No Cocktail Party This Time
The ACC Tournament will not be a cocktail party to Roy Williams this year. His UNC team must either win the tournament or stay home from the big dance. Their tall task begins Thursday against Georgia Tech.
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2010 ACC Tournament Preview
The defending national champions fell off the face of the ACC world this season and although the Tar Heels have won 17 tournament titles, tied with Duke, it would take a miracle to earn number 18 this season. With a mass exodus from last year's title team, coupled with key injuries this season, UNC simply fell flat. A 16-15 overall mark is certainly not up to the standards set in Chapel Hill, and a 5-11 league mark is unheard of.
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Hardin: UNC's fall from grace
The season has been a disaster, a wreck from the days after Christmas, when an 11-3 team came apart against Albany. Carolina would win that game, then go down to Charleston a week later and lose. The team has been losing ever since. Roy Williams was asked point blank if he felt he owed North Carolina's spoiled and angry fans an explanation. "Yes," he said.
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Tar Heels look to rebound after lopsided loss to Duke
They were cleaning out North Carolina coach Roy Williams’ office Monday afternoon — just for a renovation, mind you. It has been a troubling season for the Tar Heels, who on top of everything else that has gone wrong for them they’re dealing with the aftermath of an 82-50 loss to Duke on Saturday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium. “It wasn’t easy to swallow,” senior Marcus Ginyard said before Monday’s practice. “It wasn’t easy to take.”
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Roy Williams: It's not too late to change
Roy Williams made it clear after Saturday night's 32-point loss at Duke that his team needed to "change its behavior" if it wanted any chance to win a game - much less four in a row - in the ACC tournament. But if that behavior, which in Williams' terms includes failing to take care of the basketball, failing to communicate on defense and failing to play as a cohesive unit, hasn't changed in four months, can it really change in four days?
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Barry Jacobs: NCAA Tournament Expansion’s Perils
There are so many reasons this is a lousy idea it’s tough to know where to begin. There are, of course, advantages to widening the field, including the penultimate contemporary imperatives – protecting jobs and reputations, and increasing the amount of product to sell to TV partners. Unfortunately, adding NCAA entrants may increase demands for compensatory adjustments, producing unforeseeable pressures and consequences.
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A Season of Firsts
The lofty expectations that followed North Carolina into the 2009-10 season varied from Final Four splendor to something short of an ACC contender. But no one predicted the free fall into the conference basement, complete with numerous records that the Tar Heels would have rather avoided. North Carolina firmly inserted itself into Tuesday’s headlines by failing to place a player on any of the All-ACC basketball squads.
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Monday Basketball Press Conference Quotes + Audio
Roy Williams on the ACC Tournament: “I’m approaching the tournament like it’s our only chance left, and that does make you look at it a lot differently. Deep down inside, I’m still not going to go there, but this is my favorite experience in the ACC Tournament. It does. It gives us the chance to still play for a big, big prize. That’s the way we’re looking at it.”
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Lucas: Early Warning Signs
When Roy Williams met reporters on October 15 for media day, he expressed anxiety about two topics: consistency at the point guard position and outside shooting. As it turns out, those worries were well-founded. The head coach was optimistic about one area--frontcourt depth. That's the same depth that's been diminished by season-ending injuries to David Wear and Ed Davis, plus a 10-game absence for Tyler Zeller and an ankle injury for Travis Wear.
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UNC's mistakes weigh on Roy Williams
Roy Williams is hurting because of North Carolina's troubled basketball season, and his role in it as coach. He knows that the students, alumni and fans who follow the program are hurting as well. And he feels responsibility to explain to them why so much has gone wrong one season after UNC won the NCAA Tournament title. "I think I have, but some people don't want to listen," Williams said.
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Roy Williams, Tar Heels have new outlook on ACC Tournament
North Carolina's season may not be over just yet, but Roy Williams already knows where the regular season ranks in his 21 years as a head coach. "I'm going to look back and it'll be the biggest frustration and the biggest disappointment of my professional life, there's no question about that," Williams said Monday.
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Kansas 2010 vs. UNC 2009
This time last season the Tar Heels were considered the favorite to win it all. They lived up to it and rolled to a national title, beating every one of their opponents in the tournament by double figures. On the surface it may not appear that this year’s Kansas squad is at the same level as that Tar Heel team, but if you take a look you may be surprised to find there are more similarities between the two than one might expect.
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Monday with Mike Fox
What were your impressions of the weekend series against Michigan? "It was a great series for us - certainly from a won/lost standpoint. We are ecstatic to have won three games and it is always a tough task against anybody. We certainly played our best game of the series I thought on Sunday and got a terrific start from Matt Harvey on Friday, which we really needed because their pitcher was very good as well."
