GAME 32: ACC QUARTERFINAL VS. CLEMSON
• Carolina is the No. 4 seed within the 2026 ACC Tournament on the Spectrum Center in Charlotte.
• The Tar Heels play No. 5 Clemson (23-9) within the quarterfinals on Thursday at roughly 9:30 p.m.
• Dave O’Brien, Cory Alexander and Molly McGrath have the decision for ESPN. The winner performs the winner of Duke-Florida State on Friday within the second semifinal at 9:30 p.m.
• The Tar Heels are 24-7 general and went 12-6 within the ACC to tie Clemson for fourth place. Carolina earned the No. 4 seed primarily based on beating the Tigers, 67-63, in Chapel Hill on March 3.
• Carolina has received 10 of its final 13 video games, together with 5-2 since mid-February with out its main scorer and rebounder Caleb Wilson, who suffered two accidents that prematurely ended his exhilarating freshman season after 24 video games.
• Carolina is 170-29 all-time in Charlotte, together with 20-4 within the Spectrum Center.
• The Tar Heels are 137-25 all-time in opposition to Clemson, together with 15-1 within the ACC Tournament. Carolina and Clemson final performed within the ACC Tournament within the 2011 semifinals, a 92-87 time beyond regulation win by the Tar Heels, when freshman Harrison Barnes scored 40 factors, as Carolina rallied from a 10-point halftime deficit.
• UNC is 34-4 vs. the Tigers at impartial websites, together with 17-2 in Charlotte. This is the primary time the Tar Heels and Tigers are taking part in in Charlotte because the 2008 ACC championship sport, an 86-81 UNC victory.
CAROLINA IN THE ACC TOURNAMENT
• The Tar Heels have received 18 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championships and performed within the championship sport a record-tying 36 instances.
• The Tar Heels are 110-53 in ACC Tournament play, together with 50-14 within the quarterfinals.
• Carolina has the second-most wins and titles.
• The Tar Heels have earned the No. 1 seed 27 instances. Duke is second with 20 No. 1 seeds.
• This is the fifteenth time Charlotte is internet hosting the ACC Tournament. The Tar Heels are 24-9 in ACC Tournament video games and have received the title 5 instances (1968, 1969, 1991, 1994 and 2008) in Charlotte.
• Carolina is the No. 4 seed for the eighth time. The Tar Heels are 4-6 all-time as a 4 seed, successful the title as soon as in 1989 (senior Jeff Lebo and freshman Hubert Davis have been ACC champions that season).
• UNC has misplaced its final three video games as a No. 4 seed – dropping in 1990 in time beyond regulation to Virginia, 2000 to Wake Forest and 2014 to Pitt.
• The Tar Heels are 15-1 within the ACC Tournament vs. Clemson. Carolina and Clemson final performed within the 2011 semifinals, a 92-87 time beyond regulation win by the Tar Heels, when freshman Harrison Barnes scored 40 factors.
• A Tar Heel has received ACC Tournament Most Valuable Player honors 19 instances – Lennie Rosenbluth (1957), Larry Miller (1967, 1968), Charlie 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).
RECAPPING THE REGULAR SEASON
• Carolina has received 20 or extra video games for the 66th time, together with 56 instances within the 73-year historical past of the ACC.
• Carolina is second all-time with 66 20-win seasons. Kentucky leads with 69 and Duke is third with 60.
• The Tar Heels are one victory from their forty second 25-win season. Carolina leads the nation in 25-win seasons. Kentucky is second with 39 and the Blue Devils are third with 37.
• The Tar Heels received 12 regular-season ACC video games for the thirtieth time, together with 4 instances in Hubert Davis‘ 5 seasons as head coach (17 in 2024, 15 in 2022, 13 in 2025 and 12 in 2026).
• Carolina is ranked No. 19 within the Associated Press ballot, nineteenth in Wins Above Bubble and No. 23 within the NET.
• Carolina has 4 wins over groups ranked greater within the NET – No. 1 Duke, No. 13 Virginia, No. 14 Louisville and No. 19 Kansas. The Tar Heels even have top-30 NET wins over Kentucky and Ohio State and one other over No. 36 Clemson.
