Tar Heels Welcome Vols to the Smith Center
• Carolina plays host to the University of
Tennessee on Sunday, December 11 at 5 p.m.
• The Tar Heels are 8-1 against the Volunteers, although the schools from neighboring states have only played three times in the last 69 years (all in the last 18 seasons).
• Roy Williams is 2-0 against Tennessee. Both games were as UNC’s head coach.
• Carolina never played Tennessee during Dean Smith’s 36-year tenure as UNC’s head coach.
• UNC has won the last three meetings, all at neutral sites: 3/24/2000 in Austin, Texas, in the NCAA South Regional Sweet 16; 11/23/2004 in Maui; and 11/24/2006 in Madison Square Garden in the PreSeason NIT.