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A Hot, Snowy Day On The Hill

Posted by Art Chansky | Feb 17, 2013 | Uncategorized

Maybe it has to be freezing outside for the Tar Heels to get hot inside. That was certainly the case on a cold and snowy Saturday, when Carolina played perhaps its best game of the season and, at long last, shot the...

Don't Be Wall Flowers!

Posted by Art Chansky | Feb 13, 2013 | Uncategorized

Win or lose tonight in Cameron, Carolina has to give Duke a game. The Tar Heels cannot knuckle under to an early tsunami as they did at Miami Saturday and during certain halves of certain games earlier in the season. The...

Don’t Be Wall Flowers!

Posted by Art Chansky | Feb 13, 2013 | Uncategorized

Win or lose tonight in Cameron, Carolina has to give Duke a game. The Tar Heels cannot knuckle under to an early tsunami as they did at Miami Saturday and during certain halves of certain games earlier in the season. The...

'93 Heels Head For Big Dance

Posted by Art Chansky | Feb 12, 2013 | Uncategorized

All season long Chapelboro.com’s “Hoop It Up” will be republishing select excerpts from Return To The Top on the 20th Anniversary of Dean Smith’s 2nd NCAA title season in 1993. Check back on Monday of...

The Eye Of The Hurricane

Posted by Art Chansky | Feb 10, 2013 | Uncategorized

This is far more about what Miami did than Carolina did not Saturday afternoon in Coral Gables. But, don’t kid yourself, what the Tar Heels couldn’t do contributed heavily to their 87-61 blowout to the ACC-unbeaten Hurricanes...

Shoop Heads For Purdue

Posted by Art Chansky | Feb 8, 2013 | Uncategorized

When Everett Withers and the remains of the Butch Davis coaching regime were not retained, only one member of the old staff stayed in Chapel Hill. John Shoop was still under contract for the 2012 season at UNC, so for the...

Heels Loose On, Off Court. Part II

Posted by Art Chansky | Feb 4, 2013 | Uncategorized

All season long Chapelboro.com’s “Hoop It Up” will be republishing select excerpts from Return To The Top on the 20th Anniversary of Dean Smith’s 2nd NCAA title season in 1993. Check back on Monday of...

McAdoo, Paige In The Zone

Posted by Art Chansky | Feb 3, 2013 | Uncategorized

All those jokesters who claim “Roy can’t coach” may have the rethink their theories after Carolina’s stunning comeback win over Virginia Tech Saturday. Unless Williams deserves an “F” for his pre-game pep talk, very little of...

Heels Loose On, Off Court. Part I

Posted by Art Chansky | Jan 28, 2013 | Uncategorized

All season long Chapelboro.com’s “Hoop It Up” will be republishing select excerpts from Return To The Top on the 20th Anniversary of Dean Smith’s 2nd NCAA title season in 1993. Check back on Monday of...

Seeing Red in a Sea of Red

Posted by Art Chansky | Jan 27, 2013 | Uncategorized

By not competing, Carolina committed the cardinal sin of UNC basketball Saturday night at N.C. State. Whether underdog, undermanned or under intense pressure from a crazed crowd, the Tar Heels have rarely not been ready to fight...

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