Tar Heel born, bred, and working on that third thing
On Monday evening, while many Tar Heels fans had their eyes on the men’s team’s game against Syracuse, the women’s team pulled out its biggest win of the season in Raleigh. Courtney Banghart’s group trailed NC State by as many as nine points in the second quarter before outscoring the Wolfpack 26-11 over the rest […]
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As of Sunday, the calendar has now flipped to February. We are inching towards crunch time on the 2025-26 college basketball season. You know things are starting to heat up when the first UNC-Duke men’s game comes on the calendar, as it will this week. As we continue to get closer to March and the […]
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This weekend, the North Carolina men’s basketball has quite the important event. On Saturday, they’re set to take on Duke in the first rivalry clash of this season. However before that, they had a game on Monday night against Syracuse to get through. There were two main objectives for UNC against the Orange. One was […]
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The game before the first Duke game has not been kind to North Carolina of late. In it’s past six contests before the Duke game leading up to the game against Syracuse, the Tar Heels were 1-5 with the one win being an overtime road win against Louisville. The five losses were mostly to not […]
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This year’s 2026 Carolina Basketball recruiting class is about as thin as it has ever been, and that is because they only have one commit so far. That might change in the coming weeks — more on that a little later — but it’s worth pointing out that the one recruit they do have is […]
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It’s Duke week. In fact, with last night’s game thankfully behind us, the countdown to Saturday’s UNC-Duke game has officially begun. We’re all working ourselves up in anticipation of the biggest rivalry in American sports and we’ll have plenty of coverage leading up to that big night. Of course, on another corner of the Triangle, […]
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UNC won their fourth straight game with a 87-77 victory against Syracuse in Chapel Hill Monday night. The Orange, who were left for dead halfway through the second half, picked themselves up off the mat and made it a game with a big run late. The Tar Heels led by as many as 32 in […]
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The Tar Heels have returned to the Smith Center to face off against Syracuse in hopes of extending their win streak to four. UNC is coming of an impressive victory over Georgia Tech, while the Orange were able to secure a home victory over Notre Dame. The main storyline of this game revolves around fine […]
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Short turnarounds between games often put a team at a disadvantage. A little over 48 hours will have passed between the end of UNC’s 91-75 win over Georgia Tech and the tipoff of this matchup against Syracuse. The players may be a bit more tired on shorter rest, and the quick turnaround no doubt affects […]
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Welcome to Tar Heel Blog’s Question of the Day, a new daily conversation starter. Our first question today could actually be “where do we even start?” How do we pick just one question, among the many springing out of UNC athletics? We could debate the debate itself. Belichick and Lombardi’s 2025 season exposes a fault […]
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Don’t look now, but the Tar Heels are on a three-game win streak, spanning two different winter weather systems here in the Triangle In most years, if you said that the Tar Heels had seen two separate instances of accumulation of wintery precipitation fall and melt without dropping a game, you would likely expect the […]
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After getting to enjoy the win over Georgia Tech for about 10 seconds, UNC has to turn around and prepare to take on Syracuse at the Dean Dome. The Orange are coming off an 86-72 victory over Notre Dame, which was needed after they got smoked by NC State. The Heels seemingly have an easy […]
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It was the sort of easy, sleepy type of victory that is actually pretty rare when the Tar Heels head down to Atlanta and play against Georgia Tech. Carolina won by 16 in a game that stayed in that point range from the end of the first half, and scored 91 with two different Tar […]
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North Carolina won their third straight and second straight on the road to get their fifth win in conference play this season. The Tar Heels took an early lead over the Yellow Jackets and though they didn’t blow past them, they kept that lead steady for most of the game as they led by 15 […]
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UNC poured it on early and often in their 91-75 win on the road against Georgia Tech. The Tar Heels scored 52 points in the first half and turned the ball over just twice behind big games from Caleb Wilson and Henri Veesaar. The Yellow Jackets led for just 26 seconds of the game. Wilson […]
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Atlanta is a city that has never been super kind to the Tar Heels. It doesn’t usually matter how good or bad Georgia Tech is when these who teams play — there is just something about this game in this location that always goes wrong. One can only hope that isn’t what happens today, because […]
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UNC’s need to renovate or relocate the home for its storied basketball program has been apparent for a while. That need soon moves from discussion to action. Chancellor Lee Roberts’ research committee seemed to prefer a relocation to Campus North, a 230-acre development project centered upon the old Horace Williams airport site along Martin Luther […]
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For the second weekend in a row, the Tar Heels are away from Chapel Hill while frozen precipitation falls back home. The good news this time is that the frozen precipitation is snow instead of ice, meaning it’ll be a lot prettier to look at and shouldn’t be as treacherous as what fell last weekend. […]
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As this UNC men’s basketball team was being put together after heavy turnover from last season, it was clear that perimeter shooting was a high priority for Hubert Davis and Jim Tanner. Kyan Evans was a deadly pull-up shooter at Colorado State last year; Luka Bogavac was a sniper in the Adriatic Basketball Association; Henri […]
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Last Saturday, the UNC men’s basketball team picked up arguably their biggest win over the season so far, as they rallied past Virginia on the road. In addition to just being able to put a road win over a good team on their résumé, it was also a big win to try and get them […]
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It’s been a bumpy January for Courtney Banghart and the UNC women’s basketball team. A fairly uncompetitive loss to Notre Dame capped off a 2-3 start to ACC play that definitively broke the illusion of this team being in the country’s top 12 like they were ranked in the preseason. That ranking was always a […]
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In the ages when multi-team neutral court events are shrinking because of the way it can interfere with NIL and mega-conference affiliation, it was worth wondering how much longer the CBS Sports Classic — which UNC has played in since 2014 — would continue. On Wednesday we got our answer: at least until 2029. We […]
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Last time we saw them, UNC basketball went and picked up a big road victory at Virginia. After the run of iffy defensive performances in the weeks before that, it was a much-needed result for Carolina, especially if they can use it to get back on track and string together a streak. They can try […]
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For all the furor over NIL, tampering, or players transferring to one school on Monday and then another by Friday, viewership continues to grow. The game keeps growing in popularity despite all its warts and changes. Given that TV money serves as the primary revenue source for the sport, and given that TV money ultimately […]
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When you are called the Atlantic Coast Conference bad weather basketball just comes with the territory and the ACC found a way to survive it this past weekend with some great contests. Oddly enough the continued decision to play all their games on Saturday probably kept any games from being cancelled even if they had […]
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