DURHAM — Mike Krzyzewski plans to coach one more season before turning over control of the Duke basketball program to former Blue Devils point guard and current assistant Jon Scheyer. Still, Wednesday’s announcement that the […]
CHAPEL HILL — Shammond Williams, like virtually everyone else when they first saw the news Thursday, thought it was an April Fools’ gag. But when the former North Carolina basketball star realized that coach Roy […]
GREENSBORO — There’s a time-worn adage in college basketball that it’s tough to beat the same team three times in a season. The reality, however, is that if a team is good enough to beat […]
A funny thing happened on the way to the NIT. When Duke and North Carolina played their rivalry game at the start of the month, for the first time in more than a half-century, both […]
DURHAM — Freshman DJ Steward scored 21 points with seven assists, classmate Mark Williams set season highs with 18 points and 11 rebounds for his first double-double, and Duke eased past Syracuse 85-71 on Monday […]
GREENSBORO — North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams once described the ACC Tournament as little more than “a huge cocktail party.” That might have been the case in the old days when the ACC was […]
SYRACUSE — Cole Anthony says it’s simple to excel from long range — “just choose the right spots.” Anthony and his North Carolina teammates did just that on Saturday, hitting 11 of 26 tries from […]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — NC State coach Kevin Keatts was proud of his team for overcoming “all types of adversity.” Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim was proud of his team, too, even though the Orange couldn’t overcome […]
CHARLOTTE — Of the first 27 times the ACC contested its signature event, its postseason men’s basketball tournament, only once was it played at a site outside of North Carolina. It was an arrangement not […]
Duke is in an unfamiliar situation in the Sweet 16 — playing a familiar face. The No. 2-seeded Blue Devils will face No. 11 Syracuse, who upset Michigan State to secure the date with Duke […]
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