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Carolina Basketball 2011-12 FANTASTIC FINISHES UNC 86, Connecticut 83 January 17, 2004 Rashad McCants scored 27 points against the Huskies for the second straight year and for the second year in a row the Tar Heels up- set Connecticut in the Smith Center. McCants scored the last 10 points of the game for Caro- lina, including a three-pointer with just over six seconds to play. The Huskies would go on to win the national championship. It was Roy Wil- liams' first win as UNC's head coach over a No. 1 ranked team. UNC 75, Duke 73 March 6, 2005 Carolina trailed, 73-64, after Blue Devil for- ward Lee Melchionni hit a three with 3:03 to play. But the Tar Heels outscored Duke, 11-0, the rest of the way to clinch the regular-season ACC title. Trailing by two with less than 30 sec- onds to play, David Noel stripped Daniel Ew- ing of the ball and Raymond Felton grabbed the loose ball and called timeout. On the ensu- ing possession, Felton hit the first of two free throws, Marvin Williams rebounded his missed second free throw and scored the go-ahead bas- ket with 17 seconds to play. Sean May led UNC with 26 points and 24 rebounds. UNC 75, Illinois 70 April 4, 2005 Final Four MVP Sean May led UNC with 26 points and 10 rebounds, while Raymond Fel- ton's and Marvin Williams' late heroics gave Roy Williams his first NCAA title. Marvin Wil- liams broke a 70-all tie with a tip-in basket with 1:27 to play. Leading 72-70, Felton, who earlier hit a three-pointer to break a 65-65 tie, stole an Illini pass with 31 seconds to play and hit three of four free throws to cap the win. Marvin Williams' three-point play clinched the 2005 win over Duke. UNC vs. Clemson 2007-08 Regular Season Carolina beat Clemson in a pair of close games during the 2007-08 regular season. In the first meeting on Jan. 6, 2008, in Clemson, Wayne Ellington hit a three-pointer with 0.4 sec- onds remaining in overtime to give UNC a 90- 88 win. Ellington scored a career-high 36 points in the game, connecting on five three-pointers. The final shot by Ellington marked UNC's first late game-winner since David Noel rattled in a three-pointer with 1.8 seconds left on Nov. 19, 2005, to beat Gardner-Webb in the Smith Center and marked Carolina's first overtime win under head coach Roy Williams. In the return matchup in Chapel Hill on Feb. 10, Tyler Hansbrough scored 13 of his 39 points in the two overtime periods as Carolina rallied from 15 points down to beat the Tigers, 103-93, in double overtime. The Tar Heels trailed by 11 points with 3:12 left to play in regulation befor- ing scoring nine straight points to cut the lead to 79-77. Quentin Thomas hit a driving layup to force the first overtime and UNC eventually won in the second extra stanza. UNC 80, Florida State 77 Jan. 28, 2009 Ty Lawson sank a game-winning three- pointer as time expired to beat Florida State, 80-77, in Tallahassee in a game in which UNC led by 11 at the half, but trailed by as many as five with less than seven minutes to play. Danny Green's steal and three-point play tied the game at 77 with 1:12 to play, then Tyler Hansbrough forced a turnover by Toney Douglas with 3.2 seconds remaining. Hansbrough inbounded the ball to Lawson, who raced from his own free throw line to just outside the top of the key be- fore launching a floater that found the bottom of the net as the buzzer rang. 2011 ACC Tournament The Tar Heels trailed by 19 points against Miami in the quarterfinals but rallied for a 61-59 win on a buzzer-beating layup by Tyler Zeller after a drive and pass from freshman point guard Kendall Marshall. It was the largest comeback by UNC in ACC Tournament history. The Hurri- canes led, 53-34, with 9:51 to play but Carolina scored 27 of the final 33 points. The next day, fourth-seeded Clemson led the No. 1-seeded Tar Heels, 38-28, at the half be- fore UNC rallied again for a 92-87 win in over- time. The 10-point halftime deficit is the largest Carolina has ever overcome to win at the ACC Tournament. Harrison Barnes scored 40 points, including 14 in overtime, to tie the ACC fresh- man scoring record and set a record for fresh- man scoring in an ACC Tournament game. 147 Ty Lawson sank this running three-pointer as time expired and the Tar Heels beat Florida State, 80-77, on Jan. 28, 2009. Michael Erdelyi Bob Donnan