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March, for a college basketball fan, it doesn’t get any better than this! Well, looking at today’s schedule, maybe we should wait until tomorrow to make that statement… Afternoon match-ups: #8 Maryland versus #9 Wake Forest, Noon #5 N.C. State versus #12 Boston College, 2:00 PM The first two, of four games today featuring a [...] Continue reading ACCT First Round Open Thread I We all figured this was coming at some point, it was just a matter if any of the three really offered any substantive reasons for leaving. Turns out they didn’t. [...] Continue reading Obligatory “SOK & Wears Offer Weak Excuses For Leaving UNC” Post Via Reese News. Blue Steel member D.J. Johnston carried his video camera everywhere(or so it seems) when the team was in Newark for the NCAA Tournament. This is simply video evidence of how much fun these guys had this past season and what makes this group in particular special.
I am still in California working crazy 12-15 hour days and feeling like I am completely out of it because I am three hours behind everyone at home. Of course the Diamond Heels played like they were three hours behind all weekend. UNC followed up the huge series win over Florida St. by getting swept [...] Continue reading Still Three Hours Behind UNC held its annual basketball team banquet last night and unlike Josh Selby at Kansas, Harrison Barnes was in attendance. Tyler Zeller and Harrison Barnes were named co-MVPs of the team. Zeller also received awards for highest field goal and free throw percentage as well as the Athletic Director’s Burgess McSwain Scholar-Athlete Award. The award [...] Continue reading UNC Holds Team Banquet What a season. Despite the fact that UNC started the season ranked 8th (AP) in the nation and ended season ranked 7th, and that Doc, THF and I almost nailed our preseason predictions, this season was nothing like what was expected. For both good and bad reasons, this may have been one of the most [...] Continue reading The 2011 Season: Beyond the Box From Houston NCAA Final: #3 UConn vs #8 Butler, 9:23 PM, CBS Wait…9:23 PM? Why in the name of Dean Smith does this game start this late? I guess to capture the end of the game in primetime on the west coast. Midnight is pretty late to wait for One Shining Moment. From the Tar [...] Continue reading NCAA Championship Open Thread From Houston National Semifinal #1: #8 Butler vs #11 VCU, 6:09 PM, CBS National Semifinal #2: #3 UConn vs #4 Kentucky, 8:49 PM, CBS For UNC fans there is a bit of a feeling that this could have been a national title the Heels could have “stolen” much the same way Duke did last season. [...] Continue reading NCAA Final Four Open Thread 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 |
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