Four Tar Heel alumni selected in NBA draft

It's not every day that an NBA legend compares himself to a league rookie. But that's exactly what happened with Tyler Hansbrough. After being selected ...

M. Basketball: UNC routs in championship game

APRIL 6 DETROIT — It started when they decided to come back. Four players declining the riches of the NBA motivated to make one more run at history. ...

Heels celebrate '09 season say goodbye to senior class

Athletic Director Dick Baddour opened things up with the obvious at the 2008-09 North Carolina Tar Heel Basketball Awards Ceremony in the Smith Center ...

Ed Davis to return for sophomore season

Ed Davis is looking forward to playing another year for the Tar Heels and will skip the NBA Draft this season he said in a statement released by UNC Athletics ...

M. Basketball: Detroit rallies behind MSU

DETROIT — The Michigan State Spartans have made an improbable run to Monday's national championship game but at this point even they know they're ...

M. Basketball: The lowdown on tonight's game

M. Basketball: UNC plays for title after Final Four win over 'Nova

DETROIT — They made it. This is right where the North Carolina Tar Heels hoped — or perhaps even expected — to be from the moment this ...

M. Basketball: Heels take Villanova

DETROIT -- Half of it was flowing. Full of swishes lay ups and a big 49 on the scoreboard. The other half? Try hacks blood and bricks. In a word ugly. ...

Guard play de_¶ nes late matchup

Though the Villanova Wildcats have a reputation as a guard-heavy team their leading scorer has taken no 3-pointers this tournament and a grand total of ...

Sports briefs for April 3

Ty Lawson is the recipient of the 2009 Bob Cousy Award presented by The Hartford the Basketball Hall of Fame announced Thursday.

M. Basketball: Heels face tough 'Nova rematch

Jackie Manuel remembers almost everything from North Carolina's one-point victory against Villanova in the Sweet 16 in 2005. The former UNC guard remembers ...

DTH picks the Final Four

Williams motivates quietly

""If you want your careers to end tonight" like this" keep playing this way."" So said North Carolina coach Roy Williams during a tense timeout in the ...

Ellington picked UNC over 'Nova

When Wayne Ellington's mother Elaine first met Villanova coach Jay Wright Ellington was just a high school freshman living outside of Philadelphia. The ...

Suton MSU defense leading the way

If asked Michigan State coach Tom Izzo might say the story of the Spartans' run to the Final Four would best be classified as a romance. The  protagonists? ...

Reynolds' heroics send 'Nova to Detroit

With less than five seconds remaining in a tied East Regional Championship Villanova's Scottie Reynolds scampered across halfcourt. Instead of settling ...

New Big East more than physicality

It's known in some circles as the league where only men survive. A place where boys just can't cut it — the physical play is just too rough too ...

Tar Heels roll into Sweet 16

MARCH 21 GREENSBORO — Less than 10 minutes had passed in North Carolina's second-round game against eighth-seeded LSU and coach Roy Williams already ...

Heels try for tougher defense

Coach Roy Williams said it at the team's first practice of the year. He said it the first time he met with the media. And he'll say it to his team just ...