• This is the second time UNC has defeated Kansas, Kentucky and Duke in the identical season. The different was 1981-82.
• Carolina was liable for two of Duke and Virginia’s 4 mixed losses in ACC play. The Tar Heels’ comeback win at Virginia on January 24 was the one win by a visiting staff on the Cavaliers’ dwelling courtroom this season.
• Carolina break up two video games with present No. 1 Duke, successful 71-68 within the Smith Center on February 7 and dropping by 15 on Saturday in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
• Since SMU shot 56.6% from the ground in opposition to the Blue Devils on January 10, Carolina is the one staff to shoot higher than 42% in opposition to Duke. The Tar Heels made 47.3% from the ground in Chapel Hill and 45.3% in Durham.
• At Cameron, Carolina held Duke to its lowest subject purpose proportion (42.0%) because the Blue Devils’ first ACC sport vs. Georgia Tech on December 31.
• The Tar Heels have performed solely 15 of their 31 video games when all three of their high scorers have been within the lineup (Caleb Wilson, Henri Veesaar and Seth Trimble). UNC went 11-4 in these 15 video games.
• UNC went 8-1 with out Trimble, who missed 9 video games from November 11-December 16, 1-1 in opposition to Pitt and NC State with out Veesaar and Wilson and are 4-1 with out Wilson.
• This is the primary time within the ACC period (1953-present) the Tar Heels’ top-three scorers have all missed a minimum of two video games for any cause. And the one different season when two of the top-three scorers missed a minimum of six video games apiece was 2019-20, when Cole Anthony missed 11 and Brandon Robinson sat out 9 video games because the Tar Heels completed 14-19 general, 6-14 within the ACC.
• The Pitt and NC State video games (February 14 and 17) marked the second time within the ACC period and the primary time since 1978 the Tar Heels performed back-to-back video games with out its high two scorers (Wilson and Veesaar). Carolina beat Pitt and misplaced in Raleigh with out its two All-ACC honorees.
• Carolina received all 18 video games within the Smith Center, setting data for many dwelling wins and greatest undefeated dwelling report in UNC historical past.
• UNC and Saint Louis have been the one groups with 18-0 dwelling data this season. Six groups went unbeaten at dwelling with a minimum of 15 wins, together with UNC, Saint Louis, St. Mary’s (16-0), Gonzaga (15-0), Duke (15-0) and Cal Baptist (15-0).
• Davis has led the Tar Heels to a 68-30 report in regular-season ACC play, the second-most wins by any staff within the final 5 seasons. Duke was first with 81, whereas Clemson and Virginia have been tied for third with 63.
ACC AWARDS
• Caleb Wilson earned first-team All-ACC honors and Henri Veesaar made the second staff (each by the ACC and the Associated Press).
• Wilson acquired the second-most votes for the primary staff and was additionally chosen to the All-Rookie Team.
• Seth Trimble made honorable point out All-ACC.
• Wilson is the 54th Tar Heel to make first-team All-ACC a complete of 83 instances. He is the primary Tar Heel freshman to earn first-team All-ACC since Tyler Hansbrough in 2006. Wilson, Hansbrough and Antawn Jamison (1996) are the one UNC freshmen to make the primary staff.
• Veesaar joins Robert McAdoo (first staff in 1972), Cameron Johnson (first staff in 2019) and Harrison Ingram (third staff in 2024) because the fourth Tar Heel to make an All-ACC staff after transferring to Carolina from one other staff.
• UNC and Miami have been the one groups with a number of gamers on the primary and second groups.
TRIMBLE’S SENIORITY
• It’s been a memorable senior season for Seth Trimble, one among solely three present scholarship gamers to spend 4 seasons at ACC colleges.
• He scored 17 factors and was credited by Kansas head coach Bill Self for his excellent defensive effort in opposition to Darryn Peterson in Carolina’s win over the Jayhawks on November 7.
• Two days later, he broke his left arm, an harm that precipitated him to overlook the subsequent 9 video games.
• He returned for the Ohio State sport on December 20 and had a key basket with 34 seconds to play within the Tar Heels’ 71-70 win over the Buckeyes.
• He tied profession highs in assists, three-pointers and steals in his first 4 video games again within the lineup.
