• Carolina and Duke play for the third time in 42 days and first time in the ACC Tournament since 2019 when the teams tip off in the semifinals Friday at 7 p.m. at the Spectrum Center on ESPN. • The Tar Heels are 2-0 in the 2025 ACC Tournament and have won eight of their last nine games, winning six of the eight by double digits and all eight by six or more points. • Carolina is 22-12 overall, which included 13-7 in ACC regular-season play. UNC tied SMU and Wake Forest for fourth to grab the No. 5 seed in the Tournament. • Friday’s semifinal is Carolina’s eighth game this season against teams currently ranked in the top 10 in the Associated Press poll. • The winner of the UNC-Duke semifinal advances to Saturday’s championship game against either No. 2 seed Louisville or No. 3 Clemson (8:30 p.m.). • Top-seeded and No. 1-ranked Duke is 29-3. The Blue Devils won the regular-season at 19-1 in ACC play with a lone loss at Clemson.

• RJ Davis tied his season high with five three-pointers and scored 23 points to help the Tar Heels overcome their worst shooting game of the season to hold off Wake Forest, 68-59, in the quarterfinals.

• Ven-Allen Lubin tied his career high with 13 rebounds and made a pair of field goals 37 seconds apart inside the final two minutes to secure the win over the Deacons. • Carolina trailed by 11 early, rallied to take the lead by halftime and went ahead by 10 less than four minutes into the second half. For more than 10 minutes in the second half neither team led by more two points until Davis hit a three with 2:43 to play to give Carolina a 61-57 lead. • The Tar Heels didn’t make a field goal for nearly 11 minutes in the second half but converted three of four inside the final 3:00.

• In Wednesday’s second-round, 76-56 win over Notre Dame, Charlotte native Jae’Lyn Withers made a career-high seven three-pointers, the most ever by a Tar Heel in an ACC Tournament game, and scored a career-high 21 points.

• Carolina made 13 three-pointers and shot 46.4% from three vs. the Irish, handed out 22 assists (11 by Elliot Cadeau). • The Tar Heel defense has Notre Dame to 32.3% and Wake Forest to 33.9% shooting in the two wins in Charlotte. That’s the first time Carolina has held opponents to under 40% shooting in back-to-back ACC Tournament games since Syracuse (.317) and Miami (.371) in 2017. • Carolina has 22 wins. This is the 55th time in 72 years of competing as a member of the ACC the Tar Heels have won 20 or more games.

100 WINS FOR HUBERT

• The quarterfinal win over Wake Forest was the Hubert Davis‘ 100th in 143 games as Carolina’s head coach. • Davis is the third fastest to 100 in UNC history and sixth fastest in ACC history. • Roy Williams (129 games) and Frank McGuire (139) reached 100 wins in fewer games for the Tar Heels. Duke’s Vic Bubas (128 games), Williams, Wake Forest’s Skip Prosser (136), McGuire and Maryland’s Lefty Driesell (142) are the only ACC coaches to win 100 in fewer games.

• Hubert Davis is the first Carolina coach to win 20 or more games in each of his first four seasons.

CAROLINA IN THE ACC TOURNAMENT

• Carolina has won 18 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championships and played in the championship game a record 36 times. • The Tar Heels have a 110-52 record in ACC Tournament history. • Carolina has the second-most wins and titles. • Carolina is 9-14 against Duke in the ACC Tournament. This is the first time they are playing in the ACC Tournament since the 2019 semifinals in Charlotte in the Spectrum Center. • UNC is 36-18 in the semifinals. The 36 wins are the most in ACC Tournament history. Duke is second with 35 (35-14). No other team has more than 18. • Thursday’s win over Wake Forest was Carolina’s 50th in the quarterfinals (50-14). Duke is second with 46. • This is the sixth time Carolina is the No. 5 seed (first time since 2015 in Greensboro, when the Tar Heels advanced to the championship game against Notre Dame). • Carolina is 24-8 in the ACC Tournament in Charlotte, winning the title in 1968, 1969, 1991, 1994 and 2008. The only city where UNC won more ACC championships is Greensboro, where the Tar Heels have won the Tournament eight times. • The Tar Heels have earned the No. 1 seed a record 27 times. Duke is second with 19. • A Tar Heel has won the Most Valuable Player award 19 times – 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). • Complete results for UNC in the ACC Tournament and the last time it happened in the ACC Tournament on pages 10-11.

