CHAPEL HILL — The North Carolina basketball team worked hard to earn one of the four No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament. But the accomplishment didn’t come without complication. For the Tar Heels, the […]
CHARLOTTE — After a three-year trip through the deserts of D.C. and Brooklyn, the ACC Tournament is back in North Carolina, and the host schools have plenty of intrigue at stake this week in Charlotte. […]
CHAPEL HILL — A strange component to the UNC-Duke rivalry is the difference between the two regular season matchups. The first game is always an event, regardless of site. The best rivalry in sports resumes […]
DURHAM — The list of things that live up to the hype is short and elite: “Hamilton,” the smartphone, LeBron … and the Duke-North Carolina rivalry. By the time the game tips off Wednesday at […]
CHAPEL HILL — After 20 games of extreme ups and downs, the North Carolina basketball team may finally have found its identity. It’s a discovery that has come about only because its most talented young […]
ELON — The last time North Carolina traveled to Elon, Dean Smith was a freshman at the University of Kansas. UNC’s basketball team was known as the White Phantoms, and the team hadn’t won a […]
The North Carolina basketball team, with the addition of top recruits Nassir Little, Coby White and Leaky Black, has more than enough talent to make another serious run at a championship this season. But talent, […]
Duke freshmen R.J. Barrett, Zion Williamson, Cam Reddish, Tre Jones and Joey Baker have received a lot of attention heading into the rapidly approaching college basketball season. And for good reason, since they’re the consensus […]
In 2005, longtime UNC writer Art Chansky wrote the definitive history of the UNC-Duke basketball rivalry, “Blue Blood.” Chansky, whose then-three decades of experience with the rivalry, dating back to his days with the Daily […]
The North Carolina basketball team put up some impressive offensive numbers during its recent exhibition trip to the Bahamas. Those point totals, however, weren’t the statistics that caught coach Roy Williams’ eye. The Hall of […]
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