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April 3, 2025
By Brian Murphy, WRAL North Carolina’s season will continue in the NCAA Tournament. Barely. The Tar Heels (22-13) earned the final at-large spot in the 68-team field when it was announced Sunday evening. North Carolina was in jeopardy of missing the tournament for the second time in three seasons. UNC plays San Diego State from
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By Mark Bergin, WRAL senior multiplatform producer Raleigh, N.C. — Some of the best college basketball teams in the country are visiting Raleigh this week for the 2025 NCAA Tournament. Two No. 1 seeds in the tournament – Duke in the East region and Florida in the West region – are set to play at
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By Mark Bergin, WRAL senior multiplatform producer Duke is the No. 1 seed in the East region and will play its first-round game at the Lenovo Center in Raleigh. The Blue Devils will play Friday against the winner of the play-in game between 16 seeds American and Mount St. Mary’s. If Duke wins its first-round
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By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Before we begin, a disclaimer: Your bracket will probably be a mess by Saturday. Or by Friday. And let’s be honest, some of us will out of the running by Thursday night. Welcome back to the world’s largest lottery, the NCAA Tournament and all of its various bracket pools
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By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Auburn is the top overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, with Duke, Houston and Florida joining the Tigers on the No. 1 line in the March Madness brackets released Sunday. The NCAA selection committee favored the regular-season champs of the record-setting Southeastern Conference despite three losses in their last
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Nick Stevens, Evan Moesta, Joel Bryant, and J. Mike Blake break down the final state championships of the basketball season — the 2A and 4A basketball championship games. Web Editor : Nick Stevens Posted 2025-03-16T00:36:25-0400 – Updated 2025-03-16T00:40:05-0400 Source: highschoolot.com
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Sixty and counting. Reidsville has its second straight N.C. High School Athletic Association 2A championship, running the state’s longest active winning streak to 60 as the 2024-25 boys basketball season concluded on Saturday night. The Rams took control in the second half to defeat Northwood 71-54 in Saturday’s final at Lawrence Joel
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Allow the Stallions to introduce themselves. Southeast Alamance, in just its second year of existence, has its first state championship in any sport. They wasted no time making school history as they took the N.C. High School Athletic Association 2A girls basketball championship title with a 43-33 win over North Wilkes. Saturday’s
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — North Mecklenburg was right on time. The Vikings fell behind in a big way to start the N.C. High School Athletic Association 4A boys basketball championship game but chipped away — slowly then all at once, it seemed — to take a 59-56 victory over New Hanover on Saturday. It’s the second
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Call them the magnificent seven. Seven of Lake Norman’s girls basketball players were on the team, playing important roles as the Wildcats were the state runner-up two years ago. Give the seven their much-awaited rings. Lake Norman won the N.C. High School Athletic Association 4A girls basketball championship 43-41 over Wakefield in
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