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UNC-NOTRE DAME<\/strong> CAROLINA & THE ACC<\/strong> FRONTCOURT FORCE<\/strong> DOUBLE TROUBLE<\/strong> DOUBLE-DOUBLES BY TWO TAR HEELS, SEASON<\/strong> WILSON: MID-SEASON AWARDS 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 Hansbrough (in 2005-06) is the only Tar Heel freshman to lead the team in both scoring and rebounding. He 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 equaled the second-longest streak of double-figure scoring games (18) by a UNC freshman to begin a season. Only McCants (20 in 2002-03) has more. Wilson is tied with Brandan Wright, who began his career with 18 straight in 2006-07. VEESAAR A DUAL THREAT<\/strong> HENRI THE FIRST<\/strong> TRENDING TOPICS<\/strong> MOST THREE-POINTERS MADE PER GAME<\/strong> \u2022 Carolina is attempting 25.2 three-pointers per game, which would 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 8.5 threes per game while allowing 8.3. 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 3FGs one time (in 2012-13). 500 WINS IN THE SMITH CENTER<\/strong> IN-SEASON AWARDS<\/strong> PROBABLE STARTERS VS. NOTRE DAME<\/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 Carolina has won five in a row and is 32-9 all-time against the Irish.
\n\u2022 That includes 16-5 in ACC games and 10-1 in Chapel Hill (9-1 in the Smith Center)
\n\u2022 Carolina has won six in a row in the Smith Center, dating back to a 71-70 Irish win in 2015.
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels won both games last season, including 74-73 in Notre Dame and 76-56 in the second round of the ACC Tournament in Charlotte.<\/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 58-27 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 773-323 (.705) in regular-season ACC games. The 773 wins are the most in ACC history. Duke is second with 744.<\/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 17 points and nine rebounds and shoot 55% from the floor (research courtesy of Jody Zeugner).
\n\u2022 Veesaar and Wilson are combining for 36.9 points and 19.7 rebounds per game. They have blocked 45 shots, have 86 assists, shot 60.7% from the floor and attempted 222 free throws.
\n\u2022 Wilson is averaging 19.7 points and 10.6 rebounds. Veesaar is averaging 17.2 points and 9.1 rebounds.
\n\u2022 The last pair of Tar Heels to average at least 17 points in a season were Michael Jordan (19.6) and Sam Perkins (17.6) in 1983-84.
\n\u2022 Four times this season, both players have scored 20 points. Against Wake Forest and Stanford, they combined to shoot 37 for 47 from the floor, the highest combined field goal percentage (78.7%) for two players in consecutive games in UNC history among players with 20 or more field goal attempts.
\n\u2022 Previously, the highest field goal percentage for two players in consecutive games was 76.4% by Larry Miller and Bobby Lewis against Ohio State and Richmond in December 1965.
\n\u2022 Combined, they have 20 double-doubles and scored 20 or more points 17 times.
\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 57, while Veesaar is sixth with 40.
\n\u2022 Either Veesaar or Wilson has led the team in scoring and rebounding in 16 of the first 18 games.
\n\u2022 They account for 45.1% of Carolina’s scoring, 48.4% of the rebounds and 47.7% of the field goals made.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> (11) and Henri Veesaar<\/a><\/dfn> (9) rank fifth & 15th, 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 6<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> is one of the most productive and engaging freshman in Carolina Basketball history.
\n\u2022 Wilson is one of 25 players named 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, and the USBWA’s Oscar Roberston Trophy.
\n\u2022 He was also one of 15 players named to the Midseason Watch List for the Wayman Tisdale National Freshman of the Year 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 12 times, including a season-high 26-point performance at Stanford. His 12 20-point games are the most by a freshman since Tyler Hansbrough set UNC’s single-season rookie record with 14 in 2005-06.
\n\u2022 Hansbrough, Rashad McCants, Wilson and Ford are the only UNC freshmen with 10 or more 20-point games.<\/p>\n
\nTyler Hansbrough, 2005-06 14
\nCaleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn>, 2025-26 12<\/strong>
\nRashad McCants, 2002-03 12
\nPhil Ford, 1974-75 10<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 His scoring average of 19.7 points per game is on pace to set the UNC freshman record.<\/p>\n
\n19.7 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), 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 led UNC in rebounding.
