Tag: NCAA

Nance quickly feels at home at UNC, builds chemistry with Bacot

CHAPEL HILL — All that surprises Coach Hubert Davis about graduate transfer Pete Nance is that he’s not in the NBA already. Now that the versatile 6–11 player is at Carolina and a part of the program for one season, the second-year coach says it feels like the 22-year-old has been in Chapel Hill for four years even though it’s only been about 3½ months.

Bears agree to trade Quinn to Eagles for draft pick

The Chicago Bears have agreed to trade former Carolina defensive end Robert Quinn, who is having one of his least-productive seasons, to the Philadelphia Eagles for a fourth-round pick in the 2023 NFL draft, pending a physical. After breaking Richard Dent’s Bears single-season sack record last season with 18½, he has only one through seven games and only has six tackles and two assists. Last season, he had 38 tackles and 11 assists.

Four-star Indiana forward Laila Hull fourth Class of 2023 commitment for UNC women

Coach Courtney Banghart added the fourth commitment for North Carolina’s Class of 2023 recruiting class from four-star 6–1 forward Laila Hull of Zionsville, Ind. It was a natural landing spot, considering that she says her father loves UNC and Michael Jordan and hates Duke. Hull, who cut her list in August to UNC, Boston College, DePaul, Marquette and Maryland, posted on her Instagram account early Tuesday evening a picture of herself in a Carolina uniform with the words “Committed. #goheels #hk.”

UNC, already No. 1 in AP poll, also tops preseason coaches poll

North Carolina, already preseason No. 1 in the AP Top 25, added Tuesday the top ranking in the preseason USA Today Coaches Poll. The Tar Heels earned a lower percentage of first-place votes (71.8%) than in the AP poll (79%), 23 of 32 first-place votes, followed by No. 2 Gonzaga with five, No. 4 Kentucky with three and No. 3 Houston with 1. In the AP poll, UNC got 49 of 62 first-place votes, with No. 2 Gonzaga getting 12, No. 4 Kentucky two and No. 3 Houston 1.

How to watch UNC basketball exhibition, which should be even more one-sided than usual

If you can’t make it to the Smith Center for top-ranked Carolina’s exhibition Friday night against Johnson C. Smith, the only way to watch at home is to stream the broadcast. The television broadcast of the 7:30 game will stream on this ACC Network Extra (ESPN3) link, with Kyle Straub on the play-by-play and Marcus Ginyard as the color analyst.

Bacot makes Preseason AP All-America team

The Associated Press named Carolina senior Armando Bacot to its Preseason All-America team on Monday, the first Tar Heel to earn the honor since Luke Maye before the 2018–19 season. Kentucky’s Oscar Tshiebwe, the reigning national player of the year, and Gonzaga center Drew Timme were unanimous selections. Also on the team are Houston guard Marcus Sasser and Indiana forward Tayce Jackson-Davis.

Heels move up in AP poll, benefit in Coastal race from Pitt’s loss

North Carolina’s football team, which moved up one spot to No. 21 in the AP Top 25, didn’t play this weekend but the Tar Heels’ potential path to the ACC championship game got a bit easier. Louisville provided help by winning 24–10 at home Saturday against Pittsburgh, which gives the Tar Heels (6–1, 3–0 ACC) a two-game lead in the loss column over their closest competitors in the race to be the final ACC Coastal Division champion.

UNC women picked fifth in ACC; Kelly Preseason All-ACC

The big week of heightened expectations continued for North Carolina star junior Deja Kelly, although the Tar Heels only being picked to finish fifth in the ACC in the preseason poll released Wednesday will probably be a motivational tool for the team. Kelly, one of two Tar Heels to be named this week to watch lists for national awards, was the only UNC player to make the 10-player Preseason All-ACC team.

UNC men ACC favorite for 21st time; Bacot Preseason Player of Year

That noise that Coach Hubert Davis wants his team to ignore just keeps getting louder. One day after Carolina was voted No. 1 in the AP Top 25 preseason poll, the media picked the Tar Heels to win the ACC in a landslide vote, with junior center Armando Bacot nearly the unanimous ACC Preseason Player of the Year and junior guard Caleb Love joining him on the Preseason All-ACC first team.

Carolina preseason No. 1 for the 10th time in program history

Coach Hubert Davis said that he wants his players to avoid the outside noise just like last year, but the difference is that this year’s noise tells them how good they are. That noise just got louder. Carolina is ranked No. 1 in the preseason AP Top 25 men’s basketball poll, the 10th time the Tar Heels have been top-ranked entering a season. It marks the 111th week in AP poll history that UNC has been No. 1.