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WILSON’S FAST START<\/strong> 22-POINT OPENER<\/strong> EVANS FILLING UP THE STAT SHEET<\/strong> V FOR VICTORY<\/strong> PRESEASON ALL-ACC, POLL<\/strong> PRESEASON RECOGNITION<\/strong> PROBABLE STARTERS<\/strong> \u2022 Carolina’s probable starters have made a combined 76 college starts. That includes 38 by Kyan Evans<\/a><\/dfn>, 29 by Jarin Stevenson<\/a><\/dfn>, seven by Henri Veesaar<\/a><\/dfn> and two by freshman Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn>.<\/p>\n FRESHMAN STARTERS<\/strong> NEW-LOOK ROSTER<\/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> \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2022 The Tar Heels play host to Radford on Tuesday, November 11, at 7 p.m. \u2022 The game will be televised on the ACC Network with Wes Durham and Dennis Scott on the call. \u2022 Both teams are 2-0. The Tar Heels defeated Central Arkansas, 94-54, and Kansas, 87-74, while the Highlanders have wins over … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9495,"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-9494","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\/11\/Mens-Basketball-Back-In-Action-Tuesday-Vs-Radford.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494","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=9494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9496,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494\/revisions\/9496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> made 17 of his 21 field goal attempts and averaged 23.0 points in the wins over Central Arkansas and Kansas.
\n\u2022 He became the first Tar Heel freshman ever to score more than 20 points in his first two games (22 vs. UCA and 24 vs. Kansas).
\n\u2022 Lennie Rosenbluth and Donald Washington scored more than 20 in their first two games as sophomores in 1954-55 and 1972-73 respectively.
\n\u2022 Wilson compiled a game-high 24 points with seven rebounds, four assists and four steals in Friday’s 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.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Wilson made 8 of his 10 field goal attempts and led all scorers with 22 points in the win over Central Arkansas.
\n\u2022 The 22 points were the fourth-most by a Tar Heel freshman in his debut since first-year players became eligible in 1972-73.
\n\u2022 The top-five freshman scoring debuts in the last 50 years include Cole Anthony’s 34 points vs. Notre Dame on 11\/6\/19, Rashad McCants’ 28 vs. Penn State on 11\/18\/2002, Joseph Forte’s 24 vs. USC on 11\/22\/1999, Wilson’s 22 and Tyler Hansbrough’s 21 vs. Gardner-Webb on 11\/19\/2005.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Kyan Evans<\/a><\/dfn> leads Carolina with six three-point field goals, eight assists and six steals. The junior point guard from Kansas City, Mo., is averaging 13.5 points, one of four Tar Heels in double figures.
\n\u2022 He scored all 12 of his points and had three assists and two steals in the second half against Kansas, directing a Tar Heel attack that shot 66.7% from the floor, committed only one turnover and scored 58 points after the break.
\n\u2022 In the opener vs. Central Arkansas, he drained four three-pointers en route to 15 points and added six rebounds (which tied a career best), five assists and four steals.
\n\u2022 Evans became the first Tar Heel to hit each of those numbers in the first game of the season and just the second to accomplish that in the last 25 seasons (Marcus Paige<\/a><\/dfn> vs. Syracuse on 1\/26\/15).
\n\u2022 It was the fifth time in his career he made at least four three-pointers in a game.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Red-shirt junior center Henri Veesaar<\/a><\/dfn>, a transfer from Arizona, is second on the Tar Heels in scoring (17.0 per game) and field goal shooting (66.7%) and tops the squad in rebounding at 7.0 per game.
\n\u2022 He scored 20 points (10 in each half) vs. Kansas, the second time in his career he scored 20 or more in a game.
\n\u2022 Veesaar has made 14 of 21 shots from the floor and is shooting 60.1% from the floor in his college career.<\/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 in the AP poll.
\n\u2022 The preseason AP poll is the 963rd time Carolina has been ranked, the second-most in college basketball history.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame released its preseason watch lists for its five positional and they included three Tar Heels.
\n\u2022 Seth Trimble<\/a><\/dfn> is on the Jerry West Shooting Guard Award list, Caleb Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> is on the Karl Malone Power Forward Award list and Henri Veesaar<\/a><\/dfn> is on the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center Award list.
\n\u2022 Tar Heels have won four of the Hall of Fame’s 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\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 Wilson became the 40th Tar Heel to start his first game as a freshman since first-year players became eligible in 1972-73. Prior to Wilson, the most recent were guards RJ Davis<\/a><\/dfn> and Caleb Love in 2020-21 against the College of Charleston.
\n\u2022 The last UNC frontcourt player to start his first game as a freshman had been Armando Bacot in 2019-20.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Carolina’s 16-man roster includes five returning players and 11 newcomers. Those figures include senior guard Seth Trimble<\/a><\/dfn> who is injured but averaged 11.6 points and 5.0 rebounds in 28.6 minutes per game last season.
\n\u2022 This is the first time since 2005-06 UNC did not return a player who started at least half the team’s games in the previous season.
\n\u2022 The 11 newcomers include three incoming freshmen, six collegiate transfers, one player who competed internationally and a former member of UNC’s junior varsity team.
\n\u2022 The six collegiate transfers combined last season for 1,464 points, 578 rebounds, 256 assists and made 226 of 641 three-pointers (35.3%).<\/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, 103 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 14 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 In ACC play, the Tar Heels play host to FSU (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 Carolina makes its first appearance in the Skechers Fort Myers (Fla.)Tip-Off at Suncoast Credit Union Arena. UNC faces St. Bonaventure (for the second time ever) on November 25 and Michigan State two days later on Thanksgiving Day. This is the third consecutive year the Tar Heels will be playing the Spartans. Carolina won in Charlotte in the 2024 NCAA second round and Michigan State won in overtime last November in Maui.
\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 Carolina returns to Rupp Arena in Lexington to play Kentucky for the eighth time and the first time since 12\/13\/2014. UNC is 1-1 in the ACC\/SEC Challenge with a home win over Tennessee and loss to Alabama.
\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 nine wins shy of 500 with an overall record (not counting preseason or exhibition games) of 491-90.
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels are 234-19 in the Smith Center against non-conference opponents.
\n\u2022 The Tar Heels have played 46% of their home games all-time in the Smith Center (581 of 1,265).
\n\u2022 Central Arkansas, Kansas, Navy and USC Upstate each will be playing in the Smith Center for the first time.
\n\u2022 UCA and Kansas were the 151st and 152nd different opponents to play a regular-season or NIT game in the Smith Center against the Tar Heels.
\n\u2022 Carolina has won 491 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.
\n\u2022 Powell was the 55th Tar Heel selected all-time in the first round.<\/p>\n
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