• For the primary time in his profession, he scored 20 factors in consecutive video games in opposition to Florida State (20) and SMU (22).
• He scored 16 factors, together with the game-winning three-pointer, within the 71-68 win over Duke.
• In the second-to-last week of the common season, Trimble scored a career-high 30 factors in a 77-74 win over Louisville and 20 factors within the 89-82 win over Virginia Tech.
• The Menomonee Falls, Wis., native was named ACC Player of the Week and one of many USBWA’s National Players of the Week following the Louisville and Virginia Tech video games. He made 18 of 28 subject objectives, totaled 50 factors and had eight assists. It was Trimble’s first profession ACC Player-of-the-Week award.
• Trimble is averaging a career-high 14.0 factors this season, a rise of two.4 per sport from final season. He averaged 1.8 as a freshman, 5.2 as a sophomore and 11.6 as a junior.
• The Tar Heels’ captain is a finalist for CollegeInsider.com’s Nolan Richardson Award, which is introduced to a participant who’s the guts and soul of his staff and a pacesetter on and off the courtroom.
• Trimble has performed in eight ACC Tournament video games over the earlier three seasons, scoring in double figures 3 times (12 vs. Florida State in 2024, 10 vs. Wake Forest and 14 vs. Duke in 2025).
OTHERS IN CONFERENCE TOURNAMENTS
• Jarin Stevenson scored 16 factors vs. Kentucky and 10 vs. Florida within the 2025 SEC Tournament.
• Henri Veesaar averaged 12.3 factors in three Big 12 Tournament video games final season with a excessive of 19 in opposition to Kansas.
• Kyan Evans went 4 for five from three and scored 14 factors vs. Utah State within the 2025 Mountain West Tournament.
• Jaydon Young had 12 factors in 45 minutes final season for Virginia Tech in opposition to Cal.
• Jonathan Powell scored eight factors for West Virginia vs. Colorado final yr within the Big 12 Tournament.
• Zayden High scored 4 factors vs. Florida State within the 2024 quarterfinals.
WITHOUT CALEB
• Carolina’s fabulous freshman Caleb Wilson led the Tar Heels to 19 wins in 24 video games earlier than a pair of hand accidents derailed his record-breaking season.
• With Wilson, the Tar Heels averaged 81.9 factors (82.5 in ACC play), shot 47.7% from the ground, have been a plus 5.1 in rebound margin and shot 68.8% from the road (Wilson tried 32.4% of the staff’s free throws and was capturing 71.3%).
• The Tar Heels are 5-2 with out Wilson. In these video games, Carolina is averaging 72.6 factors, capturing 45.8% from the ground and has been outrebounded by 1.1 per sport.
• In the primary 24 video games, three Tar Heels have been averaging double figures – Wilson (19.8), Henri Veesaar (16.4) and Seth Trimble (13.5). In the final seven video games, 4 Tar Heels are averaging double figures, led by Veesaar (16.2) and Trimble (15.0), and 5 are averaging 8.9 or extra factors.
• In Wilson’s final seven video games (UNC went 5-2), the Tar Heels have been twenty second within the nation in offensive effectivity and eightieth defensively. In the final seven video games, Carolina is 58th in offensive effectivity and forty third defensively.
• The final time Carolina’s main scorer missed six or extra video games was Cole Anthony, additionally a freshman, in 2019-20. Anthony averaged 18.5 factors however missed 11 video games with a knee harm.
HUBERT THE FIRST WITH FIVE
• With 24 wins this season, Carolina has received 20 or extra video games an ACC-record 66 instances (Duke is second with 60).
• Nationally, Kentucky is first with 69 20-win seasons. UNC is second and Duke is third.
• Hubert Davis is the primary males’s basketball coach in ACC historical past to win 20 or extra video games in every of his first 5 seasons.
• Only three different ACC coaches ever received 20 or extra of their first 4 seasons (Duke’s Jon Scheyer, NC State’s Mark Gottfried and Wake Forest’s Skip Prosser).
• Bill Guthridge received 20 or extra in his solely three seasons as head coach of the Tar Heels.
