ACC Basketball

Gameday Preview: Tar Heels Take On Irish In ACC Tournament – Weds March 12th 2025

by
Ryan Smith
March 12, 2025

March 12, 2025

Charlotte- 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 2:30 p.m from the Spectrum Center in Charlotte.

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 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. RJ Davis played in his 170th game as a Tar Heel Saturday vs. Duk for the all-time ACC and UNC records.

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.

• 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 Tar Heels have earned the No. 1 seed a record 27 times.

• 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).

UNC IN CHARLOTTE

• The Tar Heels are 168-28 in Charlotte.

• That includes an 18-3 record in the Spectrum Center from 2006-25.

• 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.

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.

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.