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• College basketball’s transfer portal has its first superstar, and every school is going to want him

Photo by Jason Miller/NCAA Photos via Getty Images Donovan Dent might be the biggest start in the college basketball transfer portal this year, and he has no shortage of suitors. The Sweet 16 is set for the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament, but some of the biggest news in college basketball is happening off the court. The coaching carousel is already in full swing with Indiana, Texas, NC State, ...2025
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• The Day Michael Jordan Announced Himself to the World: Revisiting NBA Legend’s Iconic Shot for North Carolina
Throwback to when NBA legend Michael Jordan led the North Carolina Tar Heels to victory with a game-winner at the NCAA Championship....2025
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• Sweet 16 teams, ranked by national championship chances in 2025 men’s March Madness

Photo by Lance King/Getty Images Let’s rank the 16 teams still standing in the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament by their national championship chances. The 2025 men’s NCAA tournament will certainly not go down in history for upsets and Cinderellas. The favorites held serve during the opening weekend of March Madness, setting up some high-powered matchups in the Sweet 16 and beyond. All four No. ...2025
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• The best games in the second round of the 2025 women’s NCAA Tournament, ranked

Photo by Tyler Kaufman/Getty Images Florida State vs. LSU and Notre Dame vs. Michigan are must-watch games. Meanwhile, UConn and South Carolina should comfortably advance to the Sweet 16. The first round is in the books and more than half of the field is gone. We’ve cut the NCAA Tournament down from 68 teams to just 32 as games begin on Sunday, starting with No. 10 Oregon versus No. 2 Duke...2025
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• NCAA tournament conference breakdown: Big Ten is flourishing, while SEC underwhelms

Photo by Jason Mowry/Getty Images This is how college basketball’s biggest conferences performed in the first weekend of March Madness. Conference breakdowns are a big part of the NCAA Tournament. Seeding, strength of schedule and the number of bids each conference receives is a talking point during the tournament. The SEC getting 14 out of its 16 teams into the field shattered the Big Ea...2025
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• March Madness 2025: The Best and Worst from Day 2

Photo by Jason Miller/NCAA Photos via Getty Images It can only get better from here, folks. Allow me to be the millionth person to say that at least these second round games look like they’re going to be awesome. They need to be. Round one did not deliver at the level all of us are used to. It was still wonderful. It’s impossible for 32 games in two days not to be. Just not wonderful en...2025
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• Should the Broncos draft UNC RB Omarion Hampton in the first round of the draft?

Photo by Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Hampton is a big and athletic running back who could start week one for the Broncos. One prospect who the Denver Broncos may strongly consider in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft is North Carolina running back, Omarion Hampton. He is a 6-0, 221 pound running back who is considered one of the top backs in the draft and a potential...2025
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• March Madness’ 50 best players, ranked for 2025 men’s NCAA tournament

Rob Kinnan-Imagn Images Let’s rank the best players in the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament College basketball is in a state of transition, and so too is the idea of the modern college basketball star. The defining players in the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament do not fit in any particular box. They come from every corner of the world, in all shapes and sizes, each with their own idiosyncratic stren...2025
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• North Carolina’s NCAA tournament inclusion makes absolutely no sense, and has a real conflict of interest

This is just ridiculous. The North Carolina Tar Heels are legendary when it comes to March Madness. The championships, the unforgettable players, the incomparable Dean Smith — all part of what makes UNC one of the best-known programs in the country. On Sunday night the Heels were being talked about for all the wrong reasons, as North Carolina might lay claim to being the worst team to ever get an ...2025
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• March Madness bracket predictions: Picks for women’s 2025 NCAA tournament

Photo by Nicholas Faulkner/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Can South Carolina repeat? Can Paige Bueckers end UConn’s national title drought? Will JuJu Watkins power USC to the Final Four? The storylines entering the women’s NCAA Tournament this year seem endless. Despite losing a few games in the regular season, Dawn Staley’s South Carolina Gamecocks are a No. 1 seed and have the chance t...2025
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• 10 takeaways from the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament bracket reveal

Photo by John Byrum/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Let the bracket reactions begin. We have a bracket, and now we have three days to talk about it. Let’s start immediately. Here are 10 immediate thoughts on this year’s field of 68: 1. The SEC was valued even more highly than we thought There was little doubt that Sunday was going to be the day the SEC was going to set a new record for t...2025
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• Women’s basketball bracketology roundtable: Experts weigh-in on USC, the ACC and a potential 3-bid Ivy League

Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Charlie Creme, Megan Gauer and Mark Schindler help us get ready for March Madness in women’s college basketball with some bracketology breakdown. It’s March, which means the NCAA Tournament is approaching quickly. And if you’re a fan of women’s college basketball, you’re probably thinking about your bracket — who you might pick to ...2025
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• Women’s basketball rankings: No. 1 is unchanged, but injuries raise questions as conference tournaments approach

Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images Can LSU, North Carolina, Kansas State and Tennessee hold onto their top 16 projections while weathering key injuries? It was a wild week in women’s college basketball and the latest AP Top 25 Poll reflects that. While the Texas Longhorns remained No. 1, USC elevated to No. 2, and Duke jumped up five spots to No. 11 as the week’s biggest riser after defeating North...2025
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• College basketball’s 8 most disappointing men’s teams this season, ranked

