• The sport will probably be televised on the ACC Community (Jay Alter, Terrence Oglesby).
• Carolina is 7-0 at residence this season and 60-9 within the Smith Heart in Hubert Davis‘ 5 seasons as head coach.
• The Tar Heels are 496-90 all-time within the Smith Heart, together with 239-19 towards non-conference opponents.
• That is the forty eighth time Carolina has began a season with at the least 9 wins in its first 10 video games (thirty sixth time 9-1 plus 12 seasons at 10-0).
• Carolina has began 30 earlier seasons 10-1 plus 12 seasons at 11-0.
• UNC is 6-0 all-time towards ETSU, together with 5-0 in Chapel Hill (3-0 in Carmichael Auditoriunm and 2-0 within the Smith Heart).
• The groups final performed on 12/28/2012, a 78-55 UNC victory within the Smith Heart. Leslie McDonald (14), Brice Johnson (12) and Reggie Bullock (10) scored in double figures for the Tar Heels, who led, 42-12, on the half.
• Carolina defeated USC Upstate, 80-62, on Saturday. Caleb Wilson had 20 factors, 11 rebounds, three assists and two blocks, Jonathan Powell scored a season-high 17 factors and Luka Bogavac had 15 factors and 5 assists.
• The Bucs misplaced, 76-75, at Austin Peay on December 12. ETSU is 7-0 at residence and 1-3 on the highway this season. KenPom predicts the Bucs to go undefeated within the Southern Conferece this season.
• Carolina and ETSU have one frequent opponent this season – Central Arkansas. The Tar Heels beat Central Arkansas, 94-54, on November 3, whereas the Bucs beat the
Bears, 80-57, on November 29.
• Carolina has received 2,404 video games. UNC joined Kentucky and Kansas as the one three applications in school basketball historical past with 2,400 victories with its win over Navy on November 18.
FRONTCOURT FORCE
• Seven-foot junior middle Henri Veesaar and 6-10 freshman ahead Caleb Wilson are main the Tar Heels in quite a few statistical classes on each ends of the ground.
• The frontcourt duo has mixed for 35.4 factors and 19.8 rebounds per sport. They’ve mixed for 27 blocked pictures, 42 assists, shot 58.1% from the ground and tried 127 free throws.
• Wilson is averaging 19.4 factors and 10.6 rebounds, whereas Veesaar is averaging 16.0 factors and 9.2 rebounds.
• The final time two Tar Heels averaged at the least 16 factors and 9 rebounds was 1959-60 (18.2 factors and 11.2 rebounds by Lee Shaffer and 16.8 factors and 11.3 rebounds by Doug Moe). These are the one pairs of Tar Heels to common at the least 16 and 9 in a season.
• Wilson and Veesaar are the primary Tar Heels to common 9.0 rebounds in the identical season since John Henson (9.9) and Tyler Zeller (9.6) in 2011-12.
• Both Veesaar or Wilson has led the crew in scoring and rebounding in 9 of the primary 10 video games.
DOUBLE TROUBLE
• Henri Veesaar and Caleb Wilson each have recorded double-doubles in factors and rebounds 4 occasions (NC Central, St. Bonaventure, Kentucky and Georgetown).
• Wilson and Veesaar rank fifth & Tenth, respectively, within the nation in double-doubles. No different crew has two gamers within the prime 10.
• The following time they each have double-doubles in a sport will tie the eighth-most in a season by a pair of Tar Heels.
John Henson & Tyler Zeller 2011-12 9
Rusty Clark & Larry Miller 1966-67 8
Pete Brennan & Lennie Rosenbluth 1955-56 7
Phil Ford & Mitch Kupchak 1975-76 6
Lee Dedmon & Charlie Scott 1969-70 6
Brennan & Rosenbluth 1956-57 6
Brennan & Joe Quigg 1956-57 6
Billy Cunningham & Ray Respess 1963-64 5
Raymond Felton & Sean Might 2004-05 5
Quigg & Rosenbluth 1956-57 5
Kupchak & Tom LaGarde 1975-76 5
Clark & Miller 1967-68 5
Quigg & Rosenbluth 1955-56 5
NO ORDINARY ROOKIE
• Caleb Wilson could also be a freshman, however he’s averaging 19.4 factors, 10.6 rebounds, 2.5 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.3 blocks whereas taking pictures 55.1% from the ground and 73.5% from the free throw line.