• Davis has led the Tar Heels to twenty wins over nationally-ranked opponents, together with 9 top-10 groups (No. 4 Duke, No. 4 Baylor and No. 9 Duke in 2022; No. 6 Virginia in 2023; and No. 10 Tennessee, No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 7 Duke and No. 9 Duke in 2024 and No. 4 Duke in 2026).
CAROLINA & THE ACC
• This is the 73rd season of competitors within the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Tar Heels have been a constitution member of the league, which started play within the 1953-54 season.
• Carolina is the one faculty with 50 or extra mixed ACC males’s basketball championships (33 common season and 18 Tournament). Duke is second with 45 (22 common season and 23 Tournament) and NC State is subsequent with 18 (seven common season and 11 Tournament).
• Hubert Davis has led the Tar Heels to ACC data of 15-5, 11-9, 17-3, 13-7 and 12-6. The 2023-24 staff received the regular-season title, Carolina’s thirty third.
• Carolina is 783-326 (.706) in regular-season ACC video games. The 783 wins are probably the most in ACC historical past. Duke is second with 754.
WILSON’S FABULOUS FRESHMAN SEASON
• Caleb Wilson made the Late-Season Watch Lists for the John R. Wooden National Player of the Year and Naismith Trophy. He was a mid-season candidate for the Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year, Naismith National Defensive Player of the Year, USBWA’s Oscar Robertson Trophy and Wayman Tisdale National Freshman of the Year awards.
• Wilson has already earned second-team All-America honors from CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein and the Field of 68. Wilson is the primary Tar Heel freshman to earn a minimum of second-team All-America honors since Tyler Hansbrough was a first-team choice by the Sporting News in 2006.
• He made the All-ACC first staff and All-Freshman staff.
• Wilson rewrote the Tar Heel report guide for scoring, rebounding, 20-point video games and double-doubles by a freshman.
• He turned the primary UNC freshman to attain 20 or extra factors in six consecutive video games (from Georgetown by means of Florida State). The earlier report was 5 by Phil Ford in 1974-75.
• The 6-10 Atlanta native had one other five-game streak of 20-point video games ended within the loss at Miami. He is the one UNC freshman with two streaks of 5 or extra 20-point video games.
• Wilson scored 20 or extra factors 17 instances, together with a season-high 26 at Stanford. His 17 20-point video games surpassed Hansbrough’s rookie report. Hansbrough scored 20 or extra 14 instances in incomes first-team All-America and first-team All-ACC honors in 2005-06.
• Wilson, Hansbrough, Rashad McCants and Ford are the one UNC freshmen with 10 or extra 20-point video games.
20-Point Games by a UNC Freshman
Caleb Wilson, 2025-26 17
Tyler Hansbrough, 2005-06 14
Rashad McCants, 2002-03 12
Phil Ford, 1974-75 10
• Wilson leads the Tar Heels in scoring, rebounding, offensive rebounds, assists per sport, steals and free throws (made and tried), is second in subject purpose proportion and blocks and is fourth in assists.
• He is presently the primary Tar Heel ever to steer the staff in factors per sport, rebounds per sport and assists per sport in the identical season.
• His scoring common of 19.8 factors per sport set the UNC freshman report.
SINGLE-SEASON SCORING, UNC FRESHMAN
19.8 Caleb Wilson, 2025-26
18.9 Tyler Hansbrough, 2005-06
18.5 Cole Anthony, 2019-20
17.0 Rashad McCants, 2002-03
16.7 Joseph Forte, 1999-2000
• Hansbrough (in 2005-06) was the one different Tar Heel freshman to steer the staff in each scoring, rebounding and steals.
• Despite lacking seven video games, Wilson has nonetheless scored extra factors than another Tar Heel.
• The checklist of freshmen to steer UNC in scoring contains Joseph Forte (16.7 ppg in 1999-2000), McCants (17.0 in 2002-03), Hansbrough (18.9 in 2005-06), Harrison Barnes (co-leader at 15.7 in 2010-11), Cole Anthony (18.5 in 2019-20) and Wilson.
• Wilson, Hansbrough (7.8 rpg in 2005-06), Antawn Jamison (9.7 in 1995-96) and J.R. Reid (7.4 in 1986-87) have led UNC in rebounding as freshmen.
