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Best landing spots for Caleb Wilson in the NBA Draft
Now that the NBA Draft Lottery has taken place, the top of the NBA Draft is now set with the top five picks belonging to the Washington Wizards, Utah Jazz, Memphis Grizzlies, Chicago Bulls, and Los Angeles Clippers. Caleb Wilson seems to be a consensus top five pick so with the order now set, what […]
UNC men’s lacrosse advances to NCAA quarterfinals
With leading point scorer and Tewaaraton Award finalist Owen Duffy ruled out with a lower body injury, the UNC men’s lacrosse team needed someone else to power the offense in its first-round NCAA Tournament game against UAlbany on Saturday. Enter Dominic Pietramala, who outscored the unseeded Great Danes by himself en route to a 24-6 […]
What’s your favorite NBA Playoffs moment from a Tar Heel?
We’re fully into the month of May on the calendar, which means a few things in the sporting world. Several of the college sports are getting down to the nitty gritty, with lacrosse soon crowning champions and the baseball and softball NCAA Tournaments soon to start. Meanwhile, in the pros, the MLB season is in […]
A big decision looms for Bill Belichick at the quarterback position
Bill Belichick for spring practice kept media attention and reporting at arm’s length, with extremely limited viewing opportunities and a closed scrimmage to conclude the work. With that caveat, reporting seemed to suggest the following pecking order in the QB room entering the summer: Billy Edwards, Miles O’Neill, Au’Tori Newkirk, and then Travis Burgess. Taron […]
How do you feel about the expansion of NCAA championships?
If you ask a coach who knows they can sell making a postseason tournament to get more money and have job security if they would want to make a tournament bigger, we all know what the answer will be. It’s with that backdrop that we shouldn’t be surprised that news came out earlier this week […]
Thirteen UNC lacrosse players earn All-American honors
Both the UNC men’s and women’s lacrosse teams have had very good years thus far. The men’s team finished the season with a 12-4 record and will enter the NCAA tournament as the number three overall seed. The women’s squad recorded a record of 16-1 and won the ACC championship; their only blemish is an […]
What is your favorite college sports postseason?
With the news that the men’s and women’s NCAA Basketball Tournaments will be expanding to 76-team fields, plus the start of the collegiate softball postseason with baseball’s Selection Monday only a couple of weeks away, I was thinking about all the different forms that collegiate sports’ postseasons take. There’s football, with its dozens of essentially […]
UNC Baseball will host Pittsburgh this weekend in their home series finale
The Diamond Heels come into this weekend having played a fair bit less baseball in the last couple of weeks than they usually have going into a weekend series. After their series win over Duke two weekends ago, they played their worst game of the season against Coastal Carolina, then cancelled a game against Queens […]
UNC Women’s Tennis Reaches Sweet 16 for 16th Straight Year
Michigan and UNC currently rank 2nd and 3rd, respectively, in the interactive Director’s Cup standings, separated by 17.75 points. Women’s Tennis this weekend hosts a super-regional (round of 16), with the winner advancing to the “Elite Eight.” The opponent? Michigan. Both UNC Men and Women earned spots in the NCAA Tournament this year. The men […]
UNC Softball: Tar Heels look to make run in ACC Tournament
Having wrapped up a 31-18 regular season back on April 26th, the North Carolina Tar Heels’ softball team is set to begin their ACC Tournament on Wednesday against Clemson. Despite the overall winning record, Carolina went just 9-15 in conference play, which leaves them at a bit of a disadvantage going into the ACC Tournament […]
UNC Basketball Transfer Portal Tracker: Week 5
The NCAA transfer portal is officially closed, so what we can say for certain is that should not see any UNC players that were on the 2025-26 roster leave Chapel Hill moving forward. As for incoming transfers and empty roster spots, that’s a whole other story. Michael Malone is still piecing together his frontcourt via […]
What spring sports UNC team are you most excited about?
