Art Chansky

LOS ANGELES – The Tar Heels are here, looking happy and healthy and apparently okay with not being the center of attention at the West Regional Sweet Sixteen. Those cheese heads from Wisconsin have the same swagger UNC used to...

What just happened? While all the talk is about Notre Dame’s 26-3 second-half run, the ACC Tournament championship game really turned on the first 11 unanswered points in less than 90 seconds that sent the Irish from eight down...

Even without self-banished Syracuse and its famous defense, the 62nd ACC Tournament has been in the zone from almost the moment it tipped off Tuesday with two one-point games between the four worst teams in the conference.

Mike Krzyzewski and Kevin White should resign their posts at Duke for harboring knowledge for almost one full year that Rasheed Sulaimon had been accused of sexually assaulting two women in two separate incidents. How does that...

You saw two teams going in opposite directions Tuesday night. Unfortunately, the team trending downward is Carolina, which suffered its fifth defeat in the last seven games and its fourth loss in the Smith Center this season,...

If any of the Tar Heels slept a wink Wednesday night, they awoke Thursday at the crossroads of their basketball season. They played well enough to win at Duke – in fact, should have won – but a heartbreaker like that can...

Dean Smith won three of his last four games at Cameron Indoor Stadium, but the one he lost may have represented the greatest coaching job of his 36-year career that would end after that season. His Tar Heels had won at Cameron...

Monumental events often make me go back in time to recall what was happening 10, 20, 30 years ago. The passing of Dean Smith, whose legacy will live forever, came almost cosmically as the basketball season heads into the home...

I remember my first (and only) interview with Dr. Linnea Smith the year after she married the famous basketball coach at UNC. A psychiatrist, she was confidential by nature and knew her husband preferred privacy over the very...

Virginia has now played 73 basketball games in Chapel Hill since the first in 1911. The Cavaliers have won eight times, including Monday night’s 75-64 surgical execution of the Tar Heels in the Smith Center. Ironically, UVa won...