UNC IN CHARLOTTE

• The Tar Heels are 170-28 in Charlotte. • That includes an 20-3 record in the Spectrum Center from 2006-25.

CAROLINA-DUKE

• Carolina is 145-119 against the Blue Devils, including 9-14 in the ACC Tournament. • This is the 23rd time (out of 24 games) Carolina-Duke will be playing in either the semifinals or championship game (2003 quarterfinals was the only exception). • The teams are playing in the semifinals for the 12 time and the fourth straight (2017, 2018, 2019 and 2025) since playing for the title in 2011. • This season, Duke beat Carolina, 87-70 in Cameron Indoor Stadium on February 1, and 82-69 in the Smith Center last Saturday. • Neither team has won three times in one seasons since Duke went 3-0 in 2001-02.

• Hubert Davis is 4-5 against Duke as head coach.

• Carolina and Duke are No. 1 and 2 all-time in the ACC in wins, ACC regular-season wins, ACC Tournament wins, NCAA Tournament wins, Final Fours and NCAA championships. • Carolina and Duke have played in the Final Four a combined 27 times in the last 44 seasons. • The Tar Heels and Blue Devils have combined to win 11 national championships, including six by Carolina (1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009, 2017) and five by Duke (1991, 1992, 2001, 2010, 2015). • The last time UNC beat Duke when the Blue Devils were ranked No. 1 or 2 was 2/20/2019, when the eighth-ranked Tar Heels knocked off No. 1 Duke, 88-72, in Durham behind Luke Maye (30 points, 15 rebounds) and Cameron Johnson (26 points). • The Tar Heels have defeated Duke eight times when the Blue Devils were ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press poll, which is where Duke is ranked in the current poll. • Those eight wins over No. 1 Duke include: 1/12/1980 at Duke, 1/18/1989 at Duke, 2/5/1992 in Chapel Hill, 2/3/1994 in Chapel Hill, 2/5/1998 in Chapel Hill, 3/8/1998 in Greensboro in the ACC championship game, 3/4/2006 at Duke and 2/20/2019 at Duke. • Carolina’s 14 wins against No. 1-ranked teams (all opponents) are the NCAA record. UCLA is second with 12.

• The teams feature the most recent two ACC Players of the Year. Carolina’s RJ Davis won the award in 2024 and Duke freshman Cooper Flagg is the 2025 winner.

• RJ Davis is averaging 15.1 points over his last nine games against Duke. After scoring 0 and two points vs. the Blue Devils as a freshman in 2020-21, Davis has scored 11, 21, 18, 11, 17, 17, nine, 12 and 20 points in the series. He made four three-pointers, his most against Duke, on March 8 in the Smith Center. • Davis scored 21 in Mike Krzyzewski’s final game at Cameron in 2022 and three weeks later scored 18 in the Final Four in New Orleans.

NOTEBOOK

• Hubert Davis has led UNC to 56 regular-season ACC wins in the last four seasons. Only one other school (Duke with 64) has more regular-season ACC wins in the last four seasons.

• RJ Davis and Ian Jackson earned All-ACC honors. Davis was voted to the All-ACC second team, receiving the sixth-most votes among the 81 individuals who selected the award winners. Jackson was voted to the All-Freshman Team. He was the third-leading vote getter for the rookie team also finished third in the balloting for the Sixth Man Award.

Late Season Scoring Surge: Carolina is third in the ACC and 23rd in the country in scoring at 81.1 points per game.

