2016-17 • NCAA Champions Tar Heel • South Region Champions Basketball • ACC Regular-Season Media Notes Champions 2017 NCAA CHAMPIONS 2016-17 SCHEDULE (33-7, 14-4 ACC) • Carolina won its sixth NCAA championship NOVEMBER (third in the last 13 years) with a 71-65 win 11 at Tulane (7/-) W 95-75 over Gonzaga on April 3 in the University of 13 Chattanooga (7/-) W 97-57 Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. 15 Long Beach State (5/1-) W 93-67 • Carolina is third in NCAA championships 18 at Hawai’i (5/-) W 83-68 behind UCLA (11) and Kentucky (8). 21 vs. Chaminade-1 (4/-) W 104-61 • The Tar Heels went 33-7, including 14-4 in 22 vs. Oklahoma State-1 (4/-) W 107-75 the ACC, 1-1 in the ACC Tournament in Brook- 23 vs. Wisconsin-1 (4/16) W 71-56 30 at Indiana-2 (3/13) L 67-76 lyn and 6-0 in the NCAA Tournament. • Carolina won the ACC regular-season title by DECEMBER two games over Florida State, Notre Dame and 4 Radford (3/-) W 95-50 Louisville. 7 Davidson (7/-) W 83-74 • Carolina was the No. 1 seed and champion 11 Tennessee (7/-) W 73-71 of the South Regional; Gonzaga was the No. 1 17 vs. Kentucky-3 (7/6) L 100-103 seed and champion of the West Regional. 21 Northern Iowa (8/-) W 85-42 • Carolina is 4-0 in national championship 28 Monmouth (9/-) W 102-74 31 at Georgia Tech (9/-) L 63-75 games when both teams are No. 1 seeds (1982 vs. Georgetown, 1993 vs. Michigan, JANUARY 2005 vs. Illinois and 2017 vs. Gonzaga). 3 at Clemson (14/-) W (ot) 89-86 • Carolina is one of three schools to win the 8 NC State (14/-) W 107-56 NCAA title one year after losing in the national 11 at Wake Forest (11/-) W 93-87 championship game and the only school to 14 Florida State (11/9) W 96-83 accomplish that twice (UNC in 1982, Duke in 16 Syracuse (9/-) W 85-68 1991 and Kentucky in 1998). 21 at Boston College (9/-) W 90-82 • Carolina won the national championship with a game-high 22 points and had six assists, 26 Virginia Tech (9/-) W 91-72 two steals and a blocked shot in the national 28 at Miami (9/-) L 62-77 a 103-64 win over No. 16 seed Texas South- championship game vs. Gonzaga and had 31 Pitt (12/-) W 80-78 ern, a 72-65 win over No. 8 seed Arkansas, a 92-80 win over No. 4 seed Butler, a 75-73 11 points and two assists vs. Oregon in the FEBRUARY win over No. 2 seed Kentucky, a 77-76 win semifinal. 5 Notre Dame-4 (12/20) W 83-76 over No. 3 seed Oregon and a 71-65 win over • Berry became the first player since Hall of 9 at Duke (8/18) L 78-86 No. 1 seed Gonzaga. Famer Bill Walton in 1972 and 1973 to score 15 at NC State (10/-) W 97-73 • Junior point guard Joel Berry II was the Final 20 or more points in consecutive national 18 Virginia (10/14) W 65-41 Four’s Most Outstanding Player. Berry scored championship games (Berry had 20 in 2016 22 Louisville (8/6) W 74-63 vs. Villanova). 25 at Pitt (8/-) W 85-67 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS • Berry became the first Tar Heel in history 27 at Virginia (5/23) L 43-53 UCLA 11 and the first player since Butler’s Shelvin Kentucky 8 MARCH Mack in 2010-11 to earn All-Final Four team North Carolina 6 4 Duke (5/17) W 90-83 honors in consecutive years. Duke 5 9 ACC Tournament-5 • Berry joins James Worthy as the only Tar Indiana 5 Quarterfinals Heels to win ACC Tournament MVP and Final vs. Miami (6/-) W 78-53 NCAA TOURNAMENT WINS, SCHOOL Four MVP honors. Worthy won both in 1982; 10 Semifinals-5 Kentucky 124 Berry won the ACC Tournament MVP in 2016. vs. Duke (6/14) L 83-93 North Carolina 123 • Berry is the sixth player to win both Final 17 NCAA First Round-6 Duke 108 vs. Texas Southern (5/-) W 103-64 Four MVP and ACC Tournament MVP honors 19 NCAA Second Round-6 in their career. Duke’s Christian Laettner is NCAA TOURNAMENT WINS, COACH vs. Arkansas (5/-) W 72-65 the only other player to do that in separate Mike Krzyzewski 91 24 NCAA South Regional-7 seasons (Final Four in 1991, ACC in 1992). Roy Williams 76 Sweet 16 Dean Smith 65 Duke’s Art Heyman (1963), Worthy (1982), vs. Butler (5/21) W 92-80 Duke’s Shane Battier (2001) and Duke’s Kyle 26 Elite Eight FINAL FOURS, SCHOOL Singler (2010) won them in the same season. vs. Kentucky (5/6) W 75-73 North Carolina 20 • Berry made four three-pointers in the title Kentucky 17 APRIL game, including one with 4:18 to play, just UCLA 17 1 Final Four-8 W 77-76 seconds after Gonzaga hit a three to go ahead Duke 16 National Semifinal 60-59, the Bulldogs’ first lead in more than Kansas 14 vs. Oregon (5/9) eight minutes. 