Tar Heel born, bred, and working on that third thing
Last week was the second week of the 2025-26 college basketball season. By this point, pretty much every team has played three or four games, and a lot of them have played at least one notable game. The one for the UNC men came last week, where they knocked off Kansas. The women couldn’t quite […]
25 days ago | 2 reads
UNC is gearing up to take on Navy later tonight at the Dean Smith Center. This will be the final game in what has been an exceptionally long home stay for the Tar Heels before they travel to Florida to face off against St. Bonaventure. This will be considered yet another tune-up game for the […]
25 days ago | 0 reads
This past weekend’s game between UNC and Wake Forest was one of the more frustrating games this season, and that is saying a lot. They were able to move the ball against one of the better defenses in the ACC, but somehow they still weren’t able to score a single touchdown. The defense did their […]
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It feels good to see actual improvement from the basketball squad. The difference from how Carolina played against Radford on Tuesday to NCCU on Friday was basically night and day. It’s clear that a message got through to the team that efforts similar to Tuesday would lead to losses down the line. Instead, they put […]
26 days ago | 0 reads
I don’t know what anyone realistically expected on Saturday night. Wake Forest was coming into the game against UNC with the high of upsetting title-contending Virginia, while Carolina had tried to build momentum by playing against two of the worst offenses in the ACC. The Tar Heels also happen to be one of the worst […]
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These grades are heavily influenced by the fact that Wake Forest came into this game with an excellent defense and horrid offense. The Tar Heel offense performed a bit better than I expected, the defense and special teams far worse. The winning formula for UNC in this game was simple: control the Wake Forest run […]
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Carolina’s 28-12 loss to Wake Forest was no surprise to those who didn’t buy into the turnaround hype after the Tar Heels beat bad teams in consecutive weeks, but UNC’s performance on both sides of the ball was poor even by this season’s standards. Defensively, Carolina allowed 414 yards, the second-most Wake Forest has put […]
26 days ago | 0 reads
The hype train for this UNC Basketball season seems to keep getting stronger. Everyone will agree the game against Radford wasn’t great, and yet “wasn’t great” still resulted in a 15-point win. You could argue a lot of factors our them—the first game without Seth Trimble, the letdown factor of the big win against Kansas—but […]
27 days ago | 0 reads
UNC went to Wake Forest hoping to reach .500 both for the season and in conference play. Wake Forest on paper awaited with the best defense UNC faces this year but one of the worst offenses. “Worst offense” isn’t allowed because Syracuse tried a walk-on, true freshman lacrosse player at QB, and nothing can really […]
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After facing inferior competition back-to-back weeks, the Tar Heels ran into the brick wall that is Wake Forest and lost the game 28-12. Their loss gives UNC a 4-6 record for the season, and a 2-4 record in the ACC. The start of the game really set the stage for the rest of the evening. […]
27 days ago | 1 read
The Tar Heels begin their three game in-state rivalry stand today against Wake Forest in Winston-Salem. This was truly a diabolical schedule that the ACC constructed for UNC, but given the fact that this was also one of the easiest schedules in the conference this season, it makes sense that they wanted to add some […]
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Carolina’s 44-point win over NC Central wasn’t particularly memorable, but it did give us another chance to see one of college basketball’s fastest-rising stars put on a show. After an off night (by his standards) against Radford on Tuesday, Caleb Wilson nearly put up a double-double in the first half on Friday, amassing 17 points […]
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Last night, UNC dominated North Carolina Central in order to improve to 4-0. The game had a lot more of a flow than the game against Radford as far as the foul call situation goes, but the Eagles did their best to slow the Heels down with their zone defense. While they did just that […]
28 days ago | 0 reads
Welcome to the 112th meeting between the North Carolina Tar Heels and Wake Forest Demon Deacons. On October 18, 1888, the two teams met for the first time on the gridiron. Wake Forest College defeated UNC 6-4 in Raleigh. The Gold and Black won two of the next three meetings, but Wake Forest relinquished the […]
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UNC stayed perfect so far this season with a 97-53 win over NC Central Friday night in Chapel Hill. Carolina really turned on the jets in the second half, scoring 58 points after halftime to secure the comfortable victory. Caleb Wilson was very good once again, leading the team in both points and rebounds. The […]
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Whoever is in charge of scheduling ACC basketball games decided that North Carolina needed a 9 PM game against NC Central on a Friday night. It almost certainly had something to do with Duke playing at 7 PM, which really shouldn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. Regardless, it is what it is and […]
28 days ago | 1 read
Hubert Davis received some huge news before tonight’s game against North Carolina Central: five-star 2026 prospect Maximo Adams announced his commitment to UNC. He is the first commit in the 2026 class, and also put an end to a 10-month commitment drought that Davis had been dealing with. Adams is a 6’7 small forward that […]
28 days ago | 1 read
After two straight weeks of nearly nailing the final score, last week was a whiff. The 3rd quarter went largely according to plan, but the offense didn’t get off the bus until halftime. Then, the defense took most of the fourth quarter off. NFL coaching! Improvement! Whatever you say. Coulda-woulda-shoulda been a convincing Tar Heel […]
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The 2025-26 college basketball season has gone pretty well for the North Carolina Tar Heel men so far, with the notable exception of Seth Trimble’s injury. While the most recent game against Radford left them with some things to work on, they’re 3-0 to this point, with one massive win over Kansas. Tonight, they’ll look […]
29 days ago | 0 reads
The Tar Heels face the rest of the Big Four to close out the season. The North Carolina gauntlet makes its first stop in Winston-Salem in what is being billed as a defensive battle. Wake Forest earned bowl eligibility last week, so the Demon Deacons are simply focused on ending a four-game losing streak to […]
30 days ago | 0 reads
Carolina survived its first game without Seth Trimble, pulling away from a feisty Radford team for an 89-74 win. There were some bumpy moments in the game; Jarin Stevenson briefly left to get checked for an injury while Caleb Wilson spent parts of the game in foul trouble. The Heels ran cold from long range […]
30 days ago | 3 reads
It was another game that wasn’t the prettiest, but UNC football did come away with a second-straight win over the weekend as they took down Stanford. With their consecutive victories, the Tar Heels have clawed their way back to 4-5 after, for a while, it looked like Bill Belichick’s first season was going to end […]
about 1 month ago | 0 reads
The Tar Heels came back to Earth a little bit on Tuesday night against Radford, fighting through a sloppy, heavily-whistled game to come out with a 15-point win. They’ll hope their next game against a mid-major program goes a little more smoothly as they host friend of the program Levelle Moton and his N.C. Central […]
about 1 month ago | 0 reads
Last night’s game between the Tar Heels and the Highlanders was a game for both teams to learn a lot of lessons from. For UNC specifically, the biggest lesson for them to learn is how to overcome new forms of adversity. This game lacked Seth Trimble’s presence, we saw Caleb Wilson commit three fouls in […]
about 1 month ago | 0 reads
Coming off a big win against Kansas that must have felt like taking the weight of the world off the program’s shoulders, UNC was probably ripe for a sleepy letdown game. The Tar Heels definitely missed the presence of Seth Trimble but they did enough to keep it rolling with an 89-74 win against Radford […]
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