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Lucas: Carolina Basketball Notebook

With the second highest road winning percentage in ACC history, Roy Williams has made a habit out of doing the unusual on the road during his Carolina head coaching career. If he can coach the Tar Heels to a victory tonight in Charlottesville, he’ll have done something very rare.

The Atlantic Coast Conference became a part of ESPN’s Big Monday package before the 2013-14 season. Tonight’s pair of contests—Carolina at Virginia and Miami at Virginia Tech—will mark the 32nd and 33rd Big Monday game. Out of those 33 games, only seven times has a team had to play the prior Saturday on the road followed by a road Big Monday game.