• Wilson’s 9.4 rebounds are the second-most by a UNC freshman behind Jamison.
SINGLE-SEASON REBOUNDING, UNC FRESHMAN
9.7 Antawn Jamison, 1995-96
9.4 Caleb Wilson, 2025-26
8.3 Armando Bacot, 2019-20
7.8 Tyler Hansbrough, 2005-06
7.8 Sam Perkins, 1980-81
• Wilson scored in double figures within the first 24 video games and had 11 double-doubles, the second-most by a Carolina freshman. He had 12 or extra rebounds in 10 of his 11 double-doubles, together with a season-high 16 vs. Florida State.
Double-Doubles by a UNC Freshman
(all factors and rebounds)
13 Antawn Jamison, 1995-96
11 Caleb Wilson, 2025-26
11 Armando Bacot, 2019-20
9 J.R. Reid, 1986-87
9 Sam Perkins, 1980-81
• Wilson is third within the ACC in rebounding and double-doubles and fourth in scoring and subject purpose proportion.
• Wilson and Duke’s Cameron Boozer are the one gamers within the high 5 within the ACC in scoring, rebounding, subject purpose proportion and double-doubles.
VEESAAR MAKING ACC HISTORY
• Red-shirt junior heart Henri Veesaar, a switch from Arizona, leads the staff in subject purpose capturing (61.4%), three-point accuracy (41.5%), and blocks (35) and is second in scoring (16.3) and rebounding (8.4).
• He was the eighth-leading vote-getter for All-ACC and made the second staff.
• Veesaar might develop into the primary participant in ACC historical past with 30 blocks and 30 three-pointers and shoot 60% from the ground in a season.
• Veesaar is averaging 1.2 three-pointers per sport. He is on tempo to additionally develop into the primary ACC participant to common 1.0 threes and shoot 60% from the ground in the identical season.
• Veesaar is changing 68.6% of his two-point subject purpose makes an attempt.
• Veesaar is one among solely seven Tar Heels to make 30 three-pointers and block 30 photographs in the identical season. The checklist contains Jerry Stackhouse in 1994-95, Vince Carter in 1997-98, Jawad Williams in 2002-03, Danny Green in 2007-08 and 2008-09, Luke Maye in 2017-18, Pete Nance in 2022-23 and Veesaar.
• Veesaar is seventeenth within the nation with 55 dunks. He is the one participant within the nation with 50 or extra dunks and 30 or extra three-pointers.
• The Estonia native almost had a double-double within the second half within the win over Duke. In the primary half, Duke constructed a 41-29 lead as Veesaar was 0 for two from the ground, scoreless, had two rebounds and was minus 20. However, within the second half, he made six of seven photographs from the ground, scored 13 factors, pulled down 9 rebounds, hit the game-tying three-pointer with 1:40 to play and was a plus 15.
• Veesaar is second within the ACC and twenty first within the nation with 13 double-doubles, the primary 13 of his collegiate profession. He performed in 66 video games over two seasons at Arizona.
• He can also be second within the ACC and twentieth nationally in subject purpose proportion, fifth within the ACC in rebounding and eleventh in factors per sport.
• He has scored in double figures in 28 of his 29 video games (besides Virginia, when he scored seven).
• Veesaar has set quite a few profession bests as a Tar Heel, together with factors (26 vs. ETSU, Stanford and Virginia Tech), subject objectives (11 vs. VT), rebounds (15 vs. Georgetown), offensive rebounds (six vs. Florida State), blocks (5 vs. NC Central), assists (5 vs. Ohio State) and three-pointers (4 vs. ECU).
• He has scored 20 or extra factors seven instances – 26 vs. ETSU, Stanford and Virginia Tech, 25 vs. Wake Forest, 24 vs. the Bonnies, 20 vs. Kansas and 20 at Georgia Tech. He had one 20-point sport in his first two seasons at Arizona.
• Veesaar leads UNC in plus/minus at plus 324 and has led the Tar Heels in plus/minus eight instances, probably the most on the staff.
HENRI FROM 3
• Henri Veesaar is Carolina’s first 7-footer ever to make a number of three-pointers.
• Veesaar is 34 for 82 from three and leads the staff in three-point proportion (.415).
