State "Awfully Tough"
Ford playing defense as a freshman against N.C. State in 1975 They said I wasn’t a very good defensive player my freshman year, although I thought I was trying very hard. Maybe Coach Smith didn’t agree, because we...
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Together We Are Carolina
After getting blown out by 26 against Miami on Sunday, expectations for Wednesday night were low…well, as low as possible for a game against Duke. Rivalry games are special, and no rivalry is more special than Carolina-Duke. The...
Read MoreA 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...
Read MoreAfter Duke, March Is Coming Fast
Posted by Staff | Feb 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Carolina fans don’t know exactly how to feel after last night. The Tar Heels lost to their sworn enemy, but also took the nation’s second ranked team right down to the wire on their home court. And out of nowhere Roy...
Read MoreDon'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...
Read MoreDon’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...
Read MoreLessons
Posted by Staff | Feb 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Watching the Miami game while listening to Doris Burke’s analysis was a bad combo for a Tar Heel fan this weekend. We weren’t playing well and Ms. Burke was singing Miami’s praises. The discussion of Miami as a #1 seed didn’t...
Read More'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...
Read MoreBreakdown: Marcus Paige
Posted by Staff | Feb 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
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,...
Read MoreShoop Heads For Purdue
Posted by Staff | Feb 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
When Everett Withers and the remains of the Butch Davis coaching regime were not retained, only one member of the old staff stayed in Chapel Hill. John Shoop was still under contract for the 2012 season at UNC, so for the first...
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