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As we continue our look through the classes, today we bring up the sophomore class. Now, unlike the freshmen yesterday, the sophomore class was pretty disappointing considering that it was mostly transfers. Jonathan Powell Powell easily had the best season amongst the sophomore class. Often finding himself in Coach Davis’s top seven, Powell was often […]
Much of our collective focus as North Carolina fans in recent days has been around men’s basketball, as they officially moved on from Hubert Davis and have begun the search for a new head coach. However, there have been plenty of other things happening if you wanted to take your focus off that. One of […]
With the season now at an end, it is time for that all-time fun job of grading the classes. First up is the freshman class. Caleb Wilson When it comes to freshmen, sometimes you get nothing, sometimes you get something, and sometimes you get Caleb Wilson. Wilson was a once in a lifetime player for […]
We are in a quiet period of the head catching search for Carolina Basketball. A lot of that silence has to do with two of the top candidates still being in the NCAA Tournament, and another part of that has to do with one of the candidates still finishing out the NBA season. The name […]
We all grew up thinking of college athletes as amateurs, with the best programs landing the amateurs most likely to go pro. It’s been a rough and rapid change to this new world of paying players. Today, many basketball players will make far, far more money playing college ball than they ever will make playing […]
Let’s start with this: Billy Donovan is a very good basketball coach. He’s currently a head coach in the NBA, and only 30 of those spots exist. Donovan’s been seated at that exclusive table for over a decade. Prior to that, he won back-back-titles at Florida, in addition to reaching four Final Fours and three […]
Before UNC blew a 19 point lead against VCU and battle lines were drawn between those who wanted Hubert Davis to be fired and those who didn’t, the biggest issue dividing Carolina Basketball internally and externally was what to do about the Smith Center. The administration has pushed hard for building a new arena at […]
Well, Tommy Lloyd and Dusty May both had pretty good weekends. Lloyd’s team blew out Arkansas and then figured out Purdue at halftime to run away with that game. May’s team figured out Alabama at halftime to run away with their Sweet 16 matchup and then blew out Tennessee in the Elite Eight. Three dominant […]
Since spring sports got underway in February, we at Tar Heel Blog have offered regular updates on the Carolina baseball team, but we haven’t yet checked in with UNC’s other diamond squad. Carolina softball sits at 24-9 and 5-7 in ACC play with conference series against NC State (April 2-4), Duke (April 10-12), Florida State […]
I don’t think I’m exactly breaking any news here, but that was one of the worst endings to a UNC basketball season I can remember in my decades of fandom. The feeling that things were slipping away for this version of the Heels slowly snowballed into a crescendo of bad mistakes, missed free throws, and […]
UNC’s coaching search at this time focuses heavily on coaches still coaching. Tommy Lloyd and Dusty May top that list. While TJ Otzelberger and Ben McCollum have strongly indicated they’d rather remain in Children of the Corn country, Nick Saban once said these words to an entire room of reporters: “You’re going to make me […]
Per his Instagram account, UNC forward Caleb Wilson has declared for the NBA Draft. His announcement arrives just less than a week after former head coach Hubert Davis was relieved of his duties. Wilson had one of the most incredible individual seasons that we’v seen in a long time at UNC. He finished his season […]
To beat a team when you are a 29.5 point underdog, you need to do everything right. Shots have to go in, the defense has to be on point, your opponent needs to make a ton of mistakes, you need to hold onto the ball, and you need to rebound missed shots. The defense wasn’t […]
In the spring of 1953, America was moving on from a lot of things. The end of World War II wasn’t even a decade in the rear view mirror, the Korean War was still going on and wasn’t officially ended until that summer, and the country had just sworn in Dwight Eisenhower as President. Brown […]
While we’re sitting over here focusing on what’s going on over at the Smith Center with the men’s team, the UNC women’s basketball team had an amazing weekend in Chapel Hill. They hosted an NCAA Tournament pod for the second year in a row, and showed that they earned the fourth seed that many questioned […]
What constitutes a bench player? Obviously, it isn’t someone who started all season, so that quickly eliminates Caleb Wilson, Henri Veesaar, and Seth Trimble. What about guys like Jarin Stevenson and Luka Bogavac? They did start most of the season, but they also came off the bench at varying points as well. Do they count […]
Today is the day: the North Carolina Tar Heels will face off against the UConn Huskies in the Sweet Sixteen. For Carolina fans, this is a huge game that could have huge implications on the program if they were to win, but fans are well aware that the chances of pulling this off are really […]
The easy answer is both. However, let’s review where UNC sits financially at the moment. We ran a $15 million deficit last cycle. Chancellor Lee Roberts insists it was a one-time thing, but it still indicates that we don’t have a reserve fund to handle new and unexpected expenses. We just dropped $46+ million on […]
UNC’s coaching search at this time focuses heavily on coaches still coaching. While these coaches remain focused on winning at their current schools, UNC fans can watch some these games with extra interest as an audition of sorts. Who handles the pressure situations the best? Who comes up with the right adjustments at halftime? Whose […]
They did it: UNC made it to the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament after beating Maryland 74-66. Their reward for making it out of the first weekend? Facing UConn in the Sweet Sixteen. Not exactly the kind of award that anybody would want, right? As is the truth most seasons, the Huskies are playing […]
It’s probably not actually the case, but it certainly feels like last weekend’s home series against Louisville was an inflection point for this season of UNC Baseball — a loss would have meant the Heels had lost their first two home series in ACC play, as well as their first two matchups against real contenders […]
Today as we continue on with our North Carolina men’s basketball season recap series, we’ve come to the post awarding our Freshman of the Year for this year’s team. Folks, to be honest, it did not take much deep diving or numbers crunching to figure out who won this particular honor. Considering that he was […]
The Carolina Basketball head coach search continues, and there is a lot of information flying around about who the Heels could potentially come to an agreement with. There’s plenty of names that have come up more than once, and most of them would be really good candidates. There is definitely a tier list when it […]
Tonight, the men’s NCAA Tournament returns, as Sweet 16 will begin, and we’ll be down to the Final Four by the time the weekend is over. Obviously, we here at Tar Heel Blog have been a little preoccupied by UNC’s season ending, and now the coaching search that has begun partly because of that. However […]
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou Davis polarized Tar Heel fans from the outset. Passionate fans hate to lose and love to win, but few of us do so in equal measure. That […]