2022 NCAA Tournament

Follow the Tar Heels through the 2021-22 season and relive some of its best moments! Official Carolina Basketball highlight video.

For the second time this particular basketball season, Carolina had an opportunity to completely spoil what dook, coach K, and the national media had planned for his send-off. A month earlier, the Heels beat the Blue Devils in their beloved coach's final home game of his career. Now in the second of two national semifinal games, the Hubert Davis lead Heels could host a retirement party for their crosstown rival. This game features the play-by-play call by Jones Angell and color commentary from the late great Eric Montross who tragically passed away 20 months after this broadcast from complications with cancer. Looking for new, unique, and out-of-production Tar Heel shirts and hoodies? Check out our store with Carolina gear you won't find anywhere else at https://crowdmade.com/collections/nat.... Explanation: This video features the audio broadcast of the Tar Heel Sports Network a property of Sidearm Sports and Learfield. This channel is not affiliated with nor represents the Tar Heels Sports Network. This is a fan channel focused on the Tar Heel experience. All the game videos are designed to encourage you to turn down the TV and turn up the THSN audio. The Tar Heel Sports Network is currently best experienced through the Varsity App available on Apple and Android. For details on how to sync the audio with your TV please see my video at • How To Sync My Game During Tar Heel F... or visit http://syncmygame.com. Carolina Blue on Screen: If you notice different blues from our graphics versus the broadcaster's graphics on the screen note this. North Carolina athletics, my love, has had color durability and consistency issues from a marketing perspective for years. We use Nike’s version of Carolina Blue, hex code 85ADEA for all UNC video content on this channel because it matches the uniforms, shoes, court, etc. You will notice ESPN and indeed other media outlets use the branding standard hex code 7BAFD4 the Tar Heels publish but it does not match virtually anything other than Carolin's marketing guide and the basket supports in the Smith Center. The discrepancies you see with the content on this channel are not my own but North Carolina’s inability to commit to one blue. We will remain consistent with the 85ADEA color for matching purposes. Disclaimer Some of the videos, songs, images, graphics, and artwork used in the video belong to their respective owners and I or this channel do not claim any right over them. All content is non-monetized and is for entertainment purposes only. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be an infringement. This video is not monetized because it's not as a whole my original source content but does include my original artwork and my interpretation of how the events unfolded using THSN audio, ESPN video, my artwork, and my editing to compile it together. All of which to gather from our surroundings what was wanted and needed, and make of it something more. Something wholly original in its presentation and thereby a work of art.

