Wish this was on ACCN just to get a less...colored...view of the matches from the commentators.
UNC Wrestling 2025-2026
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Obviously I hate losing to state year after year, but this is the young team that has ups and downs. While it is frustrating, I expected matches like this. I am disappointed that a few older wrestlers dropped the ball in their matches tonight. it is unfair to compare how each wrestled against Virginia, as state had 3 different wrestlers in their lineup tonight, including a national champion.
We started out strong, with a win over a very good ranked wrestler at 141. At 149 Askew is wrestling up from his ideal weight, and still has some adjusting to college wrestling. He needed to have this redshirt year, but he is in the spot and is doing his best. After Askew I felt like Root, Carrigan, Dailey, Neves, and Terukina wrestled to at least the basic expectation.
I felt like Hepner, Plat, and Oakley were not as ready for their opponent as they might have been. Hepner had a tough match, but he shouldn’t have given up a major decision. I felt like the other 2 should be a win going into the match. Win 2 of these 3 matches and don’t give up the major and it is a tie match. After the first match I felt we struggled to find the right time to be aggressive vs the time to defend. As is normal state was aggressive and it paid off for them.
Hopefully they can shake this off and be prepared for #14 Pitt next week.
We started out strong, with a win over a very good ranked wrestler at 141. At 149 Askew is wrestling up from his ideal weight, and still has some adjusting to college wrestling. He needed to have this redshirt year, but he is in the spot and is doing his best. After Askew I felt like Root, Carrigan, Dailey, Neves, and Terukina wrestled to at least the basic expectation.
I felt like Hepner, Plat, and Oakley were not as ready for their opponent as they might have been. Hepner had a tough match, but he shouldn’t have given up a major decision. I felt like the other 2 should be a win going into the match. Win 2 of these 3 matches and don’t give up the major and it is a tie match. After the first match I felt we struggled to find the right time to be aggressive vs the time to defend. As is normal state was aggressive and it paid off for them.
Hopefully they can shake this off and be prepared for #14 Pitt next week.
I thought someone said that our team is young with a lot of freshmen. If so, then freshmen are going to be up and down. This is how freshmen are. Also, beating State at their place was not going to be an easy task. We will just have to bounce back and win the next one. Go Heels!
The team is very much a young team, it was going to be a fairly young team going into the year, and then injuries to two veteran starters pushed us even younger
Based on social media, I realized that Hickey and O’Neill won their weights at a tournament up at App St. Stinson finished 2nd, and Showalter finished 3rd. The tournament was small, but 157 was larger than most.
That was the good news. The bad news is that Neves wrestled 1 full match, and 18 seconds into a second match before defaulting. He did not wrestle his other matches as a medical forfeit. The kid he beat finished 2nd, and he was up 3-1 over the tournament winner when he defaulted. Hope he was just being super cautious, but we need him healthy to finish out the season.
That was the good news. The bad news is that Neves wrestled 1 full match, and 18 seconds into a second match before defaulting. He did not wrestle his other matches as a medical forfeit. The kid he beat finished 2nd, and he was up 3-1 over the tournament winner when he defaulted. Hope he was just being super cautious, but we need him healthy to finish out the season.