November 23, 2009
NO. 4 NORTH CAROLINA 76, UNLV 68: Italee Lucas made a triumphant return home to Las Vegas. She scored 24 points to help No. 4 North Carolina beat UNLV 78-68 on Sunday. Lucas scored seven of the Tar Heels' first 11 points during the second half. Then, afte...
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November 22, 2009
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — Butch Davis and his players can't stop talking about the North Carolina defense. After what has happened the last four weeks, can you blame them? "I thought the story for us again, as it often has been all season, was the...
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GREENSBORO 61, BRIDGEWATER (VA.) 59: Junior guard Nikki Wilborn hit a 3-point shot with one second left as the Pride (1-2) stunned the Eagles on Saturday night in the consolation game of the Randolph-Macon tournament in Ashland, Va. Wilborn finished with...
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Tracy Smith's three-point play in the final minute helped N.C. State thwart a late comeback bid by Austin Peay and escape with a 66-59 victory on Saturday night. Smith hadn't been a factor in the second half because of foul trouble...
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BOONE -- Appalachian State finished its third undefeated Southern Conference season in four years by downing Western Carolina 19-14 on Saturday at Kidd Brewer Stadium. The Mountaineers (9-2, 8-0 Southern), who had clinched at least a share of their fifth...
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Senior forward Casey Nogueira scored her ninth goal of the season in the 82nd minute, and North Carolina posted its eighth straight shutout as the third-ranked Tar Heel women's soccer team defeated 19th-ranked Maryland 1-0 in the NCAA third round before a...
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HIGH POINT -- High Point forced 33 turnovers and used a 28-8 run midway through the second half to open up a tight game as the Panthers beat UNCG on Saturday. Monique Floyd scored 13 points to lead UNCG (1-2), while Lakiah Hyson had 10 points for the Spar...
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Elon solidified its case for a postseason football playoff berth with a 27-7 victory over Samford in Southern Conference action Saturday at Siebert Stadium. Elon (9-2, 7-1 Southern) will learn its playoff fate when ESPNews televises th...
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GREENSBORO 86, MARYLAND BIBLE 79: Freshman Luqman Tijani, a Page graduate, scored a career high 16 points as Greensboro defeated Maryland Bible 86-79 Saturday on the final day of the North Carolina Wesleyan Tournament in Rocky Mount. Adam Powell had 15 po...
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DURHAM -- No matter what Duke did during the first half of Saturday's basketball game, it couldn't get Radford out of a zone defense. Not that the Blue Devils cared. The Devils tied a school record with 18 3-point field goals -- 13 of them in the first ha...
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- Duke's bowl dreams evaporated in the final 26 minutes, 5 seconds of Saturday's 34-16 loss to Miami, but the Blue Devils can finish 6-6, their best record since 1994, with a win over Wake Forest in their final game. "We fought o...
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EAST CAROLINA 37, ALABAMA-BIRMINGHAM 21: Dwayne Harris caught eight passes for 108 yard and two touchdowns, including a kickoff return for a score, to lead East Carolina to a 37-21 win over Alabama-Birmingham on Saturday. Harris caught touchdowns passes o...
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BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — All week long, the Virginia Tech seniors reminded Ryan Williams how important their final game at Lane Stadium was to them. The redshirt freshman running back clearly got the message, rushing for 120 yards and four touchdowns...
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NO. 18 CLEMSON 34, VIRGINIA 21: C.J. Spiller scored a touchdown Saturday in his final game at Death Valley and No. 18 Clemson beat Virginia 34-21 on the day the Tigers wrapped up their first trip to the ACC title game. The Tigers (8-3, 6-2 ACC) won their...
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ORANGEBURG, S.C. — For 30 minutes, N.C. A&T went toe-to-toe with MEAC football champion South Carolina State on Saturday at Oliver C. Dawson Stadium. It was no contest in the second half. The Aggies played the Bulldogs to a 7-7 draw in the first...
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November 21, 2009
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- N.C. State coach Sidney Lowe couldn't help being impressed by his team's start. Tracy Smith had 16 points and 11 rebounds as State beat Akron 66-45 at the Glenn Wilkes Classic on Friday. Dennis Horner also scored 16 points for the W...
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NEW YORK -- Two of the most storied programs in the history of college basketball squared off for the first time in more than two decades Friday night before an electric crowd at Madison Square Garden. North Carolina and Syracuse have combined to win thre...
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GREENSBORO -- UNCG completed the first half of the ACC portion of its schedule Friday night, and now it will assimilate what it has learned. Clemson pinned an 89-67 defeat on the Spartans in their home opener before a crowd of 5,672 in the Greensboro Coli...
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November 20, 2009
NEW YORK — North Carolina appeared on its way to a double-digit blowout of Ohio State Thursday night but ended up holding on for dear life before a pro-Tar Heels crowd at Madison Square Garden. It wasn't quite the Dean Smith Center, but for one nigh...
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GREENSBORO — The party starts early, and later this evening UNCG jumps headfirst into uncharted waters. The Spartans (0-2) take on No. 22-ranked Clemson (2-0) in UNCG's first game this season in its new full-time home: the Greensboro Coliseum. The g...
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WINSTON-SALEM (MCT) — Kermit Blount's 17-year career as the football coach at Winston-Salem State University will end Saturday. Blount, who has more career victories than any football coach in school history, will be reassigned to another department...
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Kay Yow and John Thompson first shared a special experience 21 years ago as coaches of the U.S. men's and women's Olympic basketball teams. On Thursday, 10 months after Yow lost a long battle with breast cancer, she and Thompson were presented with the se...
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NO. 11 DUKE 69, GEORGIA SOUTHERN 42: Jasmine Thomas scored 12 points to lead a balanced offense and No. 11 Duke won easily in its home opener, routing Georgia Southern 69-42 on Thursday night. The Blue Devils (2-1) dropped from No. 6 to No. 11 in the poll...
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NO. 18 DAYTON 63, NO. 21 GEORGIA TECH 59: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Paul Williams scored seven of his 13 points in the final minute, including a go-ahead 3-pointer, in Dayton's 63-59 victory over Georgia Tech in the opening game of the O'Reilly Auto...
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November 19, 2009
GREENSBORO — Here's a rule of thumb and several fingers: If your third-leading returning scorer is a first-team preseason All-American, you're more loaded than an angioplasty-inducing baked potato. That's the deal with the Guilford Quakers, who appl...
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