Carolina-Wisconsin for Maui Title
• The Tar Heels have advanced to the championship game with wins over Chaminade (104- 61) and Oklahoma State (107-75).
• Fourth-ranked Carolina plays #16/14 Wisconsin in the championship game.
• The Badgers have beaten Tennessee (74-62) and Georgetown (73-57) to reach the final.
• Carolina is playing in its sixth Maui Invitational championship game. The Tar Heels are 3-2 in previous finals.
• Carolina lost in the final in 1989-90 to Missouri and in 1995-96 to Villanova, then won three straight times in the championship game – 1999-2000 over Purdue, 2004-05 over Iowa and 2008-09 over Notre Dame.
• Carolina is 3-0 vs. Big Ten teams in Maui history, including 2-0 in the finals.
• Carolina is just the third team in Maui Invitational history to score 100 points in consecutive games (Oklahoma in 1992-93 and Loyola Marymount in 1990-91).
UNC in Maui
• Carolina is 17-3 in seven Maui Invitational appearances. UNC has won three previous titles in 1999-2000, 2004-05 and 2008-09.
• Carolina has won more games (17) in Maui than any school in Maui Invitational history. Duke is second with 15.
• The Lahaina Civic Center is tied for 17th in Carolina history in most wins (17) by the Tar Heels in any arena. Carolina has also won 17 times in the RBC Center in Raleigh, N.C., and the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Maui MVPs
• Freshman Joseph Forte was the MVP in 1999-2000 after scoring 24 points in his college debut in the opener vs. Southern California, adding 17 in the semis vs. Georgetown and a game-high 21 in the championship vs. Purdue.
• Raymond Felton was MVP in 2004-05 after averaging 9.7 points and 10 assists in the three wins. He injured his wrist in the semifinal, but still had 13 points, nine assists and four steals against Iowa in the championship game.
• Ty Lawson earned MVP honors in 2008-09 after a 22-point, 11-assist double-double in the finals against Notre Dame.
Roy Williams in Maui
• This is the sixth time Roy Williams has brought a team to the Maui Invitational.
• Williams’ teams have a 15-2 record and have won three championships in Maui.
• Williams is one of three coaches to win the Maui Invitational at least three times (Mike Krzyzewski - 5, Williams - 3, Jim Boeheim - 3).
• At Kansas, he led the Jayhawks to the title in 1996-97 with wins over LSU, California and Virginia.
• His UNC teams are 10-1 in Maui, winning the title in 2004-05 and 2008-09.
UNC All-Time in Hawai’i
• The Tar Heels are 33-5 in the state of Hawai’i – 16-2 in Honolulu and 17-3 in Lahaina.
The Wisconsin Series
• The Tar Heels are 2-1 vs. Wisconsin.
• The Badgers won the last meeting two seasons ago. On March 26, 2015, Wisconsin ended UNC’s season in Los Angeles in the NCAA West Regional Sweet 16, 79-72.
• Carolina led by seven with under 11 minutes to play, but the Badgers took the lead with 6:08 to play and went 8 for 8 from the foul line in the final minute to hang on for the win.
• The teams combined for only nine turnovers, which equal the fewest in any Roy Williams-coached game in Carolina history.
• UNC had four turnovers, the fewest ever in a Tar Heel NCAA Tournament loss.
• Carolina made 8 of 13 from three-point range, a percentage of .615 that was the highest ever in a UNC loss in an NCAA Tournamnt loss (surpassed in the loss to Villanova last year).
• Brice Johnson and Justin Jackson led UNC with 15 points apiece and Marcus Paige had 12.
• Sam Dekker and Frank Kaminsky combined for 42 points for the Badgers.
• Six current Tar Heels played in that game: Jackson, Kennedy Meeks, Joel Berry II, Isaiah Hicks, Theo Pinson and Nate Britt.
• Jackson was 6 for 11 from the floor (3-3 3FGs) and had three assists.
• Berry had nine points and three assists.
• Carolina beat the Badgers, 60-57, in Chapel Hill on 11/30/11 in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.
