UNC beats No. 25 Pittsburgh, 75-71
The air at the Smith Center was thick with anticipation and apprehension as Brice Johnson toed the free-throw line, North Carolina leading No. 25 Pittsburgh by three with 2.8 seconds left.
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The air at the Smith Center was thick with anticipation and apprehension as Brice Johnson toed the free-throw line, North Carolina leading No. 25 Pittsburgh by three with 2.8 seconds left.
There was surely some day like this all those years ago.
O’Neal Wanliss raced the mile once. It was in seventh grade P.E. class, for participation. He ran it in five minutes, 12 seconds.
The trio was quick, skilled and unrelenting, and it won the game for the North Carolina men’s soccer team.
The tie streak continued under white lights and clear sky, its hold unyielding and indefinite.
Quinshad Davis is, according to his Twitter, just a young man trying to make it, and the sophomore receiver could be well on his way.
Pete Rehder could only watch — one of the worst mental-strength exercises for an athlete — as his team fell one point shy of third place in the ACC.
Another tune-up sporting event on North Carolina’s campus took place less than a mile away from the North Carolina football Spring Game Saturday.
It was ambition that powered him past a benign head tumor, softball-sized and requiring 16 hours of surgery, and it was ambition that landed him a spot on a Division-I roster of a sport he’d never played.
If a single game were to be used as a microcosm for the North Carolina men’s lacrosse team’s season this far, Wednesday’s win against Brown would be one of the best candidates.
Eighteen seconds are all that separated Patrick Schellberg from a spot at Nationals.
The offense was rolling, but it was the defense — physical, on-the-ball and unrelenting — that proved the most important.
Sandwiched between North Carolina’s wrestling duals with N.C. State and Duke was a less-hyped match-up with the Virginia Military Institute on Friday at Carmichael Arena.
They bent, faltered, cracked but never broke. They led by 14 at halftime, watched their opponent methodically chip away their lead, then put the game away in the final three minutes.
North Carolina wrestling coach C.D. Mock is in his 10th season coaching UNC — 10 years of heading a roster of 20-plus Division-I wrestlers, some nationally ranked.
Last year on the second weekend in January, the North Carolina wrestling team lost to Edinboro and The Citadel which began a six-match losing streak that lasted until the early days of February.
As of 9 p.m. Sunday, the North Carolina wrestling team was gliding along the highway in a bus, hours still remaining on its trip back to Chapel Hill from the Nittany Lion Open in State College, Pa.
The ball sailed wide left, and North Carolina women’s soccer goalie Bryane Heaberlin sprinted toward the pack of her exhilarated teammates to celebrate.
UNC rush vs. GT front seven
There’s no simple answer for Georgia Tech’s triple-option offense, which the North Carolina football team will face Saturday at Kenan Stadium. But coach Larry Fedora offered his best solution Monday at his weekly press conference.