• Carolina (3-1) plays Dayton (5-0) in the quarterfinals of the Maui Invitational on Monday at 6:30 p.m. Hawaii time, 11:30 p.m. Eastern time on ESPN2.
• The Tar Heels beat Hawai’i 87-69 in Honolulu on Friday and then traveled to Maui on Saturday.
• RJ Davis (18), Elliot Cadeau (17) and Seth Trimble (13), Carolina’s three top scorers in four games, combined for 48 points and 12 assists against the Rainbow Warriors.
• UNC built a 13-2 lead, Hawai’i pulled away with a three-pointer at 35-32 before Davis and Davis hit back-to-back three-pointers Ian Jackson gave UNC a seven-point halftime lead. The Tar Heels opened the second half with a 19-6 run to open a 20-point lead.

BIG PICTURE
• This is Carolina Basketball’s 115th season.
The Tar Heels have won seven national championships (six NCAA Tournament titles), appeared in a record 21 Final Fours, won a record 133 NCAA Tournament games, appeared in the NCAA Tournament 53 times and were a No. 1 seed 18 times. won a record 33 ACC regular season titles, won 18 ACC tournament championships and had 10 former players inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame.
• Carolina has the second-highest winning percentage (.734) and third-most wins (2,375) in college basketball history.
• The Tar Heels are led by Hubert Davisin his fourth season as head coach at his alma mater. The 2022 National Coach of the Year winner and 2024 Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year has led UNC to an 81-32 record.
• Davis’ 78 wins through 2023-24 were the second-most by a Carolina head coach and the fourth-most all-time at a Power 4 Conference program after three years as head coach.
• Carolina is the only major program in the country whose six coaches all played at their alma mater. Davis played for Hall of Famer Dean Smith from 1988 to 1992. Jeff Lebo (1985-89) and Pat Sullivan (1990-95) also played at UNC for Smith, Brad Frederick played for Smith and Bill Guthridge (1996-99) and Sean May (2002-05) and Marcus Paige (2012-16) played for Hall of Famer Roy Williams.
• The Tar Heels posted a 29-8 record last year, won the program’s 33rd ACC regular-season title with a 17-3 record and earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA West Regional, where they advanced to the Sweet 16 rose.
• Carolina returned five players this season, including two starters, and welcomed 10 newcomers – five freshmen and five transfers.
• The five returnees include the unanimous first-team All-America and ACC Player of the Year RJ DavisAll-ACC Freshman honoree Elliot Cadeauguard Seth Trimble and forward Jae’Lyn Withers And Jalen Washington.
• The most important differences compared to the previous year include: Armando BacotCarolina’s all-time leading rebounder and second-leading scorer, Harrison Ingrama second-round pick from San Antonio and Cormac Ryanwho played 152 college games.

TAR HEELS IN HAWAI’I
• This is Carolina’s 15th season playing in Hawaii and the first since 2016-17.
• Overall, Carolina is 35-5 in Hawaii (including games in Honolulu and Maui).
• The Tar Heels are playing in the Maui Invitational for the ninth time, including the 2020-21 season when the tournament was played in Asheville, North Carolina, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Carolina has won the Maui Invitational four times – 1999-2000, 2004-05, 2008-09 and 2016-17.
• Carolina’s four Maui titles are the second-most in tournament history (Duke has five).
• The Tar Heels have a 22-4 record in all Maui Invitational games, including 18-3 in Lahaina.
• Joseph Forte (1999), Raymond Felton (2004), Ty Lawson (2008) and Joel Berry II (2016) won MVP honors at the Maui Invitational.
• Including Friday’s win over the University of Hawai’i, the Tar Heels are 17-1 in Honolulu, including 3-0 at the Stan Sheriff Center.

CAROLINA DAYTON
• The Tar Heels are 1-2 all-time against the Flyers. This is Carolina’s first game against Dayton since a 79-68 loss at Madison Square Garden on April 1, 2010 in the NIT championship game.
• Dayton defeated UNC 76-62 in the 1967 national semifinals in Louisville.
• The Tar Heels won the series’ only on-campus game 81-51 at the Smith Center on December 31, 2006.

OPINION POLL
• The Tar Heels were ranked No. 10 by the Associated Press in the Nov. 18 poll. The new poll will be announced the morning of the game against Dayton.
• Carolina was ranked in the AP Top 25 for the 24th consecutive year.
• UNC was ranked ninth in the AP preseason poll. This is the 46th season in which UNC entered the season or finished in the top 10 in the first AP poll (some seasons in the 1950s did not have preseason polls). In the last 45 times that UNC began the year ranked in the top 10 in the first AP Poll, the Tar Heels have also finished the season ranked in the top 10 32 times.
• Carolina finished the 2023-24 season ranked No. 6 in the Coaches Poll and No. 7 in the AP Poll.
• Last year marked the 39th time Carolina finished in the top 10 in the final AP Poll (out of 76 seasons), the third-most ranking in college basketball history.
• The Nov. 18 AP rankings marked the 960th time the Tar Heels have been ranked, the second most ever.
• This is the 68th season that UNC has been ranked in the AP Poll at least once (in 77 seasons), and the 60th season has seen UNC ranked in the top 10 at least once.

