CAROLINA is now 3-0 overall and 2-0 at the Smith Center this season. UNC returns to action on Saturday, Nov. 21st, at Northern Iowa. Game time is 2 p.m. Eastern.
CAROLINA led 50-47 with 13:11 to play before going on a 14-3 run over the next five minutes. Five different Tar Heels scored in that 14-3 run, including Joel James (4), Nate Britt (4), Justin Jackson (2), Isaiah Hicks (2) and Brice Johnson (2).
CAROLINA allowed only 11 points in the final 13:36 and out-scored the Terriers, 28-11, over that stretch.
CAROLINA shot 55.2 percent from the floor in the second half. That is the third time in as many games this year and the 12th time in the last 13 games dating back to last year that the Tar Heels have shot 50 percent or better from the floor in the second half.
CAROLINA has made 50 of 92 shots from the floor in the second halves of the first three games (.543).
CAROLINA is now 188-30 ranked No. 1 in the nation in the Associated Press poll.
ROY WILLIAMS’ Tar Heel teams are 50-6 in 28 weeks at No. 1 in the AP.
WILLIAMS is now 753-202 as a head coach in 28 seasons and 335-101 in 13 years at UNC.
JOEL BERRY scored a career-high 16 points and had a career-high four steals. Berry has scored 14, 15 and 16 points in his first three college starts. As a freshman he scored in double figures one time (15 at Georgia Tech).
BRICE JOHNSON (16 points and 14 rebounds tonight) has double-doubles in each of the first three games this season and 13 for his career. This is the first time he has registered double-doubles in three consecutive games in his career. He did grab double-figures rebounds in three straight games last year against Florida State, Syracuse and Louisville but he scored in double figures in only the first two games.
BRICE JOHNSON’s 14 rebounds equal the second-most in his career (17 vs. East Carolina and 14 vs. FSU last year).
ISAIAH HICKS scored a season-high 12 points. It is the eighth double-figure scoring game of his career and the first in his last 15 games.
NATE BRITT made Carolina’s only three-pointer. Britt is 8 for 12 from three-point range this season.
- UNC Communications
CAROLINA led 50-47 with 13:11 to play before going on a 14-3 run over the next five minutes. Five different Tar Heels scored in that 14-3 run, including Joel James (4), Nate Britt (4), Justin Jackson (2), Isaiah Hicks (2) and Brice Johnson (2).
CAROLINA allowed only 11 points in the final 13:36 and out-scored the Terriers, 28-11, over that stretch.
CAROLINA shot 55.2 percent from the floor in the second half. That is the third time in as many games this year and the 12th time in the last 13 games dating back to last year that the Tar Heels have shot 50 percent or better from the floor in the second half.
CAROLINA has made 50 of 92 shots from the floor in the second halves of the first three games (.543).
CAROLINA is now 188-30 ranked No. 1 in the nation in the Associated Press poll.
ROY WILLIAMS’ Tar Heel teams are 50-6 in 28 weeks at No. 1 in the AP.
WILLIAMS is now 753-202 as a head coach in 28 seasons and 335-101 in 13 years at UNC.
JOEL BERRY scored a career-high 16 points and had a career-high four steals. Berry has scored 14, 15 and 16 points in his first three college starts. As a freshman he scored in double figures one time (15 at Georgia Tech).
BRICE JOHNSON (16 points and 14 rebounds tonight) has double-doubles in each of the first three games this season and 13 for his career. This is the first time he has registered double-doubles in three consecutive games in his career. He did grab double-figures rebounds in three straight games last year against Florida State, Syracuse and Louisville but he scored in double figures in only the first two games.
BRICE JOHNSON’s 14 rebounds equal the second-most in his career (17 vs. East Carolina and 14 vs. FSU last year).
ISAIAH HICKS scored a season-high 12 points. It is the eighth double-figure scoring game of his career and the first in his last 15 games.
NATE BRITT made Carolina’s only three-pointer. Britt is 8 for 12 from three-point range this season.
- UNC Communications
