Unc Basketball

Justin Jackson Answers Doubt With Offseason Work For Unc Men's Basketball

... translated. So now whenever it translates, there has to be something.”. Jackson’s meteoric rise has left the country confounded, his opponents included. This season, the junior is averaging 18.3 points per game — the highest mark for a Tar Heel since Tyler Hansbrough in 2009 — and shooting a career-high 38.5 percent from deep. He’s only 10 made 3-pointers away from the single-season school record. Is it the speed of his release? What about his footwork? His release point? His arc. “Honestly, I didn’t change anything in my shot,” he said after a  Feb. 25 win at Pittsburgh, one of the many stops on his redemption tour. “Everybody’s asking, ‘What did you do to change your shot? What did you do?’ I didn’t do anything but just get reps up.”. But that’s too easy, isn’t it? Surely, he made some sort of fundamental change to his mechanics or maybe to his mentality. But reps don’t make the man. A jump that drastic doesn’t come from hours in the gym. Or does it. He wasn’t doing enough. He missed seven shots in ...

Revisiting Bloody Tyler Hansbrough

... Hansbrough was elbowed in the face by Gerald Henderson. There are people out there who will tell you that there was no malice here. None whatsoever. Billy Packer will go to his grave thinking that a) Deron Williams can lockdown Raymond Felton and b) Gerald Henderson had no ill intent with that forearm shiver. Listen; I have nothing against Gerald Henderson personally. I don’t know the guy. Probably never will, to be honest. And I know that both he and Tyler Hansbrough have said it wasn’t intentional. That is all fine and dandy. But this isn’t the Zapruder film. It’s quite clear what happened. Does that mean Gerald Henderson deserves to be tried for war crimes? That isn’t for me to say. I’m just a simple man making some simple observations. At its core, this is what this rivalry is all about. It is about the fans - living and working ...

The Voice Of The Tar Heels, Woody Durham, Lives With A Painful Silence

... writing it on note cards that he kept with him all week. Sometimes he taped the depth chart to the bathroom mirror. Long before the Internet and analytics, he researched trends, odd stats, made charts that became their own language, the code behind his broadcasts. Two of his most important tools were a ruler and multicolored pen, the straight lines and colors helping him navigate the chaos of a game. He wrote everything he needed to know on those charts, including many things he didn’t know he’d need to know. Woody Durham calls the North Carolina-Kentucky football game on September 22, 1990 at Kenan Stadium using his depth charts and notes he memorized before each athletic event he called for the radio network. Robert Willett/ __link__. The preparation made Woody, well, Woody. It also provided, in his ...

Capable Of Amazing,’ Unc, Duke Have Earned Third Meeting

... throughout game but UNC holds on in the closing minutes to win the ACC regular season and take #1 seed for next weeks tournament. Chuck Liddy __link__. “You saw a game where a lot of guys played well. That’s it,” Krzyzewski said. “Sometimes it’s not nuclear science here. It’s that easy.”. North Carolina made it look easy this season, even if the Tar Heels avoided some of the ACC’s best teams on the road. They were still two games better than anyone else and had the outright regular-season title secured for the second straight year even before tipoff Saturday, which is how Kennedy Meeks ended up with a net around his neck after the game. “A lot of guys have been here before, and we wanted to do this again, and we did,” North Carolina’s Theo Pinson said. “Now, we have to go take care of business in the ACC tournament.”. Duke still needed a win not only to extend its streak in Chapel Hill to three games but avoid a Wednesday appearance in ...

Theo Pinson's Accidental 3-pointer Helps Unc Men's Basketball In Acc Tournament Win Over Miami

... UNC students. PAID CONTENT 02/08/17 10:16 am. So the moment his feet touched the floor, Pinson hurtled the ball straight toward the hoop. Too straight. The ball stopped short of Bradley’s outstretched arms and swished through the nylon. “Nobody else could do it except Theo,” head coach Roy Williams said. Three points later, No. 6 UNC held its largest lead yet with just over eight minutes to go in its  78-53 win over Miami in Thursday’s ACC Tournament semifinal. As the Barclays Center erupted with laughter and applause, the junior wing stood with his hands at his side. It was that kind of night for top-seeded UNC (27-6, 14-4 ACC), whose 21 assists picked apart the zone defense the ninth-seeded Hurricanes (21-11, 10-8 ACC) employed. It worked in January, when North Carolina couldn’t crack the Miami zone in a  77-62 loss. But that team was without Pinson, who suffered his second injury of the season two days before the game against Virginia Tech. On Thursday, the 6-foot-6 wing was at full strength, picking apart the Hurricanes’ zone with a team-high six dimes to lead UNC in assists for the seventh time in 14 games. ...

