The Capital Sports Report

Despite being the more talented team, North Carolina was up on Gardner-Webb by just two possessions midway through the second half. But then super frosh Cole Anthony reeled off 16 of his 28 points to lead the Tar Heels to a 77-61 home victory. (11/15) Up 51-47 with over 10 minutes to play, Carolina went on a modest 7-0 run highlighted by a deep three from the left wing by Anthony to push the lead up to 11. Anthony later wowed the crowd with a step-back three as he was being double-teamed at the end of the shot clock. An […]

Three North Carolina players got double figures in points and rebounds as the Tar Heels won at UNC-Wilmington 78-62. Cole Anthony, while not shooting as well as he did in the season opener, led the way with 20 points and 10 rebounds. Garrison Brooks and Justin Pierce had 18 points and 12 rebounds each. While North Carolina hasn’t been to UNC-Wilmington before, Pierce, UNC’s grad transfer from William & Mary, is very familiar with the 5,200-person arena. Pierce, who drained four threes on the night, led Carolina in the first half with 13 points as the Heels, already shorthanded, had […]

Cole Anthony, we hardly knew ye. If any North Carolina fans thought the highly regarded freshman might stay for two years, they don’t now after Anthony torched Notre Dame for 34 points, the most ever by a player in his Carolina debut, en route to a 76-65 Tar Heel win. The home opener wasn’t easy though as Carolina trailed the Irish with 13 minutes to play. That’s when Anthony took over the game with everyone in light blue’s approval. Anthony drilled a three from the top of the key to tie the score at 46-all and less than a minute […]

With eight new faces on the UNC basketball team for the 2019-2020 season, who knows what’s going to happen? Coach Roy Williams certainly re-loaded in the offseason with grad transfers and top recruits but will the players – new and old – gel into a cohesive team by March? That’s the mystery. The talent is there to win an ACC regular season title, an ACC tournament title and an NCAA tournament title but with so much youth and pieced-together parts, it would seem unlikely that the Heels can pull it off. Of course, when the Tar Heels lost seniors Luke […]

Clifton Barnes, the owner of CapitalSportsNC.com, has won a national award for writing for a series of articles on the website. CapitalSportsNC.com has now won awards four years in a row. The series of articles revolves around former University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith won an Award of Excellence from the DC area-based Communications Concepts through its 2016 Awards for Publication Excellence competition. John De Lellis of Communications Concepts says competition was intense as there were more than 1,600 entries with seven winners in the Writing Series category. Barnes was the only winner in the category from North […]

He could have chosen George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, John Adams or Benjamin Franklin. That’s what other kids were doing. But this 9-year-old from Cary, NC chose a North Carolina-product who was a star quarterback for the Washington Redskins in the 1960s and 1970s as his historic figure. Read more. Source:: Redskins