Former Sports Editor Ryan Wilcox writes his final story for The Daily Tar Heel.
After 33 seasons, 903 wins and three national championships, the head coach and forever Tar Heel announced his retirement on Thursday, closing the book on a legendary career.
“I feel like we got better as a team this week, and we can take that on into the NCAA Tournament,” sophomore forward Armando Bacot said. “We can carry this momentum.”
In other words: for one night, at least, Notre Dame was to “boy” as North Carolina was to “man.” Even without senior forward Garrison Brooks, who sat out due to injury, the sixth-seeded Tar Heels’ 101-59 win on Wednesday over the eleventh-seeded Irish was its most dominant frontcourt showing of the season.
Sans Garrison Brooks, sixth-seeded UNC (16-9, 10-6 ACC) breezed past eleventh-seeded Notre Dame (11-14, 7-11 ACC) in the second round of the ACC Tournament on Wednesday, 101-59. The Tar Heels completely handled the Irish inside, winning the rebounding battle 54-31 and getting a combined 50 points from ...
"I couldn't even look at Garrison today when he came to shake my hand pregame," coach Roy Williams said. "I had to just slap him on the butt and say, 'Play, big fella.'"
The legacy of Stephanie Watts, one of the most talented players in North Carolina history, is a complicated one. She will be remembered as the woman who left Chapel Hill to find herself and couldn’t until she returned back to where it all started.
Video obtained by The Daily Tar Heel shows UNC men's basketball players Armando Bacot and Day'Ron Sharpe partying alongside at least seven others, celebrating a 91-87 win over Duke on Saturday night.
Twenty years later, a dramatic 85-83 win over Duke is still the high-water mark of Matt Doherty’s time coaching in Chapel Hill. For at least one night, though, his team sat on top of the college basketball world.
Thanks to COVID-19, there will be no one in the stands on Saturday when the Tar Heels and the Blue Devils face off. It begs the question: What’s a UNC-Duke game without a crowd to watch it?
Chris Miltenberg, the new director of North Carolina's track and field and cross country programs. Photo courtesy of UNC athletics.
UNC women's soccer's list of core values includes tenets like toughness, focus and discipline.
The 2018 "Competitive Cauldron" for UNC women's soccer.
The new edition of the 2002 book "The Vision of a Champion," co-written by Gloria Averbuch and UNC women's soccer head coach Anson Dorrance.
The UNC football team practices in its indoor football facility on Sunday, March 3, 2019.
