• The Tar Heels tied for fourth place in the regular-season ACC standings at 13-7 and enter the ACC Tournament as the No. 5 seed. Carolina will play No. 12 seed Notre Dame on Wednesday in the second round at approximately 2:30 p.m. on ESPN. • Carolina has won six of its last seven games and is 20-12 overall. • 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.

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

• Davis has led UNC to 56 ACC wins in the regular season in the last four seasons. Only one other school (Duke with 64) has more regular-season ACC wins in the last four seasons. Following Duke and UNC are Clemson 51, Virginia 48, Wake Forest 47, Pitt 40, Miami 38, Syracuse 37, Virginia Tech 37, Florida State 35, Notre Dame 33, NC State 30, Louisville 29, Georgia Tech 28 and Boston College 27.

• 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.

• Davis played in his 170th game as a Tar Heel Saturday vs. Duke, surpassing former teammate Armando Bacot for the all-time ACC and UNC records. Entering this season the NCAA record was 178 by Iowa’s Jordan Bohannon.

• Entering conference tournament week Davis is tied for the lead among active NCAA players with 170 games with Dajuan Harris of Kansas. Davis is third in scoring among active players with 2,640 points. Hunter Dickinson of KU has 2,747 and Alabama’s Mark Sears is second with 2,745. Davis is third, followed by former Tar Heel Caleb Love of Arizona, with 2,631.

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 108-52 record in ACC Tournament history. • Carolina is 2-1 vs. Notre Dame in the ACC Tournament. They last met in 2021 in Greensboro, a 101-59 UNC win in the second round. • Carolina has the second-most wins and titles. • The Tar Heels are 4-1 in the second round. • 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). • UNC is 4-5 as a No. 5 seed. • Carolina is 22-8 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 8 and 9.

UNC IN CHARLOTTE

• The Tar Heels are 168-28 in Charlotte. • That includes an 18-3 record in the Spectrum Center from 2006-25. • Florida beat the Tar Heels, 90-84, in the Spectrum Center on December 17. • UNC went 3-0 in the Spectrum Center last season, beating Oklahoma in the Jumpman Invitational and Wagner and Michigan State in the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament.

• Charlotte native Jae’Lyn Withers had a double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds in the Spectrum Center in the 2024 NCAA first round vs. Wagner.

LAST TIME OUT VS. DUKE

• In a game of distinct runs, second-ranked Duke answered last and defeated the Tar Heels, 82-69, on Saturday, March 8, in the final game of the regular season. • The Blue Devils went on a 19-7 run to lead, 36-21, with eight minutes to play in the opening half. Over the next 12-plus minutes, Carolina outscored Duke by 22 points to build a 56-49 lead. Finally, over the final 15-plus minutes, Duke scored 12 straight points as part of a 33-13 closing act to secure the road win. • Carolina shot 39.1% from the floor, 0.1% better than its lowest field goal percentage of the season (against Georgia Tech). However, through 24 minutes as the Tar Heels built their 56-49 lead, they made 20 of 37 shots (54.0%). From that point, UNC made just 5 of 27 to end the game.

• RJ Davis (20) and Ven-Allen Lubin (11) were the only Tar Heels to score in double figures.

• Kon Knueppel led Duke with 17. • In Carolina’s six-game winning streak leading into the Duke game, the Tar Heels had made 40% or better from three-point range five times and 50% or better in three games, but against Duke, Carolina was 9 for 27 (33.3%) from three. • Carolina was a plus 70 on the boards in its previous five games, but the Blue Devils outrebounded the Tar Heels, 39-26. • Duke shot 56.4% from the floor, a season high by an opponent, and made 9 of 19 (47.4%) from three.

CAROLINA-NOTRE DAME

• Carolina has won four in a row, 13 of the last 15 games and is 31-9 all-time against the Irish. • The Tar Heels are 14-4 vs.Notre Dame at neutral sites, including 2-1 in ACC Tournament games. • UNC beat the Irish, 74-73, in Notre Dame, Ind., on January 4.

• Elliot Cadeau hit a game-tying three-pointer from the right wing with 4.8 seconds remaining, made the ensuing free throw for a four-point play and defended a last-second shot in the lane to secure the victory.

• Cadeau’s game-winning four-point play was the 17th lead change, the most in any UNC game this season.

• Freshman Ian Jackson led all scorers with 27 points. He was 11 for 18 from the floor.

• RJ Davis scored eight points. It was the first time Davis did not score in double figures or make a three this season, but he had a season-best seven assists.

• Jalen Washington blocked a career-high five shots. • The Tar Heels shot 52.9% from the floor. The Irish made 10 of their first 17 field goal attempts in the second half (58.8%) to take their largest lead of the game at 63-59 with 6:27 to play. From there, UNC held the Irish to two field goals in their last eight attempts over the final five and a half minutes.

