The North Carolina men’s basketball team hasn’t had seven players score in double figures in the same game since it pounded Manhattan in 1985. Sunday night, this year’s Tar Heels did the 1985-86 squad one better, as eight double-digit scorers helped the Tar Heels trounce St. Francis (Pa.) at the Smith Center, 103-54.
North Carolina needed an answer. As their 20-point lead slowly dwindled to just two, the Tar Heels realized the visiting Iowa Hawkeyes weren’t going away easily. The slow, methodical comeback of the Hawkeyes had left the Tar Heels in a six-minute scoring drought and they needed something to bring them alive.
The North Carolina men’s soccer team can be confident of at least one thing entering its quarterfinal matchup with Southern Methodist University on Friday. If the game comes down to penalty kicks, recent history is on the Tar Heels’ side. UNC has won the first two games of the NCAA Tournament at the soccer charity stripe in 5-4 fashion.
CARY — It was a valiant effort. Playing a man down for 55 minutes after senior Michael Farfan picked up a red card, the North Carolina men’s soccer team came as close to equalizing Maryland’s one-goal lead as they could. But it wasn’t in the cards Sunday as Maryland trumped the No. 4-seeded Tar Heels 1-0 in the finals of the ACC Tournament.
Virginia Tech has a surplus of a commodity desperately needed by the North Carolina football team this season: running backs. The Hokies have three healthy, dangerous tailbacks champing at the bit.
CARY — North Carolina was not taking its matchup with rival N.C. State lightly. Not after the Wolfpack upset UNC in the ACC Tournament last season. Not after the Red and White gave the Tar Heels all they could handle in their September regular-season matchup.
It probably wasn’t what he had in mind for his first game in a North Carolina uniform. Barnes, the first freshman selected as an AP preseason All-American and seen by many as the face of this year’s UNC squad, had a horrific introduction in the Tar Heels’ 108-67 exhibition against visiting Barton College.
North Carolina won its first exhibition game of the season 108-67 over visiting Barton College. The Tar Heels were anchored by a game-high 25 points from Tyler Zeller who dominated on defense and offense with his superior size. The game was also the first for North Carolina’s three heralded freshmen.
North Carolina leads Barton College at halftime in the Tar Heels opening exhibition game. Tyler Zeller leads all UNC scorers with 14 points. The Tar Heels got off to a slow start early on, but used a flurry of fast-break points and stifling defense to jump out to a convincing half-time lead.
The turbulent atmosphere surrounding the North Carolina football team has given rise to a lot of questions. Amidst the injuries, academic probations and agent-related issues, one question has gone unanswered. What happened to Jheranie Boyd?
