CHAPEL HILL — Since No. 3 Carolina’s 10-game win streak ended, opponents have altered how they defend graduate center Armando Bacot and senior guard RJ Davis, and that’s led to a period of adjustment.
Love’s first career double-double helps Arizona survive in 3 OTs; Styles hits 20; Penn State wins again with Dunn starting; Adams scores 22
Caleb Love experienced a second wild multi-overtime game in as many seasons, but this time his team prevailed. Meanwhile, Dontrez Styles had a big game for Georgetown, Penn State keeps winning with D’Marco Dunn in the starting lineup and Destiny Adams continues to produce big scoring games for Rutgers.
Two-sport UNC star Julius Peppers first-ballot Pro Football Hall of Famer
One of the best two-sport athletes in the history of Carolina athletics is getting the ultimate honor in the sport he dominated as a pro. Julius Peppers will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Aug. 3, joining Chris Hanburger (2011) and Lawrence Taylor (1999) as Tar Heels to be enshrined. The 2024 Hall of Fame Class was announced Thursday.
UNC’s QB legacy helped lure 6–5 ‘football savant’ Max Johnson
CHAPEL HILL — The quarterback legacy Sam Howell and Drake Maye created goes well beyond their on-the-field accomplishments at North Carolina, and is a big reason the program attracted 6–5 Max Johnson.
ACC men’s basketball tournament will be in N.C. for five straight years; women’s event headed to Charlotte in 2027
The ACC men’s basketball tournament will be in North Carolina for five consecutive seasons starting in 2025, the longest run since the event was held in the state from 1990 to 2000, with the women’s tournament going to Charlotte in 2027.
UNC falls in NET rankings, but there were other positive fluctuations
Two losses to unranked teams in three games, even with a victory over a top-10 team in between, isn’t the recipe for improving your NCAA tournament resume. Luckily for No. 3 North Carolina (18–5, 10–2 ACC), the Tar Heels have banked enough big wins that they only fell one spot in the NET to 10th after their 80–76 Tuesday night home loss to a Clemson team (15–7, 5–6) that had dropped three of its previous five games.
White leads wild comeback in Bulls’ OT win with 33 points, seven 3s
Coby White may not have earned a spot in the NBA All-Star Game, but he continues to produce all-star quality performances. White scored 33 points with seven assists and five rebounds Tuesday as he led host Chicago Bulls in a rally from a 23-point deficit to earn a 129–123 overtime win over the Minnesota Timberwolves.
UNC comes out flat, can’t recover against hot-shooting Tigers
CHAPEL HILL — It took a half for No. 3 Carolina to shake off a Duke hangover.
It started with bad practices since that big win and continued until the Tar Heels finally found their stride. But the best they could do was tie it when Harrison Ingram shook off cramps with a game-tying 3-pointer with 4:17 left.
UNC matches longest streak as top 5 team in AP poll since 2019
North Carolina held its spot at No. 3 in the latest AP Top 25 men’s basketball poll after rebounding from its first ACC loss with an impressive 93–84 Saturday win over Duke.
Penn State wins twice with Dunn starting; Love, Adams, Garcia have big games
Caleb Love, Destiny Adams and Dawson Garcia all had big games last week, while Penn State won back-to-back games for the first time since December with D’Marco Dunn in the starting lineup.