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NCAA Tournament Bracket Watch: Can Gonzaga snatch the second seed?

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The big questions Tuesday night revolved around three of the mid-majors. Can St. Mary’s score an impressive win over Gonzaga in the Football World Cup championship game, confirming that the Gaels’ strong computer numbers deserve a correspondingly high rating? And will Oral Roberts and/or Charleston win their respective conference championships, or will they go to Selection Sunday in hopes of getting a big bid? Consider answering these questions definitively. Charleston outlasted UNC Wilmington in the CAA title game for their 30th win against a Division One. Meanwhile, Oral Roberts completed…

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The Tar Heels’ Pete Nance proves to be a tough cookie in the win over the Cavaliers

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Chapel Hill, NC – Hubert Davis has always said, at least for nearly two years, that he was the head coach of North Carolina State, and that he couldn’t coach his players if he didn’t know them. To facilitate this, he asks them to swing in his office every week: once in the season, and three times in the summer. This is not new information or revelation. What’s new is what happened this week during Davis’ check-in with Pete Nance. The two talked, of all things, about… cookies. Which is…

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Armando Bacot of North Carolina is now the Tar Heels’ MVP

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CHAPEL HILL, NC — For now, it’s the same as always: Armando Paco thrusts his hands in the air, catches a loose basketball, and coolly blocks it. Normal recoil. Except for this one — which Bacot fumbled a minute into at 7 p.m. Saturday, with 6:54 left to play in North Carolina’s eventual 80-69 win over NC State — it was anything but. It was Packot’s 1,220th career rebound, and it is the one that propelled him past Tyler Hansbrough, and into first all-time in North Carolina program history. “Now…

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NCAA Tournament Bracket Watch: Alabama is the top seed. Northwestern and Clemson

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“They can’t imagine it… that someone like me would walk into their house, walk on their land…” – Cassian Andor When compiling this week’s segment, we were astounded by the inclusion of teams we’d never expected to have considered as recently as a few weeks ago. North-west? Pittsburgh? Clemson? UCF? wait … Is that true? It also got us thinking about another story focusing on underdogs who took the power structure by surprise: “Andor,” our favorite TV series of 2022. After the train wreck that was “The Book of Boba…

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The Tar Heels had a chance to win, but it wasn’t up to the Cavaliers

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Charlottesville, VA – Galen Washington knew that was part of the deal. Play what you know. Watch the sweat turn your shirt a deeper shade of blue. Throw elbows all evening … Then warmly and obligingly clap the enemy’s hand. I don’t feel comfortable. I don’t feel satisfied. It didn’t matter either, as the deafening tones inside the John Paul Jones Arena made clear. All Washington could do in the seconds after North Carolina lost 65-58 to Virginia on Tuesday — the eighth straight Tar Heels lost in Charlottesville —…

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College basketball rankings: Illinois out, Miami in. And hey, New Mexico!

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Merry Christmas after Christmas! I trust that the holiday treated everyone well, though there were a few precious college basketball games that caught our eye. As a result, there wasn’t much movement on top of the polls. The good news is that there are plenty of great matches to be shown this week, which top the list for Saturday’s packed New Year’s Eve. In the meantime, allow me to spread my usual holiday cheer by presenting the correct ranking of the top 25 college basketball teams, as presented to the…

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How Hubert Davis aims to keep UNC basketball hungry

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NEW YORK — North Carolina coach Hubert Davis usually displays a sunny, unflinching demeanor, but as he sat in a New York City hotel last Friday afternoon and discussed the Tar Heels’ season, there were moments when his side reflected a cool, dreary drizzle that was falling to the side. the other from the window. That was a suggestion for a coach whose team recently completed the fastest fall from No. 1 preseason to unranked in the history of the AP Top 25 Poll. The problem wasn’t how his teammates…

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Marks: North Carolina after 10 games — what I know and what I think

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Doesn’t matter how it comes: After four consecutive losses, North Carolina needed a win any way it could get it. And in that respect, Saturday’s 75-59 victory over Georgia Tech was a breath of fresh air. But more than just the win itself — or the fact it was UNC’s first this season in conference play — was how the Tar Heels played: not perfectly, but certainly better than they had been as of late. Perhaps the best snapshot of UNC flipping the switch? An 11-0…

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No. 18 Alabama defeats No. 1 North Carolina after 4 overs

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No. 18 Alabama upset No. 1 North Carolina 103-101 Sunday night in four overtimes. Here’s what you need to know: The game marked the first time the AP No. 1 team had played in a four-overtime game. Four players in the competition have played more than 50 minutes. The win was Alabama’s first over a No. 1 team since Stanford in 2004. background story Alabama and North Carolina met Sunday in the Phil Knight Invitational, where the Crimson Tide earned two wins in the standings with wins over No. 1…

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TCU silences doubters, Pac-12 goes off script, Harold Perkins Jr. goes wild: Saturday Takeaways

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Five takeaways and much more from Week 11 in college football. If you didn’t want to miss any big moments, you had to stay up until 2 a.m. ET Sunday. But it was definitely worth it, wasn’t it? TCU proves plenty in Austin If you had any reservations about TCU, its many close Big 12 games, the caliber of its defense or anything else, you got a lot of answers on Saturday night. That’s not to say the No. 4 Horned Frogs’ road win in a big-time battle with No.…

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