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No, the NFL playoff field isn’t quite finalized yet. However, the last two spots come down to head-to-head, win-and-in games between the Panthers and Bucs in the NFC South and the Ravens and Steelers in the AFC North. For those teams, the playoffs start this weekend, and those rosters include four Tar Heels. We’ll start […]
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So raise your glass if you are wrongIn all the right ways, all my underdogsWe will never be, never be anything but loudAnd nitty, gritty, dirty, little freaksWon’t you come on and come on andRaise your glass!?Just come on and come on andRaise your glass! Raise Your Glass-P!nk Happy New Year THB Nation! And with […]
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The North Carolina Tar Heels appear on the hardwoods for the first time in 2026 on Saturday in Dallas. SMU’s high-powered offense presents a stiff test for a Tar Heel defense that has held 14 consecutive opponents under 75 points, the longest streak to open a season since the 1981-82 championship season. Here are a […]
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Should old acquaintance be forgot / and never brought to mind? New Year’s Day promises a clean slate, an imagined chance to leave the bad in the dim and dusty past and chase the ever-fleeting good into the future. Who doesn’t love the idea of a new start, untarnished by the failings of what was, […]
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Usually in the early part of the week, one post that gets published here at Tar Heel Blog is our weekly rundown of the AP Top 25 rankings. With football now into bowl season — and UNC not particularly relevant in 2025 — and basketball season in full swing, we usually take a look at […]
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UNC’s game against Florida State was their first contest in over a week that spanned the Christmas holiday. The game opened with the Heels looking lethargic and seemingly a step slow against an undersized Seminole team. The Heels looked like they needed some sort of spark to shake off the holiday rust. Caleb Wilson was […]
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While the score was a bit closer than one would’ve expected going into last night’s game, UNC was able to put away Florida State to earn their first ACC win of the season. The Heels are now 13-1 for the season, continuing one of their best starts in years. The Seminoles tried to make things […]
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UNC improved to 13-1 this season with a 79-66 win over Florida State in Chapel Hill on Tuesday. The Tar Heels, coming off an extended break for the holiday, looked rusty in the first half before finding their stride after halftime to pick up a win to open their ACC schedule. Caleb Wilson was, as […]
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The North Carolina Tar Heels are just moments away from facing off against Florida State in their first ACC game of the season. The Heels come into this one hot off a one-loss non-conference schedule, while the Seminoles were eaten alive by Power Four competition during that stretch. Will that be the case tonight as […]
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For the 73rd time, the North Carolina Tar Heels will compete for an ACC Championship. Carolina opens ACC play tonight against Florida State. The Tar Heels are 58-14 in ACC openers and 64-8 in ACC home openers. This is the second time in three years that the Heels face the Seminoles in the ACC opener. […]
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For years, when you looked over at the Florida State bench, you’d see Leonard Hamilton roaming the sidelines. The legendary coach ruled the Seminoles for over two decades and was a constant thorn in the side for the Tar Heels. In recent seasons, though, the quality of the Seminoles basketball program suffered as they didn’t […]
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The Tar Heels wrestling team is off to one of their best starts of the season in the past 10 years. The team enters the holiday break with a 7-1 record and is coming off a big win while on their Midwest road trip. UNC upset #12 Northern Iowa on the road, 19-13. The result […]
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ACC play begins in earnest for the Carolina women with a trip to Boston College tomorrow, one day before the men play their first conference game at home against Florida State. This is not the ACC opener for the women—that was on Dec. 14, when they hosted Louisville. Unlike the men’s teams, all ACC women’s […]
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With a new year just around the corner, that means it’s time for some Top 10 lists. Bill Belichick had a miserable 2025. A complete listing of missteps, screw ups, and embarrassments would exceed the five act limit of a Shakespearean tragedy. How bad was Belichick’s 2025? Let’s review the Top 10 moments. If this […]
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The Tar Heels officially begin ACC play Tuesday night against Florida State. It’s a golden opportunity to start conference play 1-0 because the Seminoles have been a really bad team against quality opponents this season. So far they have lost to every Power 4 opponent that they have faced, and on top of that they […]
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Last year’s Tar Heel men’s basketball team was small. How small? My son’s 2A high school started a larger line-up at every position. No, they weren’t nearly as skilled — although the big man does play professionally over in Europe now in one of the lower-level leagues. Reportedly, UNC’s NIL budget for this team grew […]
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I never met Stuart Scott. I really wish I had. I’m sure a lot of folks that got to enjoy him on ESPN wish they had. He hit ESPN at just the right time for me. I had just started high school when ESPN2 launched and he took a spot on their airwaves, but it […]
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It’s the day after Christmas, which in some regions is known as Boxing Day, though here in America it is known as the day we return the stuff we didn’t really want for Christmas. Though maybe we should not be so quick to return everything (even if it is for cash) and enjoy the gift […]
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A good story that has woven throughout 2025 is the fact that the Smith Center is aging and that officials are in the process of replacing it. Throughout the year, and undercurrent sweeping through that story was that while they were officially considering keeping the original building and renovating, the momentum seemed to be building […]
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all you Tar Heel Blog readers. It is Christmas afternoon here at the THB, and hopefully you all got what you wanted this morning, whether it be in presents or just a relaxing start to the day. Since it is Christmas Day, I thought it would be fun to […]
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I know there are different perspectives on how much we should care about players who have left the program, so maybe this article doesn’t interest everybody. Me personally? I think that one of the best ways to fight against college sports feeling so mercenary is to really believe that every stop on someone’s journey is […]
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One of my favorite bits of comedy from the last 10 or so years is not from a high budget movie or a well-crafted sitcom, it’s a random five second long video. It’s fairly simple, and at least one participant in it found no part of what was happening to be funny. In the video, […]
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It’s Christmas week in the college basketball season, which is usually a fairly quiet period. Most ACC teams are only playing once this week, as they mostly relax ahead of the beginning of conference play. With this being a fairly natural opening in the season, let’s use it to do our weekly check in. With […]
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We’ve reached Christmas week for 2025, which usually means the college basketball world is a little bit quiet. For instance, by the time you’re reading this the UNC men will have played their sole game of the week against East Carolina on Monday evening, and the women won’t take the court this week. That being […]
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It can be hard to pick a Player of the Game when almost the entire team shows up like UNC did in their 99-51 win over East Carolina on Monday night. The Heels had four players finish with double-digit point totals, shot 54% as a team from the field, and outrebounded the Pirates. UNC also […]
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