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CHAPEL HILL — When Jaydon Young was a kid, North Carolina basketball wasn’t just a team — it was his world. Growing up in Goldsboro, he wore Carolina blue with pride, cheering from his living room, sometimes pacing with nervous energy, sometimes sulking after a loss.
Banana Ball is coming to Chapel Hill, but not to Boshamer Stadium. he Savannah Bananas baseball team, which has appeared multiple times at Durham Bulls Athletic Park, will make its first visit to a Triangle area football stadium when it comes to Kenan Stadium on April 11 and 12 to face the Texas Tailgaters.
CHAPEL HILL — There’s no mistaking when Caleb Wilson enters a room. The 6–10 Carolina freshman forward from Atlanta doesn’t just walk in. He fills the space. His voice carries. His laugh echoes. His presence draws people in, teammates and students alike.
Amid various reports about the future of Bill Belichick as North Carolina’s football coach, the university released statements from him and Athletics Director Bubba Cunningham on Wednesday evening suggesting that he isn’t going anywhere.
CHARLOTTE — When Seth Trimble looks around the locker room these days, the faces are almost all new. The walls still carry the echoes of North Carolina’s storied history, but most of the former teammates who once added memorable chapters, such as Armando Bacot, RJ Davis and Caleb Love, are gone.
CHARLOTTE — As Carolina coach Hubert Davis prepares for a season marked by transformation and high expectations, he’s both introspective and energized. With offseason chatter framing this as a pivotal season for him, Davis is embracing the challenge head-on.
CHARLOTTE — When Henri Veesaar arrived in Chapel Hill last summer, he brought a distinctly European basketball mindset, one built on pace, precision and patience. At 7–0, 225 pounds, the Estonian doesn’t look like some past Tar Heel big man who punished defenders in the post. But Veesaar’s presence inside may be the missing piece in North Carolina’s offense that will create better spacing than last season.
CHARLOTTE — Here is the complete transcript and the video from North Carolina’s men’s basketball press conference Tuesday afternoon at the Hilton Charlotte Uptown, with Coach Hubert Davis, center Henri Veesaar and guard Seth Trimble.
CHARLOTTE — Jim Phillips says that the ACC is reshaping its competitive balance and its basketball schedule to better position the league for national prominence.
North Carolina’s men’s basketball team will only play four games that start at 9 p.m. or later, but one of those games is in the Mountain Time Zone and one is in the Pacific Time Zone.
CHARLOTTE — With Lexi Donarski gone, there’s little mystery about who will likely take on the toughest defensive assignments for North Carolina this season. Senior guard Indya Nivar, the Tar Heels’ best returning defensive player, is ready to embrace that challenge, and as one of the team’s veterans, she’ll do it while leading a younger, retooled backcourt.
CHARLOTTE — North Carolina will be part of the first day featuring men’s basketball teams at the ACC Tipoff on Tuesday at the Hilton Charlotte Uptown, and you can watch the Tar Heels on ACC Network.
CHARLOTTE — One day, Reniya Kelly wants to live off the land. The 5–7 junior guard from Hoover, Ala., lights up when she talks about her post-basketball dream: rows of fruit trees, a garden full of vegetables, and a barn bustling with animals.
CHARLOTTE — Most coaches replacing three starters, including a decorated five-year player, face significant challenges. It’s not as if North Carolina coach Courtney Banghart wouldn’t love to have forward Alyssa Ustby, center Maria Gakdeng and guard Lexi Donarski back. But the influx of six talented players, including an incoming recruiting class ESPN ranked No. 5, along with stars returning, could make that transition easier after last season’s Sweet 16 run.
CHARLOTTE — Here is the complete transcript from North Carolina women’s basketball coach Courtney Banghart’s press box appearance at ACC Tipoff at the Hilton Charlotte Uptown with senior guard Indya Nivar and junior guard Reniya Kelly.
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