Basketball color analysts on UNC radio network will be Tylers

By R.L. Bynum

After four analysts rotated on the Tar Heel Sports Network men’s basketball broadcasts last season, there will be only two Tylers this season.

Tyler Zeller and Tyler Hansbrough will rotate working alongside Voice of the Tar Heels Jones Angell on this season’s broadcasts, just as Joey Jauch and Brynn Renner do for football broadcasts. Angell announced the plan in Tuesday’s edition of the “Carolina Insider” podcast.

Last season, Zeller and Hansbrough were in a rotation that included Pete Chilcutt and Marcus Ginyard. New analysts stepped in at the beginning of the season as Eric Montross continued his cancer fight, which he sadly lost last December.
 
Zeller will be on the call with Angell for Tuesday night’s 7 p.m. exhibition game at Memphis (ESPNU). The network broadcast will start at 6 p.m.  

“You don’t replace Eric Montross, but you try to honor him and the first-class manner in which he represented Carolina, and the four of them did that all season. We can’t thank them enough,” Chuck Schroeder, Vice President and General Manager of Tar Heel Sports Properties, said.

“This season, we’ll go forward with Tyler Zeller and Tyler Hansbrough sharing these duties and joining Jones and our entire broadcast crew as we bring what promises to be another exciting season of Carolina Basketball to our fans listening all over the globe,” Schroeder said.

Zeller was an All-America center at UNC from 2008 to 2012. The Tar Heels won a national championship in his freshman season in 2009, and he was the ACC Player of the Year and a consensus second-team All-America in 2012. The Dallas Mavericks’ first-round pick in 2012, he played eight seasons in the NBA.

Hansbrough, who didn’t join the analyst rotation until later in the season, was the national player of the year when he led UNC to the 2009 title. He was also the 2008 ACC Player of the Year, a three-time consensus All-America, Carolina’s all-time leading scorer and played seven NBA seasons.


UNC schedule

DateMonth/dayTimeOpponent/event
(current ranks)
TV/
record
October
15TuesdayW, 84–76at MemphisExhibition
27Sunday2 p.m.vs. Johnson C. Smith
(exhibition)
ESPN3
November
4Monday9 p.m.vs. ElonACCN
8Friday7 p.m. ETat No. 1 KansasESPN2
15Friday8 p.m.vs. AmericanACCN
22Friday12:30 a.m ETat HawaiiESPN2
Maui Invitational
25Monday11:30 p.m. ETDaytonESPN2
26Tuesday8:30 or 11 ETNo. 11 Auburn or
Iowa State
ESPN or
ESPNU
27Wednesday2:30 ET, 5 p.m.,
9:30 or midnight
Memphis, No. 3 UConn,
Colorado or Michigan State
ESPN or
ESPN2
DecemberACC/SEC
Men’s Challenge
4Wednesday7:15vs. No. 2 AlabamaESPN
—————————
7Saturday2 p.m.vs. Georgia TechACCN
14Saturday4 p.m.vs. LaSalleThe CW
Jumpman Invitational
in Charlotte
17Tuesday7 p.m.No. 21 FloridaESPN
CBS Sports Classic
at Madison Square Garden
21Saturday3 p.m.UCLACBS
—————————
29Sunday8 p.m.vs. CampbellACCN
January
1WednesdayTBAat LouisvilleACCN
4SaturdayNoonat Notre DameCBS
7Tuesday9 p.m.vs. SMUACCN
11Saturday4 p.m.at N.C. StateACCN
15Wednesday7 p.m.vs. CalACCN
18Saturday2:15 vs. StanfordThe CW
21Tuesday9 p.m.at Wake ForestESPN
25Saturday2:15 p.m.vs. Boston CollegeThe W
28Tuesday9 p.m.at PittsburghESPN
February
1Saturday6:30 p.m.at No. 7 DukeESPN
8Saturday4 p.m.vs. PittsburghESPN or
ESPN2
10Monday7 p.m.at ClemsonESPN
15Saturday6 p.m.at SyracuseESPN
19Wednesday7 p.m.vs. N.C. StateESPN or
ESPN2
22Saturday4 p.m.vs. VirginiaESPN
24Monday7 p.m.at Florida StateESPN
March
1SaturdayNoonvs. MiamiESPN or
ESPN2
4Tuesday7 p.m.at Virginia TechESPN, ESPN2
orESPNU
8Saturday6:30vs. No. 7 DukeESPN
11–
15
Tues.–Sat.ACC tournament
Spectum Center, Charlotte

UNC roster

No.ClassPlayerPos.HgtWgt
2FreshmanJames Brown (4 star)56–8225
11FreshmanIan Jackson (5 star)26–5185
9FreshmanDrake Powell (5 star)26–6195
3Soph.Elliot Cadeau PG6–1180
22JuniorVen-Allen Lubin46–8230
5JuniorCade Tyson36–7205
13JuniorJalen Washington56–10230
7JuniorSeth Trimble26–3195
0SeniorTyzhaun Claude46–8226
4GraduateRJ DavisPG6–0180
24GraduateJae’Lyn Withers 46–9215
Walk-ons
15FreshmanJohn Holbrook46–823p
14SophomoreRussell Hawkins26–1175
6SeniorElijah Davis26–4197

Photo courtesy of UNC Athletics

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