Three questions: North Carolina basketball practice begins Posted Sep 25, 2018 With six weeks until tipoff on Nov. 6, college basketball teams will begin practice starting Tuesday. Here are three questions North Carolina will be seeking answers for: 1. Who runs the show? The Tar Heels didn’t get the level of competition they wanted on their exhibition trip to the Bahamas, so there’s not much to be gleaned from what Carolina’s point guards did on the trip. (Winston-Salem Journal)