Playing the best still brings out the best in up-and-down Tar Heels
UNC might still have trouble getting up for lesser opponents such as Belmont and UAB, but there's something about playing the best college basketball has to offer that brings out the best in the Tar...
View ArticleOne great half enough to earn ACC weekly honor for UNC’s Paige
Marcus Paige had one great half Saturday against Kentucky. But that half was so outstanding, it was enough to earn the North Carolina point guard recognition as the ACC’s Player of the Week.… Read More »
View ArticleUNC-Kentucky an exciting matchup, but not a measuring stick
While the two-deep Wildcats have an opportunity to add to their already considerable hype and the young Tar Heels have a chance to either make a statement of their own or identify some of their most...
View ArticleOkafor, Meeks, Christmas finalists for Abdul-Jabbar Award
Three ACC players, including two of the top frontrunners, are among the 15 finalists announced Monday for the inaugural Kareem Abdul Jabbar Center of the Year Award.… Read More »
View ArticleOkafor leads four ACC finalists for Oscar Robertson Trophy
Four ACC players, including frontrunner Jahlil Okafor of Duke, are among the 14 finalists announced Thursday for the Oscar Robertson Trophy, symbolic of the national college Player of the Year.… Read...
View ArticleACC players finalists for five national college basketball awards
ACC players are among the finalists named Monday for all five of the new college basketball positional awards, to be presented in conjunction with the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame at a...
View ArticleOkafor picks up first All-America honor
Duke freshman Jahlil Okafor collected the first of what promises to be many All-America honors on Monday when he was named as a first-team selection by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.… Read...
View ArticleACC provides two of four Naismith Trophy finalists
Two of the nation’s top four players this season are from ACC schools, with both Duke’s Jahlil Okafor and Notre Dame’s Jerian Grant named Thursday as finalists for the Naismith Trophy, symbolic of the...
View ArticleDuke’s Okafor, Notre Dame’s Grant among nation’s best five
hree players that led their teams to the Final Four, including Duke’s Jahlil Okafor, have been selected as first-team All-Americas by the Associated Press on Monday.… Read More »
View ArticleKaminsky’s coach says racial slur controversy a ‘teaching moment’
On the day after what is at least for now, the high point of his decorated college basketball career, Wisconsin star Frank Kaminsky found himself smack in the middle of a controversy he did nothing to...
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