Husband of
@coachbrooker12
. Dad of Wesley (14) & Charley (10) | UNC Basketball Letterman '96-01 | Head Varsity Boys Basketball Coach of
@mbball_cghsnc
I see a lot of Duke fans adopting KU’s success Monday since their favorite team couldn’t handle their own business in Nola. Calling out Carolina who has won 6 of 9 (4 of 5) vs Duke + has 3 national title game appearances (won in ‘17) since your last in ‘15 is definitely a choice.
Paolo opens up about Coach K’s final home game and how he’s never had a game like that.
“We didn’t even really practice or like game plan that week”
(via
@OldManAndThree
)
They were the 70th ranked '15 class. Four yrs later they leave w/ 121 wins (30.25 avg) + 3 ACC Regular Season Titles + 1 ACCT title + 3
#1
seeds + 1
#2
seed + 2 F4s + 1 S16 + 1 National title (+1 National runner-up) + 14-3 NCAAT record. Not too shabby. They'll be greatly missed.
Everyone: “Roy Williams has lost his fastball in recruiting”
Roy Williams after signing Coby White, Nas Little, Cole Anthony, Day’ron Sharpe, stealing Walker Kessler from Duke, trending for Caleb Love, and hosting 5-5 stars for LNWR:
What’s even crazier about that stat is during the exact same time frame UNC has 3 national titles (Duke 2), UNC 8 E8s (Duke 6), UNC 5 F4s (Duke 3), UNC 9 ACCRS titles (Duke 3).
The NBA Restart will feature 17 of the 23 former Blue Devils:
Williamson, Redick, Jackson, Ingram, Okafor, Bagley, Giles, Parker, Allen, Jones, Winslow, Trent, Cook, Curry, Plumlee, Tatum & Rivers.
UNC has 14 total NBA players. (13 excluding Vince)
Kendall Marshall was the PERFECT college point guard. I would put him in top 2-3 PG in Carolina history, and I might pick him 1st in certain situations. He was a force multiplier making everyone else’s job SO much easier.
Did
@RealJayWilliams
really just say Duke has won 8 of the last 10 meetings? UNC has won 2 of last 3, 3 of last 5, and 4 of the last 7 meetings. How is that 8 of last 10 meetings for Duke?
KU was awesome and a worthy champion, but I will go to my grave believing UNC wins the national title with a 100% Bacot. Came about 1:30 away from winning it with a 50-60% Bacot.
Lot of nerve after losing to UNC twice (and giving up 90 & 113 points while doing it) and getting beat THIS WEEK in the NIT at the buzzer to Lipscomb in the Old Barn. State is going to State.
We didn’t play well enough to win per se shooting 36.4% FG | 28.6 % 3pt | 9-17 FT with 11 turnovers. Struggled. Tech took advantage. All that said this is 1,000% a foul. Without a doubt this HAS to be called.
Hard to believe yesterday was 6 years since Coach Smith passed. The best phone call I’ve ever received was from Coach on a Sunday night in November of ‘95.
UPDATE:
Everyone: “Roy Williams has lost his fastball in recruiting”
Roy Williams after commitments from 5⭐️ Caleb Love, 5⭐️ Walker Kessler, 5⭐️Day’ron Sharpe, 4⭐️ Puff Johnson, & 4⭐️ RJ Davis.
I mean what are we doing here? Painful portal season? We RETAINED RJ Davis & Seth Trimble & picked up one of the very best transfers in the portal. Have 2-5 star wings coming in. If we have to pick up 5-6 each year to supposedly win “portal season” then we are doing it wrong.
The way this guy talks to officials is an absolute joke. Calling a referee a MFer because Jack White decided not to hurl up another cinder block from 3 and instead chose to barrel over Cam Johnson. His sideline behavior is an embarrassment for
@DukeMBB
.
Have had a lot of fun the last two nights watching late night pickup and getting some shots up. Cam and
@The_ColeAnthony
were very gracious/cool to Wesley, and to see him that excited is priceless.
#GoHeels
Know who else didn’t play a lot as a FR in Chapel Hill? VINCE CARTER. I don’t feel too sorry for guys coming in & having to earn time | play sparingly. UNC’s record wasn’t great, but the margin for error was extremely thin. 12 Ls were by SINGLE digits (8 Ls after leading in 2H).
Heck of a season and a fun ride. Didn’t end like we wanted, but this group played Carolina Basketball and played the right way. 29-8 | ACCRS champions (ACC leading 33rd) | NCAA record 18th
#1
seed | NCAA record 31st S16. It’s ALWAYS a GDTBATH.
As a player | assistant coach | head coach, Coach Bill Guthridge was involved in FOURTEEN Final Fours. More than anyone else in NCAA history. Proud to have been along for the ride in 3 of those.
Coaches that demand their players be composed under pressure & keep their cool while having great body language, etc and consistently act like THIS are the WORST. This isn’t behavior becoming of a leader. It’s embarrassing.
Loved catching up with
@mrvincecarter15
during pregame warmups last night. What an incredible HOF career for a GREAT player and even better person. Blessed to have been your teammate many years ago.
#GoHeels
This was the 107-100 2OT game in Atlanta where Shammond dropped 42p. This play (blocking call against Travis Spivey) ended up on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Epic game.
Regardless of tonight’s outcome it’s still pretty astonishing that Duke hasn’t won an outright ACC regular season title SINCE 2006 and last shared one in 2010.
Coach Williams has won 9 ACC Regular Season titles + 3 ACC Tournament titles in last 15 years and has two ACC Coach of the Year awards - 2006 & 2011. Four 1st place finishes (2012, 2016, 2017, & 2019) with zero COY nods. Absurd.
My life changed forever with a late October call in ‘95. Can’t begin to imagine how much different my life would’ve been had that phone stayed silent that night. I don’t want to. Truly blessed for the opportunity to play for and learn from Coach Smith. The best to ever do it.
He would hang those regular season banners in a heartbeat if they had won any since ‘10. To act like he doesn’t care about them at all is disingenuous at best.
Two years ago
@tpinsonn
posted this on the 1st day of practice. Unfinished business followed by redemption. ‘16-17 was an incredibly memorable season thanks to Theo,
@JoelBerryII
,
@JJacks_44
, etc.
#GoHeels