The second half of the semester is here, the weather is warming up and just like that, basketball season is over. Here’s the news for Monday:
NO MORE PARTIES IN LA
- “I didn't picture it ending it like this,” Roy Williams said. “I pictured it ending with these guys having a huge smile on their face, but that's not college basketball.” Yesterday marked the end of UNC’s NCAA Tournament run — and the end of Theo Pinson and Joel Berry II’s legendary college basketball careers.
- Searching for the reasons behind the loss? Roy Williams will tell you: size, an aggressive Aggies offense and an abysmal shooting percentage across the team took down the Tar Heels.
QUICK HITS
- The estimated cost of a planned Durham-Orange light rail is more than a billion dollars — and the federal government is expected to foot half of the bill.
- “I need to feel safe in my own school.” On March 14, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools students joined thousands of other students and teachers around the country in a walk out to protest gun violence.
- After a relatively rocky start to its season and the loss of a starting pitcher to injury, the North Carolina baseball team locked it in this weekend, completing its second sweep on the year.
FROM THE OPINION PAGE
- OP-ED: UNC graduate Steve Sheffield believes angry professors aren’t going to be able to take down Silent Sam – if they could, we wouldn’t need professors in the first place.
- OP-ED: Aramark is well-known for its racist blunders and low worker pay — so why does UNC contract the company for our dining halls?
- COLUMN: Sure, Aziz Ansari and Kumail Nanjiani are groundbreaking — but where are the South Asian women in today’s popular culture?
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