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499 WINS IN THE SMITH CENTER<\/strong> UNC-WAKE FOREST<\/strong> CAROLINA & THE ACC<\/strong> CALEB & HENRI <\/strong> DOUBLE TIME<\/strong> DOUBLE-DOUBLES BY TWO TAR HEELS, SEASON<\/strong> WILSON: MID-SEASON WOODEN AWARD CANDIDATE<\/strong> 20-Point Games by a UNC Freshman<\/strong> \u2022 Wilson leads the Tar Heels in scoring, rebounding, offensive rebounds, steals, free throws (made and attempted) and blocks. SINGLE-SEASON SCORING, UNC FRESHMAN<\/strong> \u2022 Tyler Hansbrough (in 2005-06) is the only Tar Heel freshman to lead the team in both scoring and rebounding. Hansbrough also led the team as a freshman in steals. No Tar Heel freshman has ever led the team in scoring, rebounding, blocks and steals. SINGLE-SEASON REBOUNDING, UNC FRESHMAN<\/strong> \u2022 Eighteen Tar Heels have averaged a double-double in points and rebounds in a season, but none of them were a freshman. DOUBLE-DOUBLES BY A UNC FRESHMAN<\/strong> \u2022 Wilson has the third-longest streak of double-figure scoring games (15) by a UNC freshman to begin a season. Only Rashad McCants (20 in 2002-03) and Brandan Wright (18 in 2006-07) have more. 20 PTS\/15 REB\/5 ASSISTS BY A TAR HEEL <\/strong> \u2022 Wilson became the third Tar Heel ever to lead UNC outright in points, rebounds, assists and blocks (Jerry Stackhouse vs. Murray State on 3\/17\/1995 and Mike O’Koren vs. Detroit on 12\/4\/1978).<\/p>\n LED UNC OUTRIGHT IN PTS\/REB\/AST\/BLKS<\/strong> \u2022 Wilson set a UNC freshman record with four consecutive double-doubles against Radford, NC Central, Navy and St. Bonaventure. Armando Bacot (twice), Antawn Jamison and Mike O’Koren were the only Tar Heel freshmen with three in a row. VEESAAR A TOP TRANSFER<\/strong> HENRI THE FIRST<\/strong> MISCELLANEOUS NUMBERS<\/strong> FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE DEFENSE<\/strong> \u2022 Prior to the SMU game, Carolina had held six straight opponents below 40% shooting from the floor, the first time the defense had done that since 2014-15. MOST THREE-POINTERS MADE PER GAME<\/strong> \u2022 Carolina is attempting 25.6 three-pointers per game, which would easily break the previous school record of 23.9 in 2018-19.<\/p>\n MOST THREE-POINTERS ATTEMPTED PER GAME<\/strong> \u2022 The Tar Heels are making 8.6 threes per game, while allowing 7.1. UNC is in on track to make more 3FG than its opponents for the fifth consecutive year. From 2006-07 to 2019-20, Carolina made more 3FG one time (in 2012-13). IN-SEASON AWARDS<\/strong> PROBABLE STARTERS VS. WAKE FOREST<\/strong> \u2022 Seth Trimble<\/a><\/dfn> started 18 of UNC’s 37 games last season. Even with Trimble’s return, this is the first season in which UNC did not return a player who started at least half the games in the previous season since 2005-06, when the Tar Heels replaced all five starters from a national championship team. PRESEASON ALL-ACC, POLL<\/strong> HUBERT DAVIS: YEAR FIVE<\/strong> 2025-26 SCHEDULE NOTES<\/strong> TAR HEELS IN THE NBA<\/strong> \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n\u2022 This is the 41st season the Tar Heels are playing their home games in the Dean E. Smith Center.
\n\u2022 Carolina is 499-90 in regular-season and NIT games in the Smith Center.
\n\u2022 Eight current ACC teams have won 500 or more games in their respective home venues.
