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UNC vs. Florida State: Live Discussion
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 […]
How to Watch: UNC Basketball vs. Florida State
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. […]
UNC begins ACC play with Florida State
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 […]
UNC wrestling is off to a 7-1 start to the season
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 […]
Checking in with UNC women’s basketball
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 […]
Bill Belichick’s No Good, Awful 2025: A Top 10
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 […]
Three things to watch in UNC’s ACC opener against Florida State
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 […]
UNC Basketball Off to a Great Defensive Start
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 […]
Stuart Scott’s 30 for 30 brought back a lot of hard memories
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 […]
UNC Football: Players to keep out of the transfer portal
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 […]
UNC Basketball players want say in Smith Center debate
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 […]
UNC Football: Transfer Portal Wish List
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 […]
Checking in with UNC Basketball’s 2025 transfers
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 […]
Why can’t UNC football just be normal?
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, […]
UNC at #2 in our ACC Basketball Power Rankings
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 […]
UNC men hold steady as women move up in newest AP Top 25
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 […]
Caleb Wilson continues to set freshman records, leads UNC to blowout win
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 […]
Three takeaways from UNC’s blowout win over ECU
Carolina wrapped up nonconference play with an impressive win over East Carolina on Monday night, setting new season-bests in points scored (99) and points allowed (51) as all 16 players saw action. The Pirates were never really in the game. They scored the first two points, but UNC scored the next 12, and the rout […]
UNC Basketball closes out non-conference schedule with win over East Carolina
In their last non-conference matchup of the season, UNC beat East Carolina 99-51 on Monday. The team improved to 12-1 this season as they continue to have one of the best starts to the season they’ve had in quite some time. Hubert Davis pulled his starters with over six minutes left in the game, but […]
UNC Basketball vs. ECU: Live Discussion
We have finally arrived at the end of the non-conference schedule for the Tar Heels, and more importantly, we have made it with the team only losing one game. It is a feat that they haven’t pulled off in over a decade, which is impressive to say the very least. We can have a debate […]
UNC quarterback Bryce Baker enters transfer portal
In a move that really should come as a surprise to no one, quarterback Bryce Baker is entering the transfer portal. Baker didn’t appear in a single game for the Tar Heels in 2025 despite the fact that Gio Lopez was not very good and also ended up injured at one point. Quarterbacks Max Johnson […]
UNC to hire Bobby Petrino as offensive coordinator
UNC dismissed offensive coordinator Freddie Kitchens after the conclusion of the 2025 season which featured an absolutely putrid offense that was one of the worst in the country. David posted last week that names were starting to surface as potential replacements for Kitchens, such as Chip Kelly, Tommy Rees, Andy Kotelnicki, and Bobby Petrino. It […]
How to Watch: UNC Basketball vs. ECU
Wait a second, didn’t Carolina just play over this weekend? Why yes they did, and in fact the result was a good one. It feels like whenever the Tar Heels play in the CBS Sports Classic this close to Christmas, they typically call it a holiday and head their separate ways. This time, though, coach […]
Seth Trimble’s return could be what takes this Tar Heel team from good to great
Seth Trimble returned to action on Saturday afternoon after a six-week absence due to a weight room accident that broke his left forearm. Trimble had only played two games before the mishap, yet returned looking like he was in midseason form. Trimble played a team-high 38 minutes in UNC’s 71-70 win, scoring 17 points on […]
Three things to watch as UNC hosts ECU
Hopefully you’ve fully recovered from Carolina’s rollercoaster of a win over Ohio State on Saturday, because the Tar Heels are right back in action tomorrow against ECU. It will only be the fourth men’s basketball game between these in-state schools. Carolina faced ECU in the first round of the 1993 NCAA Tournament, and hosted the […]
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