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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Almost four years after it first hit bookshelves, the film adaptation of Delia Owens’ 2018 novel “Where the Crawdads Sing” is debuting on the big screen Friday.

Bacot’s draft stock spiked at the NCAA tournament, but for this business major, riding the NIL bubble and sticking around Chapel Hill is a “no-brainer.”

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Getting sent to Texas for the opening weekend may not have meant much to most of North Carolina’s roster – the Tar Heels, as a No. 8 seed, were entirely at the mercy of bracketing fate – but it meant everything to Brady Manek.

On the surface, they couldn’t have been more different. Yet Dean Smith and Bob Knight forged one of the most enduring—and most unlikely—friendships in college sports.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Duke could have spent the final five minutes running the Four Corners in Mike Krzyzewski’s final tribute to Dean Smith, a bitter rival who became a compatriot, the titan of the ACC that Krzyzewski spent years trying to dethrone only to, eventually, become.

The Tar Heels are looking to spoil Coach K's final game in Chapel Hill.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Ten months after his sudden and somber spring departure in an empty building, Roy Williams stood at center court at the Smith Center, bathed not only in a spotlight, but the applause of an arena filled with happy fans.

Former North Carolina women's basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell received a picture of two of her former camp staffers attending the men's basketball win over Virginia Tech on Monday. She immediately recognized the ginger-haired man from England she hadn't seen since that basketball camp in 2015.