\n\u2022 Carolina has won 84.7% of its games in the Smith Center. Only one team in the ACC that has 500 or more wins in its current venue has a higher winning percentage (.850 by Duke). Syracuse and Virginia are the only other ACC teams that have won 80% of their games in their current home arenas.
\n\u2022 Carolina’s first win in the Smith Center came in the first game in the arena on 1\/18\/1986, when No. 1-ranked UNC defeated No. 3 Duke, 95-92. Steve Hale scored a game-high 28 points, Brad Daugherty had 23 points and 11 rebounds and current assistant coach Jeff Lebo<\/a><\/dfn> added 11 points.
\n\u2022 Carolina is 258-71 (.784) in ACC games in the Smith Center.
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels have won 10 straight games in the Smith Center, all this season.
\n\u2022 UNC has played 46.3% of its home games in the Smith Center (589 of 1,273).
\n\u2022 Carolina has played 154 different opponents in regular-season or NIT games in the Smith Center.
\n\u2022 The Smith Center is the fifth home venue for the Tar Heels. Carolina has won 499 games in the Smith Center, 210 in Woollen Gym (1939-65), 170 in Carmichael Auditorium (1965-86, 2010), 130 in the Indoor Athletic Court (1924-38) and 63 in Bynum Gym (1911-23).<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Carolina plays Wake Forest for the 237th time with the Tar Heels leading the series, 166-70. Carolina has only played Duke (265) and NC State (249) more often than Wake Forest.
\n\u2022 The 166 wins are the second-most by UNC against an opponent (168 vs. NC State).
\n\u2022 Carolina is 81-18 at home vs. the Deacs, including 26-5 in the Smith Center.
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels have won nine consecutive in the series in the Smith Center.
\n\u2022 The teams split a pair of games last season with the Demon Deacons prevailing by a point in Winston-Salem and Carolina coming out on top, 68-59, in the ACC Tournament quarterfinal in Charlotte. Seth Trimble<\/a><\/dfn> scored 10 points in the Tar Heel victory. He scored 11 points, his season high and first career double-digit scoring game, as a freshman in a home win over the Deacs.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 This is the 73rd season of competition in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Tar Heels were a charter member of the league, which began play in the 1953-54 season.
\n\u2022 Carolina is the only school with 50 or more combined ACC men’s basketball championships (33 regular season and 18 Tournament). Duke is second with 44 (21 regular season and 23 Tournament) and NC State is next with 18 (seven regular season and 11 Tournament).
\n\u2022 Hubert Davis<\/a><\/dfn> is 57-25 in regular-season ACC games. Only one other team has more ACC wins in the last five seasons.
\n\u2022 Davis led the Tar Heels to ACC records of 15-5, 11-9, 17-3 and 13-7 in the previous four seasons. The 2023-24 team won the regular-season title, Carolina’s 33rd.
\n\u2022 Carolina is 772-321 (.706) in regular-season ACC games. The 772 wins are the most in ACC history. Duke is second with 677.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Junior center Henri Veesaar<\/a><\/dfn> and freshman forward Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> are on pace to become the first pair in ACC history to average 16 points and nine rebounds and shoot 55% from the floor (research by Jody Zeugner).
\n\u2022 Only four pairs of players in ACC history have both averaged at least 16 points and nine rebounds in a season and none since NC State’s Vann Williford and Paul Coder in 1969-70.
\n\u2022 Veesaar and Wilson are combining for 36.0 points and 20.1 rebounds per game. They have blocked 39 shots, have 70 assists, shot 59.0% from the floor and attempted 175 free throws.
\n\u2022 Wilson is averaging 19.3 points and 10.9 rebounds, while Veesaar is averaging 16.3 points and 9.2 rebounds.
\n\u2022 The only other time two Tar Heels averaged at least 16 points and nine rebounds was 1959-60 (18.2 points and 11.2 rebounds by Lee Shaffer and 16.8 points and 11.3 rebounds by Doug Moe, who played only 12 of the 14 games).
