• Two of the top four seeds in next week’s ACC Tournament conclude the regular season on Saturday when Carolina travels to Durham to play top-ranked Duke.
• Tip time is 6:35 p.m. Dan Shulman, Jay Bilas and Kris Budden call the game on ESPN, while Noah Eagle and Nick Bahe have the national radio call on Westwood One Sports.
• The Tar Heels have won four in a row and 10 out of 12 and are 24-6 overall, 12-5 in the ACC. UNC has secured at least a tie for fourth place in the league standings and earning a double bye as the No. 4 seed in the ACC Tournament in Charlotte.
• Carolina has won five of the last six games while playing without freshman forward Caleb Wilson, the team’s leading scorer and rebounder. Wilson was injured at Miami on February 10 and has not played in wins over Pitt, Syracuse, Louisville, Virginia Tech and Clemson.
• Duke is 28-2, 16-1 in the ACC. The Blue Devils have clinched their 22nd regular-season ACC title, second-most all-time behind UNC’s 33.
• The Tar Heels defeated Duke, 71-68, in Chapel Hill on February 7 as senior guard Seth Trimble hit a three-pointer with 0.4 seconds to play.
SEASON TO DATE
• Carolina has won 20 or more games for the 66th time, including 56 times in the 73-year history 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 42nd 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 have won 12 regular-season ACC games for the 30th time. UNC has won 13 or more 18 times, including each of the last two seasons and three of the previous four under head coach Hubert Davis.
• Carolina is ranked No. 17 in the Associated Press poll, 17th in Wins Above Bubble and No. 24 in the NET.
• Carolina has four wins over teams ranked higher in the NET – No. 1 Duke, No. 13 Virginia, No. 15 Louisville and No. 19 Kansas. The Tar Heels also have top-35 NET wins over Kentucky, Ohio State and Clemson.
• This is the second time UNC has defeated Kansas, Kentucky and Duke in the same season. The other was 1981-82.
• Carolina’s wins over Duke and Virginia are two of their four combined losses in ACC play. The Tar Heels’ comeback win at Virginia on January 24 is the only win by a visiting team on the Cavaliers’ home court this season.
• The Tar Heels have played only 15 of their 30 games when all three of their top scorers were in the lineup (Caleb Wilson, Henri Veesaar and Seth Trimble). UNC went 11-4 in those 15 games.
• UNC went 8-1 without Trimble, who missed nine games from November 11-December 16, 1-1 against Pitt and NC State without Veesaar and Wilson and 4-0 without Wilson (wins over Syracuse, Louisville, Virginia Tech and Clemson).
• This is the first time in the ACC era (1953-present) the Tar Heels’ top-three scorers have all missed at least two games for any reason. And the only other season when two of the top-three scorers missed at least six games apiece was 2019-20, when Cole Anthony missed 11 and Brandon Robinson sat out nine games as the Tar Heels finished 14-19 overall, 6-14 in the ACC.
• Carolina won all 18 games in the Smith Center, setting records for most home wins and best undefeated home record in UNC history.
• As of March 6, UNC and Saint Louis were the only teams with 18-0 home records this season. Seven teams are unbeaten at home with at least 13 wins, including UNC, Saint Louis, St. Mary’s (16-0), Gonzaga (15-0), Duke (14-0), Cal Baptist (14-0) and Miami University (13-0).
• Davis has led the Tar Heels to a 68-29 record in regular-season ACC play, the second-most wins by any team in the last five seasons. Duke is first with 80, while Clemson and Virginia are tied for third with 62.
TRIMBLE’S SENIOR MOMENTS
• It’s been a memorable senior season for Seth Trimble, one of only seven active players to spend four seasons on the roster at ACC schools.
• He scored 17 points and was credited by Kansas head coach Bill Self for his outstanding defensive effort against Darryn Peterson in Carolina’s win over the Jayhawks on November 7.
• Two days later, he broke his left arm, an injury that caused him to miss the next nine games.
• He returned for the Ohio State game on December 20 and had a key basket with 34 seconds to play in the Tar Heels’ 71-70 win over the Buckeyes.
• He tied career highs in assists, three-pointers and steals in his first four games back in the lineup.
• For the first time in his career, he scored 20 points in consecutive games against Florida State (20) and SMU (22).
• He scored 16 points, including the game-winning three-pointer, in the 71-68 win over Duke.