• He is fourth on the staff in three-pointers.
• Prior to this season, two seven-footers made one three apiece. Serge Zwikker made a 3 within the ACC semifinals vs. Tim Duncan’s Wake Forest Demon Deacons on 3/8/1997 and Walker Kessler made one vs. Northeastern on 2/17/2021.
• Veesaar has made two or extra three-pointers 9 instances this season, together with a career-high 4 vs. ECU.
THREES
• Carolina is making 8.55 three-pointers per sport, the second-highest common in a season behind solely 2018-19, when the Tar Heel lineup included Cameron Johnson, Coby White, Kenny Williams and Luke Maye.
• Five totally different Tar Heels have made a minimum of 30 three-pointers – Luka Bogavac (51), Derek Dixon (43), Jonathan Powell (37), Henri Veesaar (34) and Kyan Evans (32).
• Carolina made 12 threes on March 3 in opposition to Clemson, probably the most it made since a season-high 13 in opposition to Notre Dame on January 21.
• The Tar Heels are 7-1 this season after they make 10 or extra three-pointers (made 12 within the loss at SMU because the Mustangs made 14).
MOST THREE-POINTERS MADE PER GAME
8.67 in 2018-19 (312 in 36 video games)
8.55 in 2025-26 (265 in 31 video games)
8.41 in 2021-22 (328 in 39 video games)
8.29 in 2002-03 (290 in 35 video games)
8.25 in 1982-83 (132 in 16 video games – ACC video games solely)
• Carolina is trying 24.9 three-pointers per sport, which might break the earlier faculty report of 23.9 in 2018-19.
• UNC is on tempo to aim extra three-pointers than free throws for the second time ever. The Tar Heels have launched 771 threes and tried 692 free throws. This could be the primary season since 2001-02 when UNC can have taken extra threes than free throws.
• UNC is 20-6 when it makes an attempt 20 or extra three-pointers and 4-1 when it makes an attempt fewer than 20. One of these 4 wins was over Duke (19 makes an attempt) though the game-winning subject purpose was a 3.
MOST THREE-POINTERS ATTEMPTED PER GAME
24.87 in 2025-26 (771 in 31 video games)
23.94 in 2018-19 (862 in 36 video games)
23.49 in 2021-22 (916 in 39 video games)
23.49 in 2002-03 (822 in 35 video games)
22.95 in 2017-18 (849 in 37 video games)
• The Tar Heels are making 8.55 threes per sport whereas permitting 8.00. UNC is in on monitor to make extra 3FG than its opponents for the fifth consecutive yr. From 2006-07 to 2019-20, Carolina made extra 3FGs one time (in 2012-13).
TURNOVERS
• Carolina has dedicated 299 turnovers and compelled 293 turnovers.
• UNC is averaging 9.65 turnovers, its fewest ever in a season (earlier low is 10.08 in 2023-24).
• The Tar Heels are twenty third within the nation in turnovers and turnover proportion.
• The Tar Heels have dedicated fewer than 5 turnovers 3 times this season (4 at Virginia, two at Georgia Tech and 4 vs. Pitt). This is the primary time UNC ever had three video games in a single season with 4 or fewer turnovers. The 2014-15 Tar Heels had two video games with 4 or fewer; in no different season did UNC have a couple of.
• Carolina has fewer than 10 turnovers 13 instances (the Tar Heels have received 12 straight and are 12-1 in these 13 video games).
• Including the loss at Duke when Carolina equaled its season excessive with 14 turnovers, UNC has dedicated 10 or extra turnovers in every of its final six losses.
• UNC averages 9.3 turnovers within the 24 wins and 11.0 within the seven losses.
• Carolina went 8-1 in ACC play when it dedicated fewer than 10 turnovers and 4-6 when it dedicated 10 or extra.
• Including this season, Hubert Davis‘ groups have produced the four-lowest turnover per sport averages and 5 of the six-lowest in UNC historical past.
• The Tar Heels power solely 9.45 turnovers per sport, the fewest pressured by UNC in a season (earlier 9.7 in 2021-22). Carolina is 341st within the nation in pressured turnovers.
