Wake Forest and Virginia meet at 3:30 p.m. in the second semifinal and the winners will meet Friday at 2 p.m. for the ACC championship.
UNC (15-0, 6-0 ACC) wrapped up the regular season on Saturday on this same blue turf with a 2-0 win over the Blue Devils. The Tar Heels also practiced in Durham on Tuesday morning before the day's quarterfinal games got started. Syracuse, Wake Forest and Virginia all won to advance to Wednesday. UNC received a bye as the tournament's top seed.
Carolina is playing for its 25th ACC title and its sixth in a row.
Notes on the matchup
• UNC and Syracuse are meeting for the 24th time overall and the second time in the past three weeks. North Carolina won the regular-season matchup 6-1 on Oct. 14 in Chapel Hill.
• It marks the second year in a row the Tar Heels and Orange have met in the ACC semifinals. Last season, Carolina won 4-1 in a semifinals matchup in Syracuse.
• UNC leads the overall series with Syracuse 16-7.
• UNC is 4-1 vs. Syracuse in ACC Tournament play. Four of the previous five meetings have also been in the semifinals:
2013: UNC 1-0 in semis
2014: SU 3-2 OT in semis
2015: UNC 2-1 in finals
2020: UNC 4-3 OT in semis
2021: UNC 4-1 in semis
• Carolina's OT victory in the 2020 ACC Tournament semifinals, which the Tar Heels won on a penalty stroke by Bryn Boylan, was the 701st win for UNC coach Karen Shelton, making her the sport's all-time leader in victories.
Noting the Tar Heels
• UNC is in its sixth week as the No. 1 team in the NFHCA national poll. The Tar Heels started the season at No. 2 before moving into the top spot on Sept. 27.
• The Tar Heels finished the regular season undefeated for the fifth time in program history, the first since 2019. It's the 17th time that UNC has completed an undefeated ACC season.
• UNC is playing as the top seed in the ACC Tournament for the 19th time.
• UNC has started the same 10 field players in every game this season. Goalkeepers Abigail Taylor and Kylie Walbert have alternated starts.
• Through 15 games, Carolina is outshooting opponents 260-112 and outscoring them 64-14.
• With an assist in the second quarter of the Oct. 14 win over Syracuse, Erin Matson became the all-time scoring leader in ACC history, breaking a tie with Maryland's Katie O'Donnell, who scored 306 points in 91 career games from 2007-10. Matson currently has 321 career points through 95 games.
• Matson is closing in on UNC's career assists record. She has 61, two shy of tying the all-time mark, which is held by Katelyn Falgowski.
• Matson was named ACC Offensive Player of the Year for the fifth time, making her the first five-time winner of a Player of the Year honor in league history. Meredith Sholder was named Defensive Player of the Year, Ryleigh Heck Freshman of the Year and Karen Shelton Co-Coach of the Year.
UNC in the ACC Tournament
• UNC has won 24 ACC Championships, more than any other conference team. No other current conference school has won more than four (Wake Forest). Former member Maryland won 10 before moving to the Big Ten.
• The Tar Heels are 61-15 all-time in ACC Tournament play.
• UNC is the five-time defending champion in the event.
• The Tar Heels are the No. 1 seed in the tournament for the 19th time overall and the first since 2019.
• UNC is 33-2 overall when playing as the No. 1 seed.
• Carolina has won 16 of its 24 titles playing from the top spot, most recently in both 2018 and 2019.
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