![Despite being up by 15 at the half, and outrebounding their opponent 55-35, North Carolina was blitzed by Kansas in the second half, falling 72-69 in the NCAA national championship game. The Tar Heels shot just 31.5 percent for the game, including 28.2 percent in the second half while Kansas was hitting 58 percent of their shots. Carolina went on an 18-3 run at the end of the first half to take a dominating 40-25 lead into the half. But it took Kansas just over nine minutes to catch up. Cold-shooting and a lack of rhythm with Leaky Black and […]](http://capitalsportsnc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/KansasBacot2-490x225.jpg "Poor-shooting Heels can’t hold big lead; Kansas champs")
Despite being up by 15 at the half, and outrebounding their opponent 55-35, North Carolina was blitzed by Kansas in the second half, falling 72-69 in the NCAA national championship game. The Tar Heels shot just 31.5 percent for the game, including 28.2 percent in the second half while Kansas was hitting 58 percent of their shots. Carolina went on an 18-3 run at the end of the first half to take a dominating 40-25 lead into the half. But it took Kansas just over nine minutes to catch up. Cold-shooting and a lack of rhythm with Leaky Black and […]
Tre Walker has unretired, but the Washington Commanders are still adding a veteran linebacker. …read more
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Ashleigh Buhai recovered from throwing away a five-shot lead at the Women’s British Open by beating In Gee Chun in a playoff Sunday to win her first major title. …read more
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Cardinal Gibbons, the defending 4A champs, are still in the top spot after finishing there a year ago. Following the Crusaders are Rolesville, Wake Forest, Cleveland, and Richmond. …read more
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![In a game for the ages between rivals, UNC’s Caleb Love puts a dagger in Duke to end Coach K’s long retirement tour, 81-77 in the semi-finals of the NCAA Four. (4/2) The Tar Heels, led by Love’s 28 points (22 of them in the second half), move on to face Kansas in Monday’s championship finale. Trailing 74-73 with just over a minute to play, Carolina went on a modest, but game-deciding 8-3 run to end the game. The big bucket was a three from Love from the top of the key with less than 30 seconds to go, giving […]](http://capitalsportsnc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/DukeManekTeam-1-490x225.jpg "Heels Love to retire Coach K, drop mic on Duke")
![By Clifton Barnes (NOTE: Barnes is a Rocky Mount Senior High classmate and former junior high football/basketball teammate of Buck Williams.) Brash. Trash talker. Controversial. Showy. A jerk. Ah, no. Competitive. Hard worker. Consistent. Team player. A winner. Yeah, that’s more like it. That’s Rocky Mount native Buck Williams. You could also say he’s overlooked, underappreciated, forgotten even. Known through much of his childhood as Charles, the Buck that came to be led the Rocky Mount Gryphons to the 1978 4A state basketball title. He took his game to the University of Maryland, where he helped lead the Terrapins to […]](http://capitalsportsnc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screenshot_20220111-135748_Acrobat-for-Samsung-490x225.jpg "Rocky Mount’s Buck Williams should be in the Hall of Fame")
![Clifton Barnes of Cary has won a national writing award for a series of online posts. Writing for his CapitalSportsNC.com website, Barnes won an Award of Excellence from the DC area-based Communications Concepts through its 2021 Awards for Publication Excellence competition. Barnes, a UNC-Chapel Hill journalism and political science grad, was one of only three people across the nation to win Awards of Excellence in the Best Series of Blog Posts writing category. The articles that propelled Barnes to win the honor dealt with UNC-Chapel Hill sports news coverage and analysis. One piece pointed out by judges was in regard to the death of UNC and Rocky Mount, N.C. […]](http://capitalsportsnc.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CliftonBarnes21Apex-490x225.jpg "CapitalSportsNC.com wins 2021 national award")