• Carolina beat the Badgers, 88-82, in Syracuse, N.Y., on 3/27/05, in the NCAA East Regional Elite Eight, a win that propelled the Tar Heels to the Final Four where they won the 2005 NCAA championship.
• Sean May, Carolina’s director of player personnel, had 29 points and 12 rebounds, and was the MVP of the regional.
• Roy Williams is 2-1 against Wisconsin, all while the head coach at UNC.
Hot-Shooting, Defense Fuel Win Over Cowboys
• Carolina had season-high shooting percentages from the floor, three-point range and the free throw line and held Oklahoma State 30 points below its season average in a 107-75 win in the Maui semifinals. • The 32-point victory is Carolina’s largest in the semifinal round of the Maui Invitational. Previous high by UNC in a Maui semifinal was a 29-point win over Oregon in 2008-09.
• UNC made 37 of 64 shots from the floor for the second consecutive game and again shot a season-high 57.8 percent from the floor.
• Carolina shot 56.3 percent from the floor in the first half and 59.4 percent in the second half.
• Carolina has shot better than 50 percent from the floor in five consecutive halves (second half at Hawai’i, both halves vs. Chaminade and Oklahoma State).
• Carolina also shot season-high percentages from three-point range (8 of 17, .471) and the free throw line (25 of 29, .862).
• Carolina made a season-high 25 free throws.
• Carolina scored a season-high 107 points. It’s the most points since UNC scored 108 vs. East Carolina on 12/7/14.
• Six Tar Heels scored in double figures (second time this year, also Chattanooga) and one other player had nine points.
• Carolina held Oklahoma State to 75 points, 29.8 under the Cowboys’ season average coming into the game.
• Carolina held the Cowboys to six three-pointers in 22 attempts. OSU averaged 12 made threes entering the game.
• Two Tar Heels scored 20 points for the second straight game and it was two different players than against Chaminade. Joel Berry II had 24 and Justin Jackson 22 vs. Oklahoma State. Isaiah Hicks (22) and Kennedy Meeks (20) accomplished that vs. Chaminade.
• Berry scored a career-high 24 points. It was the third time in six games he set or tied his career scoring high.
• Berry went 6 for 6 from the free throw line (his first free throw attempts in three games). He also had five rebounds, four assists and three steals and went 4 for 6 from three-point range.
• Berry went 6 for 6 from the FT line, increasing his career numbers from the stripe to 145 for 170, a percentage of .853 that is the highest in Carolina history. He moved ahead of Shammond Williams (.849).
• Jackson had one of his most complete games as a Tar Heel with 22 points, eight rebounds, six assists and no turnovers. Jackson was 7 for 12 from the floor, made a three and went 7 for 7 from the free throw line.
• Jackson made a career-high seven free throws (previous six at Miami and vs. Indiana).
• Sophomore Kenny Williams made a career-high three three-point field goals. Last year, Williams was 1 for 13 on 3FGs. This year, he is 8 for 17 and has two games with multiple three-pointers.
• Senior guard Nate Britt had 12 points on 5 of 10 shooting from the floor. He has scored 33 points (11.0 ppg) on the road trip. He is 16 for 30 from the floor since the first game of the season.
• Freshman Tony Bradley had 13 points on 5 for 5 shooting from the floor. He is shooting a team-high 72.2 percent from the floor.
Tar Heel Notes
• UNC is 6-0 for the first time since going 13-0 to start the 2008-09 season.
* Carolina has scored 80 or more points in all six games, the first time it has done that to start a season since doing that in the first 12 games in 1993-94.
• UNC has scored 100-plus points in consecutive games for the first time since scoring 100 vs. Elon on 12/29/11 and 102 vs. Monmouth on 1/1/12.
• Carolina is 52-1 under head coach Roy Williams when it scores 100 points.
• Carolina has won 51 consecutive times when scoring 100 or more points.
• It was the first time any team has scored 100 points in consecutive games in the Maui Invitational since Oklahoma in 1992.
• Carolina is shooting 52.3 percent from the floor and holding the opponents to 36.8 percent. The Tar Heels have not shot 50 percent from the floor since 1997-98.
