Duke freshmen R.J. Barrett, Zion Williamson, Cam Reddish, Tre Jones and Joey Baker have received a lot of attention heading into the rapidly approaching college basketball season. And for good reason, since they’re the consensus […]
With classes still at least a week away from resuming and their campus still closed in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, the men’s and women’s basketball teams at UNC Wilmington will begin their preseason preparations […]
In 2005, longtime UNC writer Art Chansky wrote the definitive history of the UNC-Duke basketball rivalry, “Blue Blood.” Chansky, whose then-three decades of experience with the rivalry, dating back to his days with the Daily […]
The North Carolina basketball team put up some impressive offensive numbers during its recent exhibition trip to the Bahamas. Those point totals, however, weren’t the statistics that caught coach Roy Williams’ eye. The Hall of […]
Five-star center Armando Bacot revealed Thursday in a video announcement that he has selected North Carolina as the destination for his college career. Bacot chose the Tar Heels over Tobacco Road rival Duke. He is rated as […]
The floor inside the arena named for one legendary North Carolina basketball coach will now bear the name of the Tar Heels’ current Hall of Fame leader. UNC announced Thursday that the playing surface inside […]
CHAPEL HILL — Luke Maye’s testing of the NBA waters was more like an ankle-deep wade than a head-first dive into the deep end. But that was all it took for him to get what […]
North Carolina has had good luck with players “testing the waters” of the NBA Draft since the rules for underclassmen were relaxed three years ago. Justin Jackson went through the process in 2016, returned to […]
North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams has carried on many of the traditions he learned from his mentor Dean Smith. Avoiding games against non-ACC in-state opponents isn’t one of them. A few weeks after UNC […]
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 […]
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