CAROLINA-WAKE FOREST

• Should Carolina win its second-round game the No. 5 seeded Tar Heels will play No. 4 Wake Forest in the quarterfinals on Thursday at 2:30 p.m. • Carolina is 165-70 all-time vs. the Demon Deacons, including 13-8 in the ACC Tournament. • Carolina has not played Wake Forest in the ACC Tournament since the 2000 quarterfinals in Charlotte (in the Charlotte Coliseum on Woodlawn). The Deacs won, 58-52. • Earlier this season in Winston-Salem, Wake Forest edged the Tar Heels, 67-66. Details and notes on that game on page 36.

NOTEBOOK

High-Scoring Heels: Carolina is third in the ACC and 23rd in the country in scoring at 81.7 points per game. • Despite the 69 points against Duke, the Tar Heels have scored 614 points in the last seven games, an average of 87.7 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 seven games (Ian Jackson vs. Syracuse, Virginia and Virginia Tech; RJ Davis vs. NC State, Florida State and Duke; Jae’Lyn Withers vs. Virginia; and Ven-Allen Lubin vs. Miami).

Lead Time: The loss to Duke marked the first time in seven games Carolina trailed in the second half. The Tar Heels led for more than 30 minutes in each of the previous six games and for more than 38 minutes in three of those games.

Halftime Leads: Carolina led at the half in 16 of 20 ACC games this season and won 13 of the 16 (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).

• In all games, the Tar Heels are 18-3 when leading at the break and 2-9 when trailing, including Saturday vs. Duke, when the Blue Devils, led 43-42. • The Tar Heels have scored 42, 54, 46, 49, 46, 46 and 42 points in the first half in the last seven games, an average of 46.4 points. • Carolina shot 46.7% from the floor in the first half vs. Duke. It was the first time in six games the Tar Heels shot under 50% in the first half. Beginning with the win over NC State, UNC shot 55.6, 56.0, 54.8, 51.6 and 54.8% in the opening 20 minutes. • Carolina is 10-3 this season when it shoots 50% from the floor in the first half.

Board Work: The Tar Heels are plus 57 on the glass in the last six games, outrebounding NC State, Virginia, Florida State, Miami and Virginia Tech, 186-116, before Duke had the edge, 39-26.

• Carolina is 15-4 this season when it has more rebounds and 5-8 when it gets beaten on the boards. • UNC is 10-2 this season when it scores more second-chance points and 9-9 when the opponents score more.

• Ven-Allen Lubin leads UNC in offensive rebounds with 54, 25 of which have come in the last 10 games.

• Lubin has scored in double figures in each of the last six games, the first time he has done that in his first season as a Tar Heel. He had a six-game double-figure scoring streak last season while playing at Vanderbilt.

• Seth Trimble, a 6-3 guard, continues to lead UNC in rebounding at 5.2 per game. He is on pace to become the first player under 6’4″ to lead the Tar Heels in rebounding average since at least 1950. Bud Maddie (1952-53) and Larry Miller (1965-66) were both listed at 6’4″.

• Trimble has three point/rebound double-doubles this season (27 points and 10 rebounds vs. Dayton, 18 and 12 vs. Boston College and 10 and 12 at Pitt). • Lubin had 10 points/11 rebound on March 4 at Virginia Tech, his first double-double as a Tar Heel and the seventh of his career.

Three-Point Barrage: For the first time since the 2022 NCAA Tournament the Tar Heels made 10 or more three-pointers in three straight games, connecting for 10 against both Florida State and Miami and a season-high 15 at Virginia Tech.

• The 15 threes in Blacksburg tied the most in a game in Hubert Davis‘ four seasons as head coach and were the most since UNC made 15 against Clemson in 2023. It was the seventh time ever Carolina made 15 or more threes in a game. • Not only did seven different Tar Heels make threes, Carolina shot 53.6% from three in outscoring the Hokies by 24 points from beyond the arc. It was the second-largest margin for UNC from three-point range this season (plus 27 the win at Syracuse that began the six-game win streak). • Carolina has made 74 of 163 three-pointers over its last seven games, converting 45.4%. • The Tar Heels have made 13, 8, 9, 10, 10, 15 and 9 threes in the last seven games since tying their season low with four in the loss at Clemson on February 10. • Jackson made five three-pointers at Virginia Tech, the third time he’s made five in a game, and all three were on the road (also at NC State and Syracuse). • Jackson is shooting 40.9% 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 18-5 this season when they make 30% or better from three-point range and 2-7 when they make less than 30% of its three-point attempts (wins over Georgia Tech and Notre Dame). • The Tar Heels have shot better than 40% from three-point range in six of the last nine games, something they had done only three times in their first 23 games. • The Tar Heels are 8-1 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) and Virginia Tech (53.6). • Carolina has made 50% or better of its threes in four games this season, including three of the last five 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 against Duke. • Overall, Carolina is shooting 39.5% from three in its 20 wins and 28.6% in the 12 losses. • For the season, UNC is up to 35.3% from three, slightly lower than its percentage last season (35.9%).

