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Heel Tough Blog: What 2 Watch 4 - Winston-Salem State Exhibition
@UNC_Basketball Tonight, the Tar Heels will play in their final preseason exhibition ahead of the 2025-26 season, which gets started on Monday against Central Arkansas. Last Friday, Carolina lost on the road against #8 BYU, 78-76, in a game that they played without projected starter Luka Bogavac. Freshman Caleb Wilson went toe to toe with BYU’s AJ Dybantsa, totaling a 22-point, 10-rebound, double-double. Seth Trimble added 17 in the loss, but Carolina more than looked the par

Joshua Marlow
Oct 29, 20253 min read


Heel Tough Blog: Seth Trimble Named to the Preseason Jerry West Award Watch List
The 2025-26 college basketball season is officially less than a week away, with Carolina set to open the season against Central Arkansas next Monday in the Smith Center. The Tar Heels are set to host Winston-Salem State tomorrow night, in the final preseason exhibition, after losing to BYU in exhibition competition last Friday night. With the season right around the corner, all the preseason watch lists are in the process of being unveiled, and earlier today, senior guard Se

Joshua Marlow
Oct 28, 20251 min read


Heel Tough Blog: BYU Exhibition Takeaways
KSL News Last night, the Tar Heels traveled to Salt Lake City, Utah, to take on the preseason-ranked #8 BYU Cougars in an exhibition matchup, and ultimately fell short 78-76, in a game that showed a lot of promise for a UNC roster featuring 11 new players. One of those 11 newcomers, Luka Bogavac, was not in uniform, as he awaits clearance from the University after being deemed eligible by the NCAA. With that in mind, Hubert Davis started a bigger lineup, going with Kyan Evans

Joshua Marlow
Oct 25, 20254 min read


Heel Tough Blog: What 2 Watch 4 - BYU Exhibition
@UNC_Baksetball For the first time since March, the Tar Heels will take the floor and play a competitive game of basketball, although tonight’s game is technically an exhibition. A few years ago, the NCAA voted to allow schools to play in two exhibitions per preseason, as long as one of the exhibitions benefits a charity foundation. Last year, UNC played at Memphis, in an exhibition that benefited St. Jude’s hospital, and tonight they’ll travel to Salt Lake City, Utah, to tak

Joshua Marlow
Oct 24, 20253 min read


Heel Tough Blog: Luka Bogavac Cleared by NCAA, But Facing New Hurdle In Order to Play
Bob Donnan- Imagn Images We have been waiting for an update on Luka Bogavac and on Wednesday, head coach Hubert Davis gave it to us. According to Davis, Bogavac has been cleared to play by the NCAA, but still faces a new challenge when it comes to getting on the court. Per Inside Carolina, Bogavac still must overcome “internal steps” before he is actually able to join the team on the court officially this season. It’s not that he has been admitted to the school; that step was

Anthony Pagnotta
Oct 22, 20252 min read


Heel Tough Blog: UNC Picked to Finish 3rd in the ACC in 2025-26
Sports Illustrated Last week, the ACC held its annual preseason event in Charlotte, where coaches and players met with the assembled media ahead of the 2025-26 season. It’s during that time that the preseason voting takes place, and today the results were released, and they set the bar of expectations for the UNC program from a media perspective going into this season. Despite a roster that features 11 new players, and a coach that is believed to be coaching for his job, the

Joshua Marlow
Oct 14, 20252 min read


Heel Tough Blog: UNC Cracks Preseason AP Top 25
GoHeels With ACC Tip-Off behind us, we’re getting closer and closer to the college hoops season, and another sign of that is the annual preseason poll, which was released earlier today, and to no surprise, it contained Hubert Davis and the UNC Tar Heels. After an off-season overhaul that saw Carolina bring in 11 new players, UNC will begin the 2025-26 season, #25 in the AP Poll, meaning the program will begin the season preseason ranked for all 5 of Hubert Davis’s seasons on

Joshua Marlow
Oct 13, 20252 min read


Heel Tough Blog: Blue/White Scrimmage Takeaways
Maggie Hobson - GoHeels 2025-26 figures to be a big year for Hubert Davis, who is looking to silence his doubters and establish himself...

Joshua Marlow
Oct 4, 20254 min read


Heel Tough Blog: What 2 Watch 4 - Blue/White Scrimmage
Sports Illustrated Preseason practice is well underway in Chapel Hill, with the first of two exhibitions, not too far away for Hubert...

Joshua Marlow
Oct 3, 20253 min read


Heel Tough Blog: 2025-26 ACC Basketball Schedule Officially Released
@UNC_Basketball While the main focus on campus is on Carolina Football, the basketball season isn’t too far away, with the start of...

Joshua Marlow
Sep 9, 20253 min read


Heel Tough Blog: Tar Heels Land Luka Bogavac
SC Derby The Tar Heels have been searching furiously for someone to fill the hole left behind by Drake Powell and on Saturday morning...

Anthony Pagnotta
May 31, 20251 min read


Heel Tough Blog: Tar Heels in Contact With Chattanooga Transfer Guard
John Byrum- Icon Sportswire The Tar Heels are searching for their scoring guard and their next target to answer that need might be a...

Anthony Pagnotta
Apr 5, 20252 min read


Heel Tough Blog: UNC Amongst Those to Contact West Virginia Transfer Wing
Mitchell Layton- Getty Images The Tar Heels and their new front office are hitting the transfer portal hard out of the gate and it...

Anthony Pagnotta
Mar 26, 20251 min read


Heel Tough Blog: Heels In Contact With Coveted New Mexico Transfer
Jason Miller- Getty Images Yesterday the Tar Heels lost former five-star point guard Elliot Cadeau to the transfer portal, opening up a...

Joshua Marlow
Mar 26, 20252 min read


Heel Tough Blog: Ole Miss Preview (NCAA Tournament First Round)
Tyler Schank- Getty Images After dismantling San Diego State in the First Four, the Tar Heels will now turn their attention to Ole Miss,...

Joshua Marlow
Mar 21, 20254 min read


Heel Tough Blog: Wake Forest Preview - ACC Tournament Quarterfinals
Bob Donnan- Imagn Images After dispatching Notre Dame yesterday, the Tar Heels are back in action later today, as they take on Wake...

Anthony Pagnotta
Mar 13, 20253 min read


Heel Tough Blog: Notre Dame Recap - ACC Tournament Second Round
Jim Dedmon- Imagn Images Behind an explosive performance from Jae’Lyn Withers, Carolina raced past Notre Dame in the Second Round of the...

Joshua Marlow
Mar 12, 20254 min read


Heel Tough Blog: Notre Dame Preview - ACC Tournament Second Round
Jared C. Tilton- Getty Images The ACC Tournament officially got underway yesterday, and the Tar Heels learned about their second-round...

Joshua Marlow
Mar 12, 20254 min read


Heel Tough Blog: Florida State Recap
Melina Myers- Imagn Images For the fourth straight game, Carolina has emerged victorious, but tonight’s win was the most impressive and...

Joshua Marlow
Feb 25, 20255 min read


Heel Tough Blog: Tar Heels Hire Jim Tanner as New GM
LinkedIn After about a month of searching for a general manager, the Tar Heels have settled on the guy that will run the school’s...

Anthony Pagnotta
Feb 25, 20252 min read
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