PHILADELPHIA—North Carolina crushed all hope of a March Madness miracle in the early going Sunday, getting 20 points and 22 rebounds from Armando Bacot in a wire-to-wire 69-49 runaway over 15th-seeded Saint Peter's. The eighth-seeded Tar Heels (28-9) made their record 21st Final Four, and next on their list is none other than archrival Duke and its soon-to-be-retiring coach, Mike Krzyzewski. Next Saturday in New Orleans will mark the first Final Four meeting — first NCAA Tournament meeting, in fact — between the Tobacco Road archrivals whose campuses are separated by 11 miles. While Coach K's winding road to retirement has been something to watch this March, nothing has captured more imaginations than the run put on by underdog Saint Peter's. The entire basketball budget for this scrappy group from Jersey City, New Jersey, is $1.6 million — or around $400,000 less than what Tar Heels first-year coach Hubert Davis, who was sobbing as his players enveloped him after the buzzer, makes in a year. Two nights earlier, the Peacocks (21-12) beat Purdue to become the first 15 seed to advance to an Elite Eight. They are hardly the first team to see grand plans undone by It got ugly early. After Carolina's Leaky Black missed a free throw 2 1/2 minutes in, Bacot edged in for the offensive rebound and an easy putback. It gave Carolina a 7-0 lead. In its three tournament wins over Kentucky, Murray State and Purdue, Saint Peter's had never trailed by more than six. The Peacocks, whose 10-game win streak ended, moved the ball well and got plenty of good looks over the first 10 minutes. Some shots went halfway down and rimmed out. Others bounced twice on the iron but wouldn't fall. They trailed 21-7 after missing their first six shots, and 16 of their first 19. Late in the first half, Daryl Banks III swooped in for what looked like a windmill jam. It got rejected — by the front of the rim. It made the Peacocks 5 for 27 on the night, and when Bacot dunked on the next possession, North Carolina led 36-15. Fousseyni Drame led Saint Peter's with 12 points and KC Ndefo had 10. The weekend before, North Carolina had taken a 25-point lead against Baylor only to see it all melt away before pulling the game out in overtime. The turning point there came when Brady Manek got ejected for throwing an inadvertent elbow. Manek finished this game on the sideline, too — watching garbage time from the bench after scoring 19 points. It was an emotional evening for Davis, who replaced Roy Williams, the coach who took the Tar Heels to five Final Fours over 18 years. Now the 51-year-old Davis joins the likes of Ray Meyer, Steve Fisher and Denny Crum as rookies to reach the sport's biggest stage. Were it not for Saint Peter's, maybe North Carolina would be the underdog story of this tournament. Way back when, in 1985, another 8 seed shocked the world. It was Rollie Massimino's 1985 Villanova team. Then again, these are the Tar Heels. They've been playing as well as anyone for more than a month. When they beat Duke, 94-81, at Cameron Indoor Stadium on March 5, it cast a cloud over what was supposed to be a celebration of Coach K's final home game. On Sunday, they wrecked another of those so-called "perfect" story lines. But this is more than a consolation prize for college hoops: Next, UNC and Duke meet for the 258th time — and never with the stakes so high. Looking for new, unique, and out-of-production Tar Heel shirts and hoodies? Check out our store with Carolina gear you won't find anywhere else at https://crowdmade.com/collections/native-content Disclaimer Some of the videos, songs, images, graphics, and artwork used in the video belong to their respective owners and I or this channel do not claim any right over them. All content is non-monetized and is for entertainment purposes only. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be an infringement.

PHILADELPHIA—Caleb Love hit game-tying and go-ahead 3-pointers 37 seconds apart and North Carolina moved within a victory of its 21st Final Four, beating UCLA 73-66 on Friday night in a March Madness matchup of power programs. Love, a sophomore, finished with a career-high 30 points, including six 3s and two game-clinching free throws with 7.8 seconds left. He scored 27 of Carolina's 45 points in the second half, including one stretch of 10 straight that kept the Tar Heels (27-9) in the game. North Carolina's next game is Sunday against Saint Peter's in a first-of-its-kind 8-vs.-15 matchup in the Elite Eight. The 15th-seeded Peacocks topped Purdue 67-64 earlier in the evening. Nobody stood out more than Love, who was held to five points in last week's win over Baylor, but managed one point more than that during the decisive 37 seconds. His go-ahead 3 came with 1:03 left and marked the last of 14 lead changes in the game that was also tied eight times. Fourth-seeded UCLA (27-8) fell two wins short of its 20th Final Four. Last year's season ended on a shot from near half court by Gonzaga's Jalen Suggs. This time, Love did in the Bruins, who got 16 points from Jules Bernard and 15 from Tyger Campbell. In their second-round win over Baylor, the Tar Heels squandered a 25-point lead only to pull things together and pull out the game in overtime. That game got dicey once Brady Manek got tossed for throwing an inadvertent elbow. Manek played all but two minutes in this one and finished with 13 points. Looking for new, unique, and out-of-production Tar Heel shirts and hoodies? Check out our store with Carolina gear you won't find anywhere else at https://crowdmade.com/collections/native-content Disclaimer Some of the videos, songs, images, graphics, and artwork used in the video belong to their respective owners and I or this channel do not claim any right over them. All content is non-monetized and is for entertainment purposes only. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be an infringement.