• Carolina has shot better than 50 percent from the floor in eight of 12 halves this season and better than 60 percent twice.
• Freshman Tony Bradley is shooting a team-high 72.2 percent from the floor and senior Isaiah Hicks is next at 67.3 percent. Brice Johnson (.511 in 2012-13) is the last freshman to lead UNC in field goal percentage.
• Carolina has more offensive rebounds (106) than the opponents have defensive rebounds (105).
• Kennedy Meeks (29) and Tony Bradley (26) have combined for 55 offensive rebounds.
• Sophomore guard Kenny Williams is third with 11 offensive rebounds.
• Carolina has made 123 free throws and the opponents have attempted 95.
• Tony Bradley leads the team in free throw attempts with 29. No freshman has led the team in free throw attempts since Tyler Hansbrough in 2005-06.
• Carolina is shooting 40.7 percent from three-point range (44 for 108). Last year, UNC set a school record for the lowest three-point percentage (.327).
• Kenny Williams leads UNC in three-point percentage at .471 (8 for 17). Joel Berry II leads UNC with 14 made threes.
• Ten Tar Heel are averaging double-figures in minutes led by Justin Jackson at 28.8 per game.
NORTH CAROLINA VS. WISCONSIN
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Maui Jim Maui Invitational Championship
Lahaina Civic Center, Lahaina, Maui, Hawai’i 4:30 p.m. Hawaiian Time (9:30 p.m. Eastern)
TV: ESPN2 (Dan Shulman, Jay Bilas)
North Carolina Tar Heels
2016-17 Record: 6-0
Head Coach: Roy Williams (UNC ‘72) Williams’ Overall Record: 789-209 (29th year) Williams’ Record at UNC: 371-108 (14th year)
Rankings: #4 AP, #4 ESPN/Coaches
Wisconsin Badgers
2016-17 Record: 4-1
Head Coach: Greg Gard Overall Record: 19-9 (2nd season) Record at Wisconsin: same
Rankings: #16 AP/#14 ESPN/Coaches
• The Tar Heels have advanced to the championship game with wins over Chaminade (104- 61) and Oklahoma State (107-75).
• Fourth-ranked Carolina plays #16/14 Wisconsin in the championship game.
• The Badgers have beaten Tennessee (74-62) and Georgetown (73-57) to reach the final.
• Carolina is playing in its sixth Maui Invitational championship game. The Tar Heels are 3-2 in previous finals.
• Carolina lost in the final in 1989-90 to Missouri and in 1995-96 to Villanova, then won three straight times in the championship game – 1999-2000 over Purdue, 2004-05 over Iowa and 2008-09 over Notre Dame.
• Carolina is 3-0 vs. Big Ten teams in Maui history, including 2-0 in the finals.
• Carolina is just the third team in Maui Invitational history to score 100 points in consecutive games (Oklahoma in 1992-93 and Loyola Marymount in 1990-91).
UNC in Maui
• Carolina is 17-3 in seven Maui Invitational appearances. UNC has won three previous titles in 1999-2000, 2004-05 and 2008-09.
• Carolina has won more games (17) in Maui than any school in Maui Invitational history. Duke is second with 15.
• The Lahaina Civic Center is tied for 17th in Carolina history in most wins (17) by the Tar Heels in any arena. Carolina has also won 17 times in the RBC Center in Raleigh, N.C., and the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Maui MVPs
• Freshman Joseph Forte was the MVP in 1999-2000 after scoring 24 points in his college debut in the opener vs. Southern California, adding 17 in the semis vs. Georgetown and a game-high 21 in the championship vs. Purdue.
• Raymond Felton was MVP in 2004-05 after averaging 9.7 points and 10 assists in the three wins. He injured his wrist in the semifinal, but still had 13 points, nine assists and four steals against Iowa in the championship game.
• Ty Lawson earned MVP honors in 2008-09 after a 22-point, 11-assist double-double in the finals against Notre Dame.
Roy Williams in Maui
• This is the sixth time Roy Williams has brought a team to the Maui Invitational.
