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March 19, 2025
These are the projections for the 1A West bracket for the 2025 NCHSAA girls basketball playoffs. The projections are not official and can change when the official brackets are released by the N.C. High School Athletic Association. However, these projections are accurate as of the time stamp below. Subscribe to email alerts to be notified
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Ripken, a beloved black Labrador Retriever and friend to several Triangle sports teams, has died. Ripken died unexpectedly on New Year’s Day after “suffering complications from a serious, undiagnosed medical condition which he sadly could not recover from,” according to an Instagram post. Ripken was usually seen retrieving the kicking tee after kickoffs at NC
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Each year, HighSchoolOT provides extensive playoff projections for all of the NCHSAA’s seeded playoffs. This winter, we are providing those projections for the boys basketball playoffs in all classifications. Projections are dependent on the RPI system, which is updated in real-time rather than once a week. Subscribe to email alerts to be notified when projections
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By ERIC OLSON, AP College Football Writer The College Football Playoff expanded to 12 teams to get some new blood. The final four are decidedly blueblood. The semifinals match Penn State against Notre Dame at the Orange Bowl on Jan. 9 and Texas against Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 10. All four
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By ROB MAADDI, AP Pro Football Writer TAMPA, Fla. — TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Baker Mayfield revived his career in Tampa Bay and became a coach-builder in the process. Mayfield’s success with the Buccaneers in 2023 helped Dave Canales become head coach of the Carolina Panthers after just one season as an offensive coordinator. Mayfield
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By Mark Long, AP Sports Writer JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jaxson Dart’s final college pass was a 69-yard touchdown that got him chewed out by coach Lane Kiffin on the sideline. It’s one the quarterback will never forget. Dart threw for 404 yards and four touchdowns in his final start for Ole Miss, leading the 16th-ranked
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By The Associated Press SUNRISE, Fla. — SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Jaccob Slavin scored the go-ahead goal to lift the Carolina Hurricanes over the Florida Panthers 3-1 on Thursday night. Florida’s Anton Lundell tied it at the beginning of the second before Slavin got one past Sergei Bobrovsky with about seven minutes left in the
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By The Associated Press Boston — BOSTON (AP) — Ashlon Jackson, Taina Mair and Reigan Richardson scored 14 points apiece on Thursday night to help No. 14 Duke beat Boston College 86-59. Oluchi Okananwa added 12 points and Toby Fournier 11 for Duke (11-3, 2-0 ACC). Jackson, Mair and Jadyn Donovan — who finished with
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By GUERRY SMITH, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Locked in a defensive struggle in which neither team gained 300 yards, Georgia coach Kirby Smart made an aggressive but ill-fated decision late in the first half of the Sugar Bowl. Right after Notre Dame took a 6-3 lead on a 48-yard field
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The fifth-annual HighSchoolOT boys soccer all-state team features 15 players making a second or third appearance on the team, including one that is now a two-time first-team selection. The all-state list features a first, second, and third team with 20 players each with the following positions allotted per team: two goalkeepers, four defenders, five midfielders,
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