\n\u2022 Wilson is averaging 10.6 rebounds per game. The UNC freshman record is 9.6 per game in 1995-96 by Jamison.<\/p>\n
\n10.6 Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn>, 2025-26<\/strong>
\n9.6 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 57 dunks, six more than any other player (through January 20).
\n\u2022 He has scored in double figures in all 18 games and has 11 double-doubles. He has 12 or more rebounds in 10 of his 11 double-doubles, including a season-high 16 vs. Florida State.<\/p>\n
\n(all points and rebounds)<\/strong>
\n13 Antawn Jamison, 1995-96
\n11 Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn>, 2025-26<\/strong>
\n11 Armando Bacot, 2019-20
\n\u00a0 9 J.R. Reid, 1986-87
\n\u00a0 9 Sam Perkins, 1980-81<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Wilson leads the ACC in double-doubles (11) and rebounds per game (10.6). He leads all freshmen nationally in double-doubles and is second in rebounding.
\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, joining an illustrious list of Tar Heels that includes Billy Cunningham, Mitch Kupchak, James Worthy, Joseph Forte and Luke Maye.
\n\u2022 Against the Seminoles, Wilson became the third Tar Heel ever to lead UNC outright in a game in points, rebounds, assists and blocks (joining Jerry Stackhouse vs. Murray State on 3\/17\/1995 and Mike O’Koren vs. Detroit on 12\/4\/1978).
\n\u2022 Wilson set a UNC freshman record with four consecutive double-doubles against Radford, NC Central, Navy and St. Bonaventure. Bacot (twice), Jamison and O’Koren were the only Tar Heel freshmen with three in a row.
\n\u2022 Against Navy, he became the first Tar Heel ever to score 23 points, grab 12 rebounds, make three blocks and have 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 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 (64.3%) and three-point accuracy (49.0%), is second in scoring (17.2), rebounding (9.1) and blocks (20).
\n\u2022 His field goal percentage is the eighth-highest in a season by a Tar Heel.
\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 nine double-doubles as a Tar Heel, the first nine of his collegiate career. He played in 66 games over two seasons at Arizona.
\n\u2022 He is second in the ACC and 12th in the country in field goal shooting and second in the ACC and 15th nationally in double-doubles. He’s also fifth in the ACC in rebounding and ninth in points per game.
\n\u2022 Veesaar has set numerous career bests as a Tar Heel, including points (26 vs. ETSU and Stanford), 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 five times \u2013 26 vs. ETSU and Stanford, 25 vs. Wake Forest, 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 249 and has led the Tar Heels in plus\/minus five times, which also leads the team.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Henri Veesaar<\/a><\/dfn> is Carolina’s first 7-footer ever to make multiple three-pointers.
\n\u2022 Veesaar is 24 for 49 from three and leads the team in three-point percentage (.490).
\n\u2022 He is second on the team in three-pointers, just one off the lead.
\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 has made two or more three-pointers eight times this season, including a career-high four vs. ECU.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels have dropped to 30th in the country in field goal percentage defense, holding their opponents to a combined 39.8% from the floor. They’ve held seven opponents below 35% and 10 under 40%.
\n\u2022 However, in the last four games, SMU, Wake Forest, Stanford and Cal have shot a combined 53.8% from the floor, making 128 of 238. Those four teams made a combined 58 of 116 from three-point range (50.0%).
\n\u2022 The opponents have tied the record for most three-pointers against UNC in two consecutive games (30), set records for the most in three (44), four (58) and five consecutive (70) games.
\n\u2022 SMU, Wake Forest, Stanford and Cal shot better than 50% from the floor in six of eight halves, something the opponents had only done twice in the previous 28 halves (second half by Michigan State and first half by Kentucky in consecutive games).
\n\u2022 Prior to the SMU game on January 3, Carolina had held six straight opponents below 40% shooting from the floor, the first time the defense had done that since 2014-15.
