University of North Carolina Athletics
Carolina Rundown: February 24
February 24, 2015 | General
Basketball
Marcus Paige has had good success against NC State...Kennedy Meeks took motivation from being benched...Get to know the Wolfpack...The Tar Heel post players have been big lately...A recap of Monday's Tar Heel basketball press conference:
Video
Always nice to see Julius Peppers in a UNC basketball uniform:
Julius Peppers dunks over Lonny Baxter RT @carderlabrake: @si_vault Athletes playing a sport that is not theirs. pic.twitter.com/tckVvsqTZN
— SI Vault (@si_vault) February 23, 2015
Football
A look inside some very intense offseason conditioning...The Tar Heels worked out in suddenly snowy Chapel Hill this morning:
Talk about quick for @TarHeelFootball: @mackhollins shows his stuff. pic.twitter.com/BpLgrENW3k
— Lee Pace (@LeePaceTweet) February 24, 2015
Olympic sports
The Diamond Heels have a couple of midweek games...A Q&A with new student body president (and track and field student-athlete) Houston Summers...Sylvia Hatchell will be honored at the ACC Tournament.
Today's games
Men's golf is at the Puerto Rico Classic. Baseball hosts St. John's at 3 p.m. Men's basketball hosts NC State at 8 p.m. on the ACC Network.
Tar Heels in the NBA
Ty Lawson, who had six points and 10 assists on Monday, is one of the top NBA players under six feet...Tyler Zeller had 12 points and six rebounds...Brandan Wright had 11 points and five rebounds...Danny Green had seven rebounds...John Henson scored two.
Long read
Bob Knight's infamous chair throw was 30 years ago yesterday. If you're unfamiliar with that incident, or even if you are, this is a very good profile of the combustible coach that ran in SI at the time.