• The Tar Heels have scored 758 points in the last nine games, an average of 84.2 points per game. From the Syracuse game through Virginia Tech, UNC scored 80 or more in six straight ACC games for the first time since a seven-game stretch from January 3-26, 2017. • UNC scored 96 at Florida State, 97 vs. Miami and 91 at Virginia Tech (94.7 ppg), the first time it scored 90 or more points in three straight ACC games since January 8-14, 2017.

• Four different Tar Heels have led or co-led in scoring over the last nine games (Ian Jackson vs. Syracuse, Virginia and Virginia Tech; RJ Davis vs. NC State, Florida State, Duke and Wake Forest; Jae’Lyn Withers vs. Virginia and Notre Dame; and Ven-Allen Lubin vs. Miami).

• Carolina went on a 10-0 run in the first half against vs. Wake Forest. That marked the 17th game this season UNC had at least one 10-0 run. The Tar Heels have gone on a 10-0 run in each of the last four games and six of the last eight games. • That includes the loss to Duke on March 8, when Carolina outscored the Blue Devils, 35-13, over a 12 and half minute stretch midway through the game.

Lead Time: The Tar Heels never trailed in beating Notre Dame in their second-round victory. Drake Powell made a three 24 seconds into the game and Carolina led for the rest of the game, a season-high 39:36.

• It was the sixth time this season UNC has led wire to wire. • The Tar Heels have led for more than 30 minutes in six of the last eight games and for more than 38 minutes in four of those games.

Halftime Leads: Carolina trailed Wake Forest, 14-3, but came back to lead by two at the half.

• It was the 18th time in 22 regular season and Tournament games against ACC opponents the Tar Heels have led at the half. UNC has won 15 of the 18 (the three losses when leading at the half were to Stanford, at Wake Forest and at Pitt, games UNC lost by one, one and eight points). • The four games in which UNC trailed at the half against ACC opponents were Duke twice (by 22 and one), at Clemson (by 16) and Louisville (by six). • In all games this season, the Tar Heels are 20-3 when leading at the break and 2-9 when trailing. • The Tar Heels scored 33 points in the first half in the win over Wake Forest. That snapped an eight-game streak during which Carolina scored 42 or more points in the first half (beginning at Syracuse the Tar Heels had scored 42, 54, 46, 49, 46, 46, 42 and 43 points in the first half).

Owning the Glass: Led by Ven-Allen Lubin’s career-high tying 13, the Tar Heels pulled down 46 rebounds in the win over Wake Forest. Carolina is plus 73 on the glass in the last eight games, outrebounding their opponents in seven of the eight (all except Duke, which won the boards, 36-29, in Chapel Hill).

• Carolina is 17-4 this season when it has more rebounds and 5-8 when it gets beaten on the boards. • UNC is 12-2 this season when it scores more second-chance points and 9-9 when the opponents score more. • Lubin leads UNC in offensive rebounds with 62, 33 of which have come in the last 12 games. • Lubin has scored in double figures in each of the last eight games, a career-high. He had a six-game double-figure scoring streak last season while playing at Vanderbilt. • Lubin has three double-doubles in the last four games. He totaled 10 points and 11 rebounds at Virginia Tech, 17 points/10 boards vs. Notre Dame and 10 points/13 rebounds vs. Wake Forest.

Three-Point Turnaround: Carolina has made 95 of 213 three-pointers over its last nine games, converting 44.6%.

• Through the Feb. 10 game at Clemson, the Tar Heels were shooting 32.3% from three, the fourth-lowest percentage in UNC history.

• From Florida State on February 24 through the Notre Dame game on March 12, the Tar Heels made 57 three-pointers, more than any five-game span in Carolina Basketball history. That included 10 at Florida State, 10 vs. Miami, 15 at Virginia Tech, 9 vs. Duke and 13 vs. Notre Dame.

