Tar Heels’ redemption tour finally ends in Arizona
GLENDALE, ARIZ. — Redemption. Finally, sweet, sweet redemption.
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GLENDALE, ARIZ. — Redemption. Finally, sweet, sweet redemption.
GLENDALE, ARIZ. — The seniors on this North Carolina men’s basketball team, like all those who have come before them, say they don’t talk about it. That they don’t think about it. That, in spite of the reality about to smack them all at once, they’re not concerned with the idea that Monday night’s national championship game will be their last as Tar Heels.
GLENDALE, ARIZ. — There’s big, and then there’s these two.
GLENDALE, ARIZ. — Everything was hitting Kennedy Meeks at once: the sweat droplets splashing his cheeks, the stray shouts and steady boos from a green-and-yellow-clad army of Oregon fans inside University of Phoenix Stadium — but maybe more than anything else, the magnitude of this moment.
GLENDALE, ARIZ. — Early Saturday morning, somewhere in the Kimpton Hotel Palamar Phoenix Cityscape, Kennedy Meeks rolled over in bed.
Most of you will probably recognize my stories better than my face or my name.
MEMPHIS, TENN. — It wasn’t supposed to be this way — not this man, certainly not in this moment.
MEMPHIS — The checklist is lengthy, of everything the North Carolina men’s basketball team brings on its road trips: Kennedy Meeks’ favorite pair of UGG boots, for instance, or Nate Britt’s extra earrings.
MEMPHIS — They announced his arrival in grandiose fashion, making a marvel of his entrance after his marvel of a performance.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Think about everything going on in that moment: siren blaring, thousands of butts rising all at once out of thousands of seats, a parade of pom-poms ruffling on the sidelines — and yet, the most important thing was a teensy, tiny little poke.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Justin Jackson didn’t want anything exorbitant — he’d have been happy with his miniature bottle of apple juice and the half-eaten plate of pulled pork sitting on the locker behind him. Maybe some potato chips, too.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — This is a basketball story, even if it may not start like one.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — They’re united, all 15 members of the North Carolina men’s basketball team, by long bus rides and hotel rooms and entire afternoons spent sweating together in the Smith Center. But there’s something else that connects them, too: A group chat.
Nothing confuses me more than this year’s North Carolina team.
CHARLOTTESVILLE —The No. 5 North Carolina men’s basketball team fell 53-43 to No. 23 Virginia on Monday night in Charlottesville. UNC hasn’t beaten UVa. on the road since 2012. Also, North Carolina's 43 points tonight were the fewest points scored since 1979.
Picture this.
The No. 8 North Carolina men’s basketball team (21-5, 9-3 ACC) fell to the Duke Blue Devils (19-5, 7-4 ACC), 86-78, inside Cameron Indoor Stadium on Thursday night.
DURHAM — Listen.
It’s late. Quiet. He’d prefer it that way.
In a rematch of last season’s Final Four, the North Carolina men’s basketball team beat Syracuse, 85-68, on Monday night to deliver head coach Roy Williams his 800th win. He is the fastest coach in NCAA history to reach 800 wins in terms of seasons coached, doing so in his 29th.