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Nine New RJ Davis Notes for UNC Basketball History Books
Adding to the mystique of RJ Davis' 42 points in Monday night's 75-71 home win over Miami, it tipped off just 48 hours after the senior guard posted a 1-for-14 shooting clip in the Tar Heels' 54-44 win at Virginia on Saturday. Keep that in mind while perusing these nine tidbits that he carved into the annals of UNC basketball's storied history:
- With a career-high 42 points, Davis joined nine other Tar Heels in history to score 40 points in a game.
- Miami had never before given up more than 35 points to a Tar Heel.
- Davis' career-high seven threes was only one shy of the UNC basketball record.
- He broke Tyler Hansbrough's record (40) for the most points by a player in any of the now-562 UNC games in the Dean E. Smith Center.
- No Tar Heel since Shammond Williams scored 42 in a double-overtime victory at Georgia Tech in 1998 has matched his mark in ACC regular season play, and they're tied for the third-highest total among UNC players in such outings.
- By outscoring his teammates, 42-33, he became the first Tar Heel to do so since Michael Jordan poured in 39 in a 72-65 win over Georgia Tech in 1983.
- With 56.0 percent of his team's points, Davis boasts UNC's highest such mark since George Glamack's 45 points accounted for 59.2 percent of the 1940-41 Tar Heels' 76 against Clemson.
- The 34-point edge over his highest-scoring teammate in the contest, Harrison Ingram's eight, goes down as the largest such margin in Tar Heel history.
- It was the first time since 2011 that the Tar Heels won a game with only one player reaching double-digit points.
And on that note, in putting UNC on his back against the Hurricanes, RJ Davis moved into the top 10 on the program's all-time scoring list, now in a tie with Brad Daugherty at 1,912 and with three regular season games and postseason action still on tap.
NEXT UNC BASKETBALL GAME: No. 9 Tar Heels (22-6, 14-3 ACC) at home versus unranked NC State (17-10, 9-7 ACC), 4 p.m. ET Saturday (ESPN)
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