Since April of last year this has been a bad bad year for all Carolina athletics...except maybe field hockey.

Football....major disappointment as the hype of September, turned into the terrible end of the season..completely forgettable except for the great play of Drake.

WOMEN'S SOCCER... 1 minute away from the ncaa title and they are robbed by a clear foul and no call as the ucla team bum rushes our goalie and they end of losing the title

Basketball...in 50 years of watching Carolina sports...this team ranks just barely behind the 9 win team as the biggest disappointment and least enjoyable team to watch. GAME after game it was like watching some alien thingh..barely looked like Carolina basketball for most of the season


Here's to a brighter and better next 12 months

CBS Sports and Warner Bros. Discovery Sports will provide live coverage of all 67 games from the 2023 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship across four national television networks – TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV – with all games streamed on NCAA March Madness Live.

CBS will broadcast the Men’s Final Four, beginning with the Semifinals on Saturday, April 1, and then the National Championship on Monday, April 3, from Houston. This marks the fourth time that Houston will host the Men’s Final Four and the first time since 2016, remembered for the iconic buzzer beater win by Villanova over North Carolina.

Saturday’s on-site Men’s Final Four studio coverage airing on CBS will begin with At the Final Four presented by Nissan from 3-4 PM, ET, followed by The Final Four Show from 4-6 PM, ET. The Capital One Championship Central pregame show will air on Monday at 8:30 PM, ET, leading into the National Championship game.

The Men’s Elite 8 games will once again be split by TBS and CBS. TBS will air the games on Saturday, March 25, beginning at 6 PM, ET, while CBS will broadcast the games on Sunday, March 26, starting at 2 PM, ET.

This season, Men's Sweet 16 games will begin on TBS at 6:15 PM, ET and on CBS at 7:00 PM, ET on both Thursday, March 23 and Friday, March 24.

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...and look, as for the NIT thing, my personal default is to always play. With that said, I totally "get" the other side of that argument in this case. I'm not even gonna weigh in on that. All I want to do here is offer some larrger perspective without talking too much out of school.

The only way I know to do that is to point to some scenarios that (I hope) the reasonable posters on here will "get".

1. I stand by what I've said all season --- there's a difference between critiquing and bashing, and it's an important one.
- on one hand --- please know that last season's NCAAT run was NOT a fluke. It was a DIRECT product of a couple of adroit coaching moves. Tarheel75 and I had a conversation about this the other day, BTW, and the run started with a tweak in how we initiated our offense in the last regular season dook game (to compensate for not having a PG). And that was quickly coupled with a subtle tweak in how we deployed Manek. Thus... the 30 games-worth of film opponents had to scout us was suddenly worthless --- hell, we burned K and dook TWICE with the same tweaks. (BTW, Do NOT underestimate Brady's impact --- if we don't lose him in the Final we win the Natty)

2. Unfortunately, this season Brady was gone (and please don't try to tell me Pete replaced his impact), plus opponents had a whole summer to scout our NCAAT film. So much for the tweaks... and the weaknesses those temporarily covered, well... didn't go away.

3. Now, here's where I hope the good folks here will catch my drift --- IMO, the program would have better off in the long run had most (if not all) of the rest of the starters also moved on. Hubert and staff could've had a true rebuilding season to freshly reinstill Carolina principles, something that, frankly, just wasn't doable with this roster. Without ;pointing fingers at individuals, this staff inherited a roster last season that was a proverbial island of misfit toys vis-a-vis Carolina basketball --- some of that was a product of previous recruiting glitches and Roy trying to turn Combos into PGs (just no), and some was just happenstance --- but it was what it was. And yes, Hubert was right in saying there was a lot of "outside noise" to boot. And BTW, that noise didn't have a damned thing to do with Sports Illustrated or the like --- it was closer to home, IYKWIM. In a nutshell, this was NOT an easy team to coach.

4. WITH ALL THAT SAID, pulling no punches, Hubert had a BAD sophomore campaign. We played "not to lose" as opposed to making solid strides for the long haul (bench, etc), and tried to accomodate certain players as opposed to enforcing the best system ever invented. The unfortunate 5-out experiment was just a bad idea from the get-go. Full-on Carolina basketball needs to return, come hell or high water (or players' feelings), starting now.

Finally, remember though, that Roy and even Dean had rough coaching seasons. The key is, they recovered and learned. We should ALL be hoping Hubert follows suit. Bur sadly, some here are not. This post is for those who are.
On that note, I'm posting this now because the transfer portal opens tomorrow., so I hope the annual end-o-season player debriefings happen PRONTO. The good news is that in the long run, our recruiting is very STRONG, but in the short term, we need to bring back enough of the right guys to rebuild the base of Carolina basketball... and Lord above, please bring me a PG... and I'll leave it at that.
Have a good night...

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Please check your results below for accuracy.

