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DOUBLE TROUBLE<\/strong> John Henson & Tyler Zeller 2011-12 9 NO ORDINARY ROOKIE<\/strong> Consecutive Games by a Tar Heel with Five or <\/strong> * accomplished over two seasons<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 Against Navy, he became the first Tar Heel ever to score 23 points, grab 12 rebounds, make three blocks and four steals in any game. FROM ESTONIA TO CHAPEL HILL<\/strong> THROUGH 10 GAMES<\/strong> MOST POINTS BY A TAR HEEL THROUGH HIS<\/strong> MOST REBOUNDS BY A TAR HEEL THROUGH HIS<\/strong> # rebound totals for Quigg known for only nine of his first 10 games<\/em><\/p>\n BY THE NUMBERS<\/strong> AP RANKING<\/strong> EARLY ACCOLADES<\/strong> PROBABLE STARTERS VS. ETSU<\/strong> \u2022 None of the probable starters were Tar Heels last season. PRESEASON ALL-ACC, POLL<\/strong> PRESEASON RECOGNITION<\/strong> HUBERT DAVIS: YEAR FIVE<\/strong> 2025-26 SCHEDULE NOTES<\/strong> NEARING 500 WINS IN THE SMITH CENTER<\/strong> TAR HEELS IN THE NBA<\/strong> \u2022 The 12th-ranked Tar Heels (9-1) play host to ETSU (8-3) in the finale of a three-game homestand on Tuesday, December 16, at 8 p.m. \u2022 The game will be televised on the ACC Network (Jay Alter, Terrence Oglesby). \u2022 Carolina is 7-0 at home this season and 60-9 in the Smith Center in Hubert … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MBB-Hosting-ETSU-Tuesday-Night.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13588,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13586\/revisions\/13588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 Henri Veesaar<\/a><\/dfn> and Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> both have recorded double-doubles in points and rebounds four times (NC Central, St. Bonaventure, Kentucky and Georgetown).
\n\u2022 Wilson and Veesaar rank fifth & 10th, respectively, in the nation in double-doubles. No other team has two players in the top 10.
\n\u2022 The next time they both have double-doubles in a game will tie the eighth-most in a season by a pair of Tar Heels.<\/p>\n
\nRusty Clark & Larry Miller 1966-67 8
\nPete Brennan & Lennie Rosenbluth 1955-56 7
\nPhil Ford & Mitch Kupchak 1975-76 6
\nLee Dedmon & Charlie Scott 1969-70 6
\nBrennan & Rosenbluth 1956-57 6
\nBrennan & Joe Quigg 1956-57 6
\nBilly Cunningham & Ray Respess 1963-64 5
\nRaymond Felton & Sean May<\/a><\/dfn> 2004-05 5
\nQuigg & Rosenbluth 1956-57 5
\nKupchak & Tom LaGarde 1975-76 5
\nClark & Miller 1967-68 5
\nQuigg & Rosenbluth 1955-56 5<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> may be a freshman, but he is averaging 19.4 points, 10.6 rebounds, 2.5 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.3 blocks while shooting 55.1% from the floor and 73.5% from the free throw line.
\n\u2022 He leads the Tar Heels in scoring, rebounding, offensive rebounds, steals and free throws (made and attempted).
\n\u2022 Tyler Hansbrough (in 2005-06) is the only Tar Heel freshman to lead the team in both scoring and rebounding.
\n\u2022 Joseph Forte (16.7 ppg in 1999-2000), Rashad McCants (17.0 in 2002-03), Hansbrough (18.9 in 2005-06), Harrison Barnes (co-leader at 15.7 in 2010-11) and Cole Anthony (18.5 in 2019-20) are the freshmen who have led UNC in scoring.
\n\u2022 Hansbrough (7.8 rpg in 2005-06), Antawn Jamison (9.7 in 1995-96) and J.R. Reid (7.4 in 1986-87) are the freshmen who have led UNC in rebounding.
\n\u2022 Eighteen Tar Heels have averaged a double-double in points and rebounds in a season, but none of them were a freshman.