• Williams’ teams have a 15-2 record and have won three championships in Maui.
• Williams is one of three coaches to win the Maui Invitational at least three times (Mike Krzyzewski - 5, Williams - 3, Jim Boeheim - 3).
• At Kansas, he led the Jayhawks to the title in 1996-97 with wins over LSU, California and Virginia.
• His UNC teams are 10-1 in Maui, winning the title in 2004-05 and 2008-09.
UNC All-Time in Hawai’i
• The Tar Heels are 33-5 in the state of Hawai’i – 16-2 in Honolulu and 17-3 in Lahaina.
The Wisconsin Series
• The Tar Heels are 2-1 vs. Wisconsin.
• The Badgers won the last meeting two seasons ago. On March 26, 2015, Wisconsin ended UNC’s season in Los Angeles in the NCAA West Regional Sweet 16, 79-72.
• Carolina led by seven with under 11 minutes to play, but the Badgers took the lead with 6:08 to play and went 8 for 8 from the foul line in the final minute to hang on for the win.
• The teams combined for only nine turnovers, which equal the fewest in any Roy Williams-coached game in Carolina history.
• UNC had four turnovers, the fewest ever in a Tar Heel NCAA Tournament loss.
• Carolina made 8 of 13 from three-point range, a percentage of .615 that was the highest ever in a UNC loss in an NCAA Tournamnt loss (surpassed in the loss to Villanova last year).
• Brice Johnson and Justin Jackson led UNC with 15 points apiece and Marcus Paige had 12.
• Sam Dekker and Frank Kaminsky combined for 42 points for the Badgers.
• Six current Tar Heels played in that game: Jackson, Kennedy Meeks, Joel Berry II, Isaiah Hicks, Theo Pinson and Nate Britt.
• Jackson was 6 for 11 from the floor (3-3 3FGs) and had three assists.
• Berry had nine points and three assists.
• Carolina beat the Badgers, 60-57, in Chapel Hill on 11/30/11 in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.
• Carolina beat the Badgers, 88-82, in Syracuse, N.Y., on 3/27/05, in the NCAA East Regional Elite Eight, a win that propelled the Tar Heels to the Final Four where they won the 2005 NCAA championship.
• Sean May, Carolina’s director of player personnel, had 29 points and 12 rebounds, and was the MVP of the regional.
• Roy Williams is 2-1 against Wisconsin, all while the head coach at UNC.
Hot-Shooting, Defense Fuel Win Over Cowboys
• Carolina had season-high shooting percentages from the floor, three-point range and the free throw line and held Oklahoma State 30 points below its season average in a 107-75 win in the Maui semifinals. • The 32-point victory is Carolina’s largest in the semifinal round of the Maui Invitational. Previous high by UNC in a Maui semifinal was a 29-point win over Oregon in 2008-09.
• UNC made 37 of 64 shots from the floor for the second consecutive game and again shot a season-high 57.8 percent from the floor.
• Carolina shot 56.3 percent from the floor in the first half and 59.4 percent in the second half.
• Carolina has shot better than 50 percent from the floor in five consecutive halves (second half at Hawai’i, both halves vs. Chaminade and Oklahoma State).
• Carolina also shot season-high percentages from three-point range (8 of 17, .471) and the free throw line (25 of 29, .862).
• Carolina made a season-high 25 free throws.
• Carolina scored a season-high 107 points. It’s the most points since UNC scored 108 vs. East Carolina on 12/7/14.
• Six Tar Heels scored in double figures (second time this year, also Chattanooga) and one other player had nine points.
• Carolina held Oklahoma State to 75 points, 29.8 under the Cowboys’ season average coming into the game.
• Carolina held the Cowboys to six three-pointers in 22 attempts. OSU averaged 12 made threes entering the game.
• Two Tar Heels scored 20 points for the second straight game and it was two different players than against Chaminade. Joel Berry II had 24 and Justin Jackson 22 vs. Oklahoma State. Isaiah Hicks (22) and Kennedy Meeks (20) accomplished that vs. Chaminade.