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Here are the most disappointing teams in men’s college basketball so far. Expectations are a slippery slope in this new era of college basketball. With every player in the country essentially on a one-year deal, coaches face the monumental task of keeping their top players on campus, surrounding them with the right fits in the transfer portal, and addin...2025
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• NFL Urban Legends: Dan Marino, Drug Rumors and the Draft-Day Slide
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"UNC 'Hard Knocks' deal falls through: Tar Heels won't be featured in Bill Belichick's inaugural season"

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"Belichick's hire would come amid a split Tar Heels community with the six-time Super Bowl champion giving up pursuit of the NFL all-time wins record"

2023
"Instead, Montross decided to walk his own path — joining the Tar Heels where he would become a legend."

2022
"The North Carolina Tar Heels handed Mike Krzyzewski a disappointing end to his time with Duke, as UNC took down the Blue Devils in their Final Four showdown on Saturday."

2021
"Relive the game winning shot by UNC forward Luke Maye that lifted the Tar Heels past Kentucky and into the 2017 Final Four."

2020
"The Tar Heels caught lightning in a bottle, winning an emotional quarterfinal in Columbus, Ohio — where coach Joe Breschi, formerly of Ohio State, visited the gravesite of his son, Michael — and riding the hot hand of Chris Cloutier to their first NCAA title since 1991."

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"The Tar Heels slip out of the top 10 after falling to Virginia 56-47 on Sunday"

2018
"The Hurricanes pulled a Villanova-like thriller on the Tar Heels on Senior Night"

2017
"The post The North Carolina Tar Heels Are Your 2017 NCAA Champions appeared first on SLAMonline."

2016
"As he stands and stretches, he hands Coleman a letter addressed to him from the North Carolina Tar Heels."

2015
"Tomorrow night, the Number 4 seed North Carolina Tar Heels take on Number 1 Wisconsin."

2014
"Jordan played for the Tar Heels in the early '80s, so these shoes are at least 30 years old."

• Sweet 16 teams, ranked by national championship chances in 2025 men’s March Madness
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• Should the Broncos draft UNC RB Omarion Hampton in the first round of the draft?
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• March Madness’ 50 best players, ranked for 2025 men’s NCAA tournament
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• North Carolina’s NCAA tournament inclusion makes absolutely no sense, and has a real conflict of interest
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• Women’s NCAA tournament bracket: Winners (UCLA) and losers (Notre Dame) from Selection Sunday

Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images James Madison was excluded from the field of 68, while the Ivy League got three bids in for the first time ever. We have the bracket. The 68-team field for the 2025 women’s NCAA tournament is set. Let the madness begin. There were no real surprises on the top-line, with UCLA, South Carolina, Texas and USC — in that order — all grabbing No. 1 seeds. The ...2025
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• ACC tournament 2025: Live scores, bracket updates, and TV schedule

There’s so much on the line at the 2025 men’s ACC tournament. The ACC has had a down year by its own standards in men’s college basketball. Historically one of the strongest conferences in the sport, this year’s version of the ACC ranks as the fifth-toughest league according to KenPom, and is only projected to send three teams to the 2025 NCAA tournament by our bracketologist Chris Dobbertean hea...2025
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• MiLaysia Fulwiley channels LeBron James and Steph Curry in a pair of memorable highlights

Photo by Eakin Howard/Getty Images As she has all season long for Dawn Staley’s South Carolina Gamecocks, MiLaysia Fulwiley created a pair of highlight-worthy plays in the SEC Tournament vs. Vanderbilt. GREENVILLE, S.C. — Vanderbilt had stormed back. With freshman phenom Mikayla Blakes leading the charge, the Commodores had gotten within striking distance of top-seeded South Carolina’s lea...2025
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• Former Chargers RB Natrone Means hired as UNC’s RBs coach under Bill Belichick

Photo by George Gojkovich/Getty Images Former Chargers Pro Bowl RB Natrone Means will coach running back under Bill Belichick at North Carolina. Earlier this week, the official X account of the University of North Carolina football team posted their finalized coaching staff for the 2025 season under first-year head coach Bill Belichick. While there are a handful of names that aren’t too su...2025
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• Women’s basketball bracketology roundtable: Experts weigh-in on USC, the ACC and a potential 3-bid Ivy League
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• College basketball’s transfer portal has its first superstar, and every school is going to want him
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• The hardest and easiest path to the 2025 women’s NCAA Final Four

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Breaking down which top seeds in the 2025 women’s NCAA tournament can make it to Tampa. Dawn Staley and Lindsay Gottlieb have both made noise in recent days about their team’s seeding in NCAA tournament. The Gamecocks and Trojans are both No. 1 seeds, but South Carolina is seeded second overall and USC is fourth. UCLA was the No. 1 overall seed, while T...2025
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• The 5 most important college basketball power conference tournament games of Thursday

