Welcome to another edition of Tracking the Tar Heels.
Here’s a look at what the Tar Heels have been up to and be sure to pick up our basketball season preview at newsstands today:
- Senior Writer Kelly Parsons takes an in-depth look at Giovani Bernard’s game-winning punt return from Saturday’s win against N.C. State .
- Ed Hardin of the Greensboro News & Record writes that Bernard’s return saved UNC’s season.
- In basketball news, David Adler writes that freshman Brice Johnson played a large role in UNC’s exhibition win against Shaw on Friday.
- Assistant Sports Editor Henry Gargan writes that the UNC women’s basketball team showed off its speed in a 106-29 exhibition defeat of Carson-Newman.
- Goalkeeper Scott Goodwin was able to set the tempo for the men’s soccer team against N.C. State on Friday.
- The ACC tournament ended sooner than the UNC women’s soccer team would have liked, Assistant Sports Editor Robbie Harms writes.
- Dylan Howlett writes that the field hockey team dismantled Radford on senior night.
- The UNC men’s swimming team got a little revenge against Virginia Tech as both the men and women came out victorious Friday, Madison Way writes.
- Volleyball freshman Victoria McPherson made her first career start Sunday against Wake Forest, and as Emily Fedewa writes, she made the most of it.
- Harms writes that cross country runner Patrick Schellberg had a bittersweet experience at the ACC Championships on Saturday.
- Lastly, ESPN’s Robbi Pickeral writes that UNC basketball target has committed to Indiana.
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