Malik Evans scored 21 and De'Shon Self added 17 as Hillside won its second straight PAC-6 road game in convincing fashion at Person on Friday night.
Coming off the peak of his football career so far, Thad Lewis returned to the place and the people he shared so many highlights with along the way.
There wasn’t much to like about Duke’s offense against N.C. State Thursday night at Reynolds Coliseum. But in the final six minutes, with a tough ACC women’s basketball game on the line, the Blue Devils gutted out enough plays to escape unbeaten.
Former Hillside High School football star Josh McNeil, who will be featured in today’s nationally televised (5 p.m., ESPN) Under Armour All-America Game at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla., has backed out of a verbal college scholarship commitment for the second time in less than two years.
Aside from Duke’s remarkable non-conference season, it’s been another year of mediocre results for the ACC heading into league competition, which begins this weekend.
North Carolina’s tough defense snared its biggest opponent yet. The 15th-ranked Tar Heels held No. 8 Maryland to two field goals in the first 14½ minutes of the second half and hung on for a 60-57 win Thursday at Carmichael Arena.
Some claim the NBA doesn’t really get going until the Christmas Day games — the real ones, not the video games — are unwrapped.
Along Tobacco Road, the bumper crop of PAC-6 4-A basketball gets harvested after holiday hoops tournaments offer final tune-ups before conference clashes.
Davidson did something no one else has this season by slowing Duke’s Mason Plumlee on Wednesday night.
N.C. Central took advantage of a slow start by Winthrop on the way to a 64-57 victory Wednesday night at the Winthrop Coliseum.
Chapel Hill lost for the first time, falling at the state’s No. 10-ranked 3-A program — according to MaxPreps.com — Northern Nash (10-0).
So far, not so good for Vanessa Taylor, N.C. Central’s first-year women’s basketball coach.
Anxious to avoid an Orange Bowl shocker, the Florida State Seminoles kept getting tricked. An onside kick fooled them, as did a fake punt, and a pooch punt by Northern Illinois' star quarterback.
He’ll play in the arena where his father regularly works against the team that his older brother elevated to a basket shy of the Final Four.
Jonathan Tsipis was in high school when his family moved from Ohio to Hillsborough in 1989, and he quickly learned how the rivalry between Duke and North Carolina works in college basketball.
James Michael McAdoo said that North Carolina’s first practice after the Christmas break was the hardest one of the season — and not just because junior Reggie Bullock collided into McAdoo and suffered a mild concussion while trying to break up a long pass.