University of North Carolina Athletics
Carolina Rundown: January 19
January 19, 2015 | General
Basketball
Adam Lucas on Sunday night's game, played 29 years to the day after the first game in the Smith Center...Postgame notes from the win...Sloppy might be a good way to characterize the victory...Video highlights from the win:
Video
Ty Lawson picks his all-time UNC starting five at the start of this video, and then talks about shoes:
Football
Julius Peppers had five tackles and 1.5 sacks...Hakeem Nicks caught one pass for 15 yards.
Olympic sports
Eight Tar Heels played for the United States women's lax national team...Women's basketball got a 22-point ACC win.
Today's games
Men's tennis hosts UT-Chattanooga at 10 a.m. and Howard at 3 p.m.
Tar Heels in the NBA
Reggie Bullock has found a good fit in Phoenix...Bad news for Kendall Marshall, who will miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL...Add another Tar Heel to the Warriors, as James Michael McAdoo signed a 10-day deal with Golden State...Nice note on Danny Green from Sunday:
With his first 3-pointer tonight, Danny reached 100, becoming the fastest Spur in franchise history to do so. He's now at 102 & counting...
— San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) January 19, 2015
Friday: 19 points and five rebounds for Danny Green...Eighteen points and six rebounds for Harrison Barnes...Ty Lawson had 11 points and 12 assists...Tyler Zeller had 12 points and six rebounds...11 points and 3 rebounds for Brandan Wright...Wayne Ellington scored nine...Ed Davis had four points and five rebounds...Tyler Hansbrough had four points and two rebounds...Highlights of Barnes' big game:
Saturday: 22 points and seven assists for Lawson...Barnes had 10 points and six rebounds...Marvin Williams had nine points and seven rebounds...Vince Carter scored six.
Sunday: Green finished with 13 points and six rebounds.
Long read
Carolina joined the ACC in voting for historic legislation that could change the college athletics model. Here's more on that vote and what it could mean.