ASSISTS/TURNOVERS
• Carolina’s help/turnover ratio of 1.57 is the second-best in UNC historical past (report 1.65 in 2015-16).
• Every participant on the staff who performs a minimum of 10 minutes a sport has extra assists than turnovers.
• This could be the primary season that each participant who averages double-figure minutes has extra assists than turnovers since turnovers have been formally recorded starting in 1979-80.
• Among the eight gamers who common 10 or extra minutes, Derek Dixon (2.34) has the perfect help/turnover ratio. He is adopted by Kyan Evans (2.28) and Jonathan Powell (2.09).
• Caleb Wilson had 64 assists and 47 turnovers (1.36). He is the primary Tar Heel to common 9.0 or extra rebounds and have extra assists than turnovers since Luke Maye in 2017-18 and 2018-19. Maye is the one Tar Heel to perform that.
WINS VS. LOSSES
• Notable statistical comparisons between Carolina’s 24 wins and 7 losses:
• UNC averages 82.5 factors within the wins and 70.6 within the losses.
• The Tar Heels permit 67.5 factors within the wins and 83.3 factors within the losses.
• The opponents are capturing 50.6% from the ground, together with 45.5% from three, within the seven losses and 39.1/31.0 in Carolina’s 24 wins.
• The Tar Heels have a rebound margin of 5.2 within the wins, whereas the opponents are grabbing 1.9 extra rebounds per sport within the losses.
• Carolina makes 1.4 extra three-pointers than the opponents within the wins, whereas the opponents have averaged 2.5 extra within the losses. The Tar Heels have been outscored by a complete of 54 factors from three within the seven losses.
IN-SEASON AWARDS
• Senior guard Seth Trimble turned the second Tar Heel to win ACC Player-of-the-Week honors this season. Trimble scored a career-high 30 factors vs. Louisville, adopted that with 20 factors in opposition to Virginia Tech and led UNC with 4 assists in each video games.
• Trimble additionally was one of many USBWA’s National Players of the Week.
• Caleb Wilson has earned National Player-of-the-Week honors 3 times this season. He was one among 5 gamers named National Player of the Week by the USBWA for the week of November 3-9, he received the award from Andy Katz at NCAA March Madness for this play the week of December 15-21 and the Naismith Trophy tabbed him for his play in opposition to Syracuse and Duke.
• Wilson was named ACC Freshman of the Week 3 times, following the video games in opposition to Central Arkansas/Kansas, ETSU/Ohio State and Syracuse/Duke.
• He was the primary Tar Heel to win three ACC Freshman-of-the-Week awards since Coby White was a five-time recipient in 2018-19.
• Wilson additionally was the ACC’s Co-Player of the Week after Central Arkansas and Kansas.
• Wilson turned the eighth Tar Heel to win ACC Player-of-the-Week honors as a freshman, becoming a member of Jerry Stackhouse (1994), Antawn Jamison (1996), Rashad McCants (2003), Tyler Hansbrough (2006), Brandan Wright (2007), White (2019) and Anthony.
HUBERT DAVIS: YEAR FIVE
• The 2025-26 season is Hubert Davis‘ fifth as head coach on the University of North Carolina and his 14th on the teaching employees at his alma mater.
• He is the one head coach in ACC males’s basketball historical past to win 20 or extra video games in every of his first 5 seasons.
• Davis, 55 (turns 56 on May 17, 2026), has received National and ACC Coach-of-the-Year honors, led the Tar Heels to a nationwide title sport look, 120 wins, a 68-30 report and 27 street wins in ACC regular-season play, a regular-season ACC title and a No. 1 seed within the NCAA Tournament. Only one different staff has received extra ACC video games within the final 5 years.
• Two of his gamers – RJ Davis and Armando Bacot – rank second and third, respectively, in all-time UNC scoring, set quite a few data and earned nationwide and All-ACC awards.
• Carolina received its a hundredth sport beneath Davis within the 2025 ACC Tournament, making him the third-fastest coach in UNC historical past and the sixth-fastest in ACC historical past to win 100 video games. Only Duke’s Vic Bubas, UNC’s Roy Williams and Frank McGuire, Wake Forest’s Skip Prosser and Maryland’s Lefty Driesell reached 100 wins in fewer video games than Davis (who received his a hundredth in 143 video games).