\n\u2022 Wilson and Veesaar are the first pair of Tar Heels to average 9.0 rebounds in the same season since John Henson (9.9) and Tyler Zeller (9.6) in 2011-12.
\n\u2022 Per BartTorvik.com, Wilson leads the country in dunks with 48, while Veesaar is fourth with 33.
\n\u2022 Either Veesaar or Wilson has led the team in scoring and rebounding in 13 of the first 15 games.
\n\u2022 They account for 43.9% of Carolina’s scoring, 48.2% of the rebounds, 46.1% of the field goals made and 49.7% of the free throw attempts.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> (10) and Henri Veesaar<\/a><\/dfn> (8) rank fourth & 11th, respectively, in the nation in double-doubles.
\n\u2022 Veesaar and Wilson both have recorded double-doubles in points and rebounds seven times (NC Central, St. Bonaventure, Kentucky, Georgetown, Ohio State, ECU and Florida State).
\n\u2022 Their seven games with double-doubles by both players already equal the third-most in a season by a pair of Tar Heels.<\/p>\n
\nJohn Henson & Tyler Zeller 2011-12 9
\nRusty Clark & Larry Miller 1966-67 8
\nHenri Veesaar<\/a><\/dfn> & Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn>, 2025-26 7<\/strong>
\nPete Brennan & Lennie Rosenbluth 1955-56 7
\nPhil Ford & Mitch Kupchak 1975-76 6
\nLee Dedmon & Charlie Scott 1969-70 6
\nBrennan & Rosenbluth 1956-57 6
\nBrennan & Joe Quigg 1956-57<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> has quickly emerged as one of the most productive and engaging freshmen in Carolina Basketball history.
\n\u2022 He is one of 25 players named this week to the midseason watch list for the John R. Wooden Award, presented to the National Player of the Year by the Los Angeles Athletic Club.
\n\u2022 Wilson is one of three ACC players and eight freshmen on the midseason top 25 for the Wooden Award.
\n\u2022 The 6-10 Atlanta native has made an immediate impact on the Tar Heel record book, becoming the first freshman to score 20 or more points in six consecutive games. The previous record was five by College Basketball Hall of Famer Phil Ford in 1974-75.
\n\u2022 Wilson has scored 20 or more points 10 times this season, the most by a freshman since Tyler Hansbrough set UNC’s single-season rookie record with 14 20-point games in 2005-06.
\n\u2022 Wilson, Hansbrough, Ford and Rashad McCants are the only UNC freshmen with 10 or more 20-point games.<\/p>\n
\nTyler Hansbrough, 2005-06 14
\nRashad McCants, 2002-03 12
\nCaleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn>, 2025-26 10<\/strong>
\nPhil Ford, 1974-75 10
\nCole Anthony, 2019-20 9
\nJoseph Forte, 1999-2000 9<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 His scoring average of 19.8 points per game is on pace to set the UNC freshman record.<\/p>\n
\n19.3 Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn>, 2025-26<\/strong>
\n18.9 Tyler Hansbrough, 2005-06
\n18.5 Cole Anthony, 2019-20
\n17.0 Rashad McCants, 2002-03
\n16.7 Joseph Forte, 1999-2000<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Joseph Forte (16.7 ppg in 1999-2000), Rashad McCants (17.0 in 2002-03), Hansbrough (18.9 in 2005-06), Harrison Barnes (co-leader at 15.7 in 2010-11) and Cole Anthony (18.5 in 2019-20) are the freshmen who have led UNC in scoring.
\n\u2022 Hansbrough (7.8 rpg in 2005-06), Antawn Jamison (9.7 in 1995-96) and J.R. Reid (7.4 in 1986-87) are the freshmen who have led UNC in rebounding.
