![North Carolina, coming off a loss at home to Virginia, went on the road and came out on fire at Wake Forest, scoring the first 18 points of the game and rolling over the Deacs, 95-57. (2/16) The 38-point win is the largest in the long, storied 228-game history between the two teams. “We caught Wake Forest on a good day for us and a bad day for them,” UNC coach Roy Williams said. UNC’s Cam Johnson hit his first eight shots of the game, six of them three pointers. He didn’t miss a shot until five minutes into the […]](http://capitalsportsnc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/WakeJohnson-490x225.jpg "Carolina scores early and often in romp over Wake")
North Carolina, coming off a loss at home to Virginia, went on the road and came out on fire at Wake Forest, scoring the first 18 points of the game and rolling over the Deacs, 95-57. (2/16) The 38-point win is the largest in the long, storied 228-game history between the two teams. “We caught Wake Forest on a good day for us and a bad day for them,” UNC coach Roy Williams said. UNC’s Cam Johnson hit his first eight shots of the game, six of them three pointers. He didn’t miss a shot until five minutes into the […]
NC State kept the Blue Devils within arm’s length the whole game, seemingly, but could never really chop into Duke’s lead in a meaningful way. Zion Williamson returned to the game after a 6-minute absence due to foul trouble and that was the deciding factor; Williamson finished with 32 points in just 29 minutes. …read more
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NC State has looked like it was about to get run out of the building several times, but the Wolfpack have kept No. 2 Duke within shouting distance as they trail 48-40 at the break. NC State trailed by as many as 14 and got pounded on the glass, 26-14. …read more
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Durham Academy jumped out to a 20-4 lead in the first quarter and hung on to beat Ravenscroft 75-50 and advance to the NCISAA semifinals. …read more
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The Kay Yow Cancer Fund on Saturday will award a $1 million grant to the Duke Cancer Institute for research into women’s cancers. …read more
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Ravenscroft topped conference foe Durham Academy, 49-38, on Saturday afternoon for the third time on the year in the NC Independent Schools Athletic Association state quarterfinals. …read more
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As the NBA prepares for All-Star Game festivities this weekend in Charlotte, the backdrop to the celebration is unequivocally political, as nearly everything in the divided state seems to be these days. …read more
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Enloe High School honored three of its greatest basketball players who went on to coach and play professionally: Nate McMillan, LeVelle Moton and PJ Tucker. McMillian finished in 1982, Moton a decade later and Tucker in 2003. They all went on to play college basketball. …read more
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![Late in the North Carolina-Virginia game, it appeared that UNC’s Coby White had gotten off a wild three at the end of a shot clock but officials, after looking at a monitor, ruled that the ball wasn’t out of his hands when the clock expired, negating a key basket. No one seemed to argue the call and TV announcers agreed that the clock had gone to zero before it was off White’s fingertips. But perhaps the basket should have counted. The clock not only has to go to zero but the horn has to sound. In other words, there could […]](http://capitalsportsnc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/VirginiaWhite-490x225.jpg "Officials should have listened for the horn on Coby White’s shot")
![Clifton Barnes, the owner of CapitalSportsNC.com, has won a national award for writing for a series of articles on the website. CapitalSportsNC.com has now won awards four years in a row. The series of articles revolves around former University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith won an Award of Excellence from the DC area-based Communications Concepts through its 2016 Awards for Publication Excellence competition. John De Lellis of Communications Concepts says competition was intense as there were more than 1,600 entries with seven winners in the Writing Series category. Barnes was the only winner in the category from North […]](http://capitalsportsnc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/CliftonBarnes2016capitalsportsnc-490x225.jpg "CapitalSportsNC.com wins national award for writing")