The Unbalanced Schedule Helped, But Unc Earned Its Regular-season Championship

... some help from their schedule: No road games at Notre Dame, Florida State or Louisville, and the combined conference records of UNC’s five road-only opponents was 35-55. That’s a fact that can’t be discounted. But UNC also won the regular season because, well … it was the best team over three months. Gripe all you’d like about the unbalanced schedule, but remember that UNC also went undefeated at home, beating Louisville, Florida State, Notre Dame (in Greensboro), Virginia and Duke at the Smith Center. Louisville didn’t go undefeated at home in conference play. Neither did Duke. Neither did Virginia. Florida State did, but the Seminoles went 3-6 in conference road games. We hear about the unbalanced schedule every season, the effect it has on the conference race. And it’s true: It has a real effect. Ideally, there would be a round robin like in the old days – a 28-game conference schedule (it’d be fun to see how coaches would react). But this is what we have, and over 18 games it usually becomes clear which team is the best. It became clear enough ...

Live Updates, Scores, Bracket, Results

... to Miami 77-62 on the road in late January. The Hurricanes got by Syracuse in the second round on Wednesday with a hard-fought 62-57 win. They got double digit points from four players and turned the ball over just eight times. No. 4 Louisville vs. Duke, 2 p.m. (ESPN). Betting odds: Louisville -1.5. Duke got by a Clemson team that’s much better than its ACC record indicated. The Blue Devils will now take on a Louisville team they lost to 78-69 in mid-January. Duke looked like a serious national title contender three weeks ago after ripping off seven straight ACC wins, including two over top-10 level Virginia and North Carolina. But they lost three of four down the stretch, albeit by an average of just five points per game. Louisville boasts the nation’s No. 5 defense and is No. 8 in overall efficiency, per Ken __link__. The Cardinals have lost to just one team ...

Duke-unc On Friday Is The Best Ncaa Tournament Appetizer

... UNC is chasing a No. 1 seed, Duke still has hopes for a No. 3 if it can win out in the ACC. The first time around, Duke won in thrilling fashion on its home floor. In the second game - just last Saturday - UNC won a great one. Now we get the rubber match on a neutral floor, hundreds of miles from pure ACC territory, yet you would never know it in the building. This will be one of the toughest tickets of any game played this month. And much of the college basketball media is on hand to take it all in. Plus, a few miles away in Manhattan, the tournament selection committee is keeping a close eye on all that is happening. The beauty of college basketball at this stage of the calendar is how there are leagues whittling down their playoffs all across the country, in cities big and small. Getting a golden semifinal like this only brings more attention and discussion as we eagerly step toward Selection Sunday. This is a dream game for the powers that be with the ACC, who moved the league tournament to Brooklyn in hopes of “expanding the footprint.”. We’ve been treated with this mega matchup ...

Unc Junior Day Whets Collins's Appetite

... coaching staff and getting around them.". In particular, Collins spent the most time with John Papuchis, who doubles as UNC's defensive coordinator and Collins's primary recruiter. "He just talked to me about how he wanted to get me back up for a different date, where I can enjoy the school," Collins said. "Next time I come back up, he said, we could have more one-on-one time and talk about where he saw me in the system.". Collins plans to take Papuchis up on his offer. He's already scheduled to return to Chapel Hill on March 25. "That visit, I want to learn more about the defense, talk more to the defensive line coach, and see his style of coaching," Collins said. "I just want to go more in-depth.". Also this month, Collins is scheduled to visit Maryland, Vanderbilt, and West Virginia. He has previously visited Duke, Georgia, Pittsburgh, and Virginia, in addition to UNC. After Saturday's visit, Collins says UNC is "in the mix" for the schools he's ...

Unc’s All-new York Team Could Play With Anybody

... a member: The player had to be really good. And he had to consider New York his hometown (so no Michael Jordan, a Wilmington native who was born in Brooklyn before moving to North Carolina). Here’s the team. PG: Ed Cota. Hometown: Brooklyn. At UNC: Started on three Final Four teams (1997, ’98, 2000) and is the only player in NCAA history with 1,000 points and assists and 500 rebounds. SG: Kenny Smith. Hometown: Queens. At UNC: Consensus first-team All-American in 1987 after leading UNC with 16.9 points and 209 assists; averaged 12.9 points and 6 assists during his four years with the Tar Heels. SF: Charles Scott. Hometown: New York. At UNC: Two-time first-team All-American (1969, ’70), and three-time All-ACC selection. Scoring average of 22.1 points tied for third in school history. UNC’s first black scholarship athlete. PF: Billy Cunningham. Hometown: Brooklyn. At UNC: 1965 ACC Player of the Year and a three-time All-ACC selection; ...