DURHAM — For most of the preseason, Duke was defined by who wasn’t there, more than who was. The Zion Williamson Show & Traveling Circus has closed. “They enjoyed it last year,” assistant coach Nolan […]
CHAPEL HILL — Roy Williams is as old-school as a coach can get when it comes to the makeup of his basketball team. He prefers upperclassmen to freshmen, homegrown talent to transfers and a traditional […]
RALEIGH — For the first time since Kevin Keatts arrived in Raleigh, NC State may not need “Hi, my name is” tags to keep everyone straight. The Wolfpack have had a revolving door as Keatts […]
CHARLOTTE — One of the last things Ron Wellman did before retiring as Wake Forest’s athletic director last spring was announce the return of basketball coach Danny Manning for the 2019-20 season. It was a […]
The names just keep coming, a who’s who of point guard legends. The four ACC schools in North Carolina have produced some of the greatest floor generals in college basketball history. Just looking at the […]
Fifty players were named to the preseason watch list for the Citizen Naismith Trophy, given to college basketball’s best player. Zion Williamson won it last season. Only seven programs placed two players on the watch […]
Coming off back-to-back 20-loss seasons and with star big man Devontae Cacok now playing for the South Bay Lakers of the NBA’s G League, UNC Wilmington basketball coach C.B. McGrath needed all the good news […]
If UNC Greensboro was a member of, say, the ACC — or any other Power 5 Conference, for that matter — it might have been selected to play in the NCAA Tournament for the second […]
Joe Dooley has taken the concept of “tearing it down to build it back up” to an extreme in the second season of his second tenure as East Carolina’s basketball coach. Thanks to a combination […]
Charlotte’s second-year coach, Ron Sanchez, honed his craft for decades as an assistant to Tony Bennett. So it’s only natural that the 49ers’ improvement would be slow and methodical. Sanchez took over a team that […]
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