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The Amazing Eight

Posted by Art Chansky | Mar 4, 2013 | Uncategorized

It may not rival the famed 8-points-in-17-seconds comeback against Duke in 1974, but Carolina’s 31 points in the last eight minutes of the first half against Florida State Sunday constitutes one of the hottest scoring streaks...

Smith By The Numbers

Posted by Art Chansky | Feb 26, 2013 | Uncategorized

Dean Smith will be 82 on Thursday, which is February 28 and a neat juxtaposition of numbers wouldn’t you say? Wait, there is more irony here. Smith won his first NCAA championship as a coach in ’82,...

Smith By The Numbers

Posted by Art Chansky | Feb 26, 2013 | Uncategorized

Dean Smith will be 82 on Thursday, which is February 28 and a neat juxtaposition of numbers wouldn’t you say? Wait, there is more irony here. Smith won his first NCAA championship as a coach in ’82, which was 31...

Bourbon Street Agenda

Posted by Art Chansky | Feb 25, 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...

School of Rock

Posted by Art Chansky | Feb 24, 2013 | Uncategorized

“Big-time basketball” made another stop in Chapel Hill Saturday, and though it isn’t always this way the shaking Smith Center gave nothing up to crazy Cameron, maniacal Maryland and the Wild West venues...

Jersey War Clinches Final Four

Posted by Art Chansky | Feb 18, 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...

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...

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