Arizona’s Oumar Ballo, the top-ranked center in the transfer portal, will reportedly visit North Carolina. The 6–10, 245-pounder from Mali, who would be a graduate transfer, told Joe Tipton of On3.com that he will visit Indiana (Monday through Wednesday), Louisville (April 16–18) and Kansas State (April 19–21), UNC and Florida. His visit to Chapel Hill is expected to come the week after the Kansas State visit. Please click here for more. Carolina is also involved with Kentucky Transfer Aaron Bradshaw and Rutgers transfer big man Cliff Omoruyi.

Former North Carolina guard Raymond Felton responded to a new set of accusations against Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams from disgraced Tar Heel Rashad McCants. Felton denied claims that Williams took the ball out of McCants’ hands in the second half of the 2005 national championship game so big man Sean May could take home Most Outstanding Player honors on his birthday. Please click here for more.

After it was announced that Davis had won the Jerry West Award, Love tweeted “Legendary 4”, congratulating Davis for his accomplishment. A lot has been rumored about their relationship, but every time one is mentioned in front of the other, there seems to be nothing but love. Please click here for more.

The daughter of the late Walter Davis, who died on Nov. 2, 2023 at the age of 69, Laird was at Final Four weekend to represent and celebrate her father being one of 13 inductees to be honored in August. Please click here for more.

Deja Kelly became the sixth and the most consequential North Carolina women’s player to enter the transfer portal. Please click here for more.

Trimble announced on Tuesday that he is entering the NCAA transfer portal, leaving Chapel Hill after two seasons. He met with Hubert Davis multiple times for postseason meetings in the last week, according to sources close to the situation. “… I feel this is the best step for me moving forward,” Trimble said in a social media statement. “Tar Heel family, I will love you for the rest of my life.” Please click here for more.

North Carolina is a season-high No. 10 in the latest D1 Baseball poll after going 4–0 last week and sweeping a three-game weekend series at Wake Forest, extending the Tar Heels’ win streak to nine games. Please click here for more.

RJ Davis saved the worst for last. The North Carolina senior All-America player made just four of 20 shots and missed all nine of his three-point attempts as the Tar Heels lost a late lead and fell to Alabama 89-87 in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. (3/28)

Certainly the blame doesn’t rest solely on Davis as other things went wrong for Carolina in the season-ending lost but the Tar Heels did lose by only two and it was the first time in 41 games, dating back to last season, that Davis failed to hit a three-point shot.

After the game, as Davis was talking about the “easy shots” he normally makes, transfer Cormac Ryan was having none of the blame Davis talk.

“I’ve got to chime in here,” Ryan said. “You guys can write whatever you want about tonight’s game. You could talk about RJ, you could talk about the stats. You could talk about whatever. We would not be in this position today without RJ Davis and Armando Bacot. Carolina wouldn’t be in this position today without these two guys.

“And so say what you want, there’s just not a true fiber in your being that could actually believe that anything that happened tonight could be the result of something RJ did wrong, because RJ’s done something incredible for this team. He’s done stuff that’s never been done before. He’s one of the greatest Tar Heels of all time. And for anybody to come and say anything negative about RJ is unacceptable.”

UNC, which ends the season with a 29-8 record, shot just 25 percent as a team (10 for 40) in the second half, its worst shooting performance in a half all season and the lowest in a Tournament game since shooting a paltry 22.6 percent in the second half in a lost to Kansas in 2012.

The Tar Heels erased a five-point deficit in the first half to take an eight-point lead, 54-46, at the break. The Heels were hot offensively in the first half, shooting 52.6 from the field including 10 of 16 from the three-point line.

But in the second half, the cold Heels quickly lost the lead as Alabama went on an 11-2 run over just three minutes to go up 59-57.

The Tar Heels came back with a 13-5 run of their on, highlighted by a pass from Davis to Armando Bacot for a dunk that put the Heels back in control, 70-64.

Carolina still led 75-70 after a Ryan three before the tide changed on a 12-2 Crimson run, highlighted by threes from Aaron Estrada and Grant Nelson, that put Alabama up 82-77 with just 3:43 to play.

With Davis abandoning the three and driving to the hoop, the Tar Heels came back to take an 85-82 lead following a Davis runner and four straight free throws.

But Alabama took over from there, outscoring the Heels 7-2 over the last 1:20, even forcing a Carolina shot clock violation late in the game to seal the victory.

“Always in the closing minutes, it comes down to a play here or there,” UNC coach Hubert Davis said. “I’ve talked all season about the little details that make big things happen, not just necessarily shots — rebounds, free throws, loose balls. At the end of the day, they made down the stretch more plays than us. And unfortunately we came out on the short end.”

The 24-11 Alabama team, led by Nelson’s 24 points (12 came in the last seven minutes), plays Clemson with a chance to go to the Final Four.

Carolina now must look forward to next season without Bacot, Ryan and Paxson Wojcik – and possibly RJ Davis, who has another year of eligibility if he wants to get the bad taste out of his mouth.

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Alabama isn’t like many, if any, other teams in college basketball. The Crimson Tide’s offensive approach is almost as unique as the triple option is in football. Almost. There’s only so much room for variation in basketball, and Nate Oats’ team is about as atypical as they come. The Tide like to run, play fast, shoot fast, and score a ton. And they do it usually only using certain parts of the floor. Please click here for more.