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April 26, 2025
N.C. State extended its Cinderella run into the Final Four with the help of a half dozen players that once suited up on high school courts in North Carolina. Between the Wolfpack, and the Alabama Crimson Tide, a total of eight athletes will take the floor in Phoenix with roots to the Old North State.
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By STEPHEN HAWKINS, AP Sports Writer DALLAS — DALLAS (AP) — Bruising big man DJ Burns Jr. plays with plenty of joy, skipping on and off the floor and interacting with North Carolina State fans that he often works into a frenzy with slick moves and a soft-touch shot. “I was raised in a happy
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By EDDIE PELLS, AP National Writer DETROIT — DETROIT (AP) — By the time all the scrapping and scratching and diving on the floor was over, it felt like a shame that both those teams, and both those players, weren’t moving onto the Final Four. Just don’t expect Purdue to feel bad about it. Boilermakers
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By DOUG FEINBERG, AP Basketball Writer ALBANY, N.Y. — ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Dawn Staley has South Carolina back in a familiar place — the Final Four — and she got there this time with an entirely new starting lineup. Tessa Johnson scored 15 points and Kamilla Cardoso added 12 to help the undefeated Gamecocks
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By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Aziaha James made a career-high seven 3-poiners and scored 27 points, and third-seeded North Carolina State earned its first trip to the Final Four of the women’s NCAA Tournament since 1998, beating top-seeded Texas 76-66 on Sunday in a game played with 3-point lines
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan said Sunday its experts have held talks with their Chinese counterparts to try to assuage Beijing’s concerns over the discharge of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea. The discharges have been opposed by fishing groups and neighboring countries especially China, which banned all
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool’s Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago. One year, Google posted a job opening for a Copernicus research center on the moon. Another year,
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Rowan County schools went 2-1 on the second day of East Rowan’s Easter weekend baseball tournament. Most notably, West Rowan knocked off No. 8 Northwest Guilford in the day’s second game, and the host Mustanags improved to 12-1 on the season with a win over upset-minded Mooresville. South Iredell was the lone school from another
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By Mark Bergin, WRAL senior multiplatform producer NC State and Duke will have a rubber match for a trip to the Final Four on the line. The two ACC schools are scheduled to tip off at 5:05 p.m. ET Sunday. The game airs on CBS. Sunday will mark the first time the two teams have
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By Carly Haynes, WRAL reporter Raleigh, N.C. — NC State fans find themselves at the center of a Cinderella story and darlings of the 2024 NCAA Tournament. The Wolfpack defeated Marquette 67-58 at American Airlines Center in Dallas as a historical run continued. The Wolfpack women also won Friday night, defeating Stanford 77-67 to reach
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