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Saturday Not Just Another UNC-Duke Game: It’s Bigger

Posted by Avery Trendel | Mar 4, 2016 | Basketball, UNC Sports

Saturday night when the No. 8 Tar Heels and No. 17 Blue Devils take the floor at Cameron Indoor Stadium it won’t be just another game in the UNC-Duke rivalry. With the ACC regular season title just one win away, this game is...

Marcus Paige Named First-Team Academic All-American

Posted by Staff | Mar 3, 2016 | Featured, UNC Sports

Marcus Paige is a first-team Academic All-American. Paige was named the second-team in 2014 and 2015. He is the first Tar Heel to be a three-time Academic All-American. Marcus Paige is only the third ACC player to be a...

Ginyard: My First of Four Ws at Duke

Posted by Marcus Ginyard | Mar 2, 2016 | Columns, Featured

Coach Williams always talks about how your collegiate career can speed by, usually conveying the message with a snap of his fingers. It’s a simple gesture, but the most appropriate as well. It’s hard to believe that some of the...

Marcus Paige Wins Second Straight Skip Prosser Award

Posted by Staff | Mar 1, 2016 | UNC Sports

Marcus Paige will receive the 2016 Skip Prosser Award. The award is given to the Atlantic Coast Conference’s top scholar-athlete for men’s basketball. Paige also won the award in 2015. The only other two-time winner of the...

Watch Marcus Paige Deliver An Emotional Senior Night Speech

Posted by Staff | Mar 1, 2016 | Featured, UNC Sports

Marcus Paige, Brice Johnson, and Joel James all spoke about their time in Chapel Hill. Paige’s speech was particularly emotional. He began the speech by thanking his parents. He told the crowd, “First and foremost,...

No. 8 UNC Picks Up Emotional Win Over Syracuse On Senior Night

Posted by Avery Trendel | Feb 29, 2016 | Basketball, Featured, UNC Sports

Monday night at the Dean Smith Center, despite a 75-70 win by the No. 8 Tar Heels over the Syracuse Orange, tears filled the arena—as fans said their goodbyes to a group of young men head coach Roy Williams dubbed his favorite...

Missed Opportunities Doom No. 7 UNC in Loss at No. 3 Virginia

Posted by Avery Trendel | Feb 27, 2016 | Basketball, Featured, UNC Sports

For all the talk hyping the No. 7 UNC men’s basketball team as championship contenders, the results against the ACC’s top teams have not quite backed it up to this point. A blowout home win against Miami the only outlier, the...

Brice Johnson: The Tar Heels’ Unexpected Star

Posted by Staff | Feb 26, 2016 | UNC Sports

Before the season started, Marcus Paige was expected to be in the running for ACC Player of the Year, and possibly a Wooden Award finalist. So far it hasn’t exactly gone as planned, but heading into their game against No. 3...

Jackson, No. 7 Tar Heels Shake Off Slow Start: Beat NC State 80-68

Posted by Avery Trendel | Feb 25, 2016 | Basketball, Featured, UNC Sports

Much of the criticism surrounding the No. 7 UNC men’s basketball team recently has centered on who would be able to help ACC player of the year candidate Brice Johnson when times get tough. Wednesday night in Raleigh, sophomore...

Art’s Angle: Right The Wrong

Posted by Art Chansky | Feb 19, 2016 | Featured

No question Carolina handed Wednesday night’s game to gritty Duke, the second straight season that has happened and the third time in the last five years. If the Tar Heels don’t give Austin Rivers a chance to win it in 2012 and...

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