\n\u2022 Wilson is averaging 10.9 rebounds per game. The UNC freshman record is 9.6 per game in 1995-96 by Jamison.<\/p>\n
\n10.9 Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn>, 2025-26<\/strong>
\n9.8 Antawn Jamison, 1995-96
\n8.3 Armando Bacot, 2019-20
\n7.8 Tyler Hansbrough, 2005-06
\n7.8 Sam Perkins, 1980-81<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Wilson leads the country with 48 dunks, six more than any other player (through January 6).
\n\u2022 He has scored in double figures in all 15 games and has 10 double-doubles. He has 12 or more rebounds in nine of his 10 double-doubles, including a season-high 16 vs. Florida State.<\/p>\n
\n(all points and rebounds)<\/strong>
\n13 Antawn Jamison, 1995-96
\n11 Armando Bacot, 2019-20
\n10 Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn>, 2025-26<\/strong>
\n\u00a0 9 J.R. Reid, 1986-87
\n\u00a0 9 Sam Perkins, 1980-81<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Wilson leads the ACC and is fourth in the country in double-doubles (10) and leads the ACC and is seventh in the nation in rebounds per game (10.9). He leads all freshmen nationally in both categories.
\n\u2022 In Carolina’s 79-66 win over Florida State on December 30, Wilson became the sixth Tar Heel ever with at least 20 points, 15 rebounds and five assists in a game.<\/p>\n
\nCaleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> vs. FSU, 12\/30\/25 (22\/16\/6)<\/strong>
\nLuke Maye vs. Arkansas, 11\/24\/17 (28\/16\/5)
\nJoseph Forte at Duke in 2\/1\/01 (24\/16\/6)
\nJames Worthy vs. Detroit, 12\/15\/79 (24\/16\/6)
\nMitch Kupchak vs. Detroit, 2\/4\/76 (30\/17\/5)
\nBilly Cunningham vs. WFU, 2\/9\/65 (35\/19\/7)<\/p>\n
\nCaleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> vs. FSU, 12\/30\/25 (22\/16\/6\/2)<\/strong>
\nJerry Stackhouse vs. Murray State, 3\/17\/95
\n(25\/11\/5\/2)
\nMike O’Koren vs. Detroit, 12\/4\/78 (26\/10\/5\/1)<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Wilson made five or more free throws in each of the first 11 games, becoming the fifth Tar Heel in the ACC era (1953-present) to make five or more in 11 consecutive games.
\n\u2022 Wilson leads the country in free throw attempts (118).
\n\u2022 Against Navy, he became the first Tar Heel ever to score 23 points, grab 12 rebounds, make three blocks and four steals in any game.
\n\u2022 He netted 22 points vs. Central Arkansas and 24 vs. Kansas to become the first Tar Heel freshman ever to score more than 20 points in his first two games.
\n\u2022 Wilson compiled a game-high 24 points with seven rebounds, four assists and four steals in the win over Kansas. He became just the second Tar Heel freshman (with Coby White against Virginia Tech in 2018-19) and the fourth Tar Heel regardless of class (with Walter Davis and Mike O’Koren) to have at least 24 points, seven rebounds, four assists and four steals in a game.
\n\u2022 His 22 points in the opener vs. Central Arkansas were the fourth-most by a Tar Heel freshman in his debut since first-year players became eligible in 1972-73.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Red-shirt junior center Henri Veesaar<\/a><\/dfn>, a transfer from Arizona, leads the team in field goal shooting (63.1%), is second in rebounding (9.2) and blocks (17) and is third in scoring (16.3).
\n\u2022 The Estonia native scored the game-winner against Ohio State, had a game-high 17 points in the win at Kentucky and grabbed a career-best 15 rebounds in the win over Georgetown.
\n\u2022 Veesaar has eight double-doubles as a Tar Heel, the first eight of his collegiate career. He played in 66 games over two seasons at Arizona.
\n\u2022 He is second in the ACC and 11th nationally in double-doubles, and second in the ACC and 19th in the country in field goal shooting.