• In the second-to-last week of the regular season, Trimble scored a career-high 30 points in a 77-74 win over Louisville and 20 points in the 89-82 win over Virginia Tech.
• The Menomonee Falls, Wis., native was named ACC Player of the Week and one of the USBWA’s National Players of the Week following the Louisville and Virginia Tech games. He made 18 of 28 field goals, totaled 50 points and had eight assists. It was Trimble’s first career ACC Player-of-the-Week award.
• Trimble is averaging a career-high 14.2 points this season, an increase of 2.6 per game from last season. He averaged 1.8 as a freshman, 5.2 as a sophomore and 11.6 as a junior.
HOME FINALE
• Luka Bogavac made six three-pointers and scored a season-high 20 points to lead UNC to a 67-63 win over Clemson, which clinched an unprecedented 18-0 record at home this season.
• Bogavac hit five of his six threes (the most by a Tar Heel this season) and scored 17 points in the second half.
• Clemson led 30-27 at the half. UNC improved to 4-5 this season when trailing at the half with wins over Kansas, Virginia, Duke and Clemson.
• The Tar Heels shot 37.9% from the floor, their lowest FG percentage in a win this season (previous 38.8% vs. Radford).
• Carolina shot 44.4% from three-point range (12 of 27) and 10 of 31 from two-point range (32.3%).
• Carolina made more three-pointers (12) than two-pointers (10) for the first time since 2/7/2023, a 77-66 win at Florida State.
• There were 10 lead changes, most since 10 on January 3 at SMU.
• Carolina was outscored 34-18 in the paint. The 18 points were the fewest this season and the margin of minus 16 was the second-largest by the opponents (Miami outscored UNC 46-28 in the paint for a margin of 18 points).
• The 67 points by the Tar Heels equaled their fewest in a win this season (67-64 win at Kentucky).
UNC-DUKE
• Carolina is 146-120 against Duke, including 51-57 on the road and 40-48 in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
• The Blue Devils won, 87-70, last season in Cameron, but the Tar Heels have won three of the last five games at Duke (winning in 2021, 2022 and 2024).
• Hubert Davis is 5-6 as head coach against Duke (2-2 in Cameron).
• This is the 89th time both teams are ranked in the AP poll. Carolina is 45-43 when both teams are ranked.
• Carolina is 8-11 when Duke is No. 1 in the Associated Press poll. The Blue Devils won the last time they played Carolina as the No. 1-ranked team, a 74-71 win in Charlotte last March in the ACC Tournament semifinals.
• The last time UNC beat Duke when the Blue Devils were ranked No. 1 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).
• Carolina’s 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.
• 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 28 times in the last 45 seasons.
• The Tar Heels and Blue Devils have combined to win 11 NCAA championships, including six by Carolina (1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009, 2017) and five by Duke (1991, 1992, 2001, 2010, 2015).
• Senior guard Seth Trimble has the most experience against Duke. He has played eight games, scoring in double figures four times with a high of 16 in the 71-68 win in Chapel Hill on February 7. He has played in three previous games at Duke, scoring six points in a win as a sophomore and 10 points last season.
• Jaydon Young scored six points last season at Duke while playing for Virginia Tech and James Brown (who is injured and out for the season) scored two points for the Tar Heels a year ago at Cameron.
• Henri Veesaar red-shirted at Arizona in 2023-24, when the Wildcats beat the Blue Devils, 78-73, in Cameron.
ROUND ONE TO CAROLINA
• Carolina beat Duke, 71-68, in Chapel Hill on February 7.
• Seth Trimble’s three-pointer from the right corner with 0.4 seconds to play was UNC’s latest game-winner since Luke Maye beat Kentucky with 0.3 seconds left in the 2017 NCAA Elite Eight.
• Trimble’s game-winner was Carolina’s first field goal to beat Duke with fewer than 10 seconds to play since Dante Calabria’s tip-in with 6.5 seconds left on 1/31/1996.
• It was Carolina’s first game-winner against Duke with less than a second to play since 1/19/1974, when Bobby Jones stole a pass at midcourt and raced in for a layup at the buzzer for a 73-71 UNC victory.
• The three-point margin was Carolina’s closest in a win over Duke since a 75-73 win on 3/5/2005, when Sean May had 26 points and 24 rebounds and Marvin Williams converted a three-point play with 17 seconds remaining.
• The Tar Heels trailed for 37:39 and didn’t take their first lead until Trimble’s game-winner.
