1. The 29 points scored by Carolina's bench against Georgia Tech were the most by the unit in league play. Tar Heel reserves had averaged a combined 9.7 points per game in Carolina's previous 13 ACC contests.
-Well, if we didn't have the bench, we would have only won by one (something like that). This season the bench(which does not include Ginyard or Graves and does include the walk-ons) is averaging 21.9 of the 91.9 points per game, for a whopping 24% of the team's points. Last year (including walk-ons) only averaged 28.6, with Danny Green popping in 11.5 per game. So even though I've harped on the bench some for not producing, it's really not been too bad. I would imagine part of the fact is that all starters are averaging in double figures, whereas last year there were only 3 starters in double figures.
2. Including this season, the final Carolina-Duke game of the year has had a direct bearing on the ACC regular season championship in five of the past six years.
-Little scary, isn't it? With the Duke game looming, this is obviously on my mind. Assuming we take care of VA Tech first, we will automatically clinch a share of it. Meaning if we lost to Duke on Sunday, we would share it with them and we might as well be kissing our sister.
3. This year's team free throw percentage of .765 would rank second in school history, which would mean that two of the five highest marks in program history have come during the six-year Williams era.
-This I like. Not sure when the other year was, but I'm glad we can hit free throws. This is one area of the game that I do not worry about very much, though occasionally there are lapses. Deon and Ed have really been doing well from the line lately, which is encouraging.
4. Since Carolina's last ACC perfect season in 1987, the Tar Heels have gone through an ACC regular season without a double-digit defeat just once: the 2006-07 season. This season's biggest league defeat is the 7-point home loss to Boston College.
-This stat really surprised me, especially with the way this team was. I thought this was a very frustrating team to watch because of the lack of consistency. Yes, I realize they were young with only 2 seniors, 1 juniors and a bunch of freshman and sophomores. But looking back on the 06-07 season, they were competitive; they just lacked experience in the late game situations. Almost all of those losses, the Heels had the lead in in the 2nd half and choked it away.
One other thought to leave you with. Tyler Hansbrough for his FT shooting career is 907-1105. That's a lot of fouls drawn! Imagine that 85% of those foul shots are 2 shot fouls, so 85% of 1105 is 939, divided by 2 is 470 fouls. So, we'll say 166 of the remaining shots are and-ones. Plus, let's throw in 35 charges drawn and the infamous Henderson elbow (because he didn't shot free throws after that). Add it all up and that is 672 fouls! Now, there is no way that I can back up any of the statistics except for the free throws, but even if I'm close, that is a ton of fouls that Psycho T has drawn. If they kept a stat on fouls drawn, I would imagine he's in the top 5, if not number 1. Crazy! Another record.
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