\n\u2022 Veesaar has set numerous career bests as a Tar Heel, including points (26 vs. ETSU), rebounds (15 vs. Georgetown), offensive rebounds (six vs. Florida State), blocks (five vs. NC Central), assists (five vs. Ohio State) and three-pointers (four vs. ECU).
\n\u2022 He has established career highs in rebounds four times \u2013 10 vs. Central Arkansas, 11 vs. NC Central, 13 vs. St. Bonaventure and 15 vs. Georgetown.
\n\u2022 He has scored 20 or more points three times \u2013 26 vs. ETSU, 24 vs. the Bonnies and 20 vs. Kansas. He had one 20-point game in his first two seasons at Arizona.
\n\u2022 Veesaar leads UNC in plus\/minus at plus 234.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Henri Veesaar<\/a><\/dfn> is Carolina’s first 7-footer ever to make multiple three-pointers.
\n\u2022 Veesaar is 19 for 38 from three and leads the team in three-point percentage (.500).
\n\u2022 Prior to this season, two 7-footers made one three apiece. Serge Zwikker made a three in 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.
\n\u2022 Veesaar made two of UNC’s season-high-tying 12 three-pointers at SMU. It was the sixth time this season he made multiple threes in a game \u2013 a career-high four vs. ECU and two five times.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> (19.3 ppg), Seth Trimble<\/a><\/dfn> (16.7) and Henri Veesaar<\/a><\/dfn> (16.3) are each averaging more than 16 points. The last time three Tar Heels averaged 16.0 points in a season was 1975-76 (Phil Ford, Mitch Kupchak and Walter Davis). The 2022-23 Tar Heels nearly did it as Caleb Love (16.7) and RJ Davis<\/a><\/dfn> (16.1) topped the 16-point mark and Armando Bacot just missed at 15.9 per game.
\n\u2022 Despite SMU shooting 60% from the floor, the Tar Heels are fifth in the country in field goal percentage defense, holding their opponents to a combined 37.6% from the floor. They’ve held seven opponents below 35% and 10 under 40%.<\/p>\n
\n34.6 Michigan
\n36.2 Saint Louis
\n36.4 Louisiana Tech
\n37.5 UC Irvine
\n37.6 UNC<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u2022 The opponents’ field goal percentage (.376) is the lowest allowed by Carolina since 1959-60, when the opponents shot 37.5%.
\n\u2022 The last time UNC held the opponents below 40% over a season was 2014-15, when the opponents shot 39.8%.
\n\u2022 UNC is 10-0 this season and 55-4 under head coach Hubert Davis<\/a><\/dfn> when holding opponents under 40% from the floor.
\n\u2022 The Tar Heel defense is third in the country in two-point field goal percentage defense (42.0%) and fifth in effective field goal percentage (43.1%).
\n\u2022\u00a0 The opponents have shot under 40% from the floor in 18 of 30 halves.
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels held each of their first 14 opponents to fewer than 75 points. This was the first time no opponent scored 75 or more points in the first 14 games since 1981-82, when the national champion Tar Heels played all 34 games without allowing more than 74 points.
\n\u2022 Carolina is making 8.6 three-pointers per game, which is on pace for the second-most in UNC history (record is 8.67 in 2018-19, when the Tar Heel lineup included Cameron Johnson, Coby White, Kenny Williams and Luke Maye).<\/p>\n
\n8.67 in 2018-19 (312 in 36 games)
\n8.60 in 2025-26 (129 in 15 games)<\/strong>
\n8.41 in 2021-22 (328 in 39 games)
\n8.29 in 2002-03 (290 in 35 games)
\n8.25 in 1982-83 (132 in 16 games \u2013 ACC games only)<\/p>\n
\n25.60 in 2025-26 (384 in 15 games)<\/strong>
\n23.94 in 2018-19 (862 in 36 games)
\n23.49 in 2021-22 (916 in 39 games)
\n23.49 in 2002-03 (822 in 35 games)
\n22.95 in 2017-18 (849 in 37 games)<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels have won 17 straight games when making more three-pointers than their opponent.
