Tar Heels eliminated in first round of NCAA tournament
The game could have been North Carolina’s.
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The game could have been North Carolina’s.
When the No. 8 North Carolina lacrosse team rallied from a halftime deficit on Feb. 25 against Navy, it was the first time the Tar Heels had done so since 2009.
Before North Carolina’s spring football game, coach Larry Fedora said every position was up for grabs, including quarterback.
During Wednesday’s practice, the North Carolina football team ran 170 plays. Last year, the Tar Heels ran around 60 or 65 plays a day.
Every athlete knows the old adage: practice makes perfect.
After practicing within the closed confines of Navy Field since March 14, the North Carolina football team is ready to take its new up-tempo, aggressive style public on Thursday night.
The No. 14 North Carolina lacrosse team cleared the bench and stormed Fetzer Field twice Saturday. Once was following the final horn on its 11-10 victory against No. 7 Maryland. The other time was for a fight.
At first glance, Nicky Galasso has it all.
Late in the third quarter of North Carolina’s lacrosse game at Duke, Marcus Holman delivered a crushing check to a Blue Devil defender.
Before the season even started, things were aligning for Friday’s men’s lacrosse game to be a launching pad toward a national championship run for either North Carolina or Duke.
North Carolina didn’t have to wait long to hear its name called on Selection Sunday as the Tar Heels took one of four No. 1 seeds in the NCAA tournament.
After North Carolina jumped out to an early 16-4 lead against Maryland, the teams played about evenly for the rest of half, as UNC took a 36-25 advantage into the break. Tyler Zeller leads all scorers with 15 points, and the senior also has five rebounds in his Senior Day game. Terrell Stoglin leads Maryland with 10 points on 3-10 shooting. Kendall Marshall tied Ed Cota’s single-season assist record on a dish to James Michael McAdoo. He has three assists at the break, one shy of breaking the record. Harrison Barnes has just two points. He played 11 first-half minutes before sitting the rest of the half with two fouls. UNC has dominated down low so far, with a 22-8 advantage in points in the paint. Zeller and junior John Henson tied the Terrapins themselves with 25 combined points. Maryland is 3-10 on 3-pointers, but UNC is shooting 1-7 for 14 percent. The Tar Heels are shooting 38 percent from the field. The Tar Heel defense has forced 11 Terrapin turnovers.
North Carolina didn’t need two 3-pointers in the closing minutes to beat Maryland. In fact, the Tar Heels wouldn’t usually take them, as they had a 19-point lead with two minutes remaining.
When North Carolina takes the court Wednesday against Maryland, the Tar Heels will look quite a bit different than usual.
Entering the North Carolina lacrosse team’s home opener Saturday, coach Joe Breschi knew his team was lopsided. The attack — one of the best in the nation. The defense — inexperienced, for starters.
First-year football coach Larry Fedora implored those at his opening press conference Dec. 9 to look at his wife. He said that was enough evidence to prove that he was a good recruiter.
When Dexter Strickland tore his ACL, North Carolina knew its defense would take a hit.
Less than 10 minutes into North Carolina’s game against N.C. State University on Sunday, the Tar Heels must have had flashbacks — frightening flashbacks — of their trip to Connecticut.
As North Carolina’s reserves took the court at the end of Tuesday’s game against Miami, guards Kendall Marshall and Dexter Strickland sunk deeply into their seats.
Harrison Barnes’ reputation as a big-game player has grown so mightily that his teammates started jokingly calling him “Big Game Ames.”