Chapel Hill, NC – For the first time since 1979, the North Carolina Tar Heels will play NC State in a non-conference men’s basketball game in the regular season when the teams meet Dec. 15, 2026, in the Tobacco Road…
By The Tobacco Road Scribe Chapel Hill, NC – For four seasons, Seth Trimble became increasingly difficult to separate from the identity of North Carolina basketball. He arrived as an athletic freshman guard from Wisconsin, learned to make an impact…
Chapel Hill, NC – Statements from Michael Malone and Steve Newmark on Seth Trimble’s fifth-year transfer announcement: Head Coach Michael Malone “Seth gave Carolina four years of tremendous effort, toughness and leadership and he has earned the respect and affection…
By The Tobacco Road Scribe Chapel Hill, NC – Five months after the University of North Carolina narrowed the future of its basketball home to three strikingly different possibilities, the most important development may be the decision UNC has not…
By Gene Galin Pittsboro, NC – Steve Newmark returned to familiar territory last Tuesday morning with an unfamiliar challenge before him: explaining how the University of North Carolina can preserve the traditions of college athletics while competing in a rapidly…
By The Tobacco Road Scribe Raleigh, NC – Justin Gainey has spent his first summer as NC State’s head men’s basketball coach asking players to accept an apparent contradiction: He wants them pushed relentlessly, held accountable publicly and privately, challenged…
By The Tobacco Road Scribe Las Vegas, Nev. — Caleb Wilson waited five months to play a meaningful basketball game again. When the opportunity finally arrived Friday night, the former North Carolina star made up for lost time with one…
Chapel Hill, NC – Kevin Thomas, a 6-7 wing from Chester, Pa., has signed to play for the University of North Carolina men’s basketball team. Thomas played for head coach David Roe at Sagemont Prep in Weston, Fla., where he helped…
By The Tobacco Road Scribe Chapel Hill, NC – Navigating the current college basketball landscape is less like traditional recruiting and more like covering the dating scene at a local middle school—it is fluid, chaotic, and governed by a strange…
By The Tobacco Road Scribe Chapel Hill, NC – The era of the “traditional family” model in Chapel Hill has officially been retired. For decades, North Carolina basketball operated on a “slow build” philosophy—a nostalgic, multi-year developmental curve where freshmen…