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North Carolina is No. 12 on the “way-too-early” Top 25 list that Baseball America released on Wednesday. The Tar Heels, who went 48–16 last season and made the College World Series, are one of eight ACC teams on the list. They are one of five league teams in its top 12, along with No. 3 Florida State (49–17 last season), No. 4 Clemson (44–16), No. 6 Virginia (46–17) and No. 9 Duke (40–20).
Coach Hubert Davis’ fourth North Carolina team will face a challenging non-conference schedule that includes three — potentially six — opponents in Bart Torvik’s preseason Top 25. UNC meets four teams — potentially 10 — that made the NCAA tournament field last season.
North Carolina’s two football coordinators have the top two base salaries of any employee on the UNC campus, according to the UNC Salary Information Database. The database, updated on June 30, shows that Carolina’s defensive coordinator Geoff Collins (top photo) and offensive coordinator Chip Lindsey are the only employees on the Chapel Hill campus earning a base salary of more than $1 million.
For the second consecutive summer visit to Mexico, UNC freshman point guard Lanie Grant is returning home with gold. Grant started in all seven games as the No. 1-ranked USA finished the FIBA U17 Women’s World Cup 7–0 by rolling to an 84–64 victory over No. 2 Canada in Leon, Mexico, late Sunday night for the Americans’ third consecutive gold medal in the event.
Two North Carolina players are projected first-round 2025 MLB Draft picks, and a third is in the top 100 of a list D1 Baseball released on Friday.
It was another convincing United States victory with more all-around domination and consistent play from North Carolina point guard Lanie Grant.
Former Liberty head baseball coach Scott Jackson’s expected move to the North Carolina coaching staff has netted the Tar Heels a star left-handed hitting outfielder for the second time in two days. In addition, a former Flames pitcher is joining UNC.
Carolina freshman point guard Lanie Grant scored 11 of her 17 points in the second quarter and had three of the USA’s record 30 steals as the No. 1 Americans rolled to a 123–42 victory Tuesday over No. 9 Croatia to finish Group C play 3–0 at the FIBA U17 Women’s World Cup.
There was good news for North Carolina on the second day of the MLB Draft with left fielder Casey Cook and right fielder Anthony Donofrio both getting drafted. However, there was also potentially bad news, with one of the Tar Heels’ high school recruits also getting selected.
Versatile center fielder Vance Honeycutt, who rewrote the record books during his three seasons at UNC, became the 25th first-round pick in program history and was the highest-picked Tar Heel in five years.
Incoming UNC freshman point guard Lanie Grant started and scored all six of her points in a 40-second stretch when the United States took control in the third quarter in an easy 82–55 victory late Saturday night over Australia in the FIBA Women’s World Cup at the Inforum arena in Irapuato, Mexico.
Scott Jackson is expected to return to the North Carolina baseball coaching staff. Jackson resigned Thursday after eight seasons as Liberty’s head coach and, according to multiple reports, will join Coach Scott Forbes’ staff at UNC.
Center fielder Vance Honeycutt did it all at UNC, from hitting a school-record 65 home runs and consistently saving runs with his outstanding range on defense to becoming the only Power 5 conference player in NCAA history with at least 60 home runs and at least 70 steals (76). Those numbers impress MLB scouts, but their reservations have Honeycutt curiously falling from a projected top-5 pick a year ago to between the middle and the bottom of the first round for Sunday’s MLB Draft.
Harrison Ingram turned in his best Summer League performance on Tuesday with a double-double in the San Antonio Spurs’ win over China on a night that Armando Bacot made his debut in the league.
What do the top computer rankings say about the prospects for UNC’s men’s basketball team Bart Torvik, whose rankings are one of the three most respected computer rankings, has the Tar Heels moving up from No. 9 in last season’s final ranking to No. 6 in its 2024–25 preseason projection.
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