“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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Despite not having played since Feb. 1, Louisville sits fourth in the ACC at 6-3 in conference play. Toppling the Cardinals would be North Carolina's biggest win by far this season — here's how the Tar Heels can do it.
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"I think it was good for us to get this game in — we had games getting canceled left and right, so just getting this game was good for us to get our flow going and just practicing is tough on our bodies," Caleb Love said.
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Right now, first-year big Walker Kessler is just a bench player. But that’s exactly what UNC needed in Wednesday night’s 82-62 victory over Northeastern — a spark off the bench.
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In the second all-time meeting between UNC (13-7, 7-5 ACC) and Northeastern (9-8, 8-2 CAA) men's basketball teams, the Tar Heels crushed the Huskies 82-62 on Wednesday in Chapel Hill.
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Matt Doherty, former coach of the UNC men’s basketball team, sat down with The Daily Tar Heel for an interview about his new book discussing the inspirations, takeaways and origins of his novel.
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In its last seven matchups against the Cavaliers, including Saturday, North Carolina has not scored more than 63 points. The Tar Heels have now lost seven consecutive games to Virginia, with its last win coming in a 2017 home game. The Tar Heels haven't won in Charlottesville since 2012.
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The last time UNC didn't have a single player reach double figures in a game, a hot young band called The Beatles was gaining steam. Nobody knew what a Super Bowl was. The moon was just a light in the night sky, not a new frontier that humans could reach and set foot on.
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North Carolina's offensive struggles plagued the Tar Heels from the opening tip, digging them into a hole too deep to climb out of for the entire evening. UNC trailed the Cavaliers for over 90 percent of the game.
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Despite their high ranking, the Cavaliers' scoring margin is just 11 points, and their last three wins have all been by less than 10 points. If the game comes down to the wire, points from free throws will certainly be a deciding factor.
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The North Carolina men's basketball head coach said that the team will be "full personnel" for Saturday's game against Virginia.
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