• The previous high for a five-game stretch was 56 twice, once in 2021-22 and once in 2018-19. • The Tar Heels have made 13, eight, nine, 10, 10, 15, nine, 13 and eight 3FGs in the last nine games since tying their season low with four in the loss at Clemson. • Carolina made 10 or more three-pointers in five of its first 25 games. It has made 10 or more in five of the last nine games. • Carolina is 9-3 this season when it makes more three-pointers than its opponents, something the Tar Heels did only two times in their first 15 games and 10 times in their last 19 games. • They made 13 threes vs. Notre Dame, Carolina’s most in an ACC Tournament game since it made 13 against Miami in the 2013 finals.

• Carolina made 15 threes at Virginia Tech on March 4, equaling the most in a game in Hubert Davis‘ four seasons as head coach. It was the seventh time ever Carolina made 15 or more threes in a game.

• Jae’Lyn Withers’ seven 3FGs against Notre Dame were the most by a Tar Heel this season (most since RJ Davis made seven against Miami last year). Withers hit 7 of 10, also the highest percentage (.700) in a game this season. • Withers is shooting 45.6% from three this season and has made multiple threes eight times this season – in each of the first two games and in six of the last nine games. • Davis has made three or more 3FGs in each of the last six games. He tied his season high with five in the quarterfinals vs. Wake Forest. It was the 10th time in his career he made five or more.

• Ian Jackson has made 2 of his last 9 three-pointers over the last three games, but is

shooting 40.1% from three this season, the fifth-highest percentage in the ACC among players who have made 50 or more. Only one other freshman in the ACC has made 50 or more threes at a higher percentage (Duke’s Isaiah Evans). • The Tar Heels are 20-5 this season when they make 30% or better from three-point range and 2-7 when they make less than 30% of their three-point attempts (wins over Georgia Tech and Notre Dame). • The Tar Heels have shot better than 40% from three-point range in seven of the last 11 games, something they had done only three times in their first 23 games. • The Tar Heels are 9-1 this season when shooting 40% from three. UNC beat Elon (40.6%), lost to Michigan State in overtime (47.8), and defeated SMU (50.0), Pitt (46.7), Syracuse (46.4), NC State (40.0), Virginia (56.3), Miami (55.6), Virginia Tech (53.6) and Notre Dame (46.4%). • Carolina has made 50% or better of its threes in four games this season, including three of the last seven games (wins over SMU, Virginia, Miami and Virginia Tech). • Conversely, the Tar Heels have shot 40 for 141 (28.4%) from three-point range in their last six losses. That includes 9 of 27 at home last Saturday against Duke. • Overall, Carolina is shooting 39.7% from three in its 22 wins and 28.6% in the 12 losses. • For the season, UNC is up to 35.7% from three, slightly lower than its percentage last season (35.9%). • The Tar Heels are averaging 8.0 made 3FGs, the sixth-most per game in UNC history.

Big Leads, Close Games: Carolina has led by at least 10 points in eight of the last nine games and had a seven-point lead in the second half vs. Duke in the other. UNC’s largest leads in its most recent eight wins were 11 at Syracuse, 32 vs. NC State, 20 vs. Virginia, 16 at Florida State, 21 vs. Miami, 36 at Virginia Tech, 24 vs. Notre Dame and 10 vs. Wake Forest.

