Thirty-five years ago, the Dean Dome opened versus Duke. It is hard to believe that the Smith Center has been the home of the Tar Heels for nearly twice as long as Carmichael Auditorium, the original Blue Heaven that hosted the Heels for 20 years. Every time UNC plays Duke at home, I remember that […]

Well, if the pattern continues, Duke will be in big trouble. After the Tar Heels lost to Marquette last week, Roy Williams said his team can’t seem to stand prosperity. He was talking about how the stinker followed the 45-point win over Louisville. The season has to be maddening for Williams, who must know what […]

What a weekend; didn’t go quite as expected. How many of you had Carolina losing to Florida State and Duke beating Louisville for its fifth-straight win? I did, and imagined that light at the end of the regular-season tunnel was a freight train ready to run over the Tar Heels’ intended trip to the NCAA […]

Barring an ACC tournament run, it’s down to three games for Carolina. The last time the Tar Heels hit rock bottom, a 63-50 loss at Clemson, they came back with their best game of the season by beating Duke in an empty Cameron Indoor Stadium. Now, well over 3,000 fans will be allowed in for […]

Well, as they say, the Tar Heels control their own destiny. With a bad loss to a pretty good 9-10 Marquette team, Carolina is on the verge of shooting itself out of the NCAA tournament. In fact, the Heels may have to run the table against three difficult ACC opponents to avoid missing the Dance […]

Tiger Woods can be even more valuable to the world in retirement. To approximate the life of Tiger Woods would run parallel to his jaded career as perhaps the greatest golfer of all time. That life took another sharp turn with the single car crash on a downhill road outside of Los Angeles, after which […]

The old KO’d the older on a true senior night in Durham. The Syracuse-Duke game in Cameron Monday marked a clash between the two oldest coaches in the history of college basketball. Jim Boeheim and Mike Krzyzewski are 150 years old, the Orange leader at 76 and Coach K at 74. This distinction may have occurred in recent games between the long-time rivals […]

The weekend results could set up a scary Senior Night. Carolina got a big break when medical protocol allowed the Tar Heels to play Louisville after the Cardinals COVID complications had left them idle for 18 days during which they practiced only nine times. The 99-54 blowout was clearly a by-product of the Tar Heels […]

Somehow the Louisville-Carolina game may still be played on schedule, Saturday at 6 pm. When Syracuse went home Wednesday night without playing at Louisville, it looked like Carolina’s bad luck would continue. But it may turn out that only the Cardinals’ long layoff saved the game and, if so, gives the Tar Heels a big […]

Roy Williams is holding his breath over playing another dad-gum game. Call me prejudice, but the Carolina coach would never even think of pulling some of the shenanigan that are going on in college basketball during these COVID days. “When I was in Little League and we had 15 games and one got rained out, I wanted to […]