• Carolina trailed by 12 at the half (29-41) and by as many as 13 in the first half. It was the largest comeback from a halftime deficit this season and the largest halftime rally since overcoming an 18-point deficit in a win over Dayton last season.
• It was Carolina’s largest deficit overcome in a win over Duke in at least the last 25 seasons.
• Carolina shot 33.3% from the floor in the first half, which tied its lowest percentage in a half this season, and 60.7% in the second half. That was one of six times this season the Tar Heels have shot 60% in the second half, winning five of the six games.
• Carolina won despite being outrebounded by 12 and outscored in all five specialty stats.
• The Tar Heels committed only seven turnovers.
• Freshman forward Caleb Wilson led the Tar Heels with 23 points, 17 of which came in the first half. He scored 17 of UNC’s 29 points in the first half.
• Henri Veesaar had all 13 of his points and nine of his 11 rebounds in the second half.
• Veesaar hit his only three-pointer to tie the game at 68 with 1:40 to play.
• Freshman point guard Derek Dixon made two late three-pointers and set up Trimble’s game-winner with one of his four assists. His first three was with 5:53 to play and cut Duke’s lead to four; his second with 2:25 left pulled UNC within three.
WITHOUT CALEB
• Carolina’s fabulous freshman Caleb Wilson played in the first 24 games before suffering a hand injury that has sidelined him the last five games.
• With Wilson, the Tar Heels went 19-5, averaged 81.9 points (82.5 in ACC play), shot 47.7% from the floor, were a plus 5.1 in rebound margin and shot 68.8% from the line (Wilson attempted 32.4% of the team’s free throws and was shooting 71.3%).
• The Tar Heels are 5-1 without Wilson. In those games, Carolina is averaging 74.5 points, shooting 45.9% from the floor and has outrebounded its opponents by fewer than one per game.
• In the first 24 games, three Tar Heels were averaging double figures – Wilson (19.8), Henri Veesaar (16.4) and Seth Trimble (13.5). In the last six games, four Tar Heels are averaging double figures, led by Veesaar (17.5) and Trimble (15.8), and five are averaging 9.5 or more points.
• In Wilson’s last six games (UNC was 5-1), the Tar Heels were 17th in the nation in offensive efficiency and 56th defensively. In the last six games, Carolina is 56th in offensive efficiency and 43rd defensively.
• The last time Carolina’s leading scorer missed six or more games was Cole Anthony, also a freshman, in 2019-20. Anthony averaged 18.5 points but missed 11 games with a knee injury.
HUBERT THE FIRST WITH FIVE
• With 24 wins this season, Carolina has won 20 or more games an ACC-record 66 times (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 first men’s basketball coach in ACC history to win 20 or more games in each of his first five seasons.
• Only three other ACC coaches ever won 20 or more in their first four seasons (Duke’s Jon Scheyer, NC State’s Mark Gottfried and Wake Forest’s Skip Prosser).
• Bill Guthridge won 20 or more in his only three seasons as head coach of the Tar Heels.
• Davis has led the Tar Heels to 20 wins over nationally-ranked opponents, including nine 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 and No. 4 Duke in 2026).
CAROLINA & THE ACC
• 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.
• 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 45 (22 regular season and 23 Tournament) and NC State is next with 18 (seven regular season and 11 Tournament).
• Hubert Davis led the Tar Heels to ACC records of 15-5, 11-9, 17-3, 13-7 and 12-5. The 2023-24 team won the regular-season title, Carolina’s 33rd.
• Carolina is 783-325 (.707) in regular-season ACC games. The 783 wins are the most in ACC history. Duke is second with 753.
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.
• On Thursday, CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein named Wilson a second-team All-America. Wilson is the first Tar Heel freshman to earn at least second-team All-America honors since Tyler Hansbrough was a first-team selection by the Sporting News in 2006.
• Wilson stands to rewrite the Tar Heel record book for scoring, rebounding, 20-point games and double-doubles.
• He became the first UNC freshman to score 20 or more points in six consecutive games (from Georgetown through Florida State). The previous record was five by Phil Ford in 1974-75.
• The 6-10 Atlanta native had another five-game streak of 20-point games ended in the loss at Miami. He is the only UNC freshman with two streaks of five or more 20-point games.
• Wilson has scored 20 or more points 17 times, including a season-high 26 at Stanford. His 17 20-point games surpassed Hansbrough’s rookie record. Hansbrough scored 20 or more 14 times in earning first-team All-America and first-team All-ACC honors in 2005-06.
