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No. 4 Carolina falls in NET after Quad 4 win over Louisville, loses Quad 1 win
By R.L. Bynum Playing Quad 4 teams is rarely an NCAA tournament resume-builder unless you blow that team out, and … More
Love, Walton have big games, pile up 3-pointers; Adams scores 26
Destiny Adams, Kerwin Walton and Caleb Love all had big games Wednesday night and led their teams in scoring, but only Love did so in a victory.
No. 4 Heels overcome second-half funk to put away Louisville
CHAPEL HILL — What looked early like another Carolina ACC blowout turned into an unexpected test of the Tar Heels’ resilience.
Poole embraces new reserve role, but two-year starter admits it was hard at first
It isn’t often that a two-year starting center enters her senior season and suddenly has to adjust to coming off the bench. That became Anya Poole’s plight after Carolina brought in junior transfer Maria Gakdeng from Boston College in the offseason. The 6–3 center has started every game this season for the No. 23 Tar Heels.
Tar Heels in NBA: Nance signs deal with Cavaliers; White stays consistent with Bulls; tough stretch for several UNC alums
With Coby White’s 25-point game Friday as the highlight on the court since the long holiday weekend began, there was a big highlight off the court with Pete Nance signing a 10-day contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Tar Heels in NFL: Heck’s Texans and Green’s Lions advance in playoffs
Only two Tar Heels remain in the NFL playoffs heading into next weekend’s divisional round — Houston offensive lineman Charlie Heck and Detroit wide receiver Antoine Green. Both saw limited action on wild-card weekend.
ESPN projects UNC men as No. 1 seed, women as No. 6 seed
No. 4 North Carolina continues to rise in men’s bracket projections, while a women’s projection suggests the No. 23 Tar Heels have work to do to host the first two rounds.
Hubert Davis playing bench more this season, with productive results
In Hubert Davis’ 2½ seasons as North Carolina’s head coach, he’s always had a couple of schools of thought about how he uses his bench. One is that every player must be ready because their chance will come; Davis just can’t say when that will happen. Those chances are happening much more often than in his first two seasons.
After two big UNC wins, flurry of other upsets, Heels shoot up AP men’s poll
After two impressive ACC victories and five teams at the top of last week’s men’s basketball poll losing, North Carolina jumped three spots to a season-high No. 4 in the latest AP Top 25 and got one first-place vote.
UNC falls in AP Top 25 women’s poll
After splitting a pair of ACC games last week, North Carolina fell three spots to No. 23 in the AP Top 25 women’s basketball poll.
It was an emotional return to Carmichael for Hatchell
CHAPEL HILL — For the first time in five years, Sylvia Hatchell returned to Carmichael Arena on a special Alumni Day. Instead of intensely coaching the Carolina from the sidelines as she did over her 32-year Hall of Fame career at UNC, she was on the front row behind one of the baselines watching the action — or trying to.
UNC finally fends off pesky Cavs on emotional Alumni Day welcoming Hatchell, ’94 title team
CHAPEL HILL — On a day that Carolina celebrated the 30th anniversary of the 1994 national championship team, the Tar Heels showed they are stacking the talent and moving the program closer to adding another championship banner to the Carmichael Arena rafters soon. But this season’s team couldn’t deliver the knockout punch until a late 8–0 run against a feisty bunch from Virginia.
Love scores 28, misses potential game-tying 3 in loss; Adams scores career-high 33
The good news for Caleb Love is that he scored 28 points and five 3-pointers. The bad news was that he needed 25 shots to get them, missed a potential game-tying 3-point attempt with six seconds left, and his No. 10 Arizona team lost 73–70 at unranked Washington State.
UNC moves to season-high in NET rankings, projected No. 2 seed
It’s always a challenge to predict what a Carolina win will do to the Tar Heels’ NET ranking, and the 103–67 Saturday home victory over Syracuse was no exception. The win knocked the Orange down five spots to 80 in the NET rankings, moving the victory from barely a Quad 2 to a Quad 3.
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