After 33 seasons of Division I head coaching, UNC men's basketball head coach Roy Williams announced he'd be stepping away from the game. So now, the Tar Heel faithful are faced with the question they never wanted to ask themselves: Who could replace Roy?
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Roy Williams, the head coach of the UNC men’s basketball team and a 2007 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, is retiring, the athletic department announced on Thursday.
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Although there were some bumps and bruises, the young core of players on the North Carolina men's basketball team was a key reason the team was able to return to the NCAA Tournament.
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The doughnut is Boston Crème, Williams’ favorite type of Dunkin’ doughnut, and it’s topped with Carolina Blue icing. For each doughnut sold, 50 cents will be donated to the UNC Children’s Hospital and Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina.
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In a statement released by the UNC athletic department, first-year center Day’Ron Sharpe of the men’s basketball team announced today that he is forgoing the remainder of his college eligibility and will declare for the 2021 NBA Draft.
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There’s a reason people don’t like endings. Endings are abrupt and often unforeseen. Endings are final and resolute as they dissolve any and all hopes of a next time. But for the UNC men's basketball team, Friday night's 85-62 loss to Wisconsin in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament was a fitting way to end this unique season.
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Normally, the first weekend of March Madness is a celebration for North Carolina. One filled with anxiety — but the anxiety of a team with title aspirations, looking to roll through lower- and middle-tier opponents on the way to the Sweet 16. But this March, it was different.
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The eighth seed UNC men’s basketball team (18-11, 10-6 ACC) fell, 85-62, to the ninth seed Wisconsin Badgers (18-12, 10-10 ACC) on Friday night in Indianapolis in the first round of the 2021 NCAA Tournament.
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On Friday, March 19, the Tar Heels will face the 9th-seeded Wisconsin in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
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For their efforts this year, the Atlantic Coast Conference awarded UNC sophomore center Armando Bacot third-team All-ACC honors and voted first-year guard Caleb Love and first-year center Day’Ron Sharpe onto the All-Freshman team.
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The North Carolina men's basketball team bruised and battered its way through three games in three nights and in the end, they ran out of juice.
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“I feel like we got better as a team this week, and we can take that on into the NCAA Tournament,” sophomore forward Armando Bacot said. “We can carry this momentum.”
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The North Carolina men's basketball team lost in the ACC Tournament semifinals to Florida State, 69-66, in a game that saw the Tar Heels overcome another slow start, only to ultimately fail in a close-fought comeback attempt in the second half.
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With all the hype centered around UNC's young frontcourt, it was its smallest first-year that made the biggest impact. R.J. Davis arose from the shadows and delivered his signature performance -- one that willed UNC to the semifinals of the ACC Tournament.
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After struggling in the first half against Virginia Tech on Thursday, North Carolina's post players wore away at the Hokies to lead the Tar Heels to a 81-73 victory.
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The sixth-seeded North Carolina basketball team (18-9, 10-6 ACC) wore off the third-seeded Virginia Tech (15-6, 9-4) en route to a 81-73 win. The Hokies came out with physicality in the first half, but the Tar Heels responded with a strong second half run to take the victory.
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In other words: for one night, at least, Notre Dame was to “boy” as North Carolina was to “man.” Even without senior forward Garrison Brooks, who sat out due to injury, the sixth-seeded Tar Heels’ 101-59 win on Wednesday over the eleventh-seeded Irish was its most dominant frontcourt showing of the season.
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Annihilation. There is no other word. Complete and utter annihilation. Annihilated. That is what the North Carolina men's basketball team did to Notre Dame on Wednesday, trouncing the Fighting Irish, 101-59, the likes of which will probably never be seen in the ACC Tournament again.
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