University of North Carolina Athletics
Carolina Rundown: February 21
February 21, 2018 | General
Today's essential Tar Heel news and links.
Basketball
A reminder: very limited tickets are still available for Senior Night on Tuesday, which is your only chance to guarantee getting to hear what should be epic speeches from Theo Pinson and Joel Berry...Some statistical back-up for the idea that Roy Williams-coached teams usually improve in the second half of the season in this notebook...The Tar Heels are hot, but now face Syracuse's always stingy zone...The Orange may draw college basketball's biggest crowd of the season tonight...Syracuse's two-point defense has been key...Carolina on one ESPN writer's list of title contenders...There's some chatter about the Hornets being interested in Mitch Kupchak...
Football
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Baseball dropped the home opener...Softball fell to South Carolina...Nicole Greene is the ACC Performer of the Week for the second time...Women's golf finished sixth in New Orleans...Will Blumberg is the first Tar Heel men's player to be ranked No. 1 nationally in singles...
Today's games
Women's tennis hosts NCSU at 3 p.m. Baseball hosts St. John's at 3 p.m. Men's swimming action continues in the ACC Championships. Men's basketball visits Syracuse at 7 p.m.
Long read
An in-depth story on how Kinston became such a fertile NBA talent supplier despite some challenges in the town.
A reminder: very limited tickets are still available for Senior Night on Tuesday, which is your only chance to guarantee getting to hear what should be epic speeches from Theo Pinson and Joel Berry...Some statistical back-up for the idea that Roy Williams-coached teams usually improve in the second half of the season in this notebook...The Tar Heels are hot, but now face Syracuse's always stingy zone...The Orange may draw college basketball's biggest crowd of the season tonight...Syracuse's two-point defense has been key...Carolina on one ESPN writer's list of title contenders...There's some chatter about the Hornets being interested in Mitch Kupchak...
Football
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— Carolina Football (@TarHeelFootball) February 20, 2018
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— Carolina Football (@TarHeelFootball) February 20, 2018
Push each other to greatness. #BlueDawn@Nathaneelliott1 @Chazz_Surratt12 pic.twitter.com/gM9LJ515vX
Baseball dropped the home opener...Softball fell to South Carolina...Nicole Greene is the ACC Performer of the Week for the second time...Women's golf finished sixth in New Orleans...Will Blumberg is the first Tar Heel men's player to be ranked No. 1 nationally in singles...
Today's games
Women's tennis hosts NCSU at 3 p.m. Baseball hosts St. John's at 3 p.m. Men's swimming action continues in the ACC Championships. Men's basketball visits Syracuse at 7 p.m.
Long read
An in-depth story on how Kinston became such a fertile NBA talent supplier despite some challenges in the town.
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