RJ Davis Breaks the Record 3-Point Streak Set by the UNC Basketball Champ
RJ Davis, a senior basketball player at UNC, led the third-ranked Tar Heels (16-3, 8-0 ACC) to an 85-64 victory over Wake Forest (13-6, 5-3 ACC) at home on Monday night in his 100th career collegiate start. With his 36 points, he tied Tyler Hansbrough’s record of 39 points against Clemson in February 2008 for the most points scored by a Tar Heel in Smith Center history.
And with Davis’s accomplishment, UNC has not had a player score 30 or more points against Wake Forest since Hubert Davis, the head coach of the Tar Heels, finished with 30 in a game in February 1992, when Davis was just three years old.
With his current scoring average of 21.0 points per game, RJ Davis appears to be the overwhelming favorite to win the ACC Player of the Year award. He made 14 of 23 field goals, 4 of 8 three-pointers, and 4 of 5 free throws. During his team-high 37 minutes on the court, the 22-year-old guard added four rebounds, two assists, and zero turnovers.
He’s shooting a career-high 41.7 percent from beyond the arc this season, and this was his 16th straight game with multiple 3-pointers made. That beat Justin Jackson’s mark of 15 straight as a junior for the eventual 2016–17 national champions, setting a new record for UNC basketball.
In light of this, it makes sense that Davis became the first Tar Heel to score 30 points while committing no turnovers since Jackson doing so against Kentucky during his 2016–17 career.
Moreover, note that North Carolina now boasts a nine-game winning streak, its longest since the 11 consecutive victories that began with the six NCAA Tournament wins in 2017 and carried over to the first five games of the following season.