\n\u2022 Wilson leads the country with 31 dunks.
\n\u2022 He has scored in double figures in all 10 games and has seven double-doubles, He has 12 or more rebounds in six of his seven double-doubles, including a season-high 14 vs. Georgetown.
\n\u2022 The Atlanta native has the third-longest streak of double-figure scoring games by a freshman to begin a season. Only Rashad McCants (20 in 2002-03) and Brandan Wright (18 in 2006-07) have more.
\n\u2022 Wilson is ninth in the nation in rebounds per game (10.6), which leads the ACC and also leads all freshmen nationally.
\n\u2022 He also leads the ACC and is fourth in the country in double-doubles (7).
\n\u2022 He set a UNC freshman record with four consecutive double-doubles against Radford, NC Central, Navy and St. Bonaventure. Armando Bacot (twice), Antawn Jamison and Mike O’Koren were the only Tar Heel freshmen with three in a row. Wilson enters the ETSU game with double-doubles in each of the last three games.
\n\u2022 Wilson has made at least five throws in every game, becoming the fifth Tar Heel in the ACC era (1953-present) to make five or more in 10 consecutive games.<\/p>\n
\nMore Made Free Throws (in ACC era)<\/strong>
\n12 Bobby Lewis 1965-66
\n12 Pete Brennan 1957-58
\n12 Lennie Rosenbluth 1956-57
\n11 Tyler Hansbrough 2008-09*
\n11 Lennie Rosenbluth 1956-57
\n10 Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> 2025-26<\/strong>
\n10 Bobby Lewis 1965-66
\n10 Lennie Rosenbluth 1955-56*<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 He netted 22 points vs. UCA and 24 vs. Kansas to become the first Tar Heel freshman ever to score more than 20 points in his first two games.
\n\u2022 Wilson compiled a game-high 24 points with seven rebounds, four assists and four steals in the win over Kansas. He became just the second Tar Heel freshman (with Coby White against Virginia Tech in 2018-19) and the fourth Tar Heel regardless of class (with Walter Davis and Mike O’Koren) to have at least 24 points, seven rebounds, four assists and four steals in a game.
\n\u2022 His 22 points in the opener vs. Central Arkansas were the fourth-most by a Tar Heel freshman in his debut since first-year players became eligible in 1972-73.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Red-shirt junior center Henri Veesaar<\/a><\/dfn>, a transfer from Arizona, leads the team in field goal shooting (61.6%) and blocks (14) and is second in scoring (16.0) and rebounding (9.2).
\n\u2022 The Estonia native scored a game-high 17 points in the win at Kentucky and grabbed a career-best 15 rebounds in the win over Georgetown.
\n\u2022 Veesaar has five double-doubles in 10 games as a Tar Heel, the first five of his collegiate career. He played in 66 games over two seasons at Arizona.
\n\u2022 He is second in the ACC and 10th nationally in double-doubles.
\n\u2022 Veesaar is third in the ACC and is 33rd in the country in field goal shooting (61.6%).
\n\u2022 Veesaar has set numerous career bests as a Tar Heel, including points (24 vs. St. Bonaventure), rebounds (15 vs. Georgetown) and blocks (five vs. NC Central).
\n\u2022 He has established career highs in rebounds four times in 10 games as a Tar Heel \u2013 10 vs. Central Arkansas, 11 vs. NC Central, 13 vs. St. Bonaventure and 15 vs. Georgetown.
\n\u2022 He has scored 20 or more points twice \u2013 24 vs. the Bonnies and 20 points vs. Kansas. He had one 20-point game in his first two seasons at Arizona.
\n\u2022 Veesaar leads UNC in plus\/minus at plus 163.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> has scored 194 points, the sixth-most by any Tar Heel and the second-most by a freshman through 10 games.
