All five members of Duke’s starting five from last season are among the players invited to the NBA’s predraft scouting combine. Senior Grayson Allen will be joined by one-and-done former teammates Marvin Bagley III, Wendell […]
CHARLOTTE — Joel Berry and Theo Pinson walked slowly and quietly down a hallway from their locker room to a postgame press conference at Charlotte’s Spectrum Center on Sunday. It was a symbolic journey. Four […]
CHARLOTTE — The North Carolina basketball team had just played perhaps its worst 11 minutes of the season and was headed to the halftime locker room trailing Texas A&M by 14 Sunday when a whistle […]
CHARLOTTE — The North Carolina basketball team has played and beaten some big teams this season. Including Duke, twice. But the second-seeded Tar Heels have yet to face a task as tall as the one […]
CHARLOTTE — Today is St. Patrick’s Day. But when Roy Williams took a break from scouting his team’s next opponent to check the score of Virginia’s NCAA tournament opener against UMBC on Friday, he could […]
CHARLOTTE — Joel Berry has had his share of memorable moments during his standout basketball career at North Carolina. He’s been the MVP of both the ACC and NCAA tournaments, his number hangs proudly from […]
CHARLOTTE — Even defending national champions get a case of the butterflies at the start of the NCAA Tournament. It happened to North Carolina on Friday during the first 16½ minutes of its opening round […]
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — North Carolina didn’t run out of gas Saturday. It simply ran into the nation’s best college basketball team playing at the top of its game. Top-seeded and No. 1-ranked Virginia did to […]
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — North Carolina found something it could do well against Duke and stuck with it for as long as it could Friday. Then it hung on for dear life. Unlike a week ago […]
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Theo Pinson knew that he and his fellow starters would eventually get around to putting the ball in the basket Thursday. But after more than seven minutes and 13 straight missed shots […]
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