\n\u2022 Carolina has shot 50% or higher from the floor in seven of the first 15 games. The Tar Heels are 42-1 under Davis when they make at least 50% from the floor.
\n\u2022 Michigan State is the only team this season that has outrebounded Carolina. The Tar Heels are 101-25 under Davis when they outrebound their opponents.
\n\u2022 Carolina is averaging 9.9 turnovers, which is on pace to set the school record for fewest per game\u00a0 (10.08 in 2023-24).
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels have committed fewer than 10 turnovers six times and turned it over a season-high 13 times twice.
\n\u2022 Including this season, the four-lowest turnover per game averages (and five of the six-lowest) have come in Hubert Davis<\/a><\/dfn>‘ five seasons as head coach.
\n\u2022 Carolina’s assist\/turnover ratio of 1.77 is the best in UNC history (record is 1.65 in 2015-16).
\n\u2022 Carolina leads the ACC and is 14th in the nation in assist\/turnover ratio.
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels force 9.5 turnovers per game. Only eight teams in the country force fewer turnovers.
\n\u2022 Carolina has outscored its opponents by 125 points in the second half, an average margin of 8.3 points over the final 20 minutes.
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels have outscored their opponents in the second half in 12 of their 13 wins this season, including by 29 in the win over NC Central, 25 vs. ECU and 21 vs. Kansas. Michigan State outscored UNC by 11 in the second half in the only loss of the season.
\n\u2022 UNC is plus 10 or better in the second half in seven of the 15 games.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Freshman forward Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> has earned National Player-of-the-Week honors twice this season. He was one of five players named National Player of the Week by the USBWA for the week of November 3-9 and he won the award from Andy Katz at NCAA March Madness for this play the week of December 15-21.
\n\u2022 Wilson also was named ACC Freshman of the Week twice, following the games against Central Arkansas and Kansas and against ETSU and Ohio State.
\n\u2022 He is the first Tar Heel to win multiple ACC Freshman-of-the-Week awards since Caleb Love was a two-time recipient in 2021.
\n\u2022 Wilson also was the ACC’s Co-Player of the Week after the Central Arkansas and Kansas games.
\n\u2022 Wilson was the first Tar Heel freshman to also win ACC Player-of-the-Week honors since Cole Anthony in 2019-20.
\n\u2022 Wilson became the eighth Tar Heel to win ACC Player-of-the-Week honors as a freshman, joining Jerry Stackhouse (1994), Antawn Jamison (1996), Rashad McCants (2003), Tyler Hansbrough (2006), Brandan Wright (2007), Coby White (2019) and Anthony.<\/p>\n
\n(based on the previous game vs. SMU)<\/strong>
\n\u00a0 0 \u2013 Kyan Evans<\/a><\/dfn>, Junior, Guard
\n\u00a0 7 \u2013 Seth Trimble<\/a><\/dfn>, Senior, Guard
\n44 \u2013 Luka Bogavac<\/a><\/dfn>, Junior, Guard
\n\u00a0 8 \u2013 Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn>, Freshman, Forward
\n13 \u2013 Henri Veesaar<\/a><\/dfn>, R-Junior, Center<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Carolina’s probable starters against Wake Forest have made a combined 126 college starts. That includes 51 by Kyan Evans<\/a><\/dfn>, 27 by Trimble, 20 by Henri Veesaar<\/a><\/dfn>, 15 by freshman Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> and 13 by Luka Bogavac<\/a><\/dfn>.
\n\u2022 UNC has used three different starting lineups in the first 15 games. Evans, Wilson and Veesaar have started all 15 games.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels were picked to finish third in the 18-team Atlantic Coast Conference by the media at the ACC’s preseason media day in Charlotte.
\n\u2022 Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> was voted to the league’s preseason All-ACC second team and the All-Freshman team.
\n\u2022 UNC was picked No. 25 in the country in the Associated Press preseason poll.
