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The Terps have hit a bit of a rough patch after starting off the season strong. Maryland will look to rebound from Friday's abysmal performance against the 13th-ranked Tar Heels.

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Maryland stranded 14 base runners and North Carolina starter Trent Thornton scattered six hits over seven shutout innings as the 13th-ranked Tar Heels won game one of the weekend series 7-0 at Bob "Turtle" Smith Stadium Friday.

Top-seeded N.C. Central advanced to today's MEAC Tournament championship game with a 67-48 rout of No.

If you're a North Carolina basketball fan looking for a silver lining to your team's unceremonious dismissal from the ACC tournament at the hands of Pittsburgh on Friday, here's one courtesy of coach Roy Williams.

Roy Williams' rather famous dismissal of the ACC tournament from a few years back was highlighted by the line that it wasn't much more than a "great cocktail party."

Pittsburgh's Action Sports reporter Ryan Recker is in Greensboro, where the Pitt Panthers beat No.

He might not look like it today against Pittsburgh, but North Carolina's Marcus Paige has been named as one of six finalists for the Bob Cousy Award , symbolic of the top point guard in college basketball.

While Day 3 is likely the portion of the bracket most had circled on their calendars, it was Day 2 that acted as a strong foreshadowing as to just how difficult the road to the final would be for some of the top-seeded teams.

This is Amelia Rayno's third season on the Gophers men's basketball beat. She learned college basketball in North Carolina , where fanhood is not an option.

Tip-ins a : North Carolina, which is ranked No. 15 nationally, has been the fourth seed in the ACC Tournament seven times and won it once from that position, in 1989.

North Carolina Tar Heels at Duke Blue Devils TAR HEELS RENEW RIVALRY WITH DUKE SATURDAY IN DURHAM: The North Carolina men's lacrosse team renews its long rivalry with the Duke Blue Devils Saturday at 2 p.m. when the two teams meet up in Koskinen Stadium.

That is the burden he carried when North Carolina's season appeared to be falling apart, a burden Williams tried to conceal.

Pitt played its first ACC Tournament game today and quickly turned it into a laugher as the Panthers crushed Wake Forest, 84-55, in a second-round game at Greensboro Coliseum.

Fannie Flono writes on news, politics and life in The Carolinas. Her column appears on the Editorial pages of The Charlotte Observer.

As much as Maryland has historically complained about "having" to play meaningful games in the state of North Carolina, how ironic that a native of the Tar Heel state put an end to their basketball association with the ACC - even as he coaches a team from Florida.

Any hopes of the Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs repeating their upset of two seasons ago at North Carolina's Boshamer Stadium vanished rather quickly Wednesday.

On Dec. 3, 1953, Maryland, coached by fourth-year boss Bud Millikan, won its debut game in the new Atlantic Coast Conference, 53-49 at South Carolina.

Head coach Jim Larranaga of the Miami Hurricanes celebrates after defeating the North Carolina Tar Heels 87-77 during the finals of the Men's ACC Basketball Tournament at Greensboro Coliseum on March 17, 2013 in Greensboro, N.C. According to a MH March 12, 2014 basketball report, Miami and Virginia Tech will take the hardwood following the ... (more)

Zach Daly, Connor Gilmore and Josh Peterson are among the Gastonia Grizzlies' returning players from last summer, the collegiate summer baseball team announced Wednesday.