• He leads the Tar Heels in scoring, rebounding, offensive rebounds, steals and free throws (made and tried).
• Tyler Hansbrough (in 2005-06) is the one Tar Heel freshman to steer the crew in each scoring and rebounding.
• 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’ve led UNC in scoring.
• 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’ve led UNC in rebounding.
• Eighteen Tar Heels have averaged a double-double in factors and rebounds in a season, however none of them have been a freshman.
• Wilson leads the nation with 31 dunks.
• He has scored in double figures in all 10 video games and has seven double-doubles, He has 12 or extra rebounds in six of his seven double-doubles, together with a season-high 14 vs. Georgetown.
• The Atlanta native has the third-longest streak of double-figure scoring video games by a freshman to start a season. Solely Rashad McCants (20 in 2002-03) and Brandan Wright (18 in 2006-07) have extra.
• Wilson is ninth within the nation in rebounds per sport (10.6), which leads the ACC and likewise leads all freshmen nationally.
• He additionally leads the ACC and is fourth within the nation in double-doubles (7).
• He set a UNC freshman report with 4 consecutive double-doubles towards Radford, NC Central, Navy and St. Bonaventure. Armando Bacot (twice), Antawn Jamison and Mike O’Koren have been the one Tar Heel freshmen with three in a row. Wilson enters the ETSU sport with double-doubles in every of the final three video games.
• Wilson has made at the least 5 throws in each sport, turning into the fifth Tar Heel within the ACC period (1953-present) to make 5 or extra in 10 consecutive video games.
Consecutive Video games by a Tar Heel with 5 or
Extra Made Free Throws (in ACC period)
12 Bobby Lewis 1965-66
12 Pete Brennan 1957-58
12 Lennie Rosenbluth 1956-57
11 Tyler Hansbrough 2008-09*
11 Lennie Rosenbluth 1956-57
10 Caleb Wilson 2025-26
10 Bobby Lewis 1965-66
10 Lennie Rosenbluth 1955-56*
* completed over two seasons
• Towards Navy, he grew to become the primary Tar Heel ever to attain 23 factors, seize 12 rebounds, make three blocks and 4 steals in any sport.
• He netted 22 factors vs. UCA and 24 vs. Kansas to turn out to be the primary Tar Heel freshman ever to attain greater than 20 factors in his first two video games.
• Wilson compiled a game-high 24 factors with seven rebounds, 4 assists and 4 steals within the win over Kansas. He grew to become simply the second Tar Heel freshman (with Coby White towards Virginia Tech in 2018-19) and the fourth Tar Heel no matter class (with Walter Davis and Mike O’Koren) to have at the least 24 factors, seven rebounds, 4 assists and 4 steals in a sport.
• His 22 factors within the opener vs. Central Arkansas have been the fourth-most by a Tar Heel freshman in his debut since first-year gamers grew to become eligible in 1972-73.
FROM ESTONIA TO CHAPEL HILL
• Crimson-shirt junior middle Henri Veesaar, a switch from Arizona, leads the crew in subject objective taking pictures (61.6%) and blocks (14) and is second in scoring (16.0) and rebounding (9.2).
• The Estonia native scored a game-high 17 factors within the win at Kentucky and grabbed a career-best 15 rebounds within the win over Georgetown.
• Veesaar has 5 double-doubles in 10 video games as a Tar Heel, the primary 5 of his collegiate profession. He performed in 66 video games over two seasons at Arizona.
• He’s second within the ACC and Tenth nationally in double-doubles.
• Veesaar is third within the ACC and is thirty third within the nation in subject objective taking pictures (61.6%).
• Veesaar has set quite a few profession bests as a Tar Heel, together with factors (24 vs. St. Bonaventure), rebounds (15 vs. Georgetown) and blocks (5 vs. NC Central).
