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Tar Heels open season with 69-56 win over UNC Wilmington. What we learned from game

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — No. 1 North Carolina didn’t show much of the offensive explosiveness that helped it reach the national championship game last season in its opener against UNC Wilmington on Monday night.

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Pitt collapses in 4th quarter in road loss to No. 21 North Carolina

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — As his team made its way off the field Saturday evening at Kenan Stadium, Pat Narduzzi couldn’t be blamed if he were to have pondered what could’ve been.

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After giving up 24 points in second quarter, UNC falls to Notre Dame, 45-32

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — It wasn’t 40 points, but it was another destructive quarter nonetheless. And this time, North Carolina’s offense couldn’t overcome it.

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Luke DeCock: Game that should’ve been all that’s right about college sports becomes all that’s wrong

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — In the end, the bands played on, a potential disaster averted. Florida A&M, undermanned and eventually overwhelmed, limped off the field at Kenan Stadium having put up a noble fight against North Carolina, even with a third of its roster back in Tallahassee, ineligible.

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Where exactly is NC setting of ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’? We did some sleuthing

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Almost four years after it first hit bookshelves, the film adaptation of Delia Owens’ 2018 novel “Where the Crawdads Sing” is debuting on the big screen Friday.

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NBA Draft? Nah. He’s Following the Money, Right Back to School.

Bacot’s draft stock spiked at the NCAA tournament, but for this business major, riding the NIL bubble and sticking around Chapel Hill is a “no-brainer.”

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Freedom riders' 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina

Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men will have their sentences vacated posthumously

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A group of New Yorkers led North Carolina to ‘57 NCAA title over Wilt Chamberlain, Kansas

NEW YORK — Given the breadth of basketball talent to come out of New York City, the most from anywhere since James Naismith repurposed his peach baskets, it is, in many ways, a travesty that universities within the five boroughs have just one NCAA title.

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Luke DeCock: On run to Sweet 16, UNC has gotten hot enough to warm coach Hubert Davis’ heart

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — This is more what Hubert Davis imagined 50 weeks ago, a North Carolina team living up to the program’s traditional standards — “You’re not really remembered at UNC for a Sweet 16,” Armando Bacot pointed out Tuesday — and doing it with togetherness and unity.

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Brady Manek recalls 'stressful' moments watching UNC against Baylor from locker room

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Brady Manek's ejection for a flagrant-2 foul was nearly a season-ending call in North Carolina's 93-86 overtime win over Baylor on Saturday. And all he could do was watch a delayed broadcast feed that brought anxiety for every cheer at Dickies Arena because he didn't know…

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Luke DeCock: NCAA tournament game will serve as a homecoming of sorts for UNC forward Brady Manek

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Getting sent to Texas for the opening weekend may not have meant much to most of North Carolina’s roster – the Tar Heels, as a No. 8 seed, were entirely at the mercy of bracketing fate – but it meant everything to Brady Manek.

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Varsity Letters: Inside a Basketball Bromance

On the surface, they couldn’t have been more different. Yet Dean Smith and Bob Knight forged one of the most enduring—and most unlikely—friendships in college sports.

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Luke DeCock: Duke delivers a statement win in Coach K’s final game at the Smith Center

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Duke could have spent the final five minutes running the Four Corners in Mike Krzyzewski’s final tribute to Dean Smith, a bitter rival who became a compatriot, the titan of the ACC that Krzyzewski spent years trying to dethrone only to, eventually, become.

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Can UNC Slow Paolo Banchero and Duke? A New Edition of the Rivalry Is Here

The Tar Heels are looking to spoil Coach K's final game in Chapel Hill.

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Luke DeCock: After 10 months, Roy Williams and North Carolina finally say their real goodbyes

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Ten months after his sudden and somber spring departure in an empty building, Roy Williams stood at center court at the Smith Center, bathed not only in a spotlight, but the applause of an arena filled with happy fans.

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'British Tar Heel' makes trip from England to attend this week's UNC basketball games

Former North Carolina women's basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell received a picture of two of her former camp staffers attending the men's basketball win over Virginia Tech on Monday. She immediately recognized the ginger-haired man from England she hadn't seen since that basketball camp in 2015.

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