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What Did Dean Smith Mean When He Talked About 'The Duke Game'?

The 1965 game featured a really good Duke team losing to a better-than-average North Carolina team, with neither advancing to the NCAA Tournament. But the game meant more than that. This one ranks among Dean Smith’s biggest wins, though nowhere near the top. But from Smith’s perspective, it may have been the most important on a variety of levels. (Inside Carolina)

Video: IC Reaction Podcast - Ven-Allen Lubin Commits to UNC Basketball

UNC Basketball received another commitment from the transfer portal on Thursday. Ven-Allen Lubin, a forward from Vanderbilt, announced his intent to play in Chapel Hill next season. Sherrell McMillan, Sean Moran, and Joey Powell from Inside Carolina convened to discuss and analyze this breaking story for the Tar Heels. (View Video)

Video: Locked On Tar Heels - UNC's 1st 2026 scholarship offer, Jumpman info, other schedule info

Hubert Davis offered four class of 2025 basketball recruits on Monday. On Tuesday, the Tar Heels dipped into the class of 2026 for the first time, offering in-state SF Cole Cloer. We learned more details about the 2024 Jumpman Invitational, which also makes it a great time discuss what we know about UNC's 2024-25 schedule. (View Video)

Video: Coast To Coast Podcast - 2025 UNC Basketball Recruiting Offers, Transfer Portal Update

After a weekend of AAU action, the UNC Basketball staff returned to Chapel Hill ready to extend scholarship offers to more members of UNC's 2025 recruiting class. Sherrell McMillan, Sean Moran, and Joey Powell of Inside Carolina analyze the offers and the players as well as reset where things stand with the transfer portal. (View Video)

Video: Locked On Tar Heels - Four New Class of 2025 Basketball Offers

Hubert Davis has extended four more scholarship offers in the 2025 UNC Basketball recruiting class: Nik Khamenia (F), Malachi Morena (C), Derek Dixon (G), and Braylon Mullins (G). Why offer multiple sub-30-ranked players when you’ve got offers out to so many elite players? Isaac Schade gives his thoughts. (View Video)

Chansky’s Notebook: When They Were 54 Years Old

Hubert Davis just turned 54. How does he compare? Hubert has been UNC's head coach for three years and has an 78-31 record and ACC mark of 43-17. When Roy Williams turned 54, he had finished his first season at UNC as a head coach. Dean Smith turned 54 in February of 1985 and went on to win his fourth straight ACC regular-season championship. (Chapelboro.com)

Ian Jackson brings ‘electric’ scoring potential to UNC basketball as a freshman

When Ian Jackson was in seventh grade, mired in typical teenage growing pains — achy knees, dull pain in his legs — he developed a temporary limp. Nothing major and nothing that lingered, but still: a noticeable hitch in his gait. Noticeable enough that his middle school basketball coach gave him a nickname: Captain Jack. "Like a pirate," Jackson says. (New York Times)

Dates set for UNC men's and women’s basketball games against Florida in Jumpman Invitational

North Carolina’s men’s and women’s basketball teams will play Florida on separate nights at the Jumpman Invitational at Charlotte’s Spectrum Center. The men play the Gators on Tuesday, Dec. 17. The UNC women will play Florida on Wednesday, Dec. 18. The game times and the order of games each night haven’t been set and will be determined by ESPN. (Tar Heel Tribune)

Video: Locked On Tar Heels - NBA Combine is over. When will decisions happen?

The NBA Draft Combine ended Sunday. Players wishing to maintain collegiate eligibility have until May 29 at 11:59 pm ET to withdraw in order to be able to play in college next season. Among current UNC transfer targets Ven-Allen Lubin, Coleman Hawkins, and Ugonna Onyenso, host Isaac Schade believes Hawkins would be the best fit. (View Video)

North Carolina Poised To Play Faster Tempo With McDonald’s All-American Ian Jackson

Our Savior Lutheran (N.Y.) coach Peter Wehye spent the past season coaching Ian Jackson and believes the high-flying New York City guard will have a big impact when he suits up at UNC next season. The way he sees it, the 6-foot-5 Jackson will not only be a two-way player for the Tar Heels, but he’ll also enable Carolina to play a more up-tempo style. (Forbes)

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