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UNC junior guard Caleb Love (2) looks at the basket during the men’s basketball game against UVA in the Dean E. Smith Center on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023.

UNC men's basketball junior guard Caleb Love enters transfer portal

By Hunter Nelson | Mar. 27

Following three seasons with the North Carolina men's basketball team, junior guard Caleb Love will enter the transfer portal, Love announced Monday via social media.

  • "I've taken some time with my family to reevaluate what's best for me to continue to grow as a player, and I've decided to enter the transfer portal to continue my journey," he wrote.
  • Love is the team's sixth player to enter the transfer portal this season. 

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UNC junior forward Anya Poole answers questions from the media in the North Carolina locker room during the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio on Sunday, March 19, 2023.

'It was really bad': UNC women's basketball discusses steps toward equity in NCAA Tournament

By Shelby Swanson | Mar. 20

As they start their 2023 March Madness run — and yes, the women's tournament now uses March Madness branding  — several Tar Heels have reflected on how their tournament experience has changed over the years. In August 2021, the NCAA’s extensive report found that, on average, the association spends more money on male athletes than female athletes. This discrepancy is because the organization views men’s championships in a different regard than women’s championships.  "Because of the way that the structure’s in place, it’s more lucrative for your men’s basketball team to be more successful," UNC women's basketball head coach Courtney Banghart said. "The politics of that is real.”

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UNC junior guard Caleb Love (2) jumps toward the basket during the game against Virginia in the ACC Tournament Quarterfinals at Greensboro Coliseum on March 9, 2023.

UNC men's basketball season likely comes to fitting end at ACC Tournament

By Hunter Nelson | Mar. 10

Moments after UNC’s likely season-ending 68-59 loss to Virginia in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals, a somber mood swept through the visitors locker room at the Greensboro Coliseum.  Last year’s March magic seemed to provide an alibi for each puzzling underperformance, and the experienced group seemed to have a figuratively never-ending hourglass to figure it all out. Although UNC is still not entirely eliminated from the Big Dance, Bart Torvik’s metrics currently give the team a microscopic 1.3 percent chance of earning an at-large bid. And the aftermath of the loss suggested that Thursday was the Tar Heels’ final swan song.

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UNC graduate forward Leaky Black (1) drives toward the basket during the men's basketball game against Duke at the Dean E. Smith Center on Saturday, March 4, 2023. UNC fell to Duke 62-57.

UNC men's basketball's shooting woes creep back in senior night loss to Duke

By Evan Rogers | Mar. 5

With UNC royalty in attendance and the senior-night red carpet rolled out, North Carolina reverted back to its season-long shooting struggles in a 62-57 loss to Duke.   For head coach Hubert Davis, the lackluster 5-23 clip from beyond the arc wasn’t the most damning part about his team's 30 percent shooting output from the field. “I thought we had wide open looks from three that we didn’t make,” he said. “But more importantly, I thought we had layups that we missed. We missed a lot of shots around the basket.”

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