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North Carolina forward Luke Maye, one of the heroes of the Tar Heels' 2017 NCAA tournament men's basketball championship, was uninjured after his car flipped several times and came to rest upside down on a North Carolina Interstate. Maye's parents told the Charlotte Observer that their son walked away with no more than a few bumps…
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Most basketball coaches have incentives built into their contracts for making the NCAA Tournament as well as getting their team up to a specific academic standard. Well, North Carolina’s Roy Williams hit all the benchmarks by winning a national title and getting his team to a strong Academic Progress Rate of 985. Roy Williams picks up…
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Newly released records show three attorneys billed UNC-Chapel Hill for representing football players the State Bureau of Investigation had sought to interview as part of a criminal investigation into what turned out to be hundreds of bogus classes and independent studies. The bills were small — a combined $2,500. That's because the attorneys told the SBI…
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North Carolina junior forward Justin Jackson declared for the NBA draft on Thursday and plans to sign with an agent. Jackson helped lead the Tar Heels to the national title while likely improving his draft stock in the process. The 6-foot-8 Jackson, who was named the ACC Player of the Year, averaged a team-leading 18.3 points…
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GLENDALE, Ariz. -- It's the blue blood vs. the new blood. The contrast in the NCAA Tournament championship game is clear: North Carolina, winners of five titles and appearing in its record 20th Final Four, is in one corner. Gonzaga, in its first Final Four after spending almost two decades chugging up the mountaintop, is in…
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GLENDALE, Ariz. -- North Carolina showed why it's the best rebounding team in the country at exactly the right time. Despite missing four free throws in the final 5.8 seconds, the Tar Heels finally subdued Oregon in a cold-shooting Final Four game Saturday. Center Kennedy Meeks dominated inside and came up with the game-clinching rebound in…