• Wilson, Hansbrough, Rashad McCants and Ford are the only UNC freshmen with 10 or more 20-point 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, steals and free throws (made and attempted), is second in field goal percentage, blocks and assists per game and is fourth in assists.
• His scoring average of 19.8 points per game is on pace to set the UNC freshman record.
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) 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. Wilson was leading the team in blocks but is now one behind Henri Veesaar after not playing in the previous six games.
• Despite missing six games, Wilson has still scored 13 more points than any other Tar Heel.
• 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) have led UNC in scoring as freshman.
• Hansbrough (7.8 rpg in 2005-06), Antawn Jamison (9.7 in 1995-96) and J.R. Reid (7.4 in 1986-87) led UNC in rebounding as a freshman.
• Wilson is averaging 9.4 rebounds, second-most by a UNC freshman behind only 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
• He scored in double figures in the first 24 games and has 11 double-doubles, the second-most by a Carolina freshman. He had 12 or more rebounds in 10 of his 11 double-doubles, including a season-high 16 vs. Florida State.
Double-Doubles by a UNC Freshman
(all points 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 in the ACC in rebounding and double-doubles and fourth in scoring and field goal percentage.
• Wilson and Duke’s Cameron Boozer are the only players in the top five in the ACC in scoring, rebounding, field goal percentage and double-doubles.
VEESAAR MAKING ACC HISTORY
• Red-shirt junior center Henri Veesaar, a transfer from Arizona, leads the team in field goal shooting (61.1%), three-point accuracy (41.3%), and blocks (34) and is second in scoring (16.5) and rebounding (8.4).
• Veesaar could become the first player in ACC history with 30 blocks and 30 three-pointers and shoot 60% from the floor in a season.
• Veesaar is averaging 1.2 three-pointers per game. He is on pace to also become the first ACC player to average 1.0 threes and shoot 60% from the floor in the same season.
• Veesaar is converting 68.3% of his two-point field goal attempts.
• Veesaar is one of only seven Tar Heels to make 30 three-pointers and block 30 shots in the same season. The list includes 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 18th in the country with 53 dunks. He is the only player in the country with 50 or more dunks and 30 or more three-pointers.
• The Estonia native nearly had a double-double in the second half in the win over Duke. In the first half, Duke built a 41-29 lead as Veesaar was 0 for 2 from the floor, scoreless, had two rebounds and was minus 20. However, in the second half, he made six of seven shots from the floor, scored 13 points, pulled down nine rebounds, hit the game-tying three-pointer with 1:40 to play and was a plus 15.
• Veesaar is second in the ACC and 17th in the country with 13 double-doubles, the first 13 of his collegiate career. He played in 66 games over two seasons at Arizona.
• He is also second in the ACC and 20th nationally in field goal percentage, fifth in the ACC in rebounding and 10th in points per game.
• He has scored in double figures in 27 of his 28 games (except Virginia, when he scored seven).
• Veesaar has set numerous career bests as a Tar Heel, including points (26 vs. ETSU, Stanford and Virginia Tech), field goals (11 vs. VT), 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).
• He has scored 20 or more points seven times – 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 game in his first two seasons at Arizona.
• Veesaar leads UNC in plus/minus at plus 342 and has led the Tar Heels in plus/minus eight times, the most on the team.
HENRI FROM 3
• Henri Veesaar is Carolina’s first 7-footer ever to make multiple three-pointers.
• Veesaar is 33 for 80 from three and leads the team in three-point percentage (.413).
• He is fourth on the team in three-pointers.
• Prior to this season, two seven-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.
• Veesaar has made two or more three-pointers nine times this season, including a career-high four vs. ECU.
NATIONAL RANKINGS
• Offensively, the Tar Heels are 17th in the country in turnover percentage, 19th in assist/turnover ratio, 21st in turnovers per game and 34th in offensive efficiency.
• The Blue Devils are first nationally in defensive efficiency and No. 4 in offensive efficiency.
• The Tar Heels are fourth in the ACC and 50th in the country in field goal percentage defense, holding their opponents to a combined 41.6% from the floor. They’ve held seven opponents below 35% and 12 under 40%.
• UNC is 12-0 this season and 57-4 under head coach Hubert Davis when holding opponents under 40% from the floor. By contrast, Carolina is 1-4 this season and 7-19 under Davis when the opponents make 50%.
