Posts Tagged ‘North Carolina Tar Heels’

Final Dance: Michigan State and North Carolina

Monday, April 6th, 2009

There’s a basketball game of some note on tonight. The college basketball National Championship. You might have heard of it. After one of the more underwhelming Final Four Saturdays in recent memory — sorry, even with Michigan State’s “upset” of UConn, there just wasn’t a great deal of compelling basketball coming through [...]

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The Final Four Rocks Detroit

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

TGIFFF. Or, Thank God it’s Final Four Friday, either/or would work. The best in the land of college basketball descend on Detroit tomorrow to decide who’s going to the National Championship game on Monday. The first game is Michigan State versus Connecticut, with North Carolina/Villanova closing us out.
So. Who [...]

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Tyler Hansbrough Can’t Dunk Like Blake Griffin

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Great find from The Dagger, which demonstrates not all dunkers are created equal. While Tyler and the boys beat Oklahoma for a spot in the Final Four, Griffin proved he was the best post player in the building, while Hansbrough proved he can’t throw it down — or dominate the post — in the [...]

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Obama Picks the Tar Heels

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

After making primarily chalk picks for his Final Four, President Obama finished his bracket with perhaps the ultimate chalk pick by picking the North Carolina Tar Heels as his National Champion. Remember, when the season first started, North Carolina was considered to be the best team in the land and the preseason favorite to [...]

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Tar Heels Back On Top

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Something should be said for finishing the season the way you started, especially if that consists of starting and finishing in first place in the rankings. The team that started as the preseason number one finished the regular season back at the top of the ranking pile and as you can see in the [...]

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Roy Williams F-Bombs Press Conference

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Let them F-bombs fly, Roy
Update: Video of the press conference after the jump.
After beating NC State last night — 89-80 — the Tar Heels coach lost his decorum for a second and let everyone in the press room know what he thought about his team’s ability to execute full-court pressure correctly. After a [...]

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