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After recruiting an outstanding transfer and freshman class, Coach Scott Forbes’ fourth North Carolina team will face a challenging schedule. The schedule, announced Thursday, includes 44 games against teams that finished in the top 65 of the RPI last season and 25 teams that made the NCAA tournament.
Coby White is shooting into Chicago’s record books and has the Bulls on a roll after they had struggled through most of November.
After playing only 55 minutes in Texas Tech’s first six games, Kerwin Walton played 28 on Wednesday night and took full advantage with the best shooting night of his career.
CHAPEL HILL — No matter who you’re playing, you must keep your foot on the accelerator, a lesson UNCG delivered to No. 24 North Carolina on Wednesday night. The Spartans went from 16 down in the first quarter to trailing short-handed UNC by two at halftime, and they chopped a 15-point third-quarter deficit to five.
NEW YORK — A pair of teams with the potential to win the national championship put on a March-type battle in a special atmosphere similar to an NCAA tournament game.
With every game, junior transfer Maria Gakdeng has a more significant impact for No. 24 North Carolina with her size, inside moves, defense and clutch free-throw shooting.
CHAPEL HILL — No. 9 North Carolina gave Florida State a taste of what it’s like to be forced into a fast tempo, and opponents might be in for a steady diet of that the rest of the season as the transition points pile up.
Caleb Love’s unbeaten Arizona team ascended to No. 1, and North Carolina jumped eight slots to No. 9 in the latest AP Top 25 men’s basketball poll. UNC, which had the biggest jump from last week’s poll, is in the top 10 for the first time since it was No. 1 in last season’s first three polls.
North Carolina held the No. 24 spot in the AP Top 25 women’s poll Monday after giving top-ranked South Carolina a scare. The Tar Heels (5–3) lost 65–58 Thursday in the ACC/SEC Women’s Challenge to the unbeaten Gamecocks (7–0), who won at Duke 77–61 on Sunday.
The first NET rankings of the season that came out on Monday showed that it will be important for North Carolina’s men to take advantage of three more Quad 1 non-conference opportunities this month since those chances won’t come often in ACC play.
UNC gave top-ranked South Carolina a scare, and a big reason is that the Tar Heels held 6–7 center Kamilla Cardoso to six points. How did Carolina, led by Maria Gakdeng, do it?
On a rough day for Sam Howell in another Washington loss, Mitchell Trubisky finally got on the field for the first time in over a month and was an accurate passer, but had his share of frustrations in Pittsburgh’s loss.
Carolina’s football season will end right where it started, at Charlotte’s Bank of America Stadium. The Tar Heels (8–4) will play in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 27, (ESPN) against West Virginia (8–4), after opening the season with a 31–17 victory over South Carolina in Charlotte.
North Carolina’s bowl destination isn’t nearly as clear as before the conference championship games. Days after seven of 11 media projections ticketed the Tar Heels for the Gator Bowl, the most common prediction (three of 11) has them playing Charlotte on Dec. 27 in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl.
Coby White continues to play well and earn the love of Chicago Bulls fans. He scored season-highs of 31 points and eight 3-pointers to lead Chicago to back-to-back wins for the first time this season two nights after scoring 23 points in an upset victory over Milwaukee.
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