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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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