• Under Davis, Carolina is 8-3 in NCAA Tournament play, together with wins in opposition to three nationwide championship-winning coaches (Baylor’s Scott Drew, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski and Michigan State’s Tom Izzo) and three different coaches who’ve taken groups to the Final Four (Marquette’s Shaka Smart, UCLA’s Mick Cronin and San Diego State’s Brian Dutcher).
• Davis has led the Tar Heels to twenty wins over nationally-ranked opponents, together with 9 over top-10 groups (No. 4 Duke, No. 4 Baylor and No. 9 Duke in 2022; No. 6 Virginia in 2023; and No. 10 Tennessee, No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 7 Duke, No. 9 Duke in 2024 and No. 4 Duke in 2026).
TAR HEELS IN THE NBA
• Thirteen former Tar Heels have been on NBA rosters this season, together with Cole Anthony (Phoenix), Harrison Barnes (San Antonio), Leaky Black (Washington), Tony Bradley (Indiana), Harrison Ingram (San Antonio), Cameron Johnson (Denver), Walker Kessler (Utah), Caleb Love (Portland), Pete Nance (Milwaukee), Drake Powell (Brooklyn), Cormac Ryan (Milwaukee), Day’Ron Sharpe (Brooklyn) and Coby White (Chicago/Charlotte).
• Black (Capital City), Garrison Brooks (Birmingham), RJ Davis (South Bay), Ingram (Austin) and Ryan (Wisconsin) have performed within the G League.
• At least a dozen Tar Heels are taking part in internationally, together with Armando Bacot (Turkey), Ty Claude (Serbia), Isaiah Hicks (South Korea), Brice Johnson (Dominican Republic), Christian Keeling (Finland), Nassir Little (Japan), Brady Manek (China), Luke Maye (Japan), James Michael McAdoo (Japan), Kennedy Meeks (Taiwan), J.P. Tokoto (Poland) and Jae’Lyn Withers (The Netherlands).
UNBEATEN AT HOME
• Carolina went 18-0 within the Smith Center this season. The 18 wins are probably the most dwelling wins in any of the 116 seasons of Carolina Basketball.
• This is the twenty fourth time Carolina has gone undefeated at dwelling, together with 12 seasons with 10 or extra wins.
• The earlier report for many dwelling wins and not using a loss was 16 in 2016-17, when the Tar Heels went 15-0 within the Smith Center and beat Notre Dame in Greensboro in a sport the NCAA decided a house sport (in contrast to earlier video games UNC hosted within the Greensboro Coliseum).
• Carolina has received 18 consecutive dwelling video games, all this season. The 18-game successful streak is the longest within the Smith Center since a 22-game streak that started with a win over Miami 2/20/2016 and ended with a loss to Wofford on 12/20/2017.
CAROLINA’S Undefeated Home Records
18-0 – 2025-26
16-0 – 2016-17 (15-0 at Smith Center, 1-0 at Greensboro Coliseum)
15-0 – 2004-05, 2010-11
13-0 – 1986-87
12-0 – 1992-93
11-0 – 1937-38
10-0 – 1923-24, 1925-26, 1927-28, 1955-56, 1977-78
9-0 – 1934-35, 1968-69, 1970-71, 1971-72, 1978-79, 1983-84
8-0 – 1956-57
7-0 – 1917-18, 1920-21, 1922-23, 1960-61
6-0 – 1958-59
500+ WINS IN THE SMITH CENTER
• This is the forty first season the Tar Heels performed within the Dean E. Smith Center.
• The win over Wake Forest on January 10 was UNC’s five hundredth within the Smith Center.
• Carolina is 507-90 in regular-season and NIT video games within the Smith Center.
• Carolina has received 84.9% of its video games within the Smith Center. Duke is the one ACC staff with 500 or extra wins in its present venue that has the next successful proportion.
• Carolina is 266-71 (.789) in ACC video games within the Smith Center.
• UNC has performed 46.6% of its dwelling video games within the Smith Center (597 of 1,281).
• Carolina has performed 154 totally different opponents in regular-season or NIT video games within the Smith Center.
