Video: Watch Mack Brown’s postgame press conference after convincing win over Syracuse

Hear what UNC coach Mack Brown had to say after the Tar Heels’ win over Syracuse.

Good, Bad and Ugly Report: Syracuse

Sometimes things happen in college football that are simply unexpected. UNC’s dominating 40-7 win over Syracuse in Chapel Hill certainly falls in that category. It’s not that Carolina won the game; the Heels were an eight-point favorite and had a 61% chance to win, according to the ESPN FPI index. But I don’t think anyone anticipated such a dominating performance on both sides of the ball, leading to UNC’s biggest margin of victory since beating Georgia State 59–17 in 2021.

Cadeau has ‘two-year plan’ with no pressure to be one-and-done

CHAPEL HILL — Whatever comes to pass for Elliot Cadeau after a season sure to be full of eye-popping passes is fine for the precocious freshman.
When the five-star Class of 2024 guard with outstanding court vision reclassified last summer to join Carolina this season, many assumed he’d play one season and then move on to the NBA. While that’s still possible, the 6–1, 180-pound Cadeau says there is no urgency for it to play out like that.

Watch: UNC’s men’s basketball practice Friday

Watch the first part of Carolina’s men’s basketball practice on Friday during media day when Cormac Ryan and R.J. Davis show off their perimeter shooting.

Video: Watch UNC player comments at men’s basketball media day

Carolina players Armando Bacot, Elliot Cadeau, RJ Davis and Cormac Ryan talk about the upcoming season during the men’s basketball media day on Friday.

Banghart happily succeeded in second recruitment of tenacious center Gakdeng

“Remember me?” That was Coach Courtney Banghart’s text to Maria Gakdeng, the same the March day the 6–3 center entered the transfer portal. UNC’s coach didn’t hesitate at a second chance to lure the tenacious defender and rebounder who picked Boston College over the Tar Heels coming out of high school.

UNC field hockey back at No. 1, giving Heels three top-ranked teams

Coach Erin Matson’s Carolina field hockey team is back on top. The Tar Heels (8–1, 1–0 ACC) were the preseason No. 1 team, but Iowa supplanted them after the Hawkeyes’ 3–2 overtime win over UNC on Aug. 27. That gives Carolina three teams currently ranked No. 1, with Coach Anson Dorrance’s women’s soccer team and Coach Andrew DiBitetto’s men’s golf team also top-ranked. In addition, the football team is No. 14 and the men’s soccer team is No. 18.

Dorrance, reluctantly bracing for 18-school ACC, intent on maintaining rivalries

Maintaining rivalries already was a challenge for Carolina when the ACC expanded to 15 schools, and it’s only going to get worse for the 2024–25 school year when the league adds Stanford, Cal and SMU. UNC women’s soccer coach Anson Dorrance was a vocal opponent of the latest expansion and what it meant for his program in terms of travel and scheduling.

Top-ranked Heels roll by Wolfpack before record crowd

RALEIGH — After an intense and frustrating draw with Florida State, a letdown against a bad N.C. State women’s soccer team wouldn’t have been a surprise. Top-ranked North Carolina made sure there would be none of that, jumping out to an early lead and rolling to a 4–0 victory Saturday night over the one-win Wolfpack before a record crowd of 3,972 at Dail Soccer Field.

After massive offseason roster changes, Davis’ third UNC team faces tough schedule

How will Coach Hubert Davis’ team mesh with only four returnees after losing nine players from last season and bringing in seven newcomers? His third team will get tough tests of its progress, starting in late November as the Tar Heels play at least seven — and potentially nine — games against teams ranked in ESPN’s way-too-early Top 25 ranking.