North Carolina At Chapel Hill

With Hubert Davis at the controls of the North Carolina men’s basketball team, three-point attempts and makes skyrocketed last season. That trend should undoubtedly continue moving forward, and not just at UNC but all over the nation.

The 2021-22 season was quite prolific indeed from beyond the arc. Brady Manek (98) and Caleb Love (93) became the first Tar Heel teammates to each make at least 90 threes in a single season. Going a step further, Manek, Love, and RJ Davis (66) became the first Tar Heel trio to each make at least 60 threes in a single season.

After that trio, though there was a precipitous drop-off down to Kerwin Walton’s 23 threes.

As a team, this was the sixth UNC team with 700-plus three point attempts, the fourth team with 800-plus attempts, and the first-ever team to attempt at least 900 threes (916 total).

In a similar vein, this was the most three point makes by a Carolina team (328), and just the third time being north of 300 (2017-18 and 2018-19 being the other iterations).

Going forward, the Tar Heels return 58.5% of their made threes from last season. There’s a glaring hole left behind by Brady Manek that no one can completely step into.

Caleb Love will need to replicate his downtown effort while RJ Davis hopefully can make a leap into the 90s as well. Additionally, the hope is that with more volume, Pete Nance can grow his career high 42 made threes last season up into the 60s.

Can other players take a big step forward? Puff Johnson, Leaky Black, and D’Marco Dunn are prime candidates to help fill at least some part of the Brady Manek void.

There is certainly a path to the Tar Heels making 300-plus threes again next season.

This week’s Tuesday Trivia question: Brady Manek and Caleb Love combined to make 191 three-pointers last season, the second-highest combined total for a pair of Tar Heel teammates. What pair had more? How many? And in what season?

The answer:

Justin Jackson (105) & Joel Berry (88)
193 total
2016-17

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