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UNC snaps out of losing skid, earns 75-59 ACC win over Georgia Tech

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — It was, perhaps, the best single possession of North Carolina’s basketball season and it perfectly summed up its 75-59 win over Georgia Tech on Saturday in its ACC home opener.

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UNC basketball losing streak reaches four after loss to Virginia Tech in ACC opener

BLACKSBURG, Va. — North Carolina coach Hubert Davis tried a little bit of everything and everyone at Virginia Tech in the teams’ ACC opener.

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UNC basketball slide continues, Tar Heels fall to Indiana 77-65 in ACC/Big Ten Challenge

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — When No. 18 North Carolina talked in the preseason of repeating last season’s run to the Final Four, it wasn’t supposed to include a repeat of last year’s losses in all of its marquee non-conference matchups.

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UNC basketball falls to Alabama in 4OT stunner, suffering second loss in three days

PORTLAND, Ore. — Alabama coach Nate Oats said on Friday after both the Crimson Tide and North Carolina lost games in the Phil Knight Invitational that Sunday’s matchup would be as close to a must-win game as one could be in November.

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UNC Isn't (Yet) Living Up to the Preseason Hype

The Tar Heels earned their No. 1 ranking based on last March, but this year's group has yet to play up to that level.

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UNC basketball beats JMU 80-64

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — A laminated piece of paper now residing in North Carolina coach Hubert Davis’ office just may be the key to the Tar Heels’ season. In the short term, it was definitely what inspired their 80-64 win over James Madison on Sunday at the Dean E. Smith…

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UNC basketball moves to 3-0. What we learned in Tar Heels’ 72-66 win over Gardner-Webb.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Pete Nance shouldn’t be compared to Brady Manek. But after No. 1 North Carolina’s tougher-than-expected 72-66 win over Gardner-Webb, the graduate transfer from Northwestern proved, just like Manek did last season, why he was a coveted addition to the lineup.

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Tar Heels open season with 69-56 win over UNC Wilmington. What we learned from game

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — No. 1 North Carolina didn’t show much of the offensive explosiveness that helped it reach the national championship game last season in its opener against UNC Wilmington on Monday night.

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UNC basketball coach Hubert Davis haunted — and energized — by national title loss

North Carolina’s 1991 Final Four loss to Kansas antagonized Hubert Davis as a player so much that he said he repeatedly watched a replay of it annually until he, as an assistant coach under Roy Williams, was part of the Tar Heels’ 2017 national title team.

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SI’s Expert Picks for Men’s Final Four, Champ and More

Plus, we predict the Player of the Year, mid-major to watch and overrated teams.

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How ‘Breakfast Club’ helped UNC backcourt develop into one of best in college basketball

There were times watching Caleb Love and R.J. Davis as freshmen in North Carolina’s backcourt where it was hard to envision things working out. The pair contained a similar skill set and neither was what basketball people would call a pure point guard.

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North Carolina is ranked No. 1 in AP Top 25 preseason men’s basketball poll

Illinois is No. 23 in the preseason rankings.

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Men’s College Basketball Offseason Winners and Losers

UNC and Kentucky made out very well, while Michigan State did not. Who else joins them?

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Former Northwestern player Pete Nance aims to fill void at North Carolina

Nance gives the Tar Heels the potential to replace at least some of the production they lost.

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Why Northwestern transfer forward Pete Nance might be perfect fit for UNC basketball

Trailing by two with seconds left in the district championship game, Pete Nance dribbled up the floor, anticipated the double team coming, and whipped a pass to his Revere High School teammate for the game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer.

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Top 25 Reset: SI’s Summer Men’s College Hoops Rankings

With most rosters locked in, we update our outlook for the 2022–23 season.

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UNC basketball embracing comparisons to 2017 title team ahead of ‘redemption year’

Comparisons to North Carolina’s 2017 men’s basketball national championship team began the moment guard Caleb Love announced he’d return Sunday, giving the Tar Heels four starters back in the fold.

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Watch: Caleb Love Becomes Fourth UNC Starter to Announce Return

After finishing as the runner-ups in the 2022 NCAA tournament, the Tar Heels have re-loaded for next season.

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UNC’s R.J. Davis Announces Return for Junior Season

Davis marks the third UNC starter to return after the Tar Heels’ Final Four run.

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RJ Davis is returning to UNC basketball for another season

A key cog in the North Carolina Tar Heels’ run to the NCAA title game this spring, guard R.J. Davis likely had a chance to test the NBA draft waters this summer.

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UNC basketball season doesn’t end with banner, but plenty to celebrate

NEW ORLEANS — A season of firsts for North Carolina under coach Hubert Davis ended one half shy of securing the ultimate prize.

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On a leg and a hop, Armando Bacot personified UNC’s improbable NCAA tournament run

NEW ORLEANS — The most enduring moment of North Carolina’s 72-69 national championship game defeat against Kansas, the moment that epitomized the kind of perseverance and never-quit spirit that led the Tar Heels to the season’s final Monday night, came with less than a minute remaining and UNC still hoping,…

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The play that wasn't: UNC call for 'winner' falls short against Kansas in title game

NEW ORLEANS — North Carolina became so comfortable with making big shots in big moments in its race to the NCAA men's basketball national title game on Monday that surely it felt like one more was in store with 4.3 seconds left and trailing 72-69 against Kansas.

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North Carolina’s Resolve Pushed to Ultimate Limit in Bruising Championship Loss

The battered Tar Heels gave everything they could, until their bodies gave out.

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Hobbled Bacot comes up short in Tar Heels' NCAA title push

North Carolina big man Armando Bacot never looked like himself in the national championship game against Kansas because he was battling an ankle injury

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