WT – College Sports

GREENVILLE — Back when they were setting boys golf program precedents and winning everything in sight except a state championship at Beddingfield High just a few years ago, twin brothers Nate and Drew O’Neal absolutely owned Wedgewood Public Golf Course where the siblings spent a sizable portion of their youth. Brook Valley Country Club may just be the new Wedgewood […]

CHARLOTTE — When Duke head coach Jon Scheyer was a Blue Devils senior 15 years ago, he hit a 3-pointer with seconds to go to win the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championship game.  Afterwards, then Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski described Scheyer as playing without fear. Scheyer coaches that way too. “Well, for me, especially being the coach at Duke, […]

CHARLOTTE — Top-ranked Duke’s plans for a mythical run through the Atlantic Coast Conference and NCAA tournaments hit a few bumps in the road Thursday afternoon in Charlotte. In the ACC tournament quarterfinals against Georgia Tech — a team the Blue Devils beat comfortably 82-56 in Atlanta during the regular season — Duke could not hit a shot. Then the […]

CHARLOTTE — Not this time. Last time North Carolina faced Notre Dame it took an Elliot Cadeau four-point play with 4.8 seconds to play to gain a 74-73 victory on the Fighting Irish’s home floor in South Bend, Indiana This time — Wednesday, March 12, in the second round of the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament — the Tar Heels hit […]

Who would want to accept the position of head coach for the Wilson Tobs summer collegiate baseball team for the first time in probably the last year of the Tobs in the Coastal Plain League or the organization’s final year in Wilson? Ted Bergquist would. The 57-year-old Colorado native has signed a contract to step up from the role of […]

CHAPEL HILL ­— Duke showed what a top ranked basketball team looks like Saturday night Coming into the home arena of its historic arch-enemy — a North Carolina team on a six-game winning streak and playing its best ball of the season ­— the second-ranked Blue Devils held firm in a game of momentum swings, pushed aside the challenges and […]

The reason the Duke and North Carolina basketball rivalry is legendary is because it is so unpredictable. No matter the teams’ records, the game is usually hard fought and competitive — let’s set aside for the moment their meeting earlier this year — and the outcome is often surprising. Heading into Saturday evening’s matchup to conclude the regular season, even […]

DURHAM — If Monday night against Wake Forest was Cooper Flagg’s last home game for second-ranked Duke, he certainly left his mark on Coach K Court and in the memory of the Cameron Crazies. As the certain top pick in the NBA draft, the generational talent has toyed with the fans by suggesting that he’d like to come back for […]

DURHAM — When Leonard Hamilton brought his Florida State basketball team to Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday night, March 1, one last time to play second-ranked Duke, everyone knew who the illustrious head coach was. Because he will be retiring at the end of the season, Hamilton was even given a special acknowledgement before the game. Twenty-three years ago at […]

DURHAM — There’s someone putting up Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year numbers whose name isn’t Cooper Flagg, but because his team is from the West Coast, he’s not on the radar of most ACC fans east of the Mississippi. Saturday afternoon Stanford’s Maxine Raynaud had the chance to go head-to-head with Duke’s sensational freshman. Unfortunately for the 7-foot-1 […]

RALEIGH ­— The center of attention Wednesday night was neither what N.C. State nor its head coach Kevin Keatts wanted to focus on. But after unranked Louisville dismantled the Wolfpack 91-66 before a sparse crown in the Lenovo Center, it was all anybody else wanted to talk about. State has now posted a nine-game losing streak, its longest since 2007-08 […]

Regardless of spring’s timetable, baseball is just around the corner at Fleming Stadium with the first of three College Baseball Classics to start Friday, Feb. 21, the annual early-season series sponsored by the Wilson Tobs summer collegiate baseball franchise. Nine NCAA Division II teams, most from cold-weather locales, will play a total of 18 games spread over three three-day weekends […]

CHAPEL HILL — Hubert Davis needed a win Saturday afternoon in the worst possible way. Not only to stop the bleeding — his North Carolina basketball team had lost four of its last five prior games coming into the rematch with Pittsburgh — but also to quiet the growing criticism of his coaching in Tar Heel land. The Panthers beat […]

No one would be surprised to learn that second-ranked Duke beat N.C. State at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Monday night, but that was about the only aspect of the evening that turned out as expected. The Wolfpack played perhaps its best half of basketball in Atlantic Coast Conference play, especially considering the opponent. But as head coach Kevin Keatts remarked […]