Let me know if you have any issues with the results. These are the totals for the first 5 games for this contest.

I will do my best to update on a game-by-game basis going forward.

All of the remaining games will be triple points.

BY UNC ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS

PITTSBURGH, Pa. – No. 18 North Carolina heads north to take on ACC Coastal Division foe Pittsburgh in a three-game series this weekend. Both teams went 1-2 during the opening weekend of conference play with the Tar Heels losing two of the three at home to Virginia as did the Panthers on the road at Florida State.

Game one of the series will take place on Friday, March 17 at 3 p.m. with game two taking place Saturday, March 18 at 2 p.m. and the finale on Sunday, March 19 at 1 p.m. All three games can be seen on ACC Network Extra.

The Tar Heels enter the series on a three-game winning streak, while the Panthers are coming off a win over Florida State on Sunday.


THE SERIES
UNC is 15-11 against Pittsburgh since the Panthers joined the ACC in 2014 … The Tar Heels swept Pitt in Chapel Hill last season after losing three of four to the Panthers in 2021 ... Carolina is 10-2 at home against Pittsburgh but is just 5-7 on road.

BOSH BOMBERS
After hitting a total of six home runs during the midweek, UNC moved up to sixth nationally with 39 dingers this season, most in the ACC ... The Diamond Heels are averaging 2.05 home runs per game and are on pace to hit a school record 115 home runs during the regular season after hitting 101 home runs in 64 games a year ago ... The UNC record of 108 was set by the 2002 team.

DOUBLING DOWN
Junior catcher Tomas Frick leads all NCAA Division I players with 13 doubles this season ... Frick has doubled in each of the last four games entering the series opener against Pittsburgh Friday ... He has multiple doubles in four games with a career-high three in the series finale against Stony Brook (3/5) ... Frick ranks fourth in the ACC in total hits (30) and RBIs (25).

HEATING UP
Alberto Osuna missed the first three games of the season after having surgery on his hamate bone in late January and went 3-for-24 (.125) at the plate in his first seven games back ... In his last nine games, Osuna is 13-of-30 (.433) with an OPS of 1.386 ... Osuna has reached base safely in 13 consecutive games and has homered in each of the last two games.

DOUBLE DIGIT RUNS
The Tar Heels have scored 16 runs in each of the last two games, marking the first time they've scored 16 runs in consecutive games since doing in four consecutive games in 2017 (3 vs. Boston College, vs. South Carolina) ... UNC has scored more than 14 runs in a game six times and 10 or more in total of nine games ... The Heels had four double-digit run games through their first 19 games a year ago and didn't post their ninth game of 10 runs or more until the 46th game of the season.

BULLPEN DOING ITS JOB
In 24.0 innings pitched over the last five games, the UNC bullpen has a 2.25 ERA and has held opposing hitters to a .205 batting average with 32 strikeouts against 11 walks.

This season may have been horrible for us but I can still take pleasure in dook losing.

If the head coach cannot mold players into a team!

It's been hard to get too excited about who we may land from the portal because of who the coach will is.

No shade against Hubert the person, but Hubert the coach has lost me as a fan. He really does have alot to learn.

Too much too soon for him to be the head coach at UNC. The clock is ticking and the seat is getting warm.

You all have a great day!! Enjoy the games! And....GO VOLS!!😄

So I can spread them far and wide on the net.

I guess they never thought about the other possible meanings of that before they put it on their shirts. Tennessee made 'em look like the fish version ..

Good luck to players near the top for the Duke game (Contests #1 and #2) which will be triple points.

The top 15 players (in both #1 and #2 ) will make the final cut for Contest #4 (ACC and NCAA tourneys).

Contest # 4 will have 30 players. I will compensate for players that placed in the top 15 in both pools.

Contest #3 is pure luck.


Contest Rules
Contest #1: Total points for entire season
Contest #2: Reset: Total points after game #15
Contest #3: Final Four Pool Bracket (Top 64 players)
Contest #4 Grand Prize: Total points ACC and NCAA tournaments games through title game (contest continues even if UNC eliminated)

Here are the unofficial Final Results for Contests #1 and #2 . Please check your results and advise by Tuesday morning if you see any discrepancies:


Contest#1





Contest #2



Congratulations to the following 9 players who finished in the Top 15 in both Contest #1 and #2.

This opens 6 more spots for Contest #4. I will pick 3 each from #1 and #2

I will advise you of the 6 players eligible for Contest #4 after everyone reviews their results.



Go Heels #1

Tarheels39

sctarheel30

the Sky is Carolina Blue!

adwood81

slothrop8

Munkles

shane023

Travis2262

Arkansas with a half dozen freshmen getting PT is the only team this season to defeat Kansas after being behind at the Half.

SEC basketball easily the best league in the South. SEC teams hire coaches like Musselman and Oates and now Beard. ACC teams with the most history hire unproven alums.