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CHAPEL HILL — With veteran guards and quick players throughout the lineup, Coach Hubert Davis’ fourth Carolina team will play faster and push for good shots and transition buckets. How fast? If the offensive team fails to get the ball over halfcourt in three seconds, his whistle blows, and he declares it a turnover.
Watch videos from UNC media day of Coach Hubert Davis’ press conference, interviews with players and the first portion of Friday’s practice.
Javonte Williams had his best game of the season, “feeling like the old days,” and Josh Downs had a huge day, leading their teams to Week 4 victories on Sunday.
I tried very hard to not get on the “everything is awful” train after UNC’s record-setting loss to James Madison last week. This is college football. Things happen. The game is weird sometimes. People (and coaches) get emotional. Let’s see what the Duke game brings before overreacting to the JMU debacle. Guess what? Scan my ticket and slide over as I take my seat on that train
DURHAM — For 2½ quarters, North Carolina’s defense made the case that the James Madison debacle was a fluke. That case unraveled in ugly fashion, though, as Duke erased a 20-point deficit in the largest comeback in the rivalry’s history, seized ownership of the Victory Bell and enjoyed a field storming.
On Friday, the day he turned 18, four-star sharpshooting combo guard Derek Dixon became Coach Hubert Davis’ first Class of 2025 commitment, making the announcement at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C.
Giovani Bernard will again wear a helmet and show off his athletic ability on Sunday, as he did for 10 NFL seasons. But it will be unlike any football challenge.
North Carolina will face several challenging tests before the Tar Heels open their regular-season ACC title defense against Georgia Tech on Dec. 7.
The new 18-school ACC will mean a women’s basketball schedule unlike any in North Carolina program history that doesn’t conclude with a game against Duke.
Five-star Class of 2025 shooting guard Braylon Mullins, who visited North Carolina two weekends ago, has the Tar Heels included among the final three schools he’s considering.
Indianapolis’ Josh Downs finally made his season debut and Houston’s British Brooks got his first NFL carry during Week 3, but there wasn’t much production from former Tar Heels.
Mack Brown admits he doesn’t handle losses very well and said Monday that’s what led him to ask his team a question in the dressing room Saturday after North Carolina’s 70–50 loss to James Madison that he regrets.
There’s really no polishing this lump of coal into anything resembling a diamond, and honestly, it’s hard to find too much to be positive about. With that in mind, this is a special edition of the Good, Bad, and Ugly Report: Ugly, Uglier, and Ugliest.
CHAPEL HILL — It turns out that reports of North Carolina’s defense being much-improved needed a fact-check. James Madison delivered it on Saturday as the common lament since the 1970s about “the friendly skies of Carolina” came to mind.
CHAPEL HILL — The stakes weren’t as high as for North Carolina’s previous home field hockey match at Karen Shelton Stadium 309 days earlier, but the expectations are. The No. 2 Tar Heels finally played their home opener Friday on a sun-drenched afternoon, dominated possession and brought consistent offensive pressure to thump No. 15 Syracuse 5–0 in a packed stadium in their ACC opener.
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