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UNC Men’s Tennis Receives No. 2 NCAA Tournament Ranking

Posted by Staff | May 4, 2016 | UNC Sports

UNC men’s tennis is the number 2 overall seed in the 2016 NCAA Tournament. The Tar Heels will host the first two rounds of the tournament May 14 and 15. UNC will take on College of Charleston May 14 at noon. Tickets are $5...

Cardinal Gibbons All-Time Leading Scorer Commits To UNC

Posted by Staff | May 4, 2016 | UNC Sports

Olivia Smith will follow in the footsteps of her three older sisters and enroll at UNC. Smith will be another addition to the UNC women’s basketball team’s 13th-ranked recruiting class, according to ESPN. “We are...

Kennedy Meeks to Return For Senior Season

Posted by Staff | May 4, 2016 | Featured, UNC Sports

Kennedy Meeks will return to UNC for his senior season, the school announced on Wednesday. In his first three seasons, Meeks has averaged 9.4 points and 6.5 rebounds and shot 55.4 percent from the floor in 104 games. He has...

UNC Wins Third Straight Game

Posted by Blake Hodge | May 3, 2016 | Featured, UNC Sports

The North Carolina Tar Heels have won three games in a row on the baseball field. Carolina got a victory over Virginia Commonwealth on Tuesday night in the third game of a seven-game homestand for UNC. The win on Tuesday came in...

UNC Baseball Hosts Virginia Commonwealth

Posted by Blake Hodge | May 3, 2016 | UNC Sports

After a weekend off from Atlantic Coast Conference play, the UNC baseball team takes the field at Boshamer Stadium on Tuesday night hosting Virginia Commonwealth. The Tar Heels are coming off of two mid-week wins last week over...

UNC Women’s Lacrosse Remain No. 3, Men Fall to No. 13

Posted by Blake Hodge | May 2, 2016 | UNC Sports

A win in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament was not enough to move the North Carolina women’s lacrosse team up in the latest Inside Lacrosse rankings. UNC still sits at No. 3, behind Maryland and Florida – which happen to...

Johnson, Jackson, Paige Receive NBA Combine Invites

Posted by Staff | May 2, 2016 | Featured, UNC Sports

According to ESPN’s Jeff Goodman, three Tar Heels have received invitations to the NBA Draft Combine, which will begin next week. Justin Jackson, Marcus Paige and Brice Johnson will all participate in the annual event...

UNC Women’s Lax Wins ACC Title in OT

Posted by Blake Hodge | May 1, 2016 | Featured, UNC Sports

A sudden-death overtime goal from Aly Messinger clinched the Atlantic Coast Conference title for the UNC women’s lacrosse team on Sunday. The top-seeded Tar Heels knocked off No. 2 seed Syracuse by a 15-14 score in the...

Six Tar Heels Sign NFL Contracts

Posted by Blake Hodge | May 1, 2016 | Featured, UNC Sports

UNC has now gone two consecutive years without having a player selected in the seven-round NFL Draft. Guard Landon Turner earned first-team All-American honors for his play during his senior season for the Tar Heels but,...

UNC Men’s Lacrosse Falls to Syracuse in ACC Tournament

Posted by Blake Hodge | Apr 29, 2016 | UNC Sports

No. 1 seed North Carolina was knocked off in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament semifinal on Friday night. Fourth-seeded Syracuse led throughout the game, jumping out to a 3-0 lead at the end of the first quarter. UNC...

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