March Madness Begins, UNC Baseball Sweeps Cal, Veesaar's Career Night, NFL Moves

Plus: All-ACC basketball awards, 6 Track All-Americans, Humphrey and LeGette honored, Kate Harpring's huge week, Wes Miller out at Cincinnati

2026 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Bracket

March Madness is upon us, UNC Baseball swept Cal, three Tar Heels were named All-ACC in Men’s Basketball, and there are six new UNC Track All-Americans. Ryan Switzer, Dre Bly, and Wes Miller hop on the coaching carousel as other Tar Heels make NFL moves, while Chloe Humphrey, Emily LeGette, and Kate Harpring continue to amaze. On to the updates…

🏀 Basketball

Congratulations to Henri Veesaar for being named a finalist for the Kareem Abdul Jabbar Award as the nation’s top center.

Veesaar, along with Caleb Wilson and Seth Trimble, were also named to this season’s All-ACC Teams. Wilson nabbed First-Team honors, while Veesaar was named to the Second Team and Trimble received Honorable Mention recognition.

Veesaar lived up to those lofty honors in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals Thursday, scoring 28 points and pulling down 17 rebounds. However, North Carolina fell to Clemson after falling behind by as many as 18 points, only to rally and lose, 80-79 (Box Score).

The Tar Heels will need to bottle that late-game intensity and carry it with them into the NCAA Tournament if they want to make any sort of postseason run, which begins Thursday in Greenville, South Carolina as the No. 6 seed in the South Region.

Carolina will face the No. 11 seed VCU Rams, who are 27-7 and have won 16 of their last 17 games, at 6:50 p.m. Thursday on TNT.

No stranger to March Madness, Tar Heel assistant coach Marcus Paige is still receiving awards long after his playing career has ended. Paige has been elected to the Iowa High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) Hall of Fame after a standout high school career at Linn-Mar, where he was a four-time all-state pick, a McDonald’s All-American, Iowa’s Mr. Basketball, and Gatorade Player of the Year in 2012.