• He has established profession highs in rebounds 4 occasions in 10 video games as a Tar Heel – 10 vs. Central Arkansas, 11 vs. NC Central, 13 vs. St. Bonaventure and 15 vs. Georgetown.
• He has scored 20 or extra factors twice – 24 vs. the Bonnies and 20 factors vs. Kansas. He had one 20-point sport in his first two seasons at Arizona.
• Veesaar leads UNC in plus/minus at plus 163.
THROUGH 10 GAMES
• Caleb Wilson has scored 194 factors, the sixth-most by any Tar Heel and the second-most by a freshman by 10 video games.
• Wilson and Henri Veesaar additionally rank among the many prime 10 in most rebounds by a Tar Heel by their first 10 video games. The rebound rankings are much less sure as a result of rebound totals for Joe Quigg, who listed eighth, are solely recognized for 9 of his first 10 video games.
MOST POINTS BY A TAR HEEL THROUGH HIS
FIRST 10 GAMES
Lennie Rosenbluth (sophomore) 266
Larry Miller (sophomore) 234
Robert McAdoo (junior) 201
Cole Anthony (freshman) 198
Billy Cunningham (sophomore) 196
Caleb Wilson (freshman) 194
Rashad McCants (freshman) 187
Charlie Scott (sophomore) 183
Bobby Lewis (sophomore) 172
Tyler Hansbrough (freshman) 165
Joseph Forte (freshman) 165
MOST REBOUNDS BY A TAR HEEL THROUGH HIS
FIRST 10 GAMES
Billy Cunningham (sophomore) 155
Lennie Rosenbluth (sophomore) 135
Rusty Clark (sophomore) 109
Caleb Wilson (freshman) 106
Larry Miller (sophomore) 96
Robert McAdoo (junior) 93
Henri Veesaar (junior) 92
Joe Quigg (sophomore) 91#
Ed Davis (freshman) 88
Antawn Jamison (freshman) 87
# rebound totals for Quigg recognized for under 9 of his first 10 video games
BY THE NUMBERS
• The Tar Heels are ninth within the nation in subject objective proportion protection, holding their opponents to a mixed 36.9% from the ground. They’ve held 5 opponents under 35% and 6 underneath 40%, together with Georgetown and USC Upstate within the final two video games.
• The opponents’ subject objective proportion of .369 could be the bottom allowed by Carolina since 1956-57, when the opponents shot 35.2%.
• The final time UNC held the opponents under 40% over a season was 2014-15, when the opponents made 39.8%.
• UNC is 6-0 this season and 51-4 underneath head coach Hubert Davis when holding opponents underneath 40% from the ground.
• The Tar Heel protection is third within the nation in two-point subject objective proportion protection (40.3%) and third in efficient subject objective proportion (42.1%).
• The opponents have shot underneath 40% from the ground in 12 of 20 halves.
• The Tar Heels have held every of their first 10 opponents to fewer than 75 factors, one thing they’ve accomplished simply two different occasions within the post-Dean Smith period. The 1997-98 Tar Heels did not yield 75 or extra factors within the first 12 video games and the 2019-20 squad did not permit 75 or extra within the first 10 video games.
• Carolina is trying 25.0 three-pointers per sport, which might break the earlier college report for makes an attempt per sport, which was 23.9 in 2018-19, when the Tar Heel lineup included Cameron Johnson, Coby White, Kenny Williams and Luke Maye.
• The Tar Heels are making 8.2 three-pointers per sport, whereas permitting 6.7 per sport. UNC is in on observe to make extra 3FGs than its opponents for the fifth consecutive yr. From 2006-07 to 2019-20, Carolina made extra threes one time (in 2012-13).
• The Tar Heels have received the final 14 occasions they made extra three-pointers than their opponent.
• Carolina has shot 50% or larger from the ground in 5 of the primary 10 video games. The Tar Heels are 40-1 underneath Davis once they make at the least 50% from the ground.
