The Duke-North Carolina rivalry has extended its borders this year as the schools held dueling press conferences to introduce their new coaches. Both teams have maintained an other-worldly level of success for generations and have […]
DURHAM — Mike Krzyzewski plans to coach one more season before turning over control of the Duke basketball program to former Blue Devils point guard and current assistant Jon Scheyer. Still, Wednesday’s announcement that the […]
Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, the winningest coach in college basketball history, plans to retire after one more season with the Blue Devils, the university’s athletic department announced Wednesday. The 74-year-old Hall of Famer has coached at […]
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 […]
While the North Carolina sports world — and most of college basketball — was reeling with the news of Roy Williams’ sudden retirement last Thursday, another college program with a long basketball history made a […]
Hubert Davis will replace Roy Williams as North Carolina head coach, the school announced on Monday. The UNC Board of Trustees held an emergency meeting Monday to approve the hiring, and the team will hold […]
CHAPEL HILL — Shammond Williams, like virtually everyone else when they first saw the news Thursday, thought it was an April Fools’ gag. But when the former North Carolina basketball star realized that coach Roy […]
CHAPEL HILL — Roy Williams announced his retirement as head coach of the University of North Carolina on Thursday. Williams, UNC chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz and athletic director Bubba Cunningham spoke at an emotional press conference […]
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 […]
Spring: That time of year in North Carolina where, if you don’t like the way your favorite team’s roster looks, just wait a minute, and it’ll change. No team has embodied that idea more than […]
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