North Carolina Tar Heels (Basketball)

North Carolina has a toughness problem. Even as the Tar Heels won 15 of their first 17 games, suspicion abounded that this team is soft. That was confirmed last Saturday as the Tar Heels quit during the second half...

For years the NBA Hall of Famer has claimed that his high school coach underestimated his talent as a sophomore. Clifton (Pop) Herring, whose life has been a struggle since then, tells a different story

A new coach and a roster full of transfers have made Sin City hoops exciting again

Mike Gundy

For a sport awash in stats, accurate measurements of defensive prowess are hard to come by. So SI did its own possession-by-possession study of five title contenders, graded every player and every play—and came to...