• Berry scored a career-high 24 points. It was the third time in six games he set or tied his career scoring high.
• Berry went 6 for 6 from the free throw line (his first free throw attempts in three games). He also had five rebounds, four assists and three steals and went 4 for 6 from three-point range.
• Berry went 6 for 6 from the FT line, increasing his career numbers from the stripe to 145 for 170, a percentage of .853 that is the highest in Carolina history. He moved ahead of Shammond Williams (.849).
• Jackson had one of his most complete games as a Tar Heel with 22 points, eight rebounds, six assists and no turnovers. Jackson was 7 for 12 from the floor, made a three and went 7 for 7 from the free throw line.
• Jackson made a career-high seven free throws (previous six at Miami and vs. Indiana).
• Sophomore Kenny Williams made a career-high three three-point field goals. Last year, Williams was 1 for 13 on 3FGs. This year, he is 8 for 17 and has two games with multiple three-pointers.
• Senior guard Nate Britt had 12 points on 5 of 10 shooting from the floor. He has scored 33 points (11.0 ppg) on the road trip. He is 16 for 30 from the floor since the first game of the season.
• Freshman Tony Bradley had 13 points on 5 for 5 shooting from the floor. He is shooting a team-high 72.2 percent from the floor.
Tar Heel Notes
• UNC is 6-0 for the first time since going 13-0 to start the 2008-09 season.
* Carolina has scored 80 or more points in all six games, the first time it has done that to start a season since doing that in the first 12 games in 1993-94.
• UNC has scored 100-plus points in consecutive games for the first time since scoring 100 vs. Elon on 12/29/11 and 102 vs. Monmouth on 1/1/12.
• Carolina is 52-1 under head coach Roy Williams when it scores 100 points.
• Carolina has won 51 consecutive times when scoring 100 or more points.
• It was the first time any team has scored 100 points in consecutive games in the Maui Invitational since Oklahoma in 1992.
• Carolina is shooting 52.3 percent from the floor and holding the opponents to 36.8 percent. The Tar Heels have not shot 50 percent from the floor since 1997-98.
• Carolina has shot better than 50 percent from the floor in eight of 12 halves this season and better than 60 percent twice.
• Freshman Tony Bradley is shooting a team-high 72.2 percent from the floor and senior Isaiah Hicks is next at 67.3 percent. Brice Johnson (.511 in 2012-13) is the last freshman to lead UNC in field goal percentage.
• Carolina has more offensive rebounds (106) than the opponents have defensive rebounds (105).
• Kennedy Meeks (29) and Tony Bradley (26) have combined for 55 offensive rebounds.
• Sophomore guard Kenny Williams is third with 11 offensive rebounds.
• Carolina has made 123 free throws and the opponents have attempted 95.
• Tony Bradley leads the team in free throw attempts with 29. No freshman has led the team in free throw attempts since Tyler Hansbrough in 2005-06.
• Carolina is shooting 40.7 percent from three-point range (44 for 108). Last year, UNC set a school record for the lowest three-point percentage (.327).
• Kenny Williams leads UNC in three-point percentage at .471 (8 for 17). Joel Berry II leads UNC with 14 made threes.
• Ten Tar Heel are averaging double-figures in minutes led by Justin Jackson at 28.8 per game.
NORTH CAROLINA VS. WISCONSIN
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Maui Jim Maui Invitational Championship
Lahaina Civic Center, Lahaina, Maui, Hawai’i 4:30 p.m. Hawaiian Time (9:30 p.m. Eastern)
TV: ESPN2 (Dan Shulman, Jay Bilas)
North Carolina Tar Heels
2016-17 Record: 6-0
Head Coach: Roy Williams (UNC ‘72) Williams’ Overall Record: 789-209 (29th year) Williams’ Record at UNC: 371-108 (14th year)
Rankings: #4 AP, #4 ESPN/Coaches
Wisconsin Badgers
2016-17 Record: 4-1
Head Coach: Greg Gard Overall Record: 19-9 (2nd season) Record at Wisconsin: same
Rankings: #16 AP/#14 ESPN/Coaches
