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North Carolina announced a nonconference men’s basketball schedule Friday that will include more home games than last season and less travel. The highlights of the nine nonconference games at the Smith Center will be the first Chapel Hill matchup in program history on Nov. 7 against Kansas and the Dec. 7 matchup with Georgetown.
Neither RJ Davis nor Caleb Love heard their names called during the NBA draft after five-year college careers, but both former UNC guards will get a chance to prove they deserve a spot on an NBA roster.
The University of National Champions has earned another high finish in the all-sports Learfield Directors’ Cup competition. Carolina finished fourth, the Tar Heels’ best finish since 2009, matching their 2020–21 finish, led by NCAA titles in women’s soccer and women’s lacrosse.
A quality team will take Drake Powell this week in the NBA draft based on his potential, not expecting him to make a significant immediate impact. That’s the assessment of ESPN draft analyst Jonathan Givony ahead of the draft at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.
UNC will share $20.5 million in revenue with athletes, with the majority of it allocated to football and men’s basketball, and some to women’s basketball and baseball. Additionally, the number of scholarships will increase.
After a playing career that included many stops around the world, Jawad Williams — who won a national championship at Carolina in 2005 — is coming home for his second assistant coaching job in the NBA.
As if losing a dependable player to a rival school isn’t bad enough for the North Carolina fanbase, first-year N.C. State coach Will Wade is taking shots at how much the Tar Heels played Ven-Allen Lubin.
After playing his first five seasons with the Orlando Magic, guard Cole Anthony is reportedly headed to the Memphis Grizzlies in a blockbuster trade.
College basketball is becoming increasingly similar to pro basketball in many ways, so why not examine transfer portal transactions in the same light? Carolina lost five players to the men’s basketball transfer portal and brought in five. What if you looked at that as a five-for-five trade? How did the Tar Heels fare?
The NBA draft is less than two weeks away, and most mock drafts are projecting North Carolina’s Drake Powell to be a first-round pick, with predictions going as high as No. 17.
For the first time in 11 years, North Carolina will play at Kentucky in men’s basketball, with next season’s meeting being part of the ACC/SEC Challenge.
North Carolina is No. 7 on a list ranking groups of men’s basketball newcomers, which includes freshmen, transfers and foreign signees.
It was always expected that Ian Jackson, as a five-star recruit, would have a big season and leave North Carolina after one year, but it didn’t work out quite as expected. Jackson did move on, but instead of heading to the NBA, he’ll play his sophomore season close to home at St. John’s and hopes that Coach Rick Pitino will “let me rock.”
Tony Bradley has a chance to join a select group of North Carolina players — including two members of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame — who have won championships with the Tar Heels and in the NBA.
After one season at North Carolina, Ven-Allen Lubin is transferring to rival N.C. State to join first-year Wolfpack coach Will Wade.
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