• The Tar Heel defense is 13th in the country in two-point field goal percentage defense (45.8%) and 39th in effective field goal percentage (47.9%).
THREES
• Carolina is making 8.53 three-pointers per game, the second-highest average in a season behind only 2018-19, when the Tar Heel lineup included Cameron Johnson, Coby White, Kenny Williams and Luke Maye.
• Five different Tar Heels have made at least 30 three-pointers – Luka Bogavac (49), Derek Dixon (38), Jonathan Powell (37), Henri Veesaar (33) and Kyan Evans (32).
• Carolina made 12 threes against Clemson, the most it made since a season-high 13 against Notre Dame on January 21.
• The Tar Heels are 7-1 this season when they make 10 or more three-pointers (made 12 in the loss at SMU as the Mustangs made 14).
MOST THREE-POINTERS MADE PER GAME
8.67 in 2018-19 (312 in 36 games)
8.53 in 2025-26 (256 in 30 games)
8.41 in 2021-22 (328 in 39 games)
8.29 in 2002-03 (290 in 35 games)
8.25 in 1982-83 (132 in 16 games – ACC games only)
• Carolina is attempting 24.9 three-pointers per game, which would break the previous school record of 23.9 in 2018-19.
• UNC is on pace to attempt more three-pointers than free throws for the second time ever. The Tar Heels have launched 747 threes and attempted 688 free throws. This would be the first season since 2001-02 when will have taken more threes than free throws.
• The Tar Heels attempted a season-high 34 threes against Notre Dame and made a season-best 13 vs. the Irish on January 21.
• UNC is 20-4 when it attempts 20 or more three-pointers and 4-1 when it attempts fewer than 20. One of those four wins was over Duke (19 attempts) although the game-winning field goal was a three.
MOST THREE-POINTERS ATTEMPTED PER GAME
24.90 in 2025-26 (747 in 30 games)
23.94 in 2018-19 (862 in 36 games)
23.49 in 2021-22 (916 in 39 games)
23.49 in 2002-03 (822 in 35 games)
22.95 in 2017-18 (849 in 37 games)
• The Tar Heels are making 8.53 threes per game while allowing 7.93. 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).
TURNOVERS
• Carolina has committed 285 turnovers and forced 285 turnovers.
• UNC is averaging 9.50 turnovers, the fewest ever in a season (previous low is 10.08 in 2023-24).
• The Tar Heels have committed fewer than five turnovers three times this season (four at Virginia, two at Georgia Tech and four vs. Pitt). This is the first time UNC ever had three games in one season with four or fewer turnovers. The 2014-15 Tar Heels had two games with four or fewer; in no other season did UNC have more than one.
• Including the win over Clemson, Carolina has turned it over fewer than 10 times in 13 games (the Tar Heels have won 12 straight and are 12-1 in those 13 games).
• Carolina has committed 10 or more turnovers in each of the last five losses.
• Including this season, Hubert Davis‘ teams have produced the four-lowest turnover per game averages and five of the six-lowest in UNC history.
• The Tar Heels force only 9.50 turnovers per game, the fewest forced by UNC in a season (previous 9.7 in 2021-22). Carolina is 340th in the nation in forced turnovers.
ASSIST/TURNOVERS
• Carolina’s assist/turnover ratio of 1.69 is the best in UNC history (previous 1.65 in 2015-16).
• Every player on the team who plays at least 10 minutes a game has more assists than turnovers.
• This would be the first season that every player who averages double-figure minutes has more assists than turnovers since turnovers were officially recorded beginning in 1979-80.
• Among the eight players who average 10 or more minutes, Jonathan Powell (2.56) has the best assist/turnover ratio. He is followed by Kyan Evans (2.41), Derek Dixon (2.26) and Luka Bogavac (2.13).
• Caleb Wilson has 64 assists and 47 turnovers (1.36). He is the first Tar Heel to average 9.0 or more rebounds and have more assists than turnovers since Luke Maye in 2017-18 and 2018-19. Maye is the only Tar Heel to accomplish that.
WINS VS. LOSSES
• Notable statistical comparisons between Carolina’s 24 wins and six losses:
• UNC averages 82.5 points in the wins and 72.2 in the losses.
• The Tar Heels allow 67.5 points in the wins and 84.5 points in the losses.
• The opponents are shooting 52.2% from the floor, including 49.2% from three, in the six losses and 39.1/31.0 in Carolina’s 24 wins.
