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Dontrez Styles knows that going from playing basketball at North Carolina to playing for N.C. State — even with a stop at Georgetown in between — isn’t a move that anybody would have expected. But the Kinston native is excited about his new adventure and glad to be back in his home state.
North Carolina’s tradition of overall athletics excellence continued as the Tar Heels earned their fifth consecutive top-10 finish in the Learfield Directors’ Cup standings. UNC’s run to the College World Series and fourth consecutive top-five finish in the NCAA Men’s Golf Championships helped the Tar Heels finish seventh for the eighth top-10 finish in the last nine seasons.
North Carolina’s men’s basketball team will play 12 non-conference games in the upcoming season, concluding with a home game against Campbell. Made for March reported that the program’s first game against the Camels is set for Sunday, Dec. 29.
Nothing can taint Michael Jordan’s legacy as one of the greatest players in NBA history, if not the greatest. However, a lengthy analysis and story by Charlotte writer Tom Haberstroh in Yahoo! questions whether Jordan’s defensive statistics during his memorable 1987–88 season were inflated.
The second ACC/SEC Challenge on the men’s side will feature a rematch of last season’s Sweet 16 matchup with Alabama.
North Carolina’s men’s basketball team will have challenges in November, but the Tar Heels will also have three games that shouldn’t test them much.
North Carolina already knew that UCLA would be its opponent in the CBS Sports Classic next season, but more details emerged on Monday.
Caleb Love will return to Arizona for a fifth college after going through the NBA draft process. Love, who announced the news in a social-media video on Wednesday, participated in the G League Elite Camp but couldn’t earn a spot in the NBA Draft Combine.
Just as in the previous two seasons, North Carolina’s men’s and women’s basketball teams will play on separate nights at the Jumpman Invitational at Charlotte’s Spectrum Center.
North Carolina may be running out of options to find a game-changing center to replace Armando Bacot. Former Rutgers shot blocker Clifford Omoruyi, a graduate transfer from Benin City, Nigeria, with one season of eligibility left, committed Sunday afternoon to Alabama over UNC, Georgetown and Kansas State.
Former UNC and Arizona guard Caleb Love will join five other former ACC players in the G League Elite Camp next weekend.
Elliot Cadeau is going back to the number he wore in high school. Cadeau wore No. 3 in high school, but that was Cormac Ryan’s number for Carolina last season. With Ryan’s college eligibility exhausted after his fifth college season, Cadeau will switch from the No. 2 he wore as a freshman to No. 3.
Carolina forward Harrison Ingram is one of 78 players invited to the NBA Draft Combine, which runs from May 12 to May 19 in Chicago at Wintrust Arena and the Marriott Marquis.
Carolina will reportedly have two fifth-year players next season. Jon Rothstein of CBS reports that Jae’Lynn Withers will return to the Tar Heels for his fifth college season. The Charlotte native transferred to Carolina last offseason after three seasons at Louisville.
RJ Davis made it official. North Carolina will have a fifth-year player for the third consecutive season after Davis announced with an Instagram post early Wednesday morning, “I’m back,” along with a reel of his highlights. He’ll be the only returning first-team All-American and likely the preseason national player of the year.
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