Here's a look at three UNC fall sports that deserve your close attention this upcoming season — football, women's soccer and field hockey.
“I remember going to bed and waking up the next morning and being like, ‘That’s right,’” UNC diver Emily Grund said. “That’s sort of when it hit me and it was, ‘Oh, this is real.’”
Just one season after transferring to Chapel Hill from Marquette, UNC men's basketball sophomore forward Dawson Garcia has once again entered the NCAA transfer portal, team officials confirmed on Wednesday.
The 72-69 loss to Kansas in the national championship game hurt for the Tar Heels. But don’t think for a second that they’re disappointed. Hurting, sure — but not disappointed. The team accomplished incredible feats, all while the world said it couldn’t, over and over again. “It hurts for us to get this far and come up short like this, with everything we went through,” sophomore guard Caleb Love said. “But you know, the positive thing is, I wouldn’t want to go through this with anybody else.”
In what could shape up to be North Carolina’s toughest match of the season, here are three keys to the game to help ensure a Franklin Street championship parade.
Hubert Davis knows how unity fosters growth. He experienced it in 1991, and he’s worked tirelessly to create it in 2022. And now, this team that he truly knows — full of players that truly know each other — will be playing to win it all.
As he sat down on the press table on Saturday night, sophomore guard Caleb Love was at a loss for words. Love drained the most important bucket of his life — a dagger 3-pointer with less than 30 seconds left, leading UNC to an 81-77 win over Duke in the Final Four, sending Blue Devils head coach Mike Krzyzewski into retirement on a rivalry loss and booking the Tar Heels a trip to the national championship against Kansas. “Just one game away from a national championship,” he said. “What else can you say?”
"After showing me just how wrong I could be and reaching their first Final Four since 2017, all I can really say to the Tar Heels is: thank you."
"But I want you to dig into your heart, to look deep inside and ask yourself, what makes this win that much more meaningful? For me, it’s obvious. Think back to Roy."
After North Carolina men's basketball's 79-88 win on Senior Night, only two things need to be said — this is a team where the seniors want it, and a team where everyone else wants it for them.
Daily Tar Heel Audio Editor Will Christensen sits down with the hosts of the DTH's upcoming podcasts to talk about what to expect, and when to expect it.
