Brendan Marks

Smith, a projected first-round NBA Draft pick, is averaging 19.1 points, 3.6 rebounds, and 4.7 rebounds per game this season.

“They just really dared us to make shots,” Armando Bacot said after UNC’s 80-72 loss to Miami.

Duke hired college basketball’s first general manager last year. Other schools are following suit in a rapidly changing landscape.

“When I say I don’t miss it, it doesn’t mean I didn’t love it. I just think I squeezed every bit of joy from that sponge, you know?”

Is that … crossover season, suddenly upon us? Sure is. football has been chugging along — not stopping on fourth-and-16 doesn’t erase all the good Mike Elko’s team has done thus far — and just last week, Jon Scheyer’s men’s basketball team began practice in earnest. Understandably, with all the things happening, y’all have questions. (And thanks, as always, for submitting them.) Advertisement Let’s get to as many as possible, starting with the one I hear most frequently: What’s your starting 5…

DURHAM, N.C. — The video lasts 11 seconds. And all things considered? It’s … pretty ordinary. Just two high school kids, in mismatched sweat suits, trying to to a snippet of TisaKorean’s “Aero (Blow the Whistle).” It’s not bad, per se; just not mind-blowing. So, an average TikTok video. Advertisement But almost four years and 44,000 views later, that video is so much more than average — mostly because of what came after it. Jared McCain never could’ve known so at the time, back when he was a hi…

Georgia Tech upset No. 7 Duke 72-68 on Saturday to win its first ACC game under rookie head coach Damon Stoudamire. Georgia Tech led by as many as 11 points early in the second half, but Duke stormed back in the game’s final few minutes, taking a 66-62 lead on a Mark Mitchell dunk with 2:22 to play. But Mitchell — who pointed at a Georgia Tech player after his dunk — was quickly assessed a technical foul; that gave GT guard Miles Kelly two free throws, both of which he made, and the ball. Kelly’…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With 47 seconds left in the most improbable run in ACC tournament history, stood up from his folding chair on NC State’s sideline, turned to the rabid red-clothed crowd behind him, extended his pointer finger and mouthed three words over and over again: I told you. The center pointed directly at his parents, Dwight Sr. and Takela, through a sightline to their second-row Capital One Arena seats. Dwight Sr. beamed behind his thick-rimmed black glasses, underneath an NC State ha…

is hiring men’s basketball coach Danny Sprinkle, according to multiple reports. Under Sprinkle, the captured their first NCAA Tournament victory since 2001 when they ousted in the first round, 88-72, on Friday. They fell to No.1-seeded , 106-67, on Sunday. Sprinkle led the Aggies to its first-ever Mountain West regular-season title in his first season with the program. Sprinkle was named the Mountain West Coach of the Year earlier this month. Advertisement On the year, Utah State finished 28-…

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Long before ’s miraculous run to the Final Four, an scout living near Raleigh, N.C., sent a text message to his longtime friend, Jim Nagy. “He was hoping,” says Nagy, an 18-year NFL scout and the current executive director of the Reese’s Senior Bowl, “that got bounced out of the tournament quickly, so he could go over there and try to do this quietly.” Advertisement What the scout meant? He wanted to work out NC State center DJ Burns Jr. … and evaluate if Burns, the breakout…