“Coach talks about it all the time,” Holtzapple said. “Guys coming off the bench just being ready for their opportunity. Today I was fortunate enough to be in the starting lineup, so I just tried to be ready for it, take advantage of that.”
“I’ve said this several times before, and I’m gonna keep on saying it: Garrison’s a beast," Cole Anthony said. "Straight like that, he works super hard, he’s really just coming into himself. He’s a beast.”
Saturday night’s regular season finale against the No. 12 Blue Devils brought a different kind of pain. While the Tar Heels trailed by single digits for virtually all of the game, they tied it just twice and never led in an 89-76 loss.
A deflating loss to the Blue Devils right before the ACC Tournament means that UNC will have to have a quick memory before playing as the No. 14 seed.
Katie Hoeg registered six assists and eight points, both career highs, in the North Carolina women's lacrosse team's 19-7 domination of Louisville.
The 2021 prospect said that UNC coaches Mack Brown, Phil Longo and Dré Bly "have been tremendous throughout my recruiting process" and expressed his excitement to join the program.
The North Carolina men's basketball team takes on Duke Saturday to end the regular season. The Blue Devils won the first matchup in overtime, 98-96, in a heartbreaking last-second finish; here's what members of our sports desk think will happen in the rematch.
With large postseason implications and North Carolina playing its best basketball, the Tar Heels could ride their current momentum into a huge victory over Duke this Saturday.
“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.
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.”
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.
The No. 2 North Carolina men’s tennis team (12-1, 2-0 ACC) won 4-0 against No. 7 N.C. State (10-4, 1-1 ACC) on Wednesday evening, extending its winning streak against the Wolfpack to seven years.
In its first five games of the 2020 season, the North Carolina women's lacrosse team has outscored its opponents 98-33 behind dominant starts to the year from Jamie Ortega and Katie Hoeg.
There are home runs that simply leave the ballpark, and then there are home runs that leave the ballpark and come close to entering another ballpark altogether. In the bottom of the fifth inning of UNC’s 12-5 win over UNCG, senior Dylan Harris unleashed one of those home runs.
Foul trouble and a defensive collapse in the fourth quarter saw the North Carolina women's basketball team exit the ACC Tournament in the first round with an 83-73 loss to Wake Forest, likely ending the Tar Heels' season.
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.
“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.
Despite its early season struggles, UNC softball has reasons to be optimistic moving forward, with a softer schedule and the eventual return of star pitcher Brittany Pickett.
Through the example his four siblings and parents set and his perseverance, Harrison’s dream became reality and is now excelling on the UNC Men's Tennis team.
The North Carolina women’s basketball team has had an up and down season and with an at-large NCAA Tournament bid looking unlikely, enters the ACC Tournament this week with everything to play for. In head coach Courtney Banghart's first year, the Tar Heels finished 16-13 overall and 7-11 in the ACC, earning them a No. 12 seed in the ACC Tournament. That gives UNC a first-round matchup against No. 13 seed Wake Forest.
