In the rivalry matchup to end the season, the North Carolina men's basketball team (16-9, 10-6 ACC) dominated Duke (11-11, 9-9 ACC) from start to finish in a 91-73 win.
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After losing to Syracuse on Monday, UNC must avoid a loss to Duke in order to hold its place in the NCAA field. Here are three key factors that will dictate the outcome of this critical rivalry showdown.
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About 3,200 fans — the majority of which were students — attended the UNC basketball game on Saturday, the first since Gov. Cooper eased COVID-19 restrictions.
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“The University is working closely with the Town of Chapel Hill and the Orange County Health Department on communications to the campus community encouraging everyone to watch and celebrate a possible win safely,” University spokesperson Jeni Cook said in a statement.
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There’s still much to be resolved, but here are the North Carolina basketball team's most likely opponents in the opening round.
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With one game left in the season, there's really just one thing the Tar Heels need to do to hold onto their spot in the tournament — don't lose. Plain and simple.
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It’d be a fool’s errand to try and rank any number of Roy Williams’ most important victories, and that’s not what this is. But after 900 winning games of basketball, let’s take a look at three of those games that have helped define his career.
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“Every part of basketball is a two-way street,” head coach Roy Williams said. “Sometimes you do something better than the other team and then during the course of the game they change. And today, the changes they made we didn’t adjust back well enough.”
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After a dominating win over ACC-leading Florida State on Saturday, UNC continued its established win-lose pattern by falling, 72-70, against unranked Syracuse on Monday night, in a critical game against a middle-of-the-pack ACC team with NCAA Tournament stakes on the line.
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After a signature win over No. 11 Florida State on Saturday, the UNC men’s basketball team (15-9, 9-6 ACC) flopped in a 72-70 loss to the Syracuse Orange (14-8, 8-7 ACC) on Monday night at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y.
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“I've said it before, I'll look back on it one of these days and say, 'Hey, that was pretty neat,’” Roy Williams said. “But I was focused on one thing: Trying to help this team get to 15 (wins this season).”
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First-year big man Walker Kessler has always oozed potential, with his size and the possibility of one day stretching his range out to the three-point arc, but it wasn't until the past two weeks that potential has turned into production.
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The win gives Roy Williams his 900th career victory, leaving him three wins away from No. 3 in career wins for Division I head coaches. Williams now trails only Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Boeheim and Bob Knight as the winningest head coaches all-time.
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One reason the Tar Heels have been unable to escape the bubble stems from the team’s lack of quality wins. But on Saturday, UNC will have the opportunity to collect a signature victory when it hosts the ACC-leading No. 11 Florida State Seminoles.
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“We’ve laid an egg a couple of times this year, and let's make sure we say this right here: Marquette beat our rear-ends,” head coach Roy Williams said. “They outcoached us, they outplayed us, they wanted it more. Everything.”
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When things go as planned — like head coach Roy Williams celebrating his 900th career win postgame — it’s perfectly satisfying. When things go wrong, it’s perfectly maddening. And UNC’s 83-70 loss to Marquette on Wednesday night was a perfectly maddening backfire.
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After a dominating win over Louisville on Saturday, the Tar Heels returned to play deflated and stale. The UNC men’s basketball team (14-8, 8-5 ACC) fell to Marquette (11-12, 6-10 Big East) 83-70 on Wednesday night at the Dean Smith Center in saddening fashion.
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“I’ve said all along I think our freshmen are going to be good players,” head coach Roy Williams said. “My request is for them to do it during my lifetime and today it was in the first half. So, hope I get to see more of that before I kick out.”
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Against the Louisville Cardinals on Saturday night, with NCAA Tournament hopes hanging in the balance, the Tar Heels proved, in a 99-54 slaughter of a win, that they have what it takes to stand out — everything just has to click.
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In what was likely the team’s best performance of the season, the North Carolina men’s basketball team (14-7, 8-5 ACC) demolished the visiting Louisville Cardinals (11-5, 6-4 ACC), 99-54, giving North Carolina a crucial win as it hopes to secure its place in the NCAA Tournament.
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