Marcus Paige Reads to Third Graders at Rashkis Elementary School

Marcus Paige has been watching more than just game tape of upcoming opponent Syracuse to get ready for his last home game in a Carolina uniform. “It’s wild how fast it goes,” Paige said. “Part of me feels like I’ve been here forever, but part of me feels like I just got here and was […]

Marcus Paige is one of the 30 nominees for the men’s basketball Senior CLASS Award, given by the NCAA each year to student-athletes that excel on and off the court. Paige is a double major in History and Media and Journalism and has made the Academic ACC Honor Roll for the past three seasons, according […]

If you ask UNC men’s basketball coach Roy Williams about his team’s identity – he’ll tell you it doesn’t have one. “The identity of this team is that we have no identity,” he said. “It just changes game to game who we’re going to depend on and who’s going to get it done.” Through 18 […]

The sun rises bright and high each morning over the African desert, much the same as it should hang over our own Dean E. Smith Center this winter. As King Mufasa once ruled over all of the animals while nurturing his son, Simba, so Coach Roy Williams will resume his quest to once again rule […]

This Saturday morning found me as most have in recent weeks: huddled with my friends in a line outside of the Dean E. Smith center. Congregated under my roommate’s oversized golf umbrella, the half-dozen of us waited beneath a gray Chapel Hill sky and watched as puddles encroached. It was cold and my bed was […]

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 of the Big 12 that Roy Williams occasionally pines for. From the moment you saw far more fetching fingers in the […]

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 who, frankly, keep playing like their nickname bearing down on the Final Four in Atlanta. If there is […]

Marcus Paige has really been thrown into the fire this season. With the early departure of Kendall Marshall to the NBA, Paige was asked to be the starting point guard at Carolina from day one. If that wasn’t a big enough task, he’s been forced to run the team with two of its best players […]

The hashtags started flying like PJ Hairston’s jump shots in Chestnut Hill on Tuesday night. #PJBeShootin #PJBeHittin #PJBeOnFire #PJNeedToBeStartin Hairston was finally blossoming into the player Roy Williams called “the best shooter he has ever recruited” in the first half against Boston College, and seemingly every UNC student with a Twitter was taking notice. Igniting […]

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 from the opening tip. They weren’t this time, perhaps thinking their sky blue uniforms would settle a red […]