\n\u2022 Wilson and Henri Veesaar<\/a><\/dfn> also rank among the top 10 in most rebounds by a Tar Heel through their first 10 games. The rebound rankings are less certain because rebound totals for Joe Quigg, who listed eighth, are only known for nine of his first 10 games.<\/p>\n
\nFIRST 10 GAMES <\/strong>
\nLennie Rosenbluth (sophomore) 266
\nLarry Miller (sophomore) 234
\nRobert McAdoo (junior) 201
\nCole Anthony (freshman) 198
\nBilly Cunningham (sophomore) 196
\nCaleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> <\/strong>(freshman) 194<\/strong>
\nRashad McCants (freshman) 187
\nCharlie Scott (sophomore) 183
\nBobby Lewis (sophomore) 172
\nTyler Hansbrough (freshman) 165
\nJoseph Forte (freshman) 165<\/p>\n
\nFIRST 10 GAMES <\/strong>
\nBilly Cunningham (sophomore) 155
\nLennie Rosenbluth (sophomore) 135
\nRusty Clark (sophomore) 109
\nCaleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> <\/strong>(freshman) 106<\/strong>
\nLarry Miller (sophomore) 96
\nRobert McAdoo (junior) 93
\nHenri Veesaar<\/a><\/dfn> (junior) 92<\/strong>
\nJoe Quigg (sophomore) 91#
\nEd Davis (freshman) 88
\nAntawn Jamison (freshman) 87<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels are ninth in the country in field goal percentage defense, holding their opponents to a combined 36.9% from the floor. They’ve held five opponents below 35% and six under 40%, including Georgetown and USC Upstate in the last two games.
\n\u2022 The opponents’ field goal percentage of .369 would be the lowest allowed by Carolina since 1956-57, when the opponents shot 35.2%.
\n\u2022 The last time UNC held the opponents below 40% over a season was 2014-15, when the opponents made 39.8%.
\n\u2022 UNC is 6-0 this season and 51-4 under head coach Hubert Davis<\/a><\/dfn> when holding opponents under 40% from the floor.
\n\u2022 The Tar Heel defense is third in the country in two-point field goal percentage defense (40.3%) and third in effective field goal percentage (42.1%).
\n\u2022\u00a0 The opponents have shot under 40% from the floor in 12 of 20 halves.
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels have held each of their first 10 opponents to fewer than 75 points, something they have done just two other times in the post-Dean Smith era. The 1997-98 Tar Heels didn’t yield 75 or more points in the first 12 games and the 2019-20 squad didn’t allow 75 or more in the first 10 games.
\n\u2022 Carolina is attempting 25.0 three-pointers per game, which would break the previous school record for attempts per game, which was 23.9 in 2018-19, when the Tar Heel lineup included Cameron Johnson, Coby White, Kenny Williams and Luke Maye.
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels are making 8.2 three-pointers per game, while allowing 6.7 per game. UNC is in on track to make more 3FGs than its opponents for the fifth consecutive year. From 2006-07 to 2019-20, Carolina made more threes one time (in 2012-13).
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels have won the last 14 times they made more three-pointers than their opponent.
\n\u2022 Carolina has shot 50% or higher from the floor in five of the first 10 games. The Tar Heels are 40-1 under Davis when they make at least 50% from the floor.
\n\u2022 Michigan State is the only team this season that has outrebounded Carolina. The Tar Heels are 97-24 under Davis when they outrebound their opponents.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 For the second week in a row the Tar Heels moved up two spots in the Associated Press poll to No. 12.
\n\u2022 UNC was ranked 25th in the preseason poll and then moved up seven spots in the November 10 poll. That was the largest jump from the preseason poll by the Tar Heels since the AP began ranking 25 teams in the 1989-90 season.
\n\u2022 In 1984-85, when the AP ranked 20 teams, the Tar Heels went from unranked to 19th after the first week of the regular season.
\n\u2022 Carolina is 2-1 against ranked teams this season (with wins over Kansas and Kentucky and the loss to Michigan State).<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Freshman forward Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> was one of five players named National Player of the Week by the USBWA for the week of November 3-9.
