North Carolina Basketball: Enough with the “we lost must be the coach’s fault”

Head coach Roy Williams

After a couple of days have passed since the end of the North Carolina basketball season the once again theory that “UNC has lost means head coach Roy Williams got outcoached” has again re-surfaced both with some of the fan base as well as among the so-called experts of the sport. Yahoo Sports’ Pat Forde [...]

North Carolina Basketball: UNC falls short against Kansas in the Elite Eight

UNC BB 2012

And so it ends, a season with many hopes and even more injuries, for a team that soon enough will see most of its players end up at the next level, just unsure of when that will be. In the end top seed North Carolina (32-6 ~ 14-2 in the ACC) could not get it [...]

North Carolina Basketball: UNC takes on KU with a ticket to the Final Four at stakes

The Rafters

So, after 37 games it all comes down to forty minutes to see whether UNC will head to New Orleans or not. And that game will have top seed North Carolina, the third winningest program all time, (32-5 ~ 14-2 in the ACC) taking on No. 2 Kansas, second most winningest program, (30-6 ~ 16-2 [...]

North Carolina Basketball: UNC survives and advances to the Elite Eight

UNC Ohio The HC

If I was told that UNC would commit a season high 24 turnovers and that sophomore small forward Harrison Barnes would shoot 3 for 16 while not having sophomore point guard Kendall Marshall, a finalist for the Bob Cousy Award, in the line up I would think that a loss would be the final tally. [...]

North Carolina Basketball: UNC takes on Ohio in St. Louis

MM 2012

Still uncertain on the future of sophomore point guard Kendall Marshall, MidWest top seed North Carolina (31-5 ~ 14-2 in the ACC) takes on No. 13 Ohio (29-7 ~ 11-5 in the MAC) at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Mo., with tip off being at 7:47 p.m. EST, televised on TBS with Marv [...]

North Carolina Basketball: Marshall’s cast is off

Kendall Marshall

Since all have been waiting for anything and everything about the MidWest Region top seed North Carolina point guard Kendall Marshall, here is the one thing that comes from the player himself. Or better said, from his twitter feed… Cast off! — Kendall Marshall (@KButter5) March 21, 2012 Now, what does this mean? I truly [...]

North Carolina Basketball: Marshall might play, Noel does not have UNC in his final 3

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While top seed North Carolina (31-5 ~ 14-2 in the ACC) awaits No. 13 Ohio (29-7 ~ 11-5 MAC) this Friday night in St. Louis, with tip off at 7:15 p.m. EST, televised on TBS, both the coaching staff, the team and of course the fan base are also waiting to see if Kendall Marshall [...]

North Carolina Basketball: UNC moves on to the Sweet Sixteen, but at a price

UNC Creighton The HC

Yesterday’s game between UNC and Creighton had a lot of story lines before its tip off, but when top seed North Carolina (31-5 ~ 14-2 in the ACC) and No. 8 Creighton (29-6 ~ 14-4 MWC) had finished playing, with the Heels winning 87 to 73, the only story line that people wanted to know [...]

North Carolina Basketball: UNC takes on Creighton

March Madness

There are two story lines besides the game itself today when top seed North Carolina (30-5 ~ 14-2 in the ACC) takes on No. 8 Creighton (29-5 ~ 14-4 in the MWC) in Greensboro Coliseum, tip off at 5:15 p.m. EST, televised by CBS. The first one will be whether or not junior power forward [...]

North Carolina Basketball: UNC gets past VT in Round One

UNC VT The Bench

It was not the way that UNC wanted to start its run in the Big Dance, going 1 for 8 to begin the game, and it took a while for the Heels to get into their form. But when it did top seed North Carolina (30-5 ~ 14-2 in the ACC) looked dominant against No. [...]