Bob Donnan-Imagn Images Could a March miracle be brewing in Kansas City? The Thursday of Championship Week is the busiest and often most impactful non-NCAA tournament day on the college basketball calendar. All five of the major conferences have a full slate of four games, with the second round action in the Big Ten and SEC, and quarterfinal games in the ACC, Big 12 and Big East. Let’s l...2025
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• Shawn Poppie is trying to keep the good vibes rolling at Clemson

Ken Ruinard - The Greenville News / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Shawn Poppie is trying to turn Clemson back into a winner. An ACC Tournament victory over Stanford could be a good sign for things to come. GREENSBORO, N.C. — On a dry-erase board inside a locker room in the historic Greensboro Coliseum on Wednesday evening, first-year Clemson coach Shawn Poppie didn’t scribble on it to...2025
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• Women’s basketball bracketology roundtable: Experts weigh-in on USC, the ACC and a potential 3-bid Ivy League
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• Women’s basketball rankings: No. 1 is unchanged, but injuries raise questions as conference tournaments approach
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• Duke’s win over UNC showed that the ACC Rookie of the Year race is a no-brainer

Duke freshman forward Toby Fournier muscles her way past a Cal defender for a shot on Jan. 16, 2025, at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C. | Mitchell Northam / SB Nation Cooper Flagg isn’t the only stellar freshman at Duke. Toby Fournier has the potential to be a star. DURHAM, N.C. – A bit more than 90 seconds remained and No. 16 Duke had essentially already won the game against rival...2025
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• How a knee injury made Olivia Miles a better 3-point shooter and turned Notre Dame into a contender

Notre Dame guard Olivia Miles plays against North Carolina on Jan. 5, 2025, in Chapel Hill, N.C. | Mitchell Northam, SB Nation While sidelined last season, the All-American playmaker gained a new perspective that has helped the Fighting Irish become the best 3-point shooting team in women’s college basketball. Olivia Miles says that she sees the game of basketball as art. A self-taught hoo...2025
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• How Cooper Flagg has surged to the National Player of the Year favorite this season

Photo by Lance King/Getty Images Flagg’s performance in a marquee matchup against North Carolina was indicative of his stellar season. When it comes to college basketball, there’s no bigger star currently than Duke sensation Cooper Flagg, who has taken the country by storm as the next big thing in the sport. Flagg, a 6’9”, 205-pound forward from Maine, has been touted for his elite two-way...2025
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• DeMarcus Cousins Knocks Down 3-Pointer from UK Logo During UNC-UK Alumni Game
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• Bill Belichick nearing deal with North Carolina: Legendary NFL coach may join college ranks in stunning move

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• Tyler Hansbrough to Hornets: Latest Contract Details, Analysis and Reaction
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• WATCH: DeMarcus Cousins Leads Kentucky Over UNC Alums
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• The Linc - Saquon Barkley discusses chasing Eric Dickerson

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Philadelphia Eagles news and links for 12/15/24. Let’s get to the Philadelphia Eagles links ... Saquon Barkley opens up on chasing Eric Dickerson’s NFL rushing record - NBCSP“I know a lot about Eric Dickerson,” Barkley said. “I know that he has the record. He’s (had it) for 40 years. Obviously, I’ve heard the talk. I know the number. I know what it’s goi...2024
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• Should the Broncos draft UNC RB Omarion Hampton in the first round of the draft?
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• Women’s basketball rankings: JuJu Watkins and USC end UCLA unbeaten season, NCAA releases first top-16

Robert Hanashiro-Imagn Images The Huskies beat the Gamecocks, a showdown in Tobacco Road and more A telltale sign that it’s almost March Madness time is when the NCAA Tournament committee releases its first top-16 ranking of the year. That announcement came Sunday leading into one of the top games of the week between No. 4 South Carolina Gamecocks and No. 7 UConn Huskies. However, the act...2025
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• A’ja Wilson surprising the North Carolina basketball team is today’s wholesome content

Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images Wilson, fresh off a unanimous MVP season, was a surprise locker room visitor after the Tar Heels beat the Miami Hurricanes on Sunday afternoon. The North Carolina women’s basketball team beat Miami 69-60 on Sunday afternoon, and after the buzzer, they were greeted by a special visitor: Las Vegas Aces star A’ja Wilson, one of women's basketball’s most dec...2024
• Bill Belichick challenges The Carolina Way, and it could be just what UNC needs

Photo by Andy Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images This is the start of a new era in North Carolina. North Carolina finalized one of the most stunning college football hires of the last three decades on Wednesday by announcing that Bill Belichick, arguably the greatest coach in NFL history, is coming to Chapel Hill. Belichick’s reasoning for taking the job was getting back to his roots,...2024
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• Women’s college basketball rankings: Updated top-25, Kentucky rises, Geno Auriemma ties Tara VanDerVeer

Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images UConn wins their first ranked game of the season, a battle in Kentucky and teams make a case for top-25 rankings NCAA women’s basketball continued to surprise in week two. Top-25 teams fell to both ranked and unranked opponents, a new team emerges out of Texas and the Buckeyes almost fall to a mid-major. Here are the current rankings and what stood out...2024
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