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

• UNC has led by double digits in 16 of 32 games (eight of the last 10 games) and trailed by 10 or more 12 times. • In a season that was notable for playing numerous close games, the average margin in the last eight games was 17.5 points. The last game Carolina played that was decided by fewer than 10 points was its 88-82 win at Syracuse on February 15. • The Tar Heels have played 12 games this season in which the margin was within five points with 5:00 to play. • 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 eight times (beat Dayton, UCLA, Notre Dame, Boston College and Pitt and lost at Louisville, at Wake Forest and at Pitt). The score was tied once (in the loss to Florida). • 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 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).

Hot Shooting Heels: As previously noted, Carolina was shooting 54.% from the floor through 24 minutes in the March 8 loss to Duke.

• In two games prior to Duke, Carolina shot its highest percentage in ACC play, connecting on an identical 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 48.0% 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.

• The Tar Heels have shot 48% or better from the floor in seven of the last nine games (won all seven times when they shot 48% or better). • Carolina has shot at least 50% from the floor in 10 of the last 13 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 10 of the last 12 games. • Carolina is 11-1 this season when it shoots 50% or better and 9-11 when it makes less than 50% from the floor.

Strength of Schedule: Carolina’s non-conference schedule is ranked the fifth-toughest in the country (NET) 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 Monday, March 10, Carolina was 37th in KenPom, 40th in the NET and 45th in Wins Against Bubble. • The average NET of Carolina’s 11 losses is the 24th-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 20th in the country in offensive efficiency, 23rd in scoring 33rd in field goal percentage and 36th in fastbreak points.

• Carolina’s offensive efficiency at Virginia Tech was its sixth consecutive game with an offensive efficiency (points per 100 possessions) of 124.0 or better. • It was the fourth-highest in an ACC game. Four of the top five have come in the last six games.

• 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 20th in 2024-25).

• The Tar Heels are 14-1 this season when holding opponents at or below 105 points per 100 possessions. Wake Forest (92.0 ppp) is the only team to beat UNC despite scoring 105 or fewer points per 100 possessions. • Carolina has outscored its last five opponents, 240-168, in the paint. UNC is 19-7 when it has equal or more paint points and 1-5 when the opponents have more (including the loss to Duke, when the Blue Devils outscored Carolina, 40-28, in the paint). • Carolina is shooting 55.4% 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 168 with Ven-Allen Lubin and Drake Powell next at plus 132 and 130, respectively.

• Over the last seven games, freshman Drake Powell leads at plus 110 (+13 at Syracuse, +15 vs. both NC State and Virginia, +13 at Florida State, +22 vs. Miami, +30 at Virginia Tech and +2 vs. Duke). • 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 51.0% from the floor in its 20 wins, which is 9.7% 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 17-4 this season when it shoots 45% or better from the floor. • The opponents average 83.7 points in UNC’s losses and just 71.6 when the Tar Heels win. • Carolina held ACC opponents below 75 points 14 times, going 11-3 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 6.9 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 13-4 when it makes the same number or more three-pointers and is 7-8 when the opponents make more 3FGs. • The Tar Heels are 14-4 when they attempt 20 or more free throws and 6-8 when attempting fewer than 20. • UNC is 13-2 when it makes more free throws (losses to Kansas and Stanford) and 7-10 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 (2,392) 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 98-43 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 2,640 points and is third in ACC career scoring.

• 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 fifth in ACC history with 344 three-pointers. Georgia Tech’s Dennis Scott is fourth with 351. • Davis has the highest free throw percentage ever by a Tar Heel (86.3%), ninth best in ACC history. The ACC leader in free throw shooting in 2023, he is second this season at 88.1%. • Davis’ career scoring average is 15.5, 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. • Davis joined Lennie Rosenbluth in 1957, Phil Ford in 1978, Michael Jordan in 1983 and 1984, Kenny Smith in 1987, Jerry Stackhouse in 1995, Antawn Jamison in 1998, Joseph Forte in 2001 and Tyler Hansbrough in 2008 and 2009 as the only Tar Heels to make first-team All-America on each of the teams the NCAA recognizes to determine consensus first-team All-America.

Smith Center: Carolina went 12-3 in the Smith Center this season and is 489-90 (.845) in 40 seasons.

• The Tar Heels are 257-71 against ACC opponents in the Smith Center.

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.

November Signees: Isaiah Denis of Concord, N.C., and Derek Dixon of Vienna, Va.

• Denis is a 6-5 guard at Davidson Day HS in Davidson, N.C. His parents are Nancy Denis and Frantz Denis, and he plays AAU for CP3. • Dixon, the son of John and Kari Dixon, is a 6-3 guard at Gonzaga College HS in Washington, D.C. He also plays AAU for Team Takeover.

Media Honor RJ: Luke DeCock, columnist for the News and Observer, Herald Sun and Charlotte Observer, presented RJ Davis with the Caulton Tudor Award, given to the basketball player at UNC, Duke or NC State who is deemed to have been the best in working with the media covering the teams.

• Davis is the fourth Tar Heel to receive the award, which is named after the News and Observer’s longtime columnist.

• Davis joins Marcus Paige, Theo Pinson and Armando Bacot as winners of the award.