We are very deep into the swing of things in the college springs sports season. Many of the sports, such as lacrosse, are either about to start or already have started their NCAA Tournaments. Meanwhile, the brackets in other sports like baseball and softball will be released sooner rather than later. Either way, there’s still […]
UNC Baseball: The Heels are in home stretch after clobbering Duke
It was absolutely frustrating to see the white hot UNC baseball team get just absolutely curb stomped by Coastal Carolina last week. If the two are on any sort of collision course, it’s tough to say that matchup will have a huge impact on a future meeting because of the way that teams treat these […]
Where UNC basketball stands in the transfer portal rankings
The NCAA transfer portal is a chaotic time for every team in college basketball, whether they want to admit it or not. Sure, a team like Tennessee has made it look easy by throwing metric tons of money around, but the fact of the matter is that everyone has the same experience: teams will get […]
What is your favorite UNC radio call of all time?
Everyone has a moment where nostalgia takes over, and a series of events over the past few days reminded me of the magic of the radio. It started on Saturday. If you are a Carolina Hurricanes fan, you’re aware that the Stanley Cup Playoffs have moved to national broadcasts only, and while the NHL has […]
UNC men’s lacrosse blown out by Virginia in ACC title game
The first five minutes of Sunday’s ACC championship game went great for the Carolina men’s lacrosse team. Then the wheels fell off. In a rematch of a regular season game that UNC won in overtime, the second-seeded Tar Heels took a 2-0 lead over the fourth-seeded Cavaliers with just over 10 minutes left in the […]
What incoming Tar Heel are you most excited by?
Michael Malone’s first roster as the new North Carolina Tar Heels men’s basketball head coach is close to done. Not every UNC scholarship is now accounted for, but most of the pieces are now in place. In this day and age of college basketball, a lot of teams experience turnover from season to season. That’s […]
Quiet Time
It’s strange not to be excited for football season. This isn’t an indictment of the roster, the coaching staff, or anything else; those will all certainly come later, likely from better writers than myself. As we get closer to the start of the season, we will have ample opportunity to discuss personnel inadequacies from the […]
Fourth quarter surge sends UNC men’s lacrosse to ACC title game
For the first time since winning it in 2017, the UNC men’s lacrosse team will play for an ACC Tournament title. The second-seeded Tar Heels beat reigning tournament champion Syracuse 12-10 in a semifinal matchup on Friday, outscoring the third-seeded Orange 5-2 in the fourth quarter. Carolina went down 9-7 just over a minute into […]
Do you know anyone with a Tar Heel-related name?
I moved to Tennessee over a dozen years ago. One thing I quickly found out is how much the people here still revere former Vols QB Peyton Manning. Manning, of course, is arguably the greatest Tennessee football player and one of the best NFL quarterbacks to ever suit up. His impact on the state of […]
What is your favorite sports-related book?
This question is a little farther afield than our usual UNC-related Questions of the Day, but bear with me here. The other week, I was visiting a friend in Columbus, Ohio, and this friend took me to The Book Loft, reportedly one of the country’s biggest independent bookstores. Each room of The Book Loft corresponds […]
UNC tennis star Reese Brantmeier wins lawsuit against the NCAA
Senior Reese Brantmeier is used to winning on the court; her efforts helped lead the UNC women’s tennis team to their first national championship in 2023. Now, Brantmeier can add a win in court to her legacy. Brantmeier and fellow plaintiff Maya Joint filed a lawsuit against the NCAA in 2024. NCAA rules stated that […]
#2 UNC Baseball has a weekend mostly off after a loss to #9 Coastal Carolina
The Diamond Heels of UNC remained at #2 in the rankings for the second straight week, but the team seems a little more vulnerable now than they did this time last week, when they were coming off a series win against Georgia Tech. They held serve against Duke over the weekend with a 2-1 series […]
UNC Basketball: State of the Roster
Since the season ended seven weeks ago, a lot has changed in what can best be described as a whirlwind of moves that have changed almost the entire landscape of the North Carolina Men’s basketball roster. From graduations to NBA draft entries to transfers to coaching changes, this roster has undergone a ton and if […]
What are your UNC sports “unpopular opinions?”
Deep down in the recesses of their minds, or maybe just on the top, everyone has some opinions that most other people don’t agree with. Some of them may be about consequential things in the world, or some of them may be as unimportant as “I don’t like (popular food item X).” Today, I want […]
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