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#OTD (Jan 27) in 1911 The Blue and White of Carolina opened the university’s Basket-Ball experience with a 42-21 home victory over Virginia Christian College (Dumfries, VA). The team posted a 7-4 record with wins over VCC, the Durham YMCA, Wake Forest, Davidson, the Charlotte YMCA, Tennessee, and Woodberry Forest. The four losses came at the hands of VCC, Wake, and twice to UVA. Home games were played in Bynum Gym (now Bynum Hall). Nathaniel Cartmell, winner of silver medals in the 100 and 200 meter races in the 1904 Olympics (St. Louis) and gold (1600 relay) and bronze (200 meters) in the 1908 Olympics (London), the track coach at UNC, was tapped to guide the team. Cartmell was fired in 1914 for gambling with dice. In four seasons at Carolina he compiled a 25-24 record.

The clipping is taken from ‘The Evening Chronicle’ of Charlotte, January 28, 1911.
 
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donbosco said:
In January 24/25, 2000 a twenty inch snowfall crushed The Triangle. Carolina had just lost a home game to Florida State (coached by Steve Robinson and led by Damous Anderson and Ron Hale) and was carrying a Four-Game losing streak and an overall record of 12-8 (3-3) into a Jan. 27 home game against #22 Maryland (led by Gary Williams and players, Juan Dixon and Steve Blake). Off campus fans could not get to the game but students took over the Dean E. Smith Center creating an atmosphere that spurred Bill Guthridge's Tar Heels (led by Brendan Haywood and Jason Capel) to a win. This is the Quintessential Snow Game.

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I graduated from Carolina in 1999, but I had a good number of friends who were at that game. To a person, they all said it's the best non-dook game they've ever been to.
 
donbosco said:
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#OTD (Jan 27) in 1911 The Blue and White of Carolina opened the university’s Basket-Ball experience with a 42-21 home victory over Virginia Christian College (Dumfries, VA). The team posted a 7-4 record with wins over VCC, the Durham YMCA, Wake Forest, Davidson, the Charlotte YMCA, Tennessee, and Woodberry Forest. The four losses came at the hands of VCC, Wake, and twice to UVA. Home games were played in Bynum Gym (now Bynum Hall). Nathaniel Cartmell, winner of silver medals in the 100 and 200 meter races in the 1904 Olympics (St. Louis) and gold (1600 relay) and bronze (200 meters) in the 1908 Olympics (London), the track coach at UNC, was tapped to guide the team. Cartmell was fired in 1914 for gambling with dice. In four seasons at Carolina he compiled a 25-24 record.

The clipping is taken from ‘The Evening Chronicle’ of Charlotte, January 28, 1911.
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I’m calling BS on that game being “exciting from start to finish.”
 
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Friend of mine posted this on social media - I covered his name but you could probably figure it out if you want.
 
Coach Smith, sadly, is gone and so is a lot of his influence as the college game is not as it was in the golden years of the mastro because of NIL. It is time to move on in terms of a coach, a fresh face that understands todays challenges. I love Hubert but his on court team does not look effective or organized. I vote for Buzz Williams.
 
uncsig said:
If I recall, that last second 3 point attempt from Rasheed was his only 3 point shot of that entire season.
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I'm not proud, but it took me most of Sheed's sophomore campaign to forgive him for taking that shot.
 
Wondering what recollections of the Drew (and his mother and father) benching and elevation of Kendall Marshall to starter encompassed might be among folks here?
 
donbosco said:
Wondering what recollections of the Drew (and his mother and father) benching and elevation of Kendall Marshall to starter encompassed might be among folks here?
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Good riddance to LDII. Roy should have elevated Kendall earlier in the season.
 
SnoopRob said:
Why? In my memory it was a last second heave with limited other options so he did the best he could.
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Well, for one, he had about 5 seconds left on the clock and there were two far better three point shooters on the wing next to him.

More importantly, however, I was 14. I lived and died by the Heels. I idolized Derrick Phelps and Eric Montross. And rightly or wrongly, I blamed the freshmen for that team never gelling in the way the '93 crew did. The play was, for me, a metaphor for the season - hero ball from some extremely talented freshmen, but at the expense of team play. I was very much in a "freshmen should learn the system and defer to the upperclassmen" stage of my fandom.

 
sringwal said:
Well, for one, he had about 5 seconds left on the clock and there were two far better three point shooters on the wing next to him.

More importantly, however, I was 14. I lived and died by the Heels. I idolized Derrick Phelps and Eric Montross. And rightly or wrongly, I blamed the freshmen for that team never gelling in the way the '93 crew did. The play was, for me, a metaphor for the season - hero ball from some extremely talented freshmen, but at the expense of team play. I was very much in a "freshmen should learn the system and defer to the upperclassmen" stage of my fandom.

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Memories are a funny thing.

I’m not sure I’ve watched the end of that game since 1994.

I would have said there were only a couple of seconds left when Sheed put up his shot, but you’re correct there were about 5. I do think he might have been able to get the ball to someone else for a better shot, but the folks closest to him were reasonably covered and he was short on time.

I’m curious if the play was drawn up for him to be the one who got the inbounds pass or if that was something BC forced?
 
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