North Carolina Basketball

Grading Sunday's Winners; Unc, Kentucky Lucky To Survive

... win, but Arkansas outplayed them for long stretches of Sunday night’s game. UNC looked shook on offense, didn’t shoot the ball well and turned the ball over 17 times. But when it was time to go and win the game they did so with lock-down defense, closing out the final three minutes on a 12-0 run. You can look at this result two ways: It’s either a warning sign of things to come or the ugly win we’ve seen before in so many NCAA Tournament title runs. One thing is for sure, it wasn’t UNC’s best performance. Kentucky Wildcats: B-. 65-62 over (10) Wichita State. The Shockers played terrific defense and threw haymakers at Kentucky, but in the narrow win the Wildcats showed their ability to win without Malik Monk shooting the ball well. The key, as Matt Norlander wrote heading into the weekend , is Bam Adebayo. Bam’s 13 points and 10 rebounds made him just the third player in school history to record a double-double in his first two NCAA Tournament games and his last-second block sealed the win on ...

North Carolina Tar Heels Basketball Signee Sterling Manley Leads Pickerington Central To Final Four

... enough last summer to show schools he was back to full-go. He verbaled to North Carolina in October and signed with the Tar Heels during the early signing period in November. He reflected on his long rehab last spring and summer. “It was tough,” Manley said. “It was a lot of hard work and being patient. There are things you think you can do, but you can’t. You have to take baby steps and be patient.”. Asked if he was surprised he was able to return to top form quickly, Manley said, “I’m not surprised. With the man upstairs on my side anything is possible. Coming back, I just had to be careful, take care of my body and do the things my doctors wanted me to do.”. Manley was 10 of 15 from the floor and made his only three-point try in the regional final win. In the second half, he hit 6 of 8 shots and scored 12 of his 21 points to help the Tigers put it away. “I was just doing what I ...

Questions That Will Determine Whether Unc Returns To The Final Four

... that he forced shots, and that he was pressing, to use his word, to be The Guy. Part of that is understandable. This is the time of the year, after all, when the pressure is magnified. Now it will only grow from here. Jackson this season has attempted to block out the noise. He’s off Twitter. He said he limits his social media consumption. He said he tries to lose himself in his team, his family and his friends. Unquestionably, though, Jackson understands his role. For UNC to be at its best, he needs to be at his. 4. Can UNC avoid foul trouble. You saw what happened after Berry committed his fourth foul against Duke in the ACC tournament semifinals. Goes without saying, too, that Isaiah Hicks needs to stay on the court as much as possible. While Jackson has been the Tar Heels’ most consistently good player, Berry is arguably UNC’s most important player. He’s most in charge of running the offense, and defensively Berry often provides the inspiration that energizes his teammates. Berry has committed four fouls only four times this ...

Unc's Justin Jackson Takes The Blame After Loss Against Duke

... tournament semifinals, but Jackson finished with a quiet 12 points. During the regular season, he'd only scored so few points just once, when he had seven in a loss at Virginia. That defeat, on Feb. 27, represents an unfortunate turning point for Jackson. Before the Virginia game, he'd scored at least 20 points in eight of his previous 10 games. He'd built a strong case for ACC Player of the Year honors, and he essentially won the award with that pre-Virginia stretch. In his past four games, starting with the loss at Virginia, Jackson is averaging 12.5 points – well below his season average of around 18 per game. He has missed 40 of his past 60 shots from the field (a shooting percentage of 33.3 percent). And he's made 22.6 percent of his 3-point attempts (7-for-31). When Berry committed his fourth foul on Friday night with about 15 minutes remaining, the Tar Heels led by 8. They quickly scored five points after Berry went to the bench, and so UNC's lead grew to 13. From there, though, Duke went on a 29-9 run until Berry returned with about five minutes to play. UNC's offense changed without Berry. So did its defense. That was obvious enough. ...

On Its 50th Anniversary, Let’s Honor Unc’s Team Of ’67

... me when I called him, “but the freshman team had Dickie, Rusty Clark and Bill Bunting, so people could see that we were going to be a lot better the following year. He was in pretty good shape, I think. The people here at the university knew that he’d gotten things settled.”. It’s hard to tell if Smith had the same level of confidence in his future that Brewer expressed, though. Grubar, who winters in St. Petersburg, Fla., and springs, summers and falls in Greensboro, said he has a picture signed by Smith proclaiming the ’67 team his most important one. He also said Smith expressed doubt about his future “if we hadn’t won. They had hung him in effigy in ’64, and he really hadn’t established himself. He had Bob Lewis and Larry Miller, but they couldn’t win with only those two guys.”. Brewer said he’d followed the team on television before he arrived as a student, but ...