• Michigan State is the one crew this season that has outrebounded Carolina. The Tar Heels are 97-24 underneath Davis once they outrebound their opponents.
AP RANKING
• For the second week in a row the Tar Heels moved up two spots within the Related Press ballot to No. 12.
• UNC was ranked twenty fifth within the preseason ballot after which moved up seven spots within the November 10 ballot. That was the biggest bounce from the preseason ballot by the Tar Heels for the reason that AP started rating 25 groups within the 1989-90 season.
• In 1984-85, when the AP ranked 20 groups, the Tar Heels went from unranked to nineteenth after the primary week of the common season.
• Carolina is 2-1 towards ranked groups this season (with wins over Kansas and Kentucky and the loss to Michigan State).
EARLY ACCOLADES
• Freshman ahead Caleb Wilson was considered one of 5 gamers named Nationwide Participant of the Week by the USBWA for the week of November 3-9.
• Wilson additionally was each the Co-ACC Participant and Rookie of the Week following his performances within the wins over Central Arkansas and Kansas.
• Wilson is the primary Tar Heel freshman to additionally win ACC Participant-of-the-Week honors since Cole Anthony in 2019-20.
• Wilson grew to become the eighth Tar Heel to win ACC Participant-of-the-Week honors as a freshman, becoming a member of Jerry Stackhouse (1994), Antawn Jamison (1996), Rashad McCants (2003), Tyler Hansbrough (2006), Brandan Wright (2007), Coby White (2019) and Anthony.
PROBABLE STARTERS VS. ETSU
0 – Kyan Evans, Junior, Guard
44 – Luka Bogavac, Junior, Guard
8 – Caleb Wilson, Freshman, Ahead
13 – Henri Veesaar, R-Junior, Heart
15 – Jarin Stevenson, Junior, Ahead
• Not one of the possible starters have been Tar Heels final season.
• Seth Trimble, who’s out with an injured left arm, began 18 of UNC’s 37 video games final season. Even with Trimble’s return, that is the primary season by which UNC didn’t return a participant who began at the least half the video games within the earlier season since 2005-06, when the Tar Heels changed all 5 starters from a nationwide championship crew.
• Carolina’s possible starters have made a mixed 116 school begins. That features 46 by Kyan Evans, 37 by Jarin Stevenson, 15 by Henri Veesaar, 10 by freshman Caleb Wilson and eight by Luka Bogavac.
PRESEASON ALL-ACC, POLL
• The Tar Heels have been picked to complete third within the 18-team Atlantic Coast Convention by the media on the ACC’s preseason media day in Charlotte.
• Caleb Wilson was voted to the league’s preseason All-ACC second crew and the All-Freshman crew.
• UNC was picked No. 25 within the nation within the Related Press preseason ballot.
• That is the 69th completely different season within the 78-year historical past of the AP ballot the Tar Heels have been ranked at any level within the AP ballot.
PRESEASON RECOGNITION
• The Naismith Memorial Basketball Corridor of Fame included three Tar Heels on the preseason watch lists for its 5 positional awards.
• Seth Trimble is a candidate for the Jerry West Capturing Guard Award record, Caleb Wilson for the Karl Malone Energy Ahead Award and Henri Veesaar for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Heart Award.
• Tar Heels have received 4 Corridor of Fame positional awards – three Bob Cousy Level Guard Awards (Raymond Felton in 2005, Ty Lawson in 2009 and Kendall Marshall in 2012) and one Jerry West Award (RJ Davis in 2024).
• Wilson can be on the preseason watch lists for the Naismith and Oscar Robertson (USBWA) Trophies.
HUBERT DAVIS: YEAR FIVE
• The 2025-26 season is Hubert Davis‘ fifth as head coach on the College of North Carolina and his 14th on the teaching employees at his alma mater. He’s the one Tar Heel head coach to win 20 or extra video games in every of his first 4 seasons.
• Davis, 55 (turns 56 on Might 17, 2026), has received Nationwide and ACC Coach-of-the-Yr honors, led the Tar Heels to a nationwide title sport look, 110 wins, a 56-24 report and 24 highway wins in ACC regular-season play, a regular-season ACC title and a No. 1 seed within the NCAA Match. Just one different crew has received extra ACC video games within the final 4 years.