FORT WORTH, TEXAS—RJ Davis scored a career-high 30 points with a nifty layup while being fouled in overtime, and eighth-seeded North Carolina blew a 25-point second-half lead but still found a way to beat defending champion Baylor 93-86 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday. Brady Manek had a season-high 26 points before getting ejected because of a flagrant foul midway through the second half, right after his 3-pointer had given the Tar Heels (26-9) their largest lead. A year after going out in the first round of the tourney in retiring coach Roy Williams' final game, Davis, Armando Bacot and these Tar Heels (26-9) are headed to Philadelphia and a Sweet 16 for first-year coach Hubert Davis. Davis got his only points in overtime on the off-balance layup with 1:18 left and added the free throw for a 91-85 lead. Adam Flagler had 27 points for Baylor (27-7), which made only one field goal in overtime. James Akinjo had 20 points while Jeremy Sochan had 15 points and 11 rebounds. All-ACC power forward Armando Bacot had 15 points and 16 rebounds for North Carolina. After missing three of four free throws in the final 38 seconds of regulation, he made three of five in overtime. The Tar Heels won as No. 8 seed over a top seed for third time. They did so on the way to the Final Four in 2000, 10 years after after beating top-seeded Oklahoma when Davis was a player for Dean Smith. Baylor lost in the second round for the second time in the last three NCAA tourneys. The Bears, who fell to top-seeded Gonzaga in the round of 32 three years ago, were trying to match the biggest comeback ever in an NCAA Tournament game. Manek, the graduate transfer from Oklahoma of the Big 12, was ejected with 10:08 left after his left elbow to the face of Sochan as they were battling underneath the Baylor basket. Manek had just drained a 3-pointer that put the Tar Heels ahead 67-42. With Manek out, and Caleb Love fouling out soon after that, the Tar Heels had 10 turnovers as Baylor turned up the pressure and made a furious rally. The Bears got within 76-73 on a three-point play with 1:48 left by Akinjo, who had another one with 16 seconds left to tie the game at 80-80. North Carolina had one more shot, but Davis' 3-point try hit off the front of the rim. Looking for new, unique, and out-of-production Tar Heel shirts and hoodies? Check out our store with Carolina gear you won't find anywhere else at https://crowdmade.com/collections/native-content Disclaimer Some of the videos, songs, images, graphics, and artwork used in the video belong to their respective owners and I or this channel do not claim any right over them. All content is non-monetized and is for entertainment purposes only. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be an infringement.

FORT WORTH, TEXAS—Brady Manek scored 28 points, Caleb Love had 21 of his 23 before halftime and North Carolina routed Marquette 95-63 in first-year coach Hubert Davis' NCAA Tournament debut Thursday. Love made six 3-pointers, all in the first 19 minutes, to tie Carolina's single-game tournament record as the Tar Heels (25-9) built a 28-point lead. Manek, who also had 11 rebounds, finished with five 3s as he and Love combined to go 11 of 24 from long range. Armando Bacot grabbed 10 rebounds on his way to the school season record (422). RJ Davis had a career-high 12 assists for eighth-seeded Carolina, which will play defending champion Baylor less than 100 miles from the Bears' Waco campus Saturday. The win was in stark contrast to last year, when the Tar Heels sent Roy Williams into retirement with his only opening-round loss in 30 NCAA appearances. Shaka Smart's return to Texas was a dud a year after he took the Marquette job amid questions about his future as coach of the Texas Longhorns following a shocking first-round loss to Abilene Christian. Olivier-Maxence Prosper scored 16 points for the No. 9 seed Golden Eagles (19-13), who lost their third consecutive first-round game. Smart, who lost all three of his first-round games in six seasons with the Longhorns, had one of three Marquette technical fouls in a span of 90 seconds late in the first half when he complained about a no-call. Kur Kuath got one for hanging on the rim after a dunk. Darryl Morsell was penalized on review after a scramble for a loose ball. Just before the tech spree, Morsell ended up nose-to-nose with Love after trying to take the ball out of his hands when Love was called for stepping on the midcourt line while trying to dribble around the stocky Marquette guard. The Tar Heels were already up 18 when players from both teams had to be separated. It quickly got worse from there. Carolina finished the first half on a 16-4 run for a 53-25 lead, and Manek made it a 34-point game (67-33) with consecutive 3s early in the second half. The biggest lead for the Tar Heels was 35. Looking for new, unique, and out-of-production Tar Heel shirts and hoodies? Check out our store with Carolina gear you won't find anywhere else at https://crowdmade.com/collections/native-content Disclaimer Some of the videos, songs, images, graphics, and artwork used in the video belong to their respective owners and I or this channel do not claim any right over them. All content is non-monetized and is for entertainment purposes only. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be an infringement.