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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...

No. 20 Duke Stuns No. 5 UNC 74-73, Williams Apologizes

Posted by Avery Trendel | Feb 18, 2016 | Basketball, Featured, UNC Sports

Roy Williams, like most of Chapel Hill, was at a loss for words at the Dean Smith Center on Wednesday night after watching his No. 5 Tar Heels drop yet another heartbreaker to the hated Duke Blue Devils, this one by a score of...

No. 9 UNC Gets Back on Track, Demolishes Pittsburgh 85-64

Posted by Avery Trendel | Feb 14, 2016 | Basketball, UNC Sports

Since the calendar turned over to February, the No. 9 UNC men’s basketball team has seen its 13-game win streak end, lost twice, and had its head coach get sick during a sloppy win over the ACC’s worst team. On Sunday, the team...

Tar Heels Rally to Beat BC After Williams’ Vertigo Scare

Posted by Avery Trendel | Feb 10, 2016 | Basketball, Featured, UNC Sports

For close to 37 minutes on Tuesday night, all hope looked lost for the struggling No. 9 UNC men’s basketball team. Vertigo sent head coach Roy Williams to the locker room in the second half, and the Tar Heels trailed Boston...

No. 2 UNC Blows 15-Point Lead, Loses to Notre Dame

Posted by Avery Trendel | Feb 6, 2016 | Basketball, Sports, UNC Sports

While shooting woes doomed the No. 2 UNC men’s basketball game in its loss to Louisville on Monday, another of last season’s critical issues—the inability to close out games—resurfaced in Saturday night’s 80-76 loss at Notre...

Cold-Shooting Tar Heels Fall to No. 19 Louisville on the Road, 71-65

Posted by Avery Trendel | Feb 1, 2016 | Basketball, Featured, UNC Sports

The No. 2 UNC men’s basketball team has earned a reputation for having great depth and the ability to win ugly games. On Monday night, though, the Tar Heels may have played with fire for a little too long—shooting a season-low...

No. 2 UNC Suffocates Boston College as ACC Play Heats Up

Posted by Avery Trendel | Jan 30, 2016 | Basketball, Featured, UNC Sports

As college basketball begins to take the spotlight in the sporting world, the No. 2 Tar Heels defeated the Boston College Eagles 89-62 on Saturday—using the last place squad in the ACC as a tune-up before the competition becomes...

Art’s Angle: February From Hell

Posted by Art Chansky | Jan 29, 2016 | Featured

Let’s walk way out on the plank and say the Tar Heels beat winless (in the ACC) Boston College Saturday to go 8-0, which would lengthen by a long three-pointer Roy Williams’ best conference start at UNC. In our collective...

Tar Heels Grind Out a Win Over Virginia Tech, Could Move to No. 1

Posted by Avery Trendel | Jan 24, 2016 | Basketball, Featured, UNC Sports

With all the snow and ice covering the East Coast, you can’t blame the No. 2 UNC men’s basketball team for thinking this game against Virginia Tech was some sort of vacation. The Tar Heels came into Cassell Coliseum...

No. 2 Tar Heels Sleepwalk Past Wake Forest, 83-68

Posted by Avery Trendel | Jan 20, 2016 | Basketball, Featured, UNC Sports

Without playing anywhere close to its potential on Wednesday night, the No. 2 UNC men’s basketball team still managed an 83-68 win at the Smith Center over the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. The Tar Heels have now won 10 games...

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