Tar Heel born, bred, and working on that third thing
UNC remained undefeated at home with a 77-74 win over Louisville Monday night. Carolina got a career night from Seth Trimble with 30 points and held on late despite coming uncomfortably close to blowing a 16-point second half lead. The Cardinals built a lead early with three-pointers before they cooled off and UNC got their […]
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We are just moments away from the Tar Heels squaring off against Louisville in what will begin a three-game home stretch. UNC will not have to hop on a plane again until the ACC Tournament, and they will not have to leave the state of North Carolina again until potentially the NCAA Tournament. There’s a […]
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For today’s question of the day, let’s travel forward in time a little bit. It’s February 23rd, 2027. You are gearing up for the last few regular season games of basketball season before the ACC Tournament. Dylan Mingo is trying to put a bow on his National Player of the Year case (this is my […]
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After the way that Carolina played the majority of the game against Syracuse a couple of weeks ago, you wouldn’t have thought there was any way that the Tar Heels would have been underdogs to the Orange. Of course they played that game with Henri Veesaar and Caleb Wilson, and going into the game no […]
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UNC lacrosse started play at the beginning of February; so far, neither the men’s nor the women’s team has taken a loss. In fact, both teams picked up big wins on Friday to extend their winning streaks. Let’s take a look at the early results for each squad. The men’s team came into the year […]
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The Carolina blue skies are a bit clearer and brighter these days now that the Tar Heels have Henri Veesaar back in action. He was instrumental in taking down Syracuse on the road, and if we’re being really honest, they probably don’t win that one without him. The Orange played a bit better than they […]
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The Tar Heels, coming off a horrible road loss to NC State, got their act together to get a big Quad 1 road win over Syracuse on Saturday night, to complete the season sweep. North Carolina fell behind early in the first and let the Orange tie it up a couple times in the second, […]
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Hey ACC, tell me without using words that you’re mailing it in at this point. ACC schedules a home and home between UNC and Syracuse but not UNC and NC State. Anyway… UNC went to Syracuse to reprise their meeting 19 days ago, a game that saw UNC lead by 32 before fumbling, bumbling, stumbling […]
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Later today in Italy, the 2026 Winter Olympics will conclude with a final couple events and the closing ceremonies from Milan. Unlike the summer games, in which former and sometimes current Tar Heels are all over, the winter games don’t really feature any UNC athletes. Part of that is because ice hockey and skiing are […]
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UNC got good news 25 minutes before tipoff against Syracuse when it was announced that the game time decision on Henri Veesaar was that the big man would play. The Tar Heels looked rudderless without Veesaar and Caleb Wilson in their massive stinker against NC State. The hope was that having Veesaar, even at less […]
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It has been quite a week for Carolina Basketball. In the good news department, the Heels received a commitment from Dylan Mingo, who is one of the best guards in the 2026 recruiting class. The bad news, of course, is that the Heels are coming off a loss to NC State and will have to […]
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The North Carolina Tar Heels head up to the JMA Wireless Dome looking to bounce back against Syracuse. Both teams are looking to rebound after suffering heavy losses earlier in the week. Carolina’s embarrassing loss to NC State exposed the backcourt and showed how important Caleb Wilson and Henri Veesaar are to this team. UNC […]
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The closing ceremonies come tomorrow; another Winter Games is mostly in the books. One of the difficulties with this question is keeping up with all the new events. I see we now have one where skiing backwards gets you style points? Most Winter Olympic events mesmerize me for a simple reason: they’re dangerous in a […]
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Today, ever so briefly, the number on my thermometer started with a seven. I was able to open windows and air out rooms that have long been shut against the gales of winter, allowing the house to breathe deeply of the lovely, tantalizing warmth. Tomorrow is forecast to be even warmer, another banner day for […]
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Lost amid the news of Caleb Wilson’s hand injury and Henri Veesaar’s “lower extremity” issues, UNC football continues to subtract and add players to the roster. Head coach Bill Belichick and general manager Mike Lombardi in the last 14 months have now signed 132 new players to the 105 man roster, in addition to the […]
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On February 2nd, a 32-point North Carolina lead over Syracuse was whittled down over the last seven minutes of the game. With under a minute to go, the Orange had cut the lead to six points. UNC finished with a 10-point win that did not reflect the game as a whole. Allowing Syracuse back into […]
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We’ve now seen the UNC men’s basketball team play two full games without star freshman Caleb Wilson, who broke his hand against Miami. We’ve even seen them play two games without Henri Veesaar, who apparently has been dealing with both the flu and a “lower body” injury. The first of those two games — against […]
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The UNC-ECU baseball series that’s been happening for several years now is one of the best nonconference traditions in college baseball — two historically notable programs that are geographically close enough that they can pull off a weekend series where each team hosts one with a third game being played at a venue as cool […]
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Earlier this week, we got the sad news that former basketball player and coach Doug Moe passed away at the age of 87. Moe is probably best known as the coach of several NBA teams, most notably the Denver Nuggets in the 1980s. His Denver teams played a remarkably fast paced, motion offense, regularly scoring […]
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The great thing about basketball season, at least until the NCAA Tournament, is that even when you have a bad game there’s another one around the corner. That’s the case for the Tar Heels as they get a chance to go back on the road and put Tuesday’s 82-58 loss to the Wolfpack behind them. […]
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Sometimes it’s worth taking a step back to realize that we are a pretty lucky bunch to be UNC fans. Not many fanbases in American sports can lay claim both to the amount of championship-level success that UNC has and to a rivalry as fierce as UNC-Duke in men’s basketball. If we didn’t have the […]
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Its that time of the year where teams have to overcome all kinds of adversity and either come through to the other side or sink into the abyss. The ACC is no different and as we near the end of the regular season teams continue to fight for position whether it be in the conference […]
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State got their win, their fans are happy, and Carolina basically looked like they didn’t want to be on the floor with them. After losing to Louisville by 41 and then gagging a seven-point lead in a minute to Miami, they finally found something worth fighting for—beating a Carolina team missing their two best players. […]
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Going into last night’s game, we all knew that there was a decent chance that NC State could upset the Tar Heels. Some of that was because Henri Veesaar and Caleb Wilson were out, but also, if we’re being honest with ourselves, it is because the rest of the team is inconsistent. That inconsistency doomed […]
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Wednesday was a good day to be a UNC basketball fan (until it wasn’t, anyway). Dylan Mingo officially committed to North Carolina and should play for the Heels next season. Mingo is a five-star recruit that’s ranked as a top-10 overall prospect by most of the ranking websites. Mingo will be the high-ranked recruit to […]
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