\n\u2022 This is the 69th different season in the 78-year history of the AP poll the Tar Heels have been ranked at any point in the AP poll.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 The 2025-26 season is Hubert Davis<\/a><\/dfn>‘ fifth as head coach at the University of North Carolina and his 14th on the coaching staff at his alma mater. He is the only Tar Heel head coach to win 20 or more games in each of his first four seasons.
\n\u2022 Davis, 55 (turns 56 on May 17, 2026), has won National and ACC Coach-of-the-Year honors, led the Tar Heels to a national title game appearance, 114 wins, a 57-25 record and 24 road wins in ACC regular-season play, a regular-season ACC title and a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Only one other team has won more ACC games in the last four years.
\n\u2022 Two of his players \u2013 RJ Davis<\/a><\/dfn> and Armando Bacot \u2013 rank second and third, respectively, in all-time UNC scoring, set numerous records and earned national and All-ACC awards.
\n\u2022 Carolina won its 100th game under Davis in the 2025 ACC Tournament, making him the third-fastest coach in UNC history and the sixth-fastest in ACC history to win 100 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 games than Davis (who won his 100th in 143 games).
\n\u2022 Under Davis, Carolina is 8-3 in NCAA Tournament play, including wins against three national championship-winning coaches (Baylor’s Scott Drew, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski and Michigan State’s Tom Izzo) and three other coaches who have taken teams to the Final Four (Marquette’s Shaka Smart, UCLA’s Mick Cronin and San Diego State’s Brian Dutcher).
\n\u2022 Davis has led the Tar Heels to 16 wins over nationally-ranked opponents, including eight over top-10 teams (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).<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 In ACC play, the Tar Heels play host to Florida State, Wake Forest (Jan. 10), Notre Dame (Jan. 21), Syracuse (Feb. 2), Duke (Feb. 7), Pitt (Feb. 14), Louisville (Feb. 23), Virginia Tech (Feb. 28) and Clemson (March 3).
\n\u2022 Carolina plays at SMU, Stanford (Jan.14), Cal (Jan. 17), Virginia (Jan. 24), Georgia Tech (Jan. 31), Miami (Feb. 10), NC State (Feb. 17), Syracuse (Feb. 21) and Duke (March 7).
\n\u2022 UNC is not scheduled to play Boston College.
\n\u2022 This will mark the first season since 1919 the Tar Heels are not playing NC State in Chapel Hill.
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels played Kansas in Chapel Hill for the first time ever. Last year, the Jayhawks defeated UNC in Lawrence. The November 7 game was just the third on-campus matchup in 14 games between the Tar Heels and KU.
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels are making their first trips as ACC opponents to SMU, Stanford and Cal. UNC is 1-0 all-time against the Mustangs in Dallas (12\/30\/1986), 2-0 vs. the Cardinal in Maples Pavilion (12\/3\/1983 and 11\/20\/2017) and 1-0 vs. the Bears in Haas Pavilion (12\/22\/1972, when its was Harmon Gym).<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Eleven former Tar Heels were on NBA Opening Day rosters, including Cole Anthony (Milwaukee), Harrison Barnes (San Antonio), Tony Bradley (Indiana), Harrison Ingram (San Antonio), Cameron Johnson (Denver), Walker Kessler (Utah), Caleb Love (Portland), Pete Nance (Milwaukee), rookie Drake Powell<\/a><\/dfn> (Brooklyn), Day’Ron Sharpe (Brooklyn) and Coby White (Chicago).
\n\u2022 Five Carolina alumni are playing in the G League: Leaky Black (Capital City), Garrison Brooks (Birmingham), RJ Davis<\/a><\/dfn> (South Bay), Harrison Ingram (Austin) and Cormac Ryan (Wisconsin).
\n\u2022 At least a dozen Tar Heels are playing internationally, including Armando Bacot (Turkey), Ty Claude<\/a><\/dfn> (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<\/a><\/dfn> (The Netherlands).<\/p>\n