Duke, ranked 10th in the latest Golf World / Nike Golf Coaches Poll,  enters Saturday's second round tied for second with Virginia Tech, 11 shots behind first leader Florida State's 17-under-par 271.

The Arizona Cardinals selected Jonathan Cooper with the seventh overall pick Thursday night. The Wilmington native became the first guard taken in the Top 10 since 1997, and he became the highest-drafted guard since Brian Jozwiak was picked seventh in 1986. ... DT Sylvester Williams goes to Denver.

UNC men advance to today's quarterfinals with 4-0 shutout of Miami; shorthanded Duke women forfeit No. 6 singles, No. 3 doubles, and lose by a point after marathon No. 4 singles defeat 4-3.

Top-ranked UNC (40-3) is the ninth team in NCAA history that's won at least 40 times in its first 43 games, while No. 6 N.C. State  (33-10) owns the nation’s longest active winning streak, 15 games. The series runs today through Sunday.

Grayson Allen, a 6-4 shooting guard from Providence School in Jacksonville, Fla., committed Wednesday to play basketball for Duke beginning in 2014.

Sylvester Williams didn’t play football until his senior year of high school, and he was only good enough to start one game. After that, he worked at Modine Manufacturing Company making radiator parts for large trucks before enrolling at Coffeyville (Kan.) Community College, where the football coaches told him not to bother showing up for tryouts.

Ryan Kelly, Seth Curry, Mason Plumlee and UNC's Dexter Strickland were at The Ravenscroft School in Raleigh Tuesday night for the 35th annual ACC Barnstorming Tour.

Duke and North Carolina won’t be playing any more ACC games at Maryland. Instead, the Blue Devils and Tar Heels will become well acquainted with the conference’s three new teams in 2014 — Duke and UNC both travel to Notre Dame and Syracuse and the Blue Devils also play at Pittsburgh for the first time since 1980

 Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner John Swofford says Tuesday in Pasadena, Calif., that he hopes the decision by his members to hand over their television rights to the league helps bring stability to all of college athletics after three years of conference realignment chaos.

No. 1 North Carolina clinched its second outright ACC regular-season title in four years Monday with a 4-0 victory over Boston College at the Flynn Athletic Complex.

The 15 schools that will make up the ACC beginning in 2014 took a bold move to solidify the league’s future on Monday.

In front of the largest regular-season crowd in Boshamer Stadium history (4,255) UNC completed a three-game sweep of rival Duke with another dominant performance

A roundup of Duke, UNC, NCCU and other college sports Saturday.

UNC left-hander Kent Emanuel tossed a two-hitter as the Tar Heels blasted Duke 7-1 in the first game off their ACC doubleheader on Saturday at Boshamer Stadium. Emanuel (7-1) worked through allowing two first-inning base runners to dominate the rest of the game. In the nightcap, starter Benton Moss combined with relievers Chris McCue and Trent Thornton to shut down the Blue Devils 4-1. On the day, UNC allowed only two runs, both on home runs by Jordan Betts.

UNC and Duke may both seek to restructure existing game contracts to avoid losing a home game in seasons they travel to play the Fighting Irish. N.C. State gets first Triangle visif from N.D., that coming in the 2016 season.