Tar Heel born, bred, and working on that third thing
Carolina’s 40-point win over Central Arkansas was exactly the kind of performance needed to establish confidence in a new-look team; the Tar Heels looked like a cohesive unit and didn’t play down to their opponent. If you’re like me, it was enough to give you a sense that this season might be different. Tonight, we’ll […]
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Hubert Davis enters the 2025-2026 season inspiring mixed feelings in Tar Heel fans. Iron 5. Bench usage. NIL. Two iconic wins over Duke and Coach K. Two seasons on the margins of NCAA basketball relevance. The list goes on. The Davis Era of UNC basketball includes both the highest of highs and the lowest of […]
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This year, I’m hoping that we can keep weekly tabs on the UNC women’s basketball team just like we do in the spring with the Diamond Heels. Their season started on Monday just as with the men’s team, but much earlier in the day, as their game against NC Central was part of the early […]
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The North Carolina Tar Heels’ defense has kept the sky from falling, and, last week, carried the team to its first conference win of the season. Carolina is a touchdown favorite against Stanford, the first time this season the Heels are favored against a Power 4 team. Here are a few things to watch as […]
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The second half of the historic home-and-home between the North Carolina Tar Heels and Kansas Jayhawks tips off Friday at 7:00 PM in Chapel Hill. Coach Dean Smith’s alma mater will play for the first time in the building that bears his name. This is just one year after the Tar Heels competed in Allen […]
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North Carolina’s offense has not been their strong suit in 2025. They’re averaging under 20 points per game, and last week’s win over Syracuse was the first time this year they’ve put up over 25 against an FBS team. One power conference team that has a very coherent argument for having an even worse offense […]
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The UNC men’s basketball team started off the season with a bang, rolling an outmatched Central Arkansas team by a score of 94-54. Most of the (many) new faces the Heels brought in contributed in one way or another — Kyan Evans looked solid running the point, Luka Bogavac filled up the stat sheet despite […]
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Monkeys. No, I don’t mean the cute ones who invade the screens of Friends and Outbreak (though those were as dangerous as they were cute). Nor do I mean the winged ones who wreaked havoc on Dorothy and her friends in The Wizard of Oz. No, I am talking about the imaginary ones who climb […]
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Caleb Wilson came out of fire, scoring the first ten points of his UNC career all on dunks as he led the Heels to a dominant 94-54 win in Chapel Hill on Monday night. He hit 8-10 shots from the field and would finish as UNC’s leading scorer with 22 points. It’s rare to see […]
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The North Carolina Tar Heels were able to easily take care of business against Central Arkansas 94-54, giving them their first win of the season. Fans were treated to a surprise before the game when Luka Bogavac was cleared to play, which means the Heels officially have their full roster available for the regular season. […]
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Caleb Wilson entered his first real game in the Dean Dome with massive amounts of hype. The freshman looked good in exhibition play, and he more than carried that over into the start of the regular season as he and the Tar Heels kicked off the year with a 94-54 win over Central Arkansas. The […]
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College basketball is officially back, and with that means the return of Carolina basketball. This is both an exciting and nervous time for Tar Heels fans because on paper this should be a really fun season featuring a lot of talent. On the other hand, there’s a lot of talk about Hubert Davis being on […]
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Well, they finally did it: the Tar Heels finally earned their first ACC win of the season against Syracuse. For college football fans that don’t pay enough attention to what goes on the conference, allow me to catch you up: the Orange lost starting quarterback Steve Angeli for the season after he suffered a torn […]
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This week, we’re getting a new set of college football rankings as we continue through the 2025 season, and these ones do matter a bit. Now, there’s still plenty of season left, so a team’s ranking in this coming Tuesday’s College Football Playoff rankings doesn’t actually mean all that much come the end of the […]
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It’s the start of a new college basketball season, and this one feels like it could be pivotal for the Carolina men’s program. It’s hard to imagine Hubert Davis won’t be shown the door if he delivers another underwhelming season. It’s nearly impossible to imagine how a search for his replacement would unfold under the […]
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While we’ve gotten an early look at this year’s North Carolina Tar Heels men’s basketball team in the exhibition games against BYU and Winston-Salem State, Monday night will mark the official season opener for 2025-26. Tomorrow night, they will welcome Central Arkansas into the Smith Center to kick off this season, as they look to […]
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Look, I’m not going to try and pull a Mike Lombardi here on you and try to convince you that this win on Friday night was a game-changing, earth-shattering event that proves the current regime knows what they are doing. There was plenty on display Friday to show the opposite of that and if you’re […]
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However we want to talk about the two televised exhibition games this UNC team has played already, it’s a novel feeling to be writing about a season opener when we’ve already seen the team. I’m not used to college sports having a preseason. That’s not a value judgment or anything, just an observation. With fans […]
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We are just a couple of days away from Carolina basketball officially returning, and the buzz around the team is getting louder after two impressive exhibition games. It’s easy to write off these types of events as unimportant, but here’s the thing: nobody knew anything about this team prior to the BYU and Winston-Salem State […]
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Earlier this week, several of us here at Tar Heel Blog mused that UNC running back Demon June needed to be getting more carries as the UNC offense continued to struggle against both good opponents and bad. He’s been the best back based on both the box scores and the eye test. June seemed to […]
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Despite being the better team, UNC fans braced for the worst when the North Carolina Tar Heels went into the half down four. After the break, though, the Tar Heels focused on what went right in the first half to dominate the second stanza. This Carolina team, under the unrelenting focus of the national microscope, […]
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UNC’s football game against Syracuse was one fitting of being played on Halloween night. It was scary for all involved and a Demon was the star of the show. No tape of this game should ever be preserved for any reason, but Carolina was able to take advantage of a terrible performance by the Orange […]
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The North Carolina Tar Heels share just moments away from facing off against Syracuse on the road to try and win their first ACC game of the season. This is a sentence that will be modified, copied, and pasted until morale improves, and there is no telling if we will ever get to stop doing […]
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Scene: Indoors, a rectangular room with a long table at the front. Microphones are clustered around an empty seat in the middle of the table. Assembled PRESS, their backs to the camera, shuffle quietly and clear their throats, evidently waiting for something or someone. Enter SUIT, who leans over the chair and speaks into the […]
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My orange hate has nothing to do with Syracuse actually. That’s a Tennessee, Clemson, and Auburn thing. Syracuse chose Orange, though, so they chose poorly. Beat Syracuse. Badly. Please. It’s the only remaining orange on the schedule. My last chance. UNC faces Syracuse on the road in an ACC tilt Friday night, with kick-off set […]
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