PLAY AGAINST THE TOP TEAMS
• Carolina plays one of the most difficult schedules each year, both in and out of conference, and early polls suggest 2024-25 will be another challenge.
• Since KenPom’s inception in the 2001-2002 season, the Tar Heels have finished in the top 10 in the country 13 times and in the top 25 20 times due to their strong schedule.
• Carolina’s schedule includes at least seven games against top-25 opponents in the Nov. 18 poll, including No. 1 Kansas (away), No. 4 Auburn or No. 5 Iowa State (second day in Maui). Alabama (home), No. 12 Duke (home and away) and No. 21 Florida (at Charlotte). Second-place UConn is on the other side of the bracket in Maui.

PRE-SEASON AWARDS
• Carolina was selected second and RJ Davis was named the ACC Preseason Player of the Year at conference media day.
• Davis is a National Player of the Year candidate (Naismith, NABC and Wooden), is the second-best player in the country (CBS and ESPN) and has been named Preseason All-America by numerous media outlets, including the Associated Press and Sporting News , Blue Ribbon Yearbook, Field of 68, CBS, Fox, Sports Illustrated and ESPN’s Jay Bilas.
• Davis won the Naismith Hall of Fame’s 2024 Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year award. He is on the preseason watch list.
• Sophomore Elliott Cadeau (Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year), freshman Ian Jackson And Drake Powell (Julius Erving Small Forward of the Year) and Junior Cade Tyson (Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year) are also named to the Hall of Fame’s preseason watch lists for positional awards.
• Davis became the first Tar Heel and second ACC player to win the Jerry West Award.
• Carolina is the only team to win the Cousy Award three times (Raymond Felton in 2005, Ty Lawson in 2009 and Kendall Marshall in 2012).
• Davis and Seth Trimble are listed on the early season watch list for the Lute Olson National Player of the Year award.

RJ DAVIS
• Davis scored the second-most points ever by a Tar Heel guard (2,159). Trailing only 1978 Wooden Award winner Phil Ford, Davis has scored the fourth-most points of any player to ever play at Carolina.
• Davis’ 18-point game at Hawaii passed Sam Perkins for fourth in UNC history.
• Davis scored 784 points last season, the fourth-most in Carolina history and the most since Tyler Hansbrough, who scored 882 points in 2007-08.
• Davis’ 784 points were the most by a guard in a single season in Carolina history.
• Should Davis score 784 points again this season, he would tie Hansbrough for the most points by a Tar Heel and the most in ACC history.
• Davis’ career scoring average is 15.2, the eighth highest for a Tar Heel guard. He averaged 18.9 per game over the last three seasons.
• Davis made 113 3FGs last season, breaking the UNC single-season record (Justin Jackson made 105 in 2016-17).
• Davis made 281 career three-pointers, the second most ever by a Tar Heel. Marcus Paigecurrently an assistant coach at UNC, is first with 299.
• Davis is also Carolina’s all-time leader in free throw percentage. He has made 22 of 25 goals from the line in the first three games of this season and has converted 444 of 517 in his career, a rate of 85.9%. Shammond Williams is in second place with 84.8%.
• Last year, Davis became the 19th Tar Heel to earn consensus first-team All-America honors. These 19 players have won consensus first-team All-America honors a total of 28 times.
• Davis joined Lennie Rosenbluth in 1957, Phil Ford in 1978, Michael Jordan in 1983 and 1984, Kenny Smith in 1987, Jerry Stackhouse in 1995, Antawn Jamison in 1998, Joseph Forte in 2001 and Tyler Hansbrough as the only Tar in 2008 and 2009 Heels to put it on each of them in the To Create All-America First Team The teams that the NCAA recognizes determine the first team All-America by consensus.
• Davis became the 15th Tar Heel to win the ACC Player of the Year award, the first since Justin Jackson in the 2016-17 season. It is the 16th time a Tar Heel has won the award (Larry Miller won twice).
• Davis became the fifth Tar Heel guard to win the award, joining Phil Ford, Michael Jordan, Joseph Forte and Ty Lawson.
• Elliot Cadeau made the ACC All-Freshman team. He became the first Tar Heel since Caleb Love and Day’Ron Sharpe in 2021 to make the ACC All-Freshman team.
• Cadeau joined Ed Cota, Raymond Felton, Bobby Frasor, Ty Lawson, Kendall Marshall, Marcus PaigeCoby White, Cole Anthony and Love as Tar Heel point guards to earn All-Freshman Team honors.
• Hubert Davis was named ACC Coach of the Year by the ACC Board of Governors and the Associated Press.
• Davis became the fifth Tar Heel to win ACC Coach of the Year honors (13 times total), joining Frank McGuire, Dean Smith (eight times), Bill Guthridge and Roy Williams (2006 and 2011).

ELLIOT TO THE POINT
• Elliot Cadeau leads Carolina in plus/minus through the first four games with plus-88, including a career-best plus-38 against American.
• He averaged 16.0 points and 6.8 assists in the first four games. He has scored at least 17 points in three of the first four games and double figures in all four.
• He reached a career high with seven field goals in eight attempts at Hawaii.
• Made three 3FGs against Elon, a career-best. It was the third time in his career that he made multiple three-pointers in a game.
• Last year, he led Carolina with 150 assists, the most by a Tar Heel rookie since then Marcus PaigeIn 2012-13 there were 161.