Vernon Carey Jr. will be priority No. 1 for the Tar Heels against Duke on Saturday, but that won't be enough for a win. They'll have to disrupt the freshman center if they want an upset.
Tre Jones has been the engine that makes Duke go this season. How can UNC contain him?
With an injury to Wendell Moore, Duke has had to experiment with different starting lineups. Here's a look at Jordan Goldwire, who has recently slid into the starting guard position.
Cassius Stanley averaged 15.4 points and 4.7 rebounds per game on 53.3 percent shooting in the month of January. Read what the Tar Heels will need to do to cool off Duke's sharpshooter.
Read what North Carolina and Duke have done over the last 20 years to perfect the recipe for making multiple national championship teams.
Led by impressive performances by sophomore Ryan Burnett and first-year Austin Greaser, the North Carolina men’s golf team placed fourth in the two-day Sea Best Invitational. The team was consistent throughout the tournament, never rising above second place or dropping below fifth place. The Tar Heels finished just one shot behind Liberty, missing out on a third place finish.
With Duke's bench players finding their rhythm, the North Carolina men's basketball team's lack of depth could create problems for the Tar Heels in the rivalry matchup.
Although the UNC vs. Duke rivalry is one of the most heated in sports, it isn’t known for hostilities between the two fanbases. However, with the animosity between the two schools, there have been some legendary pranks played. Here are three of the greatest pranks played between Tar Heels and Blue Devil fans.
The UNC-Duke basketball rivalry has become one of the biggest in all of sports. But what do athletes from other UNC think of it? We talked to Tar Heels on four different teams to find out.
Coming into 2020 as the preseason No. 1, the UNC women's lacrosse team returns with two of the best scorers in school history to make a run at the national championship.
The UNC and Duke men's basketball rivalry has seen countless iconic moments, but what were those experiences like for reserves like walk-on Charlie Everett and Jack Wooten?
Rushing Franklin Street is a tradition like no other, but some students take it even further by setting couches and other objects on fire in the middle of the street.
The DTH sports desk dominated the Chronicle sports desk in a (mostly) friendly pickup basketball game on Jan. 26.
As students across Tobacco Road prepare for Saturday's Duke-UNC game, many may be overlooking another rivalry bout between the two schools that's right on the horizon. The North Carolina women’s basketball team will face off against Duke this Thursday, with the Tar Heels (16-6, 7-4 ACC) looking for their third straight ACC victory. Here are three things that UNC can do to overcome the Blue Devils (11-10, 5-5 ACC) in Durham.
The North Carolina men’s basketball team fell to No. 8 Florida State on the road, 65-59, after a woeful stretch in the second half. Despite solid defensive play, UNC (10-12, 3-8 ACC) struggled to shoot once again, which has become a common occurrence this season. The Tar Heels finished the game shooting nearly 31 percent from the field while holding the Seminoles (19-3, 9-2 ACC) to 41 percent shooting
My only advice to Nassir Little comes from the words of Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster: keep your emotions off the internet.
“This was our first big test," senior William Blumberg said. "The teams we played in the past were good, but these teams were kind of a level up. It was good for us to step up and show up when we really needed to.”
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man. Immediately makes one think of UNC-Duke basketball, no?
As noted by Pat James of GoHeels.com, you’d have to go back nearly three decades — when Duke hosted UNC on Saturday, January 19, 1991 — to find the last time the Tar Heels and Blue Devils played their first game on a day other than Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. In a perfect world, they’d go three more decades before they have to open on the weekend again.
The North Carolina women's tennis team completed a perfect weekend with two wins over top-15 teams. The Tar Heels took down No. 10 Michigan on Saturday and No. 13 Vanderbilt on Sunday afternoon.
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