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UNC held its pro timing day and according to Inside Carolina hosted approximately 100 NFL personnel including several head coaches. Not a bad showing and a definite sign the program is on the right track. Now the only thing Butch Davis needs to do is keeping talented players from committing NCAA violations so they can [...] Continue reading Notes From UNC’s Pro Day I know it is just an high school all star game but both future Tar Heels acquitted themselves quite well in the McDonald’s All-American game. [...] Continue reading McAdoo, Hairston Impress In All-American Game Two soon to be Tar Heels will be playing in tonight’s McDonald’s All-American game. ESPN will televise the contest beginning at 10 PM. SG P.J. Hairston took part in the slam dunk contest and led after the first round but failed to throw down his second dunk ending up 3rd overall(behind second place Duke commit [...] Continue reading McDonald’s All-American Game Open Thread After several days(weeks?) of repeated site issues I think we might have a handle on the stability issue plaguing the blog. Over the past 24 hours I upgraded the web hosting plan and added a site caching plugin to the back end software to reduce the number of database queries which I concluded were overwhelming [...] Continue reading Update On Site Problems UNC received a commitment from Wilmington(NC) Hoggard PG Stillman White on Tuesday for the 2012 season. “He just did,” Hoggard coach Brett Queen confirmed. “He loved the coaching staff and everything he saw when he visited. He’s excited to be able to play at the highest level and play for Carolina.” White, who also had [...] Continue reading UNC Snags Backup PG And so it ends. I don’t know how anyone can think this was a good season, I mean last year’s team was still playing at this point in the season! Obviously, I am kidding. This was a tremendous season, especially when you consider that from December 1st on, UNC went 25-5. Was it as ultimately [...] Continue reading UNC vs. Kentucky: Beyond the Box He is going to UCLA, which is in no way shocking. Larry Drew, the former North Carolina point guard, has enrolled at UCLA, according to sources. Drew was officially enrolled as of Monday, the first day of spring quarter at UCLA. Drew, who was a junior at North Carolina this year, left the Tar Heels [...] Continue reading Closing The Book On Some Other Kid There is only so many times you can put yourself in that position and expect to come out on top. Of all the regional finals I can remember UNC losing, this might be as calmly as I have taken a loss. Part of that was the nagging feeling I had for two days that, for [...] Continue reading Kentucky 76 UNC 69 A few months ago… That dunk capped off a seven point run by Harrison Barnes. This was the first glimpses of the player so hyped in the preseason. As the season progressed, Barnes had more stretches like this and if he plays like that in the regional final, UNC might just find a way [...] Continue reading NCAA: UNC-UK Game Thread The Appetizer Southwest: #1 Kansas vs #11 VCU, 2:20 PM, CBS For Kansas this is a repeat of the 2008 regional final where they faced #10 seeded Davidson only VCU does not appear to have anyone as good as Stephen Curry. I know VCU has made an incredible run but I just don’t see them [...] Continue reading NCAA Elite Eight Open Thread II What: NCAA East Regional Final Where: Prudential Center, Newark, NJ When: Sunday, March 27th, 4:55 PM TV: CBS How They Got Here: UNC-at large bid; ACC regular season champion. UK-Automatic bid; SEC Champion NCAA Results: UNC-def. #15 LIU, #7 WA, #11 Marquette. UK-def. #13 Princeton, #5 WVU, #1 Ohio St. Just like 2007 and 2009, [...] Continue reading NCAA Regional Final: #2 UNC vs #4 Kentucky Here are the final few minutes via The Carolina Legacy from the last time these two titans of college basketball met in the NCAA Tournament. UNC, the #2 seed in the Southeast that season, had assumed marginal control of the game despite committing 20 turnovers against the Wildcat press. #1 seeded Kentucky could not hit [...] Continue reading A Look Back At The 1995 Regional Final vs Kentucky |
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