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Holliday: UNC and Duke in ACC’s race to the top

North Carolina tightened its precarious hold on first place in the ACC with a best of the conference season performance against Pitt. The Tar Heels…

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Bethune-Cookman holds off NC A&T 83-77 in OT

Jordan Potts had 21 points, LaRon Smith scored a career-high 20 and grabbed 11 rebounds and Bethune-Cookman beat North Carolina A&T 83-77 in overtime Monday…

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Brogdon scores 22 and No. 7 Virginia beats NC State 73-53

Malcolm Brogdon scored 22 points and No. 7 Virginia took command with a 13-2 run to begin the second half and beat North Carolina State…

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Back home in Kinston, cheering for Brandon Ingram trumps rivalry

Kinston boys’ basketball coach Perry Tyndall will be coaching his team in an Eastern Carolina Conference tournament game tonight, so he’ll have to miss watching…

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Duke focused on ‘we’ not ‘me’

Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said Monday that the Blue Devils’ recent turnaround is because of a we-first mentality that wasn’t there early in the…

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Bret Strelow: Duke’s use of Brandon Ingram creates conundrum for UNC

Duke, with 3-point threat Brandon Ingram at power forward, and North Carolina, which prefers using two traditional post players, possess two of the nation’s best…

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NC State makes trip to No. 7 Virginia

Virginia will get an opportunity to put its stamp on the ACC race in its upcoming games but will first have to get past one…

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Brownlow: Pack-Hoos make for intriguing Big Monday match-up

NC State and Virginia is quite the Big Monday matchup for the ACC, intriguing in that the Wolfpack is playing well as of late and…

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2-A girls basketball playoff projections

We are in the last week of the regular season for high school basketball and that means we are getting a clearer picture of the…

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3-A girls basketball playoff projections

We are approaching the end of January and that means we are in the home stretch of the high school basketball regular season. …read more…

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