Welcome to another edition of Tracking the Tar Heels.
Here’s what the Tar Heels have been up to:
- Good news for the UNC basketball team: Freshman point guard Marcus Paige’s X-rays are negative, ESPN’s Robbi Pickeral writes.
- Bad news for the UNC basketball team: The Tar Heels fell in the latest polls.
- Rick Bonnell of The Charlotte Observer writes that former UNC point guard Kendall Marshall has been tuning up in a development league for the Phoenix Suns.
- Andrew Carter of the (Raleigh) News & Observer writes that a little luck and a lot of perseverance led the UNC women’s team to its 21st championship.
- Lastly, former Tar Heel play-by-play man Woody Durham is set to receive the first-ever Lombardi Excellence in Broadcasting Award.
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