UNC Men’s Basketball 2025-2026

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Oddball said:
What's up with all the alternate dates??? Dec 30 or 31? Feb 10/11?

Not sure i have ever seen that before...
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Assume that's for the TV partners to decide whether they want the particular game to be played on the given Tuesday or Wednesday and that the dates will be set by the time the season starts. I'll also note, there are no times for any of the dates yet either which I assume is subject to the same television wishes.
 
donbosco said:
You can’t have games on Wednesday night!! What about Prayer Meeting?
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ACC games used to always be on Wednesday nights...I remember many, many times running out of church with my parents' keys to go to the car to turn on the radio and learn how the Carolina game was going.
 
SnoopRob said:
ACC games used to always be on Wednesday nights...I remember many, many times running out of church with my parents' keys to go to the car to turn on the radio and learn how the Carolina game was going.
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Oh wait...that's the high games...never on a Wednesday. High School games were played on Tuesday and Friday mostly.
 
donbosco said:
Oh wait...that's the high games...never on a Wednesday. High School games were played on Tuesday and Friday mostly.
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I live in a semi-rural area and folks still don't schedule things for Wednesday nights because they don't want to compete with church services. You can do so, but you'll be missing a healthy chunk of folks.
 
I'm reading Forward Progress by Bill Connelly. The third chapter is a discussion about all of the things that will "kill" college sports, along with data showing that there is no evidence college football is in danger. However, college basketball could be in some jeopardy. The quote that was damning, to me, was (paraphrasing): "The way to kill sports is to remove any personal connection fans have to the team, and then play a schedule of opponents the fans don't care about."With an 18-game schedule in a 17-game ACC, a bunch of these home games are against teams that I don't feel any particular affinity or enmity about. It's weird. Add in that I don't have any personal connection to the team - it's a bunch of one-year hired guns - and that quote hit hard. It’s really becoming increasingly difficult to muster much give-a-damn about it.
 
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SnoopRob said:
I live in a semi-rural area and folks still don't schedule things for Wednesday nights because they don't want to compete with church services. You can do so, but you'll be missing a healthy chunk of folks.
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Before I had kids, Wednesday was always my week night to meet up with friends and get my drinkin’ on.

Anyway, I had a good friend in high school whose mom was very religious and she made him go to church on Wednesdays. It blew my mind that people went to church on Wednesdays. He was the first and only person I knew who did that. He eventually talked his mom out of it, though.
 
CFordUNC said:
I'm reading Forward Progress by Bill Connelly. The third chapter is a discussion about all of the things that will "kill" college sports, along with data showing that there is no evidence college football is in danger. However, college basketball could be in some jeopardy. The quote that was damning, to me, was (paraphrasing): "The way to kill sports is to remove any personal connection fans have to the team, and then play a schedule of opponents the fans don't care about."With an 18-game schedule in a 17-game ACC, a bunch of these home games are against teams that I don't feel any particular affinity or enmity about. It's weird. Add in that I don't have any personal connection to the team - it's a bunch of one-year hired guns - and that quote hit hard. It’s really becoming increasingly difficult to muster much give-a-damn about it.
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I still care about the team winning, but the losing isn't as hard to take anymore because there is a disconnect. I hate what the ACC is now. I'd rather see the Heels in the SEC and playing teams in the southeast instead of teams like Pitt, Syracuse, BC, SMU and all they way in California. But it is getting old having a whole new team every year instead of having guys to follow for 3 or 4 years. I keep hoping one day the conferences are done with all together, and we just have 64 or so schools all under the same umbrella in one league and divide it up into regions of 8 teams.
 
SnoopRob said:
ACC games used to always be on Wednesday nights...I remember many, many times running out of church with my parents' keys to go to the car to turn on the radio and learn how the Carolina game was going.
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Home games in Carmichael often started at 8:00 pm. Almost no games were on TV.
 
donbosco said:
Oh wait...that's the high games...never on a Wednesday. High School games were played on Tuesday and Friday mostly.
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My grandson played on the varsity basketball team for the last two years. The games were on Tuesday and Friday. Had to DVR quite a few games those two years. Some I just erased.
 
Carolina Fever said:
But it is getting old having a whole new team every year instead of having guys to follow for 3 or 4 years.
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Oh yes
For many years I could-most fans could-name the home town and high school of every player the last twenty years.Today it is barely mentioned. It's either -"transfer from college X "-or - "went to Basketball Academy Y'
It ruins the whole Rudy emotional tie we had with players
 
mpaer said:
Oh yes
For many years I could-most fans could-name the home town and high school of every player the last twenty years.Today it is barely mentioned. It's either -"transfer from college X "-or - "went to Basketball Academy Y'
It ruins the whole Rudy emotional tie we had with players
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I very much miss the data that would be listed when a player was shooting a free throw...while I may be misremembering but it seems that way back yonder they even used to list a player's major (or at least often mention it). I use an app to get that sort of information now and calculating the biorhythms also means that I check out player bios both for our guys and the opposition.
 
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