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UNC shut out on all-ACC team
For the first time since the ACC was formed in 1954, North Carolina did not have a player named to the first-, second- or third teams. Tar Heel junior Ed Davis, who broke his left wrist halfway through the conference season, was the closest – he earned 17 points, placing him 18th among the 29 players who got votes from the ACC media. Senior Deon Thompson, the team’s leading scorer, earned six points total.
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Monday Roy Williams Quotes
“Since we talked last we had a nice last home game and we were able to win there and then got our tails kicked badly on Saturday night. So we’re limping around a little bit now, mentally and physically, but we’ve got to have a great practice today and get ready for what’s going to happen this weekend at the tournament.”
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Brendan Haywood big on former hoops teammate Julius Peppers
Brendan Haywood and some of his UNC basketball teammates came up with a nickname the minute Julius Peppers stepped foot on the UNC campus. "We called him 'Features,' " said Haywood. "Just all of his features -- his heads, his hands, his feet -- all of them were so big." Peppers' bank account is rather large, too, after he signed a six-year contract with the Bears that carries a max value of $91.5 million.
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Skip Seagraves signs with Montreal Alouettes
Montreal Alouettes' Vice President and GM Jim Popp announced today that defensive end Gavin Walls and tackle Skip Seagraves have signed for one year and an option after both were recently released by the club. Seagraves has started 18 games at tackle since joining the Alouettes' in 2006, after five seasons with the North Carolina Tar Heels. He has also been involved in the Alouettes' community programs for the last two years.
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Carolina Baseball Monday Notebook
Nationally ranked North Carolina closes a 13-game home stand this week hosting William & Mary Tuesday and St. John's Wednesday. Both games are slated for a 3 p.m. start and will be at Boshamer Stadium. Carolina is slated to start sophomore right-hander Garrett Davis Tuesday against William & Mary. Sophomore right-hander Jimmy Messer will get the nod for the Tar Heels Wednesday against St. John's.
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No.12 Tar Heels Earn Series Sweep, Wallop Wolverines 9-1
Junior Colin Bates allowed one earned run in 5.2 innings of work to lead No. 12 North Carolina over Michigan 9-1 Sunday in front of 2209 fans at Boshamer Stadium. Bates improves to 3-0 on the season and is perfect in three career starts on the mound. Ben Bunting and Ryan Graepel each posted three hits and two RBI, as North Carolina improves to 10-1 on the year. Michigan falls to 4-7 after the three-game series sweep.
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Jim Young's All-ACC Ballot
Here’s a look at who I voted for on my All-ACC ballot, with a few explanations thrown in for good measure. Player of the Year: Greivis Vasquez. During the Duke game Dick Vitale finally “revealed” his choice for ACC player of the year. He proposed giving it to both Vasquez and Jon Scheyer. It was typical Vitale, an inclusive guy who would let in every team off the bubble if it were left up to him. It was also wrong. Vasquez is the clear choice here
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ACC Tournament seeds set
Duke will defend its ACC title as the No. 1 seed in the ACC Tournament. The Blue Devils will be the only Big Four team missing on Thursday at Greensboro. UNC is the No. 10 seed and will face No. 7 Georgia Tech at 7 p.m. at the Greensboro Coliseum. N.C. State is the No. 11 seed and will face the No. 6 Clemson at 9 p.m. Wake Forest took the No. 5 seed with Sunday's win over Clemson and will face No. 12 Miami at 2 p.m.
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Sprinter Marion Jones eyes comeback
Track and field superstar Marion Jones' bid to get her athletic career back on track brought her to Tulsa on Saturday for a workout with Tulsa Shock coach Nolan Richardson. Jones was stripped of five medals she won in the 2000 Summer Olympics after she admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs. Now, at age 34 and after giving birth to her third child just eight months ago, Jones is attempting an athletic comeback — this time in basketball.
(Tulsa World)
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Ejected fan back -- at Duke
Brian King – the Presbyterian supporter who now infamously got booted out of the Smith Center last December after screaming those words at North Carolina senior Deon Thompson during the Tar Heels blowout victory – was on the front row with the Cameron Crazies, cheering on the Blue Devils during Duke’s 82-50 blowout win. He was invited, he said, by the students.
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No. 4 Duke Routs Struggling Rival UNC, 82-50
Kyle Singler scored 19 of his 25 points in the decisive first half and No. 4 Duke routed North Carolina 82-50 on Saturday night. Jon Scheyer had 20 points in his final game at Cameron Indoor Stadium for the Blue Devils (26-5, 13-3), who earned their most lopsided home win over their fiercest rival. They shot nearly 46 percent - 51 percent in a dominant first half - and made eight 3-pointers in beating North Carolina at home for the first time since 2005.
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Lopsided swan song for UNC seniors
Fifth-year senior Marcus Ginyard sat alone at one edge of the visitors locker room in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Ginyard was barely audible even though he was surrounded by silence as he spoke. The veteran was on hand for North Carolina victories in each of the team's previous four visits to Cameron, but Duke rolled to an 82-50 win over the Tar Heels on Saturday night.
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