\n\u2022 The opponents’ field goal percentage (.398) is still the lowest allowed by Carolina since 2000-01, when the opponents shot 39.8%, which was the last time UNC held the opponents below 40% over the course of the season.
\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 and 0-4 this season and 6-19 under Davis when the opponents make 50%.
\n\u2022 The Tar Heel defense is still fourth in the country in two-point field goal percentage defense (43.6%) but has dropped to 25th in effective field goal percentage (46.4%).
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels held each of their first 14 opponents to fewer than 75 points. It was the first time Carolina held its 14 opponents under 75 points since 1981-82.
\n\u2022 Carolina is making 8.50 three-pointers per game, which just slightly trails the all-time UNC record (8.67 in 2018-19, when the Tar Heel lineup included Cameron Johnson, Coby White, Kenny Williams and Luke Maye).
\n\u2022 Five different Tar Heels have made at least 20 three-pointers, led by Luka Bogavac<\/a><\/dfn> with 25 and Henri Veesaar<\/a><\/dfn> with 24.<\/p>\n
\n8.67 in 2018-19 (312 in 36 games)
\n8.50 in 2025-26 (153 in 18 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
\n25.17 in 2025-26 (453 in 18 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. However, the opponents have made more threes in all four of UNC’s losses this season (by a combined 18 in the four games).
\n\u2022 Including the loss at Stanford when UNC shot 58.2% from the floor, Carolina has made 50% or better of its field goal attempts in nine of the first 18 games. The Stanford game was the second loss in the last five years when Carolina shot 50% or better. The Tar Heels are 43-2 under Davis when they make at least 50% from the floor.
\n\u2022 Michigan State remains the only team this season that has outrebounded Carolina. The Tar Heels are 102-26 under Davis when they outrebound their opponents.
\n\u2022 Carolina is averaging 10.3 turnovers, which is the second-fewest per game in UNC history\u00a0 (10.08 in 2023-24).
\n\u2022 Including this season, Davis’ teams have produced the four-lowest turnover per game averages and five of the six-lowest in UNC history.
\n\u2022 Carolina’s assist\/turnover ratio of 1.65 equals the best in UNC history (2015-16).
\n\u2022 Carolina is second in the ACC and is 23rd in the nation in assist\/turnover ratio.
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels force 9.8 turnovers per game. Carolina is 339th in the nation in forced turnovers.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 This is the 41st season the Tar Heels are playing in the Dean E. Smith Center.
\n\u2022 The win over Wake Forest on January 10 was UNC’s 500th in the Smith Center.
\n\u2022 Carolina is 500-90 in regular-season and NIT games in the Smith Center.
\n\u2022 UNC became the ninth current ACC team with 500 or more wins 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 40 years ago this week, on 1\/18\/1986, when No. 1-ranked UNC defeated No. 3 Duke, 95-92.
\n\u2022 Carolina is 259-71 (.785) in ACC games in the Smith Center.
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels have won 11 straight games in the Smith Center, all this season.
\n\u2022 UNC has played 46.3% of its home games in the Smith Center (590 of 1,274).
\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 500 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 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 at Cal)<\/strong>
\n\u00a0 3 \u2013 Derek Dixon<\/a><\/dfn>, Freshman, Guard
\n\u00a0 7 \u2013 Seth Trimble<\/a><\/dfn>, Senior, Guard
\n15 \u2013 Jarin Stevenson<\/a><\/dfn>, R-Junior, Forward
\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 Notre Dame have made a combined 113 college starts. That includes 41 by Jarin Stevenson<\/a><\/dfn>, 30 by Trimble, 23 by Henri Veesaar<\/a><\/dfn>, 18 by freshman Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> and one (in the previous game at Cal) by freshman Derek Dixon<\/a><\/dfn>.
\n\u2022 UNC has used four different starting lineups in the first 18 games. Veesaar and Wilson have started all 18 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, 115 wins, a 58-27 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, 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, Cal, 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 made their first trips as ACC opponents to SMU, Stanford and Cal.<\/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