One week away from Selection Sunday, No. 7 North Carolina has helped its NCAA tournament resume with six consecutive wins, including the Tar Heels’ seventh Quad 1 victory on Saturday.
Arizona upset on rough night for Love; Garcia scores 30 in loss; McKoy hits 23 on senior night
Caleb Love suffered the second-worst scoring and shooting night of his career as No. 6 Arizona got upset, while Dawson Garcia had a huge night in a Minnesota loss and Justin McKoy finished the regular season by leading Hawaii to a big senior night win.
Top-seeded UNC opens ACC tournament play at noon Thursday
As No. 1 seed, No. 7-ranked North Carolina opens play at the ACC tournament with a quarterfinal game on Thursday at Washington’s Capital One Arena.
Ryan shoots UNC to outright ACC title, sweep of Duke
DURHAM — No. 7 North Carolina was not in the mood to share, and graduate guard Cormac Ryan repeatedly shot down that possibility. Ryan scored a career-high 31 points, hitting four big free throws in the final 16.7 seconds, as the Tar Heels clinched the ACC regular-season title outright with an 84–79 victory Saturday at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Heels, fired up by Pitt pitcher’s words, win with Harber’s hitting, excellent pitching
CHAPEL HILL — With the excellent ace pitchers around the ACC, the ability to gut out victories by matching that with effective pitching will be a valuable trait, as will keeping your cool when an opponent goes over the line.
Love, Arizona clinch Pac-12 title; Adams finishes season with history-making effort
The sensational seasons for two former UNC backcourt teammates continue as Caleb Love keeps matching or topping RJ Davis and vice versa. Meanwhile, Destiny Adams finished her first season at Rutgers with a record-breaking effort.
Miami ousts UNC women after chaotic final minutes
GREENSBORO — A long field-goal drought. A blown lead. Poor late-game execution. Starters playing a lot of minutes because of a lack of depth. Head-scratching officiating. The common issues in many games this season made North Carolina’s stay in the ACC women’s basketball tournament a short one.
Depleted UNC women begin daunting ACC tournament challenge
Under normal conditions, the challenge of winning four games in as many days to capture the ACC women’s title is daunting. The fact that UNC guards used as many crutches during North Carolina’s 63–59 senior day victory over Duke as there were healthy guards — four — illustrates the challenges that the Tar Heels face this week in Greensboro.
UNC, which didn’t change in NET after blowout win, could still win a tiebreaker for No. 1 ACC tournament seed
The pattern of blowout wins helping teams in the NET rankings didn’t hold for No. 7 North Carolina on Tuesday night as the Tar Heels set their sights on trying to win the ACC regular-season title outright.
Bacot shows perimeter strength, plenty of emotion on senior night
CHAPEL HILL — At 8:46 p.m. on an emotional senior night, the Smith Center crowd roared one last time after Armando Linwood Bacot sank a 3-pointer for his last bucket in the arena. It came 1,581 days after he scored his first bucket on a short jumper 134 seconds into his career, also in a win against Notre Dame, and one day before he turns 24.