• UNC has led by double digits in 18 of 34 games (10 of the last 12 games) and trailed by 10 or more 13 times (including recent games vs. Duke and Wake Forest). • In a season that was notable for playing numerous close games, the average margin in the last 10 games is 16.9 points. Carolina’s nine-point win over Wake Forest was the first game decided by fewer than 10 points since the 88-82 win at Syracuse on February 15. • Including Thursday’s win over Wake Forest, the Tar Heels have played 13 games this season in which the margin was within five points with 5:00 to play (the Deacs led by two). • UNC has led by five or fewer points with 5:00 remaining three times (beat Georgia Tech and lost to Kansas and Stanford) and trailed by five or fewer points nine times (beat Dayton, UCLA, Notre Dame, Boston College, Pitt and Wake Forest and lost at Louisville, at Wake Forest and at Pitt). The score was tied once (in the loss to Florida). • Carolina is 6-3 when trailing by five or fewer with 5:00 to play. • The Tar Heels have played 10 one-possession games (decided by one, two or three points) this season. Those are the most played by the Tar Heels in a season in the three-point era, which began in 1986-87. The 2010-11 team played nine one-possession games and won eight. • The 10 one-possession games don’t include the overtime win against Boston College, which UNC won, 102-96. They also don’t include the win at Syracuse, which UNC led by two points with less than a minute to play. • The Tar Heels’ six one-possession wins this season are the second most in the three-point era. UNC won eight in 2010-11, six this season and five in 1998-99 (5-3), 2002-03 (5-2) and 2016-17 (5-1). • The losses to Stanford and Wake Forest in January were just the fourth time ever Carolina lost by a point in back-to-back games. The other instances include the 1929-30 season (Loyola Chicago and Duke), 1940-41 (Fordham and St. Joseph’s) and 1967-68 (South Carolina and Duke).

Making Shots: Despite beating Wake Forest when shooting just 33.9% from the floor, the Tar Heels have shot 48% or better in eight of the last 11 games (won all eight times when they shot 48% or better).

• Carolina missed 12 consecutive field goal attempts vs. Wake Forest that spanned 10:40 in the second half. Jae’Lyn Withers snapped the shooting drought with a three-pointer that gave UNC a 57-56 lead. Withers, RJ Davis and Ven-Allen Lubin combined to make 4 of 5 from the floor to give Carolina a 65-59 lead. • Carolina has shot at least 50% from the floor in 11 of the last 17 halves, including both halves vs. NC State, Florida State, Miami and Virginia Tech. • The Tar Heels have shot 50% in at least one half in 11 of the last 14 games. • Carolina is 12-1 this season when it shoots 50% or better and 10-11 when it makes less than 50% from the floor. • Carolina shot 58.9% from the floor in beating Miami and Virginia Tech. It was the first time the Tar Heels shot that well in consecutive games since the 2008 NCAA Tournament, when UNC shot 60.6% vs. Mt. St. Mary’s and 67.7% vs. Arkansas.

• Carolina is shooting 47.6% from the floor this season, its highest field goal percentage since 2015-16, when it shot 48.2%, won the ACC Tournament and played in the national championship game.

Strength of Schedule: Carolina’s non-conference schedule is ranked the fifth-toughest in the country (NET), No. 5 by the RPI and No. 6 by KenPom.

• The Tar Heels have played four of the top five, five of the top seven and seven of the top 13 teams in the March 10 Associated Press poll. • Carolina has already played No. 1 Duke twice, No. 3 Auburn, No. 4 Florida, No. 5 Alabama, No. 7 Michigan State, No. 10 Clemson and No. 13 Louisville. • Kansas was No. 1 in the nation when UNC played the Jayhawks in Lawrence.

• Not only was UNC’s non-conference schedule one of the most challenging in the country, the Tar Heels also played the second-most away games against the top-six teams in the ACC standings (Duke, Louisville, Clemson, Wake Forest, Carolina and SMU), a product of the unbalanced schedule in an 18-team league.

• Duke played each of the other five teams on the road, while UNC and Wake Forest played four of the other five on the road. By contrast, Clemson played only two road games and Louisville and SMU played only once on the road against the other teams in the top six. • As of today, Carolina is 35th in KenPom, 35th in the NET, 36th in Torvik and 42nd in Wins Against Bubble. • The average NET of Carolina’s losses is the 25th-highest in the country. • Carolina went 6-6 on the road this season, including 5-5 in the ACC.

• Carolina is 24-16 in ACC road games under head coach Hubert Davis.

Scoring Efficiency: The Tar Heels are 22nd in the country in offensive efficiency, 26th in scoring 42nd in field goal percentage and 44th in fastbreak points.

