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UNC Basketball Still No. 2 in the Nation

Posted by Staff | Feb 1, 2016 | UNC Sports

The UNC basketball team remained No. 2 in the AP Poll this week. The Tar Heels are currently on a 12-game winning streak and are 19-2 this season. UNC basketball is 8-0 so far in the ACC after a Saturday afternoon victory over...

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...

UNC Looks To Recapture Shooting Touch

Posted by Staff | Jan 28, 2016 | Featured, UNC Sports

The Tar Heels will try to break out of their shooting slump in Saturday’s game against Boston College. Despite being in the midst of a 10 game winning streak, UNC head coach Roy Williams said he is concerned about his team’s...

Brice Johnson Wins ACC Player of the Week

Posted by Staff | Jan 25, 2016 | UNC Sports

Brice Johnson, a senior forward for the UNC basketball team, is the ACC Player of the Week. Johnson averaged 23 points and 14 rebounds against Wake Forest and Virginia Tech. That included a27 points and 11 rebounds in an 83-68...

Marcus Paige Nominated For Senior CLASS Award

Posted by Staff | Jan 19, 2016 | UNC Sports

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...

UNC Winning By Committee

Posted by Staff | Jan 19, 2016 | Featured, UNC Sports

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....

UNC Basketball Up to No. 2 in AP Poll

Posted by Staff | Jan 18, 2016 | Featured, UNC Sports

The UNC basketball team launched to No. 2 in the AP Poll on Monday afternoon. The Tar Heels improved to 16-2 on Saturday afternoon. Carolina is 5-0 in the ACC for the first time under Roy Williams. The UNC basketball team...

UNC Commit Named McDonald’s All-American

Posted by Blake Hodge | Jan 18, 2016 | UNC Sports

UNC basketball commit Tony Bradley has been named to the McDonald’s All-American Team. Bradley, a 6’ 11” center from Bartow, Florida, was the first blue-chip commitment after a rough recruiting stretch, by Carolina standards,...

Art’s Angle: Happy Birthday, Dean Dome

Posted by Art Chansky | Jan 15, 2016 | Featured

N.C. State’s visit marks the 30th birthday of the Dean Smith Center, which opened on the third Saturday in January, 1986, against Duke in what felt like an NCAA Tournament game. Both teams were undefeated – UNC 17-0 and ranked...

Antawn Jamison in North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2016

Posted by Staff | Jan 12, 2016 | UNC Sports

Antawn Jamison, a former All-American for the North Carolina Tar Heels, will be inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. Other members of the Hall’s Class of 2016 include the Carolina Hurricanes’ Rod...

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