Carolina and Duke will play for the 260th time when the teams meet at the Dean E.
Smith at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 4.
The Tar Heels have won three straight games and are 19-11 overall. UNC is seventh in the ACC at 11-8, one-half game behind NC State, which has completed its conference schedule.
The Blue Devils are 22-8 overall and enter the weekend tied with Clemson for fourth in the ACC at 13-6. Duke has won six in a row since losing in overtime at Virginia on February 11.
Duke vs UNC
- This is only the fourth UNC-Duke time in the last 160 games in which neither team is ranked in the Associated Press poll. At least one of the teams was ranked in 153 consecutive games from 3/4/1960 to 3/7/2020. That streak came to an end in 2021 when neither team was in the AP Top 25 in both games. Neither team was ranked when they played at Duke last month.
- Duke defeated Carolina in the season’s first meeting, 63-57, on Feb. 4 at Cameron Indoor.
- Carolina is 143-116 against the Blue Devils.
- Duke is looking for its first back-to-back wins in Chapel Hill since winning 84-77 in 2015 and again, 74-73, in 2016.
- The Tar Heels have won four of the last six games vs. Duke.
- Carolina is 65-38 against Duke in Chapel Hill, including 20-17 in the Smith Center.
About Duke
- Duke has held 26 of 30 opponents below their season scoring average (22-4 in those games) and the Blue Devils are second in the conference in scoring defense (64.0), second in three-point field goal defense (.310) and second in field goal defense (.412).
- Junior Jeremy Roach is averaging 19.5 points over his last two games — 19 points and a career-high 11 assists (first career double-double) in the Virginia Tech win and 20 points in Tuesday’s win over NC State.
- Freshman Kyle Filipowski, the eight-time ACC Rookie of the Week, leads all power conference freshmen in rebounding (9.0) and leads all NCAA frosh in double-doubles (13).
- Emerging as one of the nation’s top on-ball defenders, freshman Tyrese Proctor has climbed to the 92nd percentile defensively.
- Duke is 6-1 this season in games decided by four points or fewer.
About UNC
- Carolina is the only team with three players in the top 15 in the ACC in scoring. Caleb Love is fifth (career-high 16.9) Armando Bacot is eighth (career-high 16.5), and RJ Davis is 13th (career-high 15.8).
- Carolina is 9-0 this season when shooting 35% or higher from three-point range with wins over Portland, The Citadel, Michigan, Wake Forest, Notre Dame, Syracuse, Clemson, Virginia and Florida State.
- Carolina leads the ACC in rebounding (39.9), is second in rebound margin (+5.5), fourth in scoring (77.1 ppg) and seventh in scoring margin (+5.5).
- Pete Nance is shooting 43.9% from the floor (41.4% from three) in the wins and 39.3% from the floor (18.9% from three) in the losses. Nance is 48 for 54 (.889) from the free throw line in the wins and 18 for 26 in the losses (.692).
- Carolina is 24 for 51 (.471) from three-point range in the last two games vs. Virginia and Florida State. That includes a combined 20 for 34 (.588) in the first halves and 4 of 17 (.235) in the second.
How to Watch
Time: 6:30 p.m. (ET)
TV: ESPN (Dan Shulman, Jay Bilas, Holly Rowe)
Stream: WatchESPN
Radio: Blue Devils Sports Network (David Shumate, John Roth), Tar Heel Sports Properties (Jones Angell, Eric Montross, Adam Lucas)
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