• This is the third time in Hubert Davis‘ four seasons as head coach the Tar Heels rank in the top 25 in the country (out of 364 teams) in offensive efficiency (18th in 2021-22, 51st in 2022-23, 15th in 2023-24 and 22nd in 2024-25). • Carolina has produced four of its top five games in offensive efficiency in ACC play in its last eight games. • The Tar Heels are 16-1 this season when holding opponents at or below 105 points per 100 possessions. Wake Forest’s win in Winston-Salem in January (92.0 ppp) is the only time a team beat UNC despite scoring 105 or fewer points per 100 possessions.

• The Tar Heels average 10.74 turnovers, the second-lowest average in Carolina history. The three lowest averages and four of the five lowest have come in Hubert Davis‘ four season as head coach.

• Carolina committed nine turnovers vs. Wake Forest in the first 13:19 (at one point had five turnovers and one field goal as the Deacs built a 14-3 lead). The Tar Heels didn’t commit another turnover the rest of the first half and went from trailing by three to a 33-31 lead at the break. UNC turned it over just three times in the second half. • Carolina has outscored its last six opponents, 286-224, in the paint. UNC is 20-7 when it has equal or more paint points and 2-5 when the opponents have more (including last Saturday’s loss to Duke, when the Blue Devils outscored Carolina, 40-28, in the paint). • The win over Wake Forest was just the second time all season UNC won when getting outscored in the paint (it was 30-18 in favor of the Deacons). Syracuse was the only other time UNC when getting outscored in the paint. • In those two wins, the Tar Heels outscored Syracuse and Wake Forest from three-point range by 27 and 18 points, respectively. • Carolina is shooting 54.7% from two-point range, its highest two-point percentage since the 1997-98 ACC champion and NCAA East Regional champion Tar Heels shot 56.5% from two-point range.

• RJ Davis leads Carolina in plus/minus for the season at plus 202 with Ven-Allen Lubin and Drake Powell next at plus 166 and 145, respectively.

• Powell has led UNC in plus/minus 10 times this season, most on the team. Eight of the 10 games he led UNC were ACC games.

Wins & Losses: Carolina is shooting 50.1% from the floor in its 22 wins, which is nearly 10% better than its opponents. However, in the losses, the opponents are out-shooting the Tar Heels 47.7 to 43.4%.

• Carolina is 11-1 this season and 231-10 in the last 22 seasons when it shoots 50% from the floor. • UNC is 18-4 this season when it shoots 45% or better from the floor. • The opponents average 83.7 points in UNC’s losses and just 70.3 when the Tar Heels win. • Wake Forest was UNC’s 27th straight win when holding an opponent below 60 points and 15th in a row when opponents shoots below 40%. • Carolina has held ACC opponents below 75 points 16 times, going 13-3 in those games (one-point losses to Stanford and Wake Forest and the loss at Pitt). • There is a nine-rebound swing in Carolina’s wins and losses. The Tar Heels are plus 7.0 rebounds per game in its wins and minus 3.9 per game on the boards in the losses. The opponents have out-rebounded the Tar Heels in eight of the 12 losses. • Carolina is 15-4 when it makes the same number or more three-pointers and is 7-8 when the opponents make more 3FGs. • The Tar Heels are 15-4 when they attempt 20 or more free throws and 7-8 when attempting fewer than 20. • UNC is 14-2 when it makes more free throws (losses to Kansas and Stanford) and 8-10 when making an equal amount or fewer free throws.

Carolina Basketball: This is the 115th season of Carolina Basketball. The Tar Heels have won seven national championships (six NCAA Tournament titles), played in a record 21 Final Fours, won a record 133 NCAA Tournament games, played in the NCAA Tournament 53 times, been a No. 1 seed a record 18 times, won a record 33 regular-season ACC titles, won 18 ACC Tournament championships and have had 10 former players inducted in the Naismith Hall of Fame.

• Carolina has the second-highest winning percentage (.733) and third-most wins (2,394) in college basketball history.