Kanler Coker’s Memorable March Moment Sends Unc Teammates Into Jubilant Frenzy

... you wouldn’t expect to make plays making plays,” Jackson said. “And so it was good to sit over there and watch them play a little bit, and just see them do a few things.”. Had this been a UNC home game at the Smith Center, Coker’s layup would have meant biscuits. More precisely, it would have triggered the promotion in which Bojangles’ sells biscuits at a discount whenever the Tar Heels score 100 points. The promotion isn’t in play during the NCAA tournament. Coker sounded disappointed to learn that. “They don’t do it in the tournament?” he asked. “. That’s crazy.”. The whole thing was sort of crazy, anyway, the sight of Coker breaking out a reverse during the NCAA tournament. He guessed that the last time he’d done such a thing was sometime in practice. At least he’d tried to do in practice. Coker is a member of the “blue team,” the revered group of second – or third – team players that prepare the starters. Jackson said he’d seen Coker try to do what he did on ...

North Carolina Adds Icing To An Outright Acc Title

... Feb. 9 at Cameron Indoor Stadium, was a nice bonus Saturday night. In a game that featured 14 ties and 24 lead changes, Justin Jackson 's only 3-pointer in seven attempts broke open a 71-71 tie and gave the Tar Heels the lead for good. Justin Jackson had 15 points, including a key 3-pointer, in North Carolina's win over Duke. AP Photo/Gerry Broome. Joel Berry carried Carolina in the first half, scoring 19 of his game-high 28 points. He finished perfect on five 3-point attempts compared to the rest of the Heels, who went a combined 1-12. Carolina made it a point early on to pound the ball inside, especially to senior forward Isaiah Hicks , who did not play in the first meeting because of a hamstring injury. Hicks generally had a size advantage on Duke players, drawing Jayson Tatum and sometimes guard Luke Kennard as a matchup. As a result, Hicks had his first game scoring in double figures since Feb. 18 against Virginia by halftime and finished with 21 points and nine rebounds. In Duke's win at Cameron, the Blue Devils were able to beat the nation's leading team in rebounding margin by one rebound. Although the Blue Devils were ...

How To Watch North Carolina Vs. Texas Southern, Game Time, Tv Info, Live Stream

... Texas Southern is in the tournament for the third time in the last four years, and is 23-11 on the season. MML is available on i Phone, i Pad, watch OS, tv OS, Android handsets, Android Tablets, Chromecast, Amazon Tablets, Alexa skill for Amazon devices, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Windows 10 devices, Xbox and __link__. ALL games are available through March Madness Live (“MML”). CBS games on MML are free to view - no authentication required- however CBS games are not available through OTT devices on MML. Turner games on MML have a free preview (3 hours) before consumers are required to authenticate (register) using their cable provider credentials (login and password). CBS All Access requires a paid subscription and is available on i Phone, i Pad, Apple TV, Android devices, Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV, ...

There's No Ceiling Or Roof For Unc's March Madness Hopes

... are telling themselves the exact same thing. The ceiling is the roof, as Michael Jordan so eloquently put it. The. Ceiling. Is. The. Roof. We’ll get back to this gem later. As of now, there is another Tar Heel who has been dropping hot fire on the mic. Roy Williams has been going peak Roy Williams lately. And it has been amazing. Donald Trump was the first victim of his fire flame roasts tour when Roy ever so casually slipped in “Our president tweets out more bullshit than anyone I’ve ever seen” while having a nuanced conversation on the decentralization of media. Boom. Roasted. He also said “We don’t need the New York Times to tell us what in the dickens is going on in the world anymore” before saying this. Following up a “what in the dickens” with “bullshit” is about as Roy Williams as it gets because you never really know when Roy Williams is going to go Roy Williams. He goes from ...

Texas Muscles Past Nc State, 84-80, With Late Comeback

... violation coming out of a timeout, but Holmes stepped in front of NC State star Dominique Wilson to draw a crucial charge to negate a driving basket. Then it was Holmes again coming up with the big play to secure the victory. The bench helped provided a spark during the middle of the first quarter when Texas broke a 12-12 tie, aided by the shooting effort of Sutton, who made two jumpers and a free throw before dropping a dime to Mc Carty for a three pointer to extend the lead to 24-13. At the end of the first quarter, the ‘Horns led 28-15 as the Wolfpack struggled from the field. Then Spencer got hot for NC State, hitting a jumper, finishing through a foul and converting the free-throw opportunity, and then hitting on a layup. Meanwhile, Texas got in foul trouble, with Holmes and Atkins picking up two apiece. Holmes also committed four turnovers in the first half as the Lady Longhorns struggled protecting the ball in general with 10 overall. ...