\n\u2022 Wilson also was both the Co-ACC Player and Rookie of the Week following his performances in the wins over Central Arkansas and Kansas.
\n\u2022 Wilson is the first Tar Heel freshman to also win ACC Player-of-the-Week honors since Cole Anthony in 2019-20.
\n\u2022 Wilson became the eighth Tar Heel to win ACC Player-of-the-Week honors as a freshman, joining Jerry Stackhouse (1994), Antawn Jamison (1996), Rashad McCants (2003), Tyler Hansbrough (2006), Brandan Wright (2007), Coby White (2019) and Anthony.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\u00a0 0 \u2013 Kyan Evans<\/a><\/dfn>, Junior, Guard
\n44 \u2013 Luka Bogavac<\/a><\/dfn>, Junior, Guard
\n\u00a0 8 \u2013 Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn>, Freshman, Forward
\n13 \u2013 Henri Veesaar<\/a><\/dfn>, R-Junior, Center
\n15 \u2013 Jarin Stevenson<\/a><\/dfn>, Junior, Forward<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Seth Trimble<\/a><\/dfn>, who is out with an injured left arm, started 18 of UNC’s 37 games last season. Even with Trimble’s return, this is the first season in which UNC did not return a player who started at least half the games in the previous season since 2005-06, when the Tar Heels replaced all five starters from a national championship team.
\n\u2022 Carolina’s probable starters have made a combined 116 college starts. That includes 46 by Kyan Evans<\/a><\/dfn>, 37 by Jarin Stevenson<\/a><\/dfn>, 15 by Henri Veesaar<\/a><\/dfn>, 10 by freshman Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> and eight by Luka Bogavac<\/a><\/dfn>.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels were picked to finish third in the 18-team Atlantic Coast Conference by the media at the ACC’s preseason media day in Charlotte.
\n\u2022 Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> was voted to the league’s preseason All-ACC second team and the All-Freshman team.
\n\u2022 UNC was picked No. 25 in the country in the Associated Press preseason poll.
\n\u2022 This is the 69th different season in the 78-year history of the AP poll the Tar Heels have been ranked at any point in the AP poll.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame included three Tar Heels on the preseason watch lists for its five positional awards.
\n\u2022 Seth Trimble<\/a><\/dfn> is a candidate for the Jerry West Shooting Guard Award list, Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> for the Karl Malone Power Forward Award and Henri Veesaar<\/a><\/dfn> for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center Award.
\n\u2022 Tar Heels have won four Hall of Fame positional awards \u2013 three Bob Cousy Point Guard Awards (Raymond Felton in 2005, Ty Lawson in 2009 and Kendall Marshall in 2012) and one Jerry West Award (RJ Davis<\/a><\/dfn> in 2024).
\n\u2022 Wilson is also on the preseason watch lists for the Naismith and Oscar Robertson (USBWA) Trophies.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 The 2025-26 season is Hubert Davis<\/a><\/dfn>‘ fifth as head coach at the University of North Carolina and his 14th on the coaching staff at his alma mater. He is the only Tar Heel head coach to win 20 or more games in each of his first four seasons.
\n\u2022 Davis, 55 (turns 56 on May 17, 2026), has won National and ACC Coach-of-the-Year honors, led the Tar Heels to a national title game appearance, 110 wins, a 56-24 record and 24 road wins in ACC regular-season play, a regular-season ACC title and a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Only one other team has won more ACC games in the last four years.
\n\u2022 Two of his players \u2013 RJ Davis<\/a><\/dfn> and Armando Bacot \u2013 rank second and third, respectively, in all-time UNC scoring, set numerous records and earned national and All-ACC awards.
\n\u2022 Carolina won its 100th game under Davis in the 2025 ACC Tournament, making him the third-fastest coach in UNC history and the sixth-fastest in ACC history to win 100 games. Only Duke’s Vic Bubas, UNC’s Roy Williams and Frank McGuire, Wake Forest’s Skip Prosser and Maryland’s Lefty Driesell reached 100 wins in fewer games than Davis (who won his 100th in 143 games).