• The Tar Heels are led by Hubert Davis, in his fourth season as head coach at his alma mater. The 2022 National Coach-of-the-Year winner and 2024 Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year has led UNC to a 100-43 record.

• Carolina is the only major program in the country whose six coaches all played at their alma mater. Davis played for Hall of Famer Dean Smith from 1988-92. Jeff Lebo (1985-89) and Pat Sullivan (1990-95) also played at UNC for Smith, Brad Frederick played for Smith and Bill Guthridge (1996-99) and Sean May (2002-05) and Marcus Paige (2012-16) played for Hall of Famer Roy Williams. • Vince Carter and Water Davis were inducted in the Naismith Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., in October. They are the 13th and 14th Tar Heels inducted, the second most among all college basketball programs (Kansas). • They were the seventh and eighth inducted as players, which is more than any other college’s alumni in the Hall’s history. • They were the ninth and 10th individuals who played collegiately for Dean Smith. No other coach has more former players inducted in the Naismith Hall of Fame. • Lennie Rosenbluth is one of eight honorees in the Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2024. Rosenbluth, star forward on the 1957 undefeated NCAA championship team, will become the 15th Tar Heel player or coach inducted in the Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.

Tar Heels and the ACC: Carolina is a charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. This is the 72nd season of ACC men’s basketball.

• UNC has won the regular-season championship 33 times, including the 2023-24 season, when the Tar Heels went 17-3 to win the title outright for the 22nd time. Duke is second with 21 regular-season titles. • The Tar Heels are 771-320 all-time in ACC regular-season play. The 771 wins are the most by any team.

RJ Third in ACC Scoring: RJ Davis is Carolina’s second-leading scorer all-time with 2,676 points and is third in ACC career scoring.

• Davis has played in 172 games as a Tar Heel, surpassing former teammate Armando Bacot (169) for the all-time ACC and UNC records. Entering this season the NCAA record was 178 by Iowa’s Jordan Bohannon. • The White Plains, N.Y., native is averaging a career-high 3.8 assists this season. His previous season bests were 3.6 per game in 2021-22 and 3.5 last season. • Davis, Duke’s Cooper Flagg and Pitt’s Jaland Lowe are the only players in the top 10 in the ACC in both scoring and assists. • Davis leads Carolina and is seventh in the ACC in scoring at 17.3 points per game and is 10th in the league in assists. • Davis is Carolina’s all-time leader and fourth in ACC history with 352 three-pointers. Joe Girard (Syracuse/Clemson) is third with 402. • Davis has the highest free throw percentage ever by a Tar Heel (86.6%), ninth best in ACC history. The ACC leader in free throw shooting in 2023, he is second this season at 89.0% (first among players with 100 or more made free throws). • Davis’ career scoring average is 15.6, the eighth-highest by a Tar Heel guard. • Last year, Davis became the 19th Tar Heel to earn consensus first-team All-America honors. Those 19 players have won consensus first-team All-America honors a total of 28 times.

Tar Heels Add General Manager: Carolina has named Jim Tanner, founder and president of Tandem Sports + Entertainment the executive director and general manager of the men’s basketball team.

• Tanner has represented more than 70 NBA players over a 28-year career. The High Point, N.C., native will, among other things, help manage the construction of the roster, negotiate contracts, identify and hire new scouting and analytics staff and spearhead player development programs. • A 1990 Carolina graduate, Tanner has represented 40 first-round NBA Draft picks, including 12 top-five selections, and six inductees in the Naismith Hall of Fame (UNC’s Vince Carter, Ray Allen, Tamika Catchings, Tim Duncan, Grant Hill and Dominique Wilkins) and has negotiated more than a billion dollars in contracts for his clients.

• He has represented 17 former Tar Heels in their professional careers, including Carter; Final Four Most Outstanding Players Joel Berry II, Wayne Ellington and Sean May; All-Americas Raymond Felton, Tyler Hansbrough, John Henson, Justin Jackson and Luke Maye; and top-10 first-round draft picks Marvin Williams and Brandan Wright.