RALEIGH — Indiana guard Victor Oladipo was a step ahead of N.C. State's Scott Wood, with a clear path to the basket.
With his team down three points with less than 3 minutes to play, Wood played the percentages and sent Oladipo to the foul line, instead of ceding an easy basket.
Referee Earl Walton called a flagrant foul on Wood, giving the Hoosiers two free throws plus possession of the ball.
RALEIGH — N.C. State and Indiana turned the RBC Center into a time machine on Wednesday night.
Both proud programs have seen their national standing usurped by in-state rivals, but the only ACC-Big Ten Challenge matchup between two teams with multiple national titles felt like it mattered, even on the final day of November.
To Jordan Hulls and Indiana, it mattered a little more by the end of a hard-fought 86-75 win over the Wolfpack. Hulls' 20 points, to go with 19 from freshman forward Cody Zeller, sent a Wolfpack crowd of 16,597 home disappointed in the outcome but not the effort.
It looks like North Carolina's basketball program will have to make do with one Zeller brother.
WTHI-TV (Terre Haute, Ind.) is reporting that Cody Zeller, the younger brother of Tar Heels junior forward Tyler Zeller, has decided to attend Indiana University next year.
The Pirates travel to Statesboro, Ga., to play in the Holiday Inn Eagle Invitational hosted by Georgia Southern at J.I. Clements Stadium today through Sunday.
The Pirates have a .380 team batting average and broke into the Top 25 of many of the national polls this week. Trent Whitehead leads with a .520 batting average. Eight batters have at least a .350 batting average or higher.
Earlier this week, public university officials got some good news when state leaders green-lighted a series of construction projects, many of which are planned on UNC system campuses.
In contrast, take Indiana, where Gov. Mitch Daniels has called for a two-year halt to university construction projects.
One critic deemed Daniels' budget for the next two years "anti-stimulus."
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