• The Tar Heels have a rebound margin of 5.2 in the wins and have the same number of rebounds as the opponents in the losses.
• Carolina makes 1.4 more three-pointers than the opponents in the wins, while the opponents have averaged 2.9 more in the losses. The Tar Heels have been outscored by a total of 51 points from three in the six losses.
IN-SEASON AWARDS
• Senior guard Seth Trimble became the second Tar Heel to win ACC Player-of-the-Week honors this season. Trimble scored a career-high 30 points vs. Louisville, followed that with 20 points against Virginia Tech and led UNC with four assists in both games.
• Trimble also was one of the USBWA’s National Players of the Week.
• Freshman forward Caleb Wilson has earned National Player-of-the-Week honors three times this season. He was one of five players named National Player of the Week by the USBWA for the week of November 3-9, he won 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 against Syracuse and Duke.
• Wilson also was named ACC Freshman of the Week three times, following the games against Central Arkansas/Kansas, ETSU/Ohio State and Syracuse/Duke.
• He is the first Tar Heel to win three ACC Freshman-of-the-Week awards since Coby White was a five-time recipient in 2018-19.
• Wilson also was the ACC’s Co-Player of the Week after Central Arkansas and Kansas.
• Wilson was the first Tar Heel freshman to also win ACC Player-of-the-Week honors since Cole Anthony in 2019-20.
• 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), White (2019) and Anthony.
PRESEASON ALL-ACC, POLL
• 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.
• Caleb Wilson was voted to the league’s preseason All-ACC second team and the All-Freshman team.
• UNC was picked No. 25 in the country in the Associated Press preseason poll.
• 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.
HUBERT DAVIS: YEAR FIVE
• The 2025-26 season is Hubert Davis‘ 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 head coach in ACC men’s basketball history to win 20 or more games in each of his first five seasons.
• 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, 120 wins, a 68-29 record and 27 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 five years.
• Two of his players – RJ Davis and Armando Bacot – rank second and third, respectively, in all-time UNC scoring, set numerous records and earned national and All-ACC awards.
• 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).
• 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).
• Davis has led the Tar Heels to 20 wins over nationally-ranked opponents, including nine 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, No. 9 Duke in 2024 and No. 4 Duke in 2026).
TAR HEELS IN THE NBA
• Eleven former Tar Heels were on NBA Opening Day rosters or are playing in the league, including Cole Anthony (Phoenix), 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 (Brooklyn), Day’Ron Sharpe (Brooklyn) and Coby White (Charlotte).
• Leaky Black (Washington/Capital City) and Cormac Ryan (Milwaukee/Wisconsin) recently have signed two-way contracts. Black started and scored 16 points for the Wizards on Thursday vs. Utah.
• Several other Carolina alumni are playing in the G League: Garrison Brooks (Birmingham), RJ Davis (South Bay) and Ingram (Austin).
• At least a dozen Tar Heels are playing internationally, including 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).
CAROLINA-DUKE A RATINGS HIT
• The Tar Heels’ 71-68 win over Duke on February 7 was ESPN’s most watched college men’s basketball game in the last four seasons.
• The game drew an average of 3.5 million viewers with a peak of 4.8 million.
UNBEATEN AT HOME
• Carolina went 18-0 in the Smith Center this season. The 18 wins are the most home wins in any of the 116 seasons of Carolina Basketball.
• This is the 24th time Carolina has gone undefeated at home, including 12 seasons with 10 or more wins.
• The previous record for most home wins without a loss was 16 in 2016-17, when the Tar Heels went 15-0 in the Smith Center and beat Notre Dame in Greensboro in a game the NCAA determined a home game (unlike previous games UNC hosted in the Greensboro Coliseum).
• Carolina has won 18 consecutive home games, all this season. The 18-game winning streak is the longest in the Smith Center since a 22-game streak that began 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 41st season the Tar Heels played in the Dean E. Smith Center.
• The win over Wake Forest on January 10 was UNC’s 500th in the Smith Center.
• Carolina is 507-90 in regular-season and NIT games in the Smith Center.
• Carolina has won 84.9% of its games in the Smith Center. Duke is the only ACC team with 500 or more wins in its current venue that has a higher winning percentage.
• Carolina is 266-71 (.789) in ACC games in the Smith Center.
• UNC has played 46.6% of its home games in the Smith Center (597 of 1,281).
• Carolina has played 154 different opponents in regular-season or NIT games in the Smith Center.