After opening the season with two home victories, North Carolina fell one spot to No. 20 in the latest AP Top 25 men’s basketball poll on Monday, when Armando Bacot earned Lute Olson National Player of the Week honors.
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Tar Heels drop in AP women’s Top 25 after escaping Davidson’s upset bid
Carolina fell one spot to No. 17 in the AP Top 25 women’s basketball poll after a narrow victory over Davidson on Sunday. UNC (2–0), which beat Gardner-Webb 102–49 on Wednesday and escaped with a 74–70 win Sunday over upstart Davidson, is back in Carmichael Arena at 11 a.m. Wednesday to face Hampton (0–1), which lost 76–46 at Providence.
Tar Heels in pros: Big games for White, Johnson, Sharpe; Black scores first NBA points
Coby White, Cameron Johnson and Day’Ron Sharpe had solid Sunday games in victories on a day when Leaky Black scored his first NBA points and Pete Nance put up a double-double in the G League.
Tar Heels in NFL: Howell tosses three TD passes, including one to Brown, in loss; Chandler scores first NFL TD
Sam Howell threw for three touchdowns, including a huge late one to former UNC teammate Dyami Brown, and produced his fourth game with at least 300 yards this season. It was in a losing effort, but the second-year pro showed why he is the Washington Commanders’ franchise quarterback with another impressive effort.
No. 16 Heels fend off Davidson’s upset bid with huge late rebounds
CHAPEL HILL — After taking down Wake Forest the day before, Davidson came to Carolina confidently determined to challenge another ACC team. The Wildcats gave No. 16 UNC their best shot with superior rebounding and 10 3-pointers. But the Tar Heels got the huge rebounds they needed in the final 18 seconds to hold on for a 74–70 victory Sunday night at Carmichael Arena.
Video: Postgame comments from Hubert Davis, RJ Davis, Bacot and Ingram after UNC’s victory
CHAPEL HILL — Watch and hear what Hubert Davis, RJ Davis, Armando Bacot and Harrison Ingram had to say after No. 19 North Carolina’s victory over Lehigh.
UNC shakes off Lehigh in final 12 minutes, as Bacot, Davis, Ingram shine
By R.L. Bynum CHAPEL HILL — Armando Bacot made the case before the season that this group of Tar Heels … More
Carolina moves up in both national football polls
By R.L. Bynum Carolina moved up two spots to No. 22 in the AP Top 25 after the Tar Heels’ … More
Good, Bad and Ugly Report: Duke
I’ve written this column (or a version of it) for over a decade. Sometimes, it writes itself, sometimes there’s a search to put things in the right slots, and sometimes there’s a wait until the clock hits zero to have it come together. And sometimes there is a Saturday night.
Watch: UNC postgame videos with Brown, Maye, Nesbit, Rucker and Gray
CHAPEL HILL — Hear what Coach Mack Brown and players Drake Maye, Bryson Nesbit, Kaimon Rucker and Cedric Gray had to say after No. 24 North Carolina’s homecoming game with Duke on Saturday night.
Carolina wins wild double-overtime thriller over Duke
CHAPEL HILL — After blowing a double-digit fourth-quarter lead for the third consecutive ACC game, Carolina put together the big late drive that it couldn’t pull off against Virginia or Georgia Tech — only to blow the lead again. But Noah Burnette, who kept the No. 24 Tar Heels in the lead much of the way, wouldn’t let their homecoming game slip away.
Gakdeng settling into UNC’s system as No. 16 Heels face better opponent in Davidson
North Carolina’s No. 16-ranked women’s basketball team faces the toughest of four non-conference home opponents to start the season on Sunday. But Davidson will also be playing on consecutive days, and must deal with the inside challenge of going up against junior Boston College transfer center Maria Gakdeng.
Lehigh won’t present No. 19 UNC same challenge as Radford
No. 19 North Carolina got a pretty good challenge in its opener on Monday night, but that probably won’t be the case on Sunday. The Tar Heels (1–0) welcome Lehigh to the Smith Center at 2 p.m. (ACC Network) after pulling away from Radford on Monday for an 86–70 victory.
Tar Heels in pros: Teammates Jackson, Pinson have big games on opening night in G League; Johnson returns from injury
Justin Jackson and Theo Pinson, two of three UNC alums who play for the Texas Legends, had big games on opening night in the G League. Jackson, in his third stint with the Legends, scored 26 points and Pinson added 21 but the Legends lost at home Friday night to the Oklahoma City Blue 108–95
Love shoots down Duke again, this time with Arizona
DURHAM — The familiar No. 2 was back in Cameron Indoor Stadium but in an unfamiliar uniform. After three trips and two wins wearing Carolina blue, senior guard Caleb Love wore a dark-blue Arizona uniform with red trim Friday night. Despite some of the heat he got last season from UNC fans, he reminded the world of his love for UNC by scrawling “Tar Heel 4L” (Tar Heel for life) on one shoe that featured a light-blue Swoosh.
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