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Anthony returns, but Heels fall to BC
CHAPEL HILL — Jared Hamilton grew up in North Carolina rooting for the Tar Heels. In his first game at the Smith Center, the home team could have used him. Hamilton scored 18 points and […]
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Anthony’s ‘sensational’ return not enough to save Tar Heels
CHAPEL HILL — Cole Anthony was back and it was almost as if he’d never been away once he shook off the rust of his nearly two-month injury layoff. The problem is, his team also […]
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Tar Heels win second straight, beat rival Wolfpack
RALEIGH — The injuries have piled up at North Carolina. So too have the losses in the roughest season of Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams’ tenure with his alma mater. And yet, the Tar […]
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Tar Heels lose another heartbreaker, drop 2OT game at Virginia Tech
BLACKSBURG, Va. — Tyrece Radford hadn’t made a shot all game, but when the ball came to him with the clock racing toward 0.00, he knew it was time to do something. The redshirt freshman […]
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Tar Heels dip below .500 with loss at Pitt
PITTSBURGH — Xavier Johnson could have chosen a cliche, something about how no one game is more important than any other. Instead, the Pittsburgh point guard went the other way. Two years ago, the Panthers […]
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Clemson ends drought in Chapel Hill, beats UNC in OT
CHAPEL HILL — Year after year, every Clemson team that played at North Carolina left the court in the same fashion: by throwing another loss onto what had grown into a bizarrely long streak. No […]
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Pitt beats Tar Heels to win first ACC road game in nearly two years
CHAPEL HILL — Pittsburgh’s road skid is over. North Carolina’s problems at home are far from it. Trey McGowens scored 24 points and Pittsburgh ended a 22-game losing streak in conference road games with a […]
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UNC’s Williams matches Dean Smith with his 879th win
CHAPEL HILL — Roy Williams will never admit that he’s the coaching equal of his mentor and role model Dean Smith. But in at least one sense, he’d be wrong. With his 879th career victory […]
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Wofford shocks depleted UNC
CHAPEL HILL — The venue was different, but the result was the same. Wofford traveled to Chapel Hill and shocked a ranked North Carolina team again, getting 19 points from Trevor Stumpe and riding a […]
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Bacot, Anthony lead UNC past Elon
CHAPEL HILL — Those newcomers at No. 5 North Carolina were playing like freshmen — and, really, the upperclassmen were too — during yet another sluggish start. The big men took it upon themselves to […]