Tar Heel born, bred, and working on that third thing
The easy answer is both. However, let’s review where UNC sits financially at the moment. We ran a $15 million deficit last cycle. Chancellor Lee Roberts insists it was a one-time thing, but it still indicates that we don’t have a reserve fund to handle new and unexpected expenses. We just dropped $46+ million on […]
UNC’s coaching search at this time focuses heavily on coaches still coaching. While these coaches remain focused on winning at their current schools, UNC fans can watch some these games with extra interest as an audition of sorts. Who handles the pressure situations the best? Who comes up with the right adjustments at halftime? Whose […]
They did it: UNC made it to the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament after beating Maryland 74-66. Their reward for making it out of the first weekend? Facing UConn in the Sweet Sixteen. Not exactly the kind of award that anybody would want, right? As is the truth most seasons, the Huskies are playing […]
It’s probably not actually the case, but it certainly feels like last weekend’s home series against Louisville was an inflection point for this season of UNC Baseball — a loss would have meant the Heels had lost their first two home series in ACC play, as well as their first two matchups against real contenders […]
Today as we continue on with our North Carolina men’s basketball season recap series, we’ve come to the post awarding our Freshman of the Year for this year’s team. Folks, to be honest, it did not take much deep diving or numbers crunching to figure out who won this particular honor. Considering that he was […]
The Carolina Basketball head coach search continues, and there is a lot of information flying around about who the Heels could potentially come to an agreement with. There’s plenty of names that have come up more than once, and most of them would be really good candidates. There is definitely a tier list when it […]
Tonight, the men’s NCAA Tournament returns, as Sweet 16 will begin, and we’ll be down to the Final Four by the time the weekend is over. Obviously, we here at Tar Heel Blog have been a little preoccupied by UNC’s season ending, and now the coaching search that has begun partly because of that. However […]
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou Davis polarized Tar Heel fans from the outset. Passionate fans hate to lose and love to win, but few of us do so in equal measure. That […]
Usually, when you name a Most Improved Player, you give it to someone who made a big jump from last year to this year. This is a bit problematic for the ‘25-‘26 Tar Heels, as only two players from last year’s team played any significant minutes. Zayden High played sparingly until Caleb Wilson’s injury forced […]
Now that the Tar Heels are in the market for a head coach, many outlets have started tossing around potential candidates for the school to hire. The tricky thing, though, is that hiring a current college basketball coach comes with a cost, and UNC has to be willing to pay it. On one hand, it’s […]
Hours after it was announced that Hubert Davis would not return as basketball coach next season, we already have our first name removed from the list. Matt Norlander of CBS Sports reports that President of Basketball Operations for the Celtics, Brad Stevens, has removed his name from consideration for the job. Bringing Stevens back to […]
Now that it is official, and Hubert Davis is no longer the head coach of the North Carolina Men’s Basketball team, it is time to move our attention to who should succeed him. Real quick, I do want to take a minute and thank Hubert for what he means to the university. He has two […]
The Hubert Davis era in Chapel Hill is over after days of speculation about his future. The decision to part ways comes after the Tar Heels blew a 19-point lead against VCU to get bounced from the NCAA Tournament in the Round of 64. Rumors that Davis would not be head coach for the upcoming […]
All indications are that UNC Basketball is on the verge of a new era. The rumors coming out of Chapel Hill have been consistent that Hubert Davis will not return as head coach next season. The how and the when remain up in the air, but it feels like we are too far down the […]
Most of the college sports fandom was focused on the basketball court this past weekend, with the first two rounds of the men’s and women’s NCAA Tournaments taking place. In North Carolina circles, that attention was then even further taken by the still ongoing saga of Hubert Davis and what’s going on with the men’s […]
Not to beat a dead horse, but things could’ve went a lot better for the Tar Heels this season. There were some high points that were notable — beating Kansas and Duke in the Dean Dome, and beating Kentucky at Rupp Arena — the lows were pretty frustrating. But even with some of the adversity […]
The two biggest sports on UNC’s campus this academic year have already shown us undoubtedly the two worst ways a sports season can end — a walloping by a rival to cap off an absolutely anemic year in football, and a historic-level collapse to an inferior opponent in men’s basketball. Obviously, the way everybody wants […]
Every so often, when I haven’t heard from someone or I know someone has been going through something, I will sit down and shoot them a text (I would prefer to call, but I understand the world we live in) saying “Hey, just checking in, how are things?” Well, that’s what I am doing today […]
The Carolina women are heading back to the Sweet 16 after a thrilling win over Maryland, marking the first time the Tar Heels have reached the second weekend in consecutive seasons since doing so in 2014 and 2015. It was an extremely tight race for player of the game, but I have to give it […]
After cruising to an easy win on Friday against Western Illinois, Courtney Banghart and the UNC Tar Heels women’s basketball team face a huge mountain today when they open up the women’s NCAA Tournament action today against fifth seed Maryland. While the Terrapins have been out of the ACC for a while, they still have […]
There is increasing speculation in the last 24 hours that UNC’s loss to VCU in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in which the Tar Heels blew a 19 point lead in the second half may spell the end of Hubert Davis as head coach. While nothing official has come out of UNC, Matt […]
College sports is littered with examples of “do something!” hires that took things from bad to worse. And that’s exactly what the Belichick hire was. “Mack fatigue” combined with an unstable support community to yield a joke of a hiring process in which competing visions of the future turned things sour. “It can’t get worse!” Yes, […]
Fourth-seeded Carolina blew past 13th-seeded Western Illinois 82-51 in the first round of the Women’s NCAA Tournament on Friday, and while it may have been a game to forget for most viewers, it was a game to remember for one Tar Heel. Senior Nyla Harris led the team with 17 points (on 6-of-9 shooting) and […]
It has been a rough couple of days for Carolina fans. The Tar Heels were once again on the bad side of history in their four-point loss to VCU, and things have been very loud ever since. A fan base that usually was pretty split on a particular topic became more and more unanimous — […]
In the women’s tournament, #4 seed UNC opened play at home against #13 seed Western Illinois Leathernecks. WIU earned their berth by finishing first in Ohio Valley Conference with a record of 26-5 and then locking things down with an OVC tournament title. The Leathernecks came into the game with four players registering double digit […]