Football season is on the back burner with basketball playoffs wrapping up and spring sports beginning, but two Middle Creek gridiron players can't help but look ahead.

Defensive lineman Josh Banks and wide receiver Kevin Jones received scholarship offers from ACC schools in the same week.

Chapel Hill grabs the No. 1 spot in the N&O boys basketball rankings. Wakefield climbs to No. 2.

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Undefeated Garner remains atop the N&O boys high school basketball rankings.

Durham Hillside plays at Green Hope in a NCHSAA 4-A East girls basketball game on Wednesday night. The girls basketball playoffs enter the second round on Wednesday night.

The second round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association boys basketball tournament will be played on Wednesday night.

The Tri-Nine Conference announced its all-conference awards for boys and girls basketball after completion of its conference championship games Friday. Here they are below:

Tri-Nine champion Middle Creek (22-4) and Cap Eight champ Wakefield (22-3) are in the same sectional bracket. Both cannot get to the regional in Fayetteville.

Garner boys and Green Hope girls are ranked No. 2 in their 4-A polls. The Princeton boys fall from No. 1 to No. 3 in 1-A boys.

Undefeated Garner continues to rule the News & Observer high school boys basketball rankings. There are no new teams, but there are some adjustments throughout the top dozen teams.