![]() Perhaps more influential than starting league play at 7-1 was UNC’s unblemished record at home. The Tar Heels went on to earn another regular season ACC championship, the 31st in program history. A seven-game winning streak propelled Carolina to the top of the league standings. The snow-delayed Sunday slaughter of State sparked a streak of solid basketball for the good guys. The ACC opener was certainly a dud for the Tar Heels, and they risked starting out 0-2 in league play if not for a career night from Joel Berry II at Littlejohn Coliseum. ![]() With 1,052 career rebounds, Meeks is in an exclusive group in program history as just one of nine Tar Heels to grab at least 1,000 rebounds in college. Meeks was one rebound away from tying Billy Cunningham at number five on the all-time single season list. That rebounding total places him sixth-best in a single season at Carolina. ![]() Six Tar Heels had over 100 rebounds this year, with Kennedy Meeks leading the way with 378, an average of 9.5 per game. The 2016-17 Tar Heels set a program record with the most rebounds in a season at 1,749, breaking the previous record of 1,711 set by the 2011-12 team. This one can certainly be marked as a success. Meeks finished the 2016-17 season at 2.0 turnovers-per-40-minutes, while Hicks finished slightly above last year at 2.8. The year before, their turnovers-per-40-minutes averages was 2.7 for Meeks and 2.6 for Hicks. Two players on the watch list for this key point were Kennedy Meeks and Isaiah Hicks. Their 11.8 turnovers per game average ranked 68th in country. ![]() The 2016-17 regressed slightly, tacking on one point to the average from the year before. The 2015-2016 squad had the best turnovers per game average out of any squad in the Roy Williams era. The Tar Heels won the National Championship, but did everything that needed to happen actually happen? Let’s re-examine the preseason five keys for the 2016-17 team. In October, Tar Heel Blog looked at the necessary factors for the North Carolina Tar Heels to return to the Final Four. ![]()
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