland.
MOST WINS AS ACC HEAD COACH, ALL GAMES
1067 Mike Krzyzewski Duke (through 12/4)
879 Dean Smith North Carolina
461 Gary Williams Maryland
459 Roy Williams North Carolina
354 Bobby Cremins Georgia Tech
1140 Mike Krzyzewski (through 12/4)
950 Jim Boeheim
902 Bob Knight
879 Dean Smith
877 Roy Williams
876 Adolph Rupp
MOST WINS AS ACC HEAD COACH, ALL GAMES
1067 Mike Krzyzewski Duke (through 12/4)
879 Dean Smith North Carolina
461 Gary Williams Maryland
459 Roy Williams North Carolina
354 Bobby Cremins Georgia Tech
