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“After the game, the next day I said, ‘Guys, they made plays,’” Williams said. “We had some opportunities to make those plays not be as big as they were, but we didn’t do it.” Despite a devastating overtime loss to the Blue Devils in February, the North Carolina men's basketball team isn't feeling sorry for itself ahead of its rematch with Duke on Saturday.
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“After the game, the next day I said, ‘Guys, they made plays,’” Williams said. “We had some opportunities to make those plays not be as big as they were, but we didn’t do it.” Despite a devastating overtime loss to the Blue Devils in February, the North Carolina men's basketball team isn't feeling sorry for itself ahead of its rematch with Duke on Saturday.
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Just as one leak gets patched up for these Tar Heels, two more pop up. Doug Halverson’s job is keeping the proverbial ship airtight; suffice it to say that this year, it hasn’t been easy. “It’s absolutely been a trying season, as anyone from the outside would expect,” he said. “It’s tough when you have to come into the office every day and deliver some bad news.” “It’s stressful because I want us to be successful,” Halverson continued. “My priority is the health and safety of our players, but after that, it’s to try to help our team be successful.”
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The North Carolina men's basketball team needs to win five games in five days if it wants to get an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Anything less and its season is over.
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If only the moment could have lasted a little bit longer for Brandon Robinson, the lone four-year scholarship senior on this UNC roster who scored 18 points on the Senior Night he always felt was so far away until it came.
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“If you guys have been keeping up with us, we have been playing really well the past few games,” said first year guard Cole Anthony. “We’re getting everybody back healthy, things have been clicking, and practice is going well. We’re just really starting to play well together.” Anthony was a dominant force in establishing North Carolina’s success on the offensive end. After finishing the Tar Heels' first matchup against Wake Forest shooting just 5-19 from the field, the point guard’s second time facing the Demon Deacons was a stark contrast.
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For the Tar Heels to pick up a win in Tuesday night's rematch against the Demon Deacons, they'll need to rely on Christian Keeling's recent strong form to prevent the early deficit that plagued them in last month's meeting with Wake Forest.
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The case for Cole Anthony playing another season at UNC is stronger than you think.
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After the North Carolina men's basketball team defeated Syracuse on Saturday evening, here are three takeaways about the team's performance with only two games left in the regular season.
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Without junior center Janelle Bailey, UNC struggled to get into any kind of rhythm offensively or defensively, contributing to a blowout loss at the hands of a sub-.500 team.
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In his last two games for the Orange, Elijah Hughes has combined for 45 points against Georgia Tech and Pittsburgh, two teams that defeated North Carolina this year. He'll certainly be one of the guys UNC looks to slow down in Saturday's game against Syracuse.
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Throughout the Tar Heels' worst season since 2001-02, Brooks has been the team's steadiest player, scoring key bucket after key bucket for a team that has desperately needed every single one. He has weathered the storm, and when North Carolina needed him in a game that everyone in Chapel Hill cares far more than they will admit, he delivered.
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You know the head-to-head numbers by heart (even though you claim not to). Under Roy Williams, the Tar Heels have 31 — now 32 — victories over their little brother in Raleigh, to just four losses. North Carolina has been felled by the Wolfpack just once in the last 10 tries. You claim it doesn't matter, but it always has — especially this year, the worst of the Daggum Era. UNC has had N.C. State's number, and that didn't change on Tuesday night.
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Roy Williams made it clear on his Tuesday presser that neither he nor his team will be giving up despite the Tar Heels' 10-17 record. The Hall of Fame coach is in the midst of his first losing season of his 32-year head coaching career.
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After suffering back-breaking defeats in three of its last four games, the North Carolina basketball team spared its fans of any more heartbreak in Louisville on Saturday afternoon. The Tar Heels were outmatched in a 72-55 loss to the Cardinals, losing the rebounding, turnover and assist battle.
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Attacking the post and taking advantage of ACC Preseason Player of the Year Jordan Nwora's recent slump should be huge factors in North Carolina's matchup with Louisville on Saturday.
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With not much to play for besides pride — barring a miracle run in the ACC Tournament — the only question left for North Carolina fans is this: just how bad has this season been, really?
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For the third time in four games, the North Carolina men's basketball team went down to the wire and couldn't come away with a win. Here are the big takeaways from Monday's dramatic finish in Notre Dame, Indiana.
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For the fifth time this year, UNC came up short in a contest that was decided in the final minute of regulation or overtime.
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Virginia guard Tomas Woldetensae became the latest ACC opponent to make his mark on this absurd North Carolina basketball season with a side-stepping, jaw-dropping, game-winning 3-pointer with less than a second left to lift the Cavaliers over the Tar Heels, 64-62, on Saturday night.
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The Tar Heels have now lost five games in a row, and a second at home in heartbreaking fashion after last Saturday’s overtime loss to Duke.
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