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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.
No. 6-ranked North Carolina is one of five regional hosts in the NCAA baseball tournament that drew a No. 2 seed with a much-higher RPI than is logical for its seed.
With the NCAA set to reveal the baseball tournament field Monday, No. 7 North Carolina continues to be projected as a high national seed.
CHARLOTTE — A lower-back injury forced center fielder Vance Honeycutt to miss the last 10 games last season, making his absence from No. 7-ranked North Carolina’s lineup on Thursday with back spasms alarming.
CHARLOTTE — Wake Forest saved the best pitcher in the ACC for top-seeded North Carolina, and he can’t wait to face the Tar Heels. The No. 7-ranked Tar Heels’ ACC tournament opener at 3 p.m. Thursday against No. 12 seed Pittsburgh (26–28) will be a meaningless tune-up. Win or lose on Thursday, UNC will make the tournament semifin
CHAPEL HILL — It takes plenty of pitching depth to win the ACC tournament, and No. 7-ranked North Carolina has a quality mix of three solid starters, several good bullpen arms and a potent offense to pull it off.
North Carolina is a top-four national seed in D1 Baseball’s latest NCAA tournament projection. The prediction lists the Tar Heels (41–12), who won the ACC Coastal Division and the No. 1 seed in the ACC tournament with the best league record (22–8), as the No. 4 overall seed, hosting Oregon, UNC Greensboro and Cornell in the Chapel Hill Regional.
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.
By R.L. Bynum A Friday matchup between the last two ACC regular-season champions for a spot in the semifinals? That’s … More
How good is the ACC? No. 7-ranked North Carolina earned the No. 1 seed in the league tournament but will have to play the nation’s No. 8-ranked team in its pool. When No. 17-ranked N.C. State (32–19, 18–11 ACC) finished a three-game weekend sweep of No. 8-ranked Wake Forest, that earned the Wolfpack the No. 3 seed in the ACC tournament and bumped the Deacons to the No. 8 seed.
DURHAM — If there was any question about No. 7 North Carolina’s worthiness for a national seed in the NCAA tournament, the Tar Heels removed all doubt on Saturday. The Tar Heels pounded No. 11 Duke 14–6 before plenty of Carolina fans at Jack Coombs Field for their eighth win in the last nine games, heading into next week’s ACC tournament in Charlotte, where they will be the No. 1 seed.
This Carolina-Duke battle won’t be in Cameron Indoor Stadium but in an even older venue a short walk away, with the stakes and caliber typical of the rivals’ basketball battles. The No. 7 Tar Heels (39–11, 20–7 ACC) and No. 11 Blue Devils (36–16, 15–12) will meet in baseball at Jack Coombs Field — which opened in 1931, nine years before Cameron — for the first time in 10 years.
North Carolina jumped four spots in the D1 Baseball Top 25 to a season-best No. 7 after going 4–0 and clinching the ACC Coastal Division title. It’s the Tar Heels’ highest ranking in that poll since they were No. 3 on March 3, 2019. UNC is No. 4 in the Baseball America poll.
CHAPEL HILL — There’s been no place like home for No. 11 North Carolina, which makes a possible top-eight seed in the NCAA tournament golden for the Tar Heels. With a three-game sweep of Louisville after winning Sunday’s finale 16–7, UNC finished 32–2 at Boshamer Stadium for the most regular-season home wins in five years, and a program-record 14 ACC home wins.
CHAPEL HILL — When a starter’s outing doesn’t go well, No. 11 North Carolina’s bullpen usually offers relief. That was the case Saturday when the Tar Heels got their best bullpen performance in an ACC game in nearly a month. They clinched the weekend series with a 6–4 victory over Louisville.
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