November 22, 2009
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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WINSTON-SALEM — Faced with a towering opponent from a power conference, a lot of teams would try to take their time, slow the tempo and shorten the game. High Point is not a lot of teams. The undersized Panthers ran, and ran, and ran some more, shut...
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November 18, 2009
DURHAM — The message scrawled in magic marker on a strip of athletic tape and pasted across the forehead of the Blue Devil mascot was direct and to the point. "Nolan's In, 49er's Out." Not exactly Shakespearean iambic pentameter, but accur...
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CHAPEL HILL — Kennedy Tinsley sat in the posh new room high above Kenan Stadium with the stars of the game, his No. 36 jersey and uniform pants both covered in grass stains.The senior from Greensboro took one last look around during the interview......
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GREENSBORO — For the second time in three seasons, preseason polls have the Guilford College Quakers ranked among the top five teams in NCAA Division III men’s basketball. This season, a talented trio of seniors hopes to justify that ranking b...
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GREENSBORO — Walter Brady and Adam Powell will be counted on to lead Greensboro College to more consistency and a better record this season. Brady, one of two seniors on the team, and Powell, a junior, will be expected to provide offense for a Pride...
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Coach: Tom Palombo (217-118 overall, 117-53 in six seasons at Guilford)Home court: Ragan-Brown Field House (2,500), Greensboro2008-09: 26-6 overall, 14-2 ODAC (finished third in NCAA Division III tournament)Projected starters: G Rhett Bonner, 6-1, Sr. (16...
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Coach: Bryan Galuski (54-51 overall and in four seasons at Greensboro)Home court: Hanes Gym (800), Greensboro2008-09: 9-16 overall, 3-9 USA South ConferenceProjected starters: G R.J. Smith, 5-11, Sr. (7.8 ppg, 2.4 apg); G Pernell Davis, 5-10, Jr. (transfe...
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LYNCHBURG, Va. -- Liberty freshman Devon Brown scored a game-high 26 points and the Flames took advantage of a cold-shooting UNCG squad to take a 60-42 win at the Vines Center on Tuesday. Lakiah Hyson scored nine points to lead the Spartans (1-1), who sho...
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GREENSBORO -- For the second time in three seasons, preseason polls have the Guilford College Quakers ranked among the top five teams in NCAA Division III men's basketball. This season, a talented trio of seniors hopes to justify that ranking better than...
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