Carolina and Kansas, two of the top three programs in all-time college basketball wins, will meet on campus for the first time in 64 years when the ninth-ranked Tar Heels travel to Lawrence to play the top-ranked Jayhawks on Friday, November 8.
Tip time at Allen Fieldhouse is 7 p.m. Eastern.
This is Carolina’s second game ever in Allen Fieldhouse, and its first since a 78-70 win under head coach Frank McGuire on 12/17/1960. The Jayhawks will be playing in Chapel Hill for the first time next season.
Both teams won their season openers on Monday and enter the game 1-0. Carolina closed the game on a 21-5 run to beat Elon, 90-76, while the Jayhawks routed Howard, 87-57.
RJ Davis scored a game-high 24 points with seven assists, Elliot Cadeau had 17 points and eight assists and Seth Trimble netted a career-best 15 points to lead the Tar Heels vs. Elon.
In the win against Howard, the Jayhawks were led by senior guard Zeke Mayo who scored 19 points on 7-of-12 shooting, including 5-for-8 from three-point range. Preseason All-America center Hunter Dickinson added 16 points and six rebounds and tied his career high with three steals.
Carolina is 6-6 all-time against Kansas. The Jayhawks have won the last four games, all of which came in NCAA Tournament play (2008, 2012, 2013 and 2022).
This is just the second time in 13 games the teams are playing on campus. The teams have never played in Chapel Hill and met in Lawrence only on 12/17/1960. That was during Frank McGuire’s final season as UNC’s head coach and Dean Smith’s third season as an assistant coach. Smith, a Kansas grad, began his 36-year stint as Carolina’s head coach the following season
Kansas has 2,394 wins, second most all-time behind Kentucky, while the Tar Heels are third with 2,373.
They have combined for 10 championships, 246 wins and 37 Final Fours in 104 combined NCAA Tournament appearances. Carolina is first all-time in NCAA Tournament wins and Final Fours, second in appearances and third in championships; Kansas is third all-time in NCAA Tournament appearances, fourth in wins, fifth in Final Fours and seventh in titles.
Thirty-two (32) former UNC and Kansas players and coaches are inducted in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Tar Heels and Jayhawks have won a combined 22 National Player-of-the-Year awards and 132 first-team All-America honors.
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