\n\u2022 Over the previous four seasons, UNC had the 10th-most wins among teams in the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC.
\n\u2022 Under Davis, Carolina is 8-3 in NCAA Tournament play, including wins against three national championship-winning coaches (Baylor’s Scott Drew, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski and Michigan State’s Tom Izzo) and three other coaches who have taken teams to the Final Four (Marquette’s Shaka Smart, UCLA’s Mick Cronin and San Diego State’s Brian Dutcher).
\n\u2022 Davis has led the Tar Heels to 16 wins over nationally-ranked opponents, including eight over top-10 teams (No. 4 Duke, No. 4 Baylor and No. 9 Duke in 2022; No. 6 Virginia in 2023; and No. 10 Tennessee, No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 7 Duke and No. 9 Duke in 2024).<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Carolina plays only two games in Chapel Hill in January. This is the first time since the 1990-91 season UNC will play only twice at home in January.
\n\u2022 In ACC play, the Tar Heels play host to Florida State (Dec. 30), Wake Forest (Jan. 10), Notre Dame (Jan. 21), Syracuse (Feb. 2), Duke (Feb. 7), Pitt (Feb. 14), Louisville (Feb. 23), Virginia Tech (Feb. 28) and Clemson (March 3).
\n\u2022 Carolina plays at SMU (Jan. 3), Stanford (Jan.14), Cal (Jan. 17), Virginia (Jan. 24), Georgia Tech (Jan. 31), Miami (Feb. 10), NC State (Feb. 17), Syracuse (Feb. 21) and Duke (March 7).
\n\u2022 UNC is not scheduled to play Boston College.
\n\u2022 This will mark the first season since 1919 the Tar Heels are not playing NC State in Chapel Hill.
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels played Kansas to Chapel Hill for the first time ever. Last year, the Jayhawks defeated UNC in Lawrence. The November 7 game was just the third on-campus matchup in 14 games between the Tar Heels and KU.
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels are making their first trips as ACC opponents to SMU, Stanford and Cal. UNC is 1-0 all-time against the Mustangs in Dallas (12\/30\/1986), 2-0 vs. the Cardinal in Maples Pavilion (12\/3\/1983 and 11\/20\/2017) and 1-0 vs. the Bears in Haas Pavilion (12\/22\/1972, when its was Harmon Gym).
\n\u2022 UNC plays Ohio State in Atlanta on December 20 in the CBS Sports Classic. The Tar Heels are 7-4 in the annual event, including 3-0 vs. the Buckeyes.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 This is the 41st season the Tar Heels are playing their home games in the Dean E. Smith Center.
\n\u2022 Carolina is four wins shy of 500 with an overall record (not counting preseason or exhibition games) of 496-90.
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels are 239-19 in the Smith Center against non-conference opponents.
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels have played 46.1% of their home games all-time in the Smith Center (586 of 1,270).
\n\u2022 USC Upstate was the 154th different opponent to play a regular-season or NIT game in the Smith Center against the Tar Heels.
\n\u2022 Carolina has won 496 games in the Smith Center, 210 in Woollen Gym (1939-65), 170 in Carmichael Auditorium (1965-86, 2010), 130 in the Indoor Athletic Court (1924-38) and 63 in Bynum Gym (1911-23).<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Eleven former Tar Heels were on NBA Opening Day rosters, including Cole Anthony (Milwaukee), Harrison Barnes (San Antonio), Tony Bradley (Indiana), Harrison Ingram (San Antonio), Cameron Johnson (Denver), Walker Kessler (Utah), Caleb Love (Portland), Pete Nance (Milwaukee), rookie Drake Powell<\/a><\/dfn> (Brooklyn), Day’Ron Sharpe (Brooklyn) and Coby White (Chicago).
\n\u2022 Powell averaged 7.4 points as a freshman last season and was selected by Atlanta with the 22nd pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. His rights were traded the night of the Draft to the Brooklyn Nets. Powell was the 55th Tar Heel selected all-time in the first round.
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