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 […]
CHAPEL HILL — When college stars like Cole Anthony are injured, they are faced with the question of whether they should they return or just sit out the season to protect their looming draft prospects. […]
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 […]
When Roy Williams brought his North Carolina basketball team to UNC Wilmington back in November, in large part to help boost the program of former assistant C.B. McGrath, the Tar Heels coach described McGrath’s Seahawks […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
CHAPEL HILL — The news became official on Friday. North Carolina basketball player Anthony Harris suffered a tear to the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during Monday’s game against Yale and will need […]
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 […]
LAS VEGAS — North Carolina was fully in control in the first half, using a big run to build a double-digit lead. The way the Tar Heels were playing, it looked like their losing streak […]
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