• Two of his gamers – RJ Davis and Armando Bacot – rank second and third, respectively, in all-time UNC scoring, set quite a few information and earned nationwide and All-ACC awards.
• Carolina received its a centesimal sport underneath Davis within the 2025 ACC Match, making him the third-fastest coach in UNC historical past and the sixth-fastest in ACC historical past to win 100 video games. Solely Duke’s Vic Bubas, UNC’s Roy Williams and Frank McGuire, Wake Forest’s Skip Prosser and Maryland’s Lefty Driesell reached 100 wins in fewer video games than Davis (who received his a centesimal in 143 video games).
• Over the earlier 4 seasons, UNC had the Tenth-most wins amongst groups within the ACC, Massive East, Massive Ten, Massive 12 and SEC.
• Underneath Davis, Carolina is 8-3 in NCAA Match play, together with wins towards three nationwide championship-winning coaches (Baylor’s Scott Drew, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski and Michigan State’s Tom Izzo) and three different coaches who’ve taken groups to the Last 4 (Marquette’s Shaka Sensible, UCLA’s Mick Cronin and San Diego State’s Brian Dutcher).
• Davis has led the Tar Heels to 16 wins over nationally-ranked opponents, together with eight over top-10 groups (No. 4 Duke, No. 4 Baylor and No. 9 Duke in 2022; No. 6 Virginia in 2023; and No. 10 Tennessee, No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 7 Duke and No. 9 Duke in 2024).
2025-26 SCHEDULE NOTES
• Carolina performs solely two video games in Chapel Hill in January. That is the primary time for the reason that 1990-91 season UNC will play solely twice at residence in January.
• In ACC play, the Tar Heels play host to Florida State (Dec. 30), 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).
• Carolina performs at SMU (Jan. 3), 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).
• UNC isn’t scheduled to play Boston Faculty.
• It will mark the primary season since 1919 the Tar Heels will not be taking part in NC State in Chapel Hill.
• The Tar Heels performed Kansas to Chapel Hill for the primary time ever. Final yr, the Jayhawks defeated UNC in Lawrence. The November 7 sport was simply the third on-campus matchup in 14 video games between the Tar Heels and KU.
• The Tar Heels are making their first journeys as ACC opponents to SMU, Stanford and Cal. UNC is 1-0 all-time towards 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 Gymnasium).
• UNC performs Ohio State in Atlanta on December 20 within the CBS Sports activities Traditional. The Tar Heels are 7-4 within the annual occasion, together with 3-0 vs. the Buckeyes.
NEARING 500 WINS IN THE SMITH CENTER
• That is the forty first season the Tar Heels are taking part in their residence video games within the Dean E. Smith Heart.
• Carolina is 4 wins shy of 500 with an general report (not counting preseason or exhibition video games) of 496-90.
• The Tar Heels are 239-19 within the Smith Heart towards non-conference opponents.
• The Tar Heels have performed 46.1% of their residence video games all-time within the Smith Heart (586 of 1,270).
• USC Upstate was the 154th completely different opponent to play a regular-season or NIT sport within the Smith Heart towards the Tar Heels.
• Carolina has received 496 video games within the Smith Heart, 210 in Woollen Gymnasium (1939-65), 170 in Carmichael Auditorium (1965-86, 2010), 130 within the Indoor Athletic Court docket (1924-38) and 63 in Bynum Gymnasium (1911-23).
TAR HEELS IN THE NBA
• Eleven former Tar Heels have been on NBA Opening Day rosters, together with 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 (Brooklyn), Day’Ron Sharpe (Brooklyn) and Coby White (Chicago).
• Powell averaged 7.4 factors as a freshman final season and was chosen by Atlanta with the twenty second decide within the 2025 NBA Draft. His rights have been traded the evening of the Draft to the Brooklyn Nets. Powell was the fifty fifth Tar Heel chosen all-time within the first spherical.
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