3 National Championship W 71-65 FINAL FOURS, COACH • Senior forward Kennedy Meeks and junior vs. Gonzaga (5/2) John Wooden 12 forward Justin Jackson joined Berry on the Site Key Mike Krzyzewski 12 All-Final Four team. 1– Maui Jim Maui Invitational, Lahaina, Maui; 2– ACC/Big Ten Dean Smith 11 • Jackson became the fourth Tar Heel and the Challenge, Bloomington, Ind.; 3– CBS Sports Classic, Las Vegas; 4– Greensboro, N.C.; 5– ACC Tournament, Brooklyn, N.Y.; 6– Roy Williams 9 15th player in ACC history to earn ACC Player NCAA Tournament, Greenville, S.C.; 7– NCAA South Regional, Tom Izzo 7 of the Year, All-NCAA Regional and All-Final Memphis, Tenn.; 8-NCAA Final Four, Phoenix, Ariz. Rick Pitino 7 Four honors in the same season (first since UNC’s Ty Lawson in 2009). • Meeks tied his career high with 25 points and had 14 rebounds and three steals in the semifinal vs. Oregon and seven points, 10 rebounds, and played outstand- ing defense (including limiting Przemek Karnowksi to 1-8 FGs and coming up with a block and a steal in the final 16 seconds) in the championship game vs. Gonzaga. • Jackson had 22 points vs. Oregon and 16 vs. Gonzaga and played stifling defense, helping limit UO’s Dillon Brooks to 2-11 9.8 per game, although it was out-rebounded FG and Gonzaga’s Nigel Williams-Goss to 5-17 by three in the Final Four. The win over Gonza- FG. ga was only the fourth time the Tar Heels were • Carolina averaged 81.7 points and allowed out-rebounded all year and the first game UNC only 70.5 points in its six NCAA Tournament won when it was out-rebounded. games. Only one opponent scored 80 points • However, the Tar Heels scored 20 sec- (Butler in the Sweet 16). ond-chance points vs. Gonzaga; UNC was • Carolina held four of its six NCAA Tourney 17-0 when it scored 20 second-chance points. opponents under 75 points. • Justin Jackson led UNC in scoring in the • This was the first time UNC played six NCAA 2017 NCAA Tournament with 117 points Tournament games and held the opponents (19.5 per game). That’s the third-most points under 44 percent shooting from the floor in and third-highest average in a six-game NCAA every game Tournament series by a Tar Heel. • Carolina held its six opponents to 39.6 per- • Jackson also led UNC in the NCAA Tourna- cent shooting from the floor, including Texas ment with 22 assists, 15 three-pointers and Southern (.367), Arkansas (.433), Butler nine steals. (.435), Kentucky (.415), Oregon (.379) and • Jackson has 239 career NCAA Tournament Gonzaga (.339). points, second most by a Tar Heel behind Tyler • Carolina out-rebounded its six opponents by Hansbrough (325). TAR HEELS IN THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP GAME YEAR DATE ROUND OPPONENT (Seeds) W/L SCORE SITE ARENA 1946 March 26 FF- National Championship Oklahoma A&M L 40-43 New York, N.Y. Madison Square Garden 1957 March 23 FF- National Championship Kansas W (3ot) 54-53 Kansas City, Mo. Municipal Auditorium 1968 March 23 FF- National Championship UCLA L 55-78 Los Angeles, Calif. Sports Arena 1977 March 28 FF- National Championship Marquette L 59-67 Atlanta, Ga. Omni 1981 March 30 FF- National Championship Indiana (2/3) L 50-63 Philadelphia, Pa. Spectrum 1982 March 29 FF- National Championship Georgetown (1/1) W 63-62 New Orleans, La. Superdome 1993 April 5 FF- National Championship Michigan (1/1) W 77-71 New Orleans, La. Superdome 2005 April 4 FF- National Championship Illinois (1/1) W 75-70 St. Louis, Mo. Edward Jones Dome 2009 April 6 FF- National Championship Michigan State (1/2) W 89-72 Detroit, Mich. Ford Field 2016 April 4 FF- National Championship Villanova (1/2) L 74-77 Houston, Texas NRG Stadium 2017 April 3 FF- National Championship Gonzaga (1/1) W 71-65 Phoenix, Ariz. University of Phoenix Stadium 2016-17 NORTH CAROLINA TAR HEELS No. Player Yr. Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown High School(s) 0 Nate Britt Sr. G 6-1 175 Upper Marlboro, Md. Oak Hill Academy (Mouth of Wilson, Va.)/ Gonzaga College HS (Washington, D.C.) 1 Theo Pinson Jr.