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May 24, 2025

Matt Doherty

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Steve Robinson makes subdued, but triumphant, return to Triangle

November 15, 2023 Shawn Krest

DURHAM — After Arizona upset No. 2 Duke, the local media crowded the tiny walkway leading to the visiting locker room, waiting for a chance to talk to one former Tar Heel, returning triumphant after […]

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Team transfer portal: UNC’s offseason roster makeover begins

March 29, 2023 Shawn Krest

In his first 17 years as UNC head coach, Roy Williams had a total of five players transfer out to play at other schools. It’s clearly a whole new world in Chapel Hill. In the […]

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Bright lights, big rebuild: Davis looks to assemble UNC roster

April 14, 2021 Shawn Krest

CHAPEL HILL — It didn’t take long for Hubert Davis to understand the spotlight. Being head coach of one of college basketball’s legendary blue blood programs is a different experience, even for someone who, like […]

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FRIEDLANDER: Williams reestablished ‘The Carolina Way,’ passes it on to successor Davis

April 7, 2021 Brett Friedlander

Roy Williams’ retirement as North Carolina’s basketball coach didn’t come completely as a surprise. He hinted at his intentions a few weeks earlier when, after beating archrival Duke on Senior Night, he knelt reverently onto […]

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No joke: Tar Heels legend Roy Williams retiring

April 1, 2021 North State Journal Staff

Roy Williams, the western North Carolinian who mentored under Dean Smith as both a student and assistant coach, and then built a power house program at Kansas before returning to Chapel Hill as the Tar […]

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Rebound: Matt Doherty discusses his coaching tenure at UNC

March 24, 2021 Shawn Krest

Before he agreed to become the third UNC head coach in the last four decades, Matt Doherty asked athletic director Dick Baddour for three things: He wanted to bring his assistant coaches with him. Doherty […]

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59-1: Tar Heels finally lose at home to Clemson

January 15, 2020 Brett Friedlander

CHAPEL HILL — The streak, the one that saw North Carolina win all 59 of the basketball games it had ever played against Clemson in Chapel Hill, had survived just about everything imaginable over the […]

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UNC looks to push home streak vs. Clemson to 60

January 8, 2020 Brett Friedlander

CHAPEL HILL — It’s a streak that defies explanation, so much so that players and coaches on both sides never seem to want to talk about it. Except, that is, once the North Carolina basketball […]

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Will this be the year Clemson climbs to the top of the (Chapel) Hill?

January 16, 2018 Brett Friedlander

  When it comes to playing in Chapel Hill, Clemson is the college basketball version of Sisyphus.   He’s the tragic Greek mythological figure condemned by the gods to spend eternity pushing a giant boulder up a […]

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