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North Carolina quarterback Marquise Williams is back in school -- but can he reclaim his job as backup to Bryn Renner? ROBERT WILLETT
CHAPEL HILL — North Carolina quarterback Marquise Williams is back in school after not being enrolled during the spring semester, team spokesman Kevin Best said on Friday.
Andrew Wiggins, regarded as the top college basketball prospect in years, announced today that he will play next season at Kansas. Wiggins’ other three finalists were North Carolina, Florida State and Kentucky.
Wiggins, the 6-foot-7 forward from Huntington (W.Va.) Prep, provided no indication of which school he was favoring, and so his signing with Kansas was met with surprise. Florida State, which is where his parents met and where his father played basketball, had been considered the favorite.
CHAPEL HILL — Who knows what kind of effect, if any, it has had on his son’s recruitment. But Mitchell Wiggins, the father of Andrew Wiggins, grew up outside of Kinston dreaming of playing for Dean Smith. Apparently, though, Smith didn’t show the elder Wiggins much interest.
North Carolina is certainly interested in Andrew Wiggins, who will announce his college decision on Tuesday. About 30 years ago, Wiggins’ father would have loved to be in the position his son is now – with a chance to play for the Tar Heels.
CHAPEL HILL — Andrew Wiggins will announce his college choice on Tuesday. Few people might be happier about it than Dave Telep, the ESPN.com national college basketball recruiting analyst. Telep has covered Wiggins’ recruitment from start to finish but even he admitted on Monday that he has no idea where Wiggins will go.
Wiggins, the 6-foot-7 forward from Huntington (W.Va.) Prep, has been down to his final four schools for a while now: Florida State, Kansas, Kentucky and North Carolina. He hasn’t offered any indication about which of those four schools he’s favoring.
Andrew Wiggins, the top-rated prospect in the class of 2013, will announce on Tuesday where he will play in college next season. Wiggins, a 6-foot-7 forward at Huntington (W.Va.) Prep, will decide among North Carolina, Florida State, Kansas and Kentucky.
Wiggins’ coach at Huntington Prep, Rob Fulford, announced on Twitter that Wiggins would sign with a school “at around 12:15 on Tuesday.”
Mason Plumlee is one of several local players who will participate in the NBA Combine. Credit: CHUCK LIDDY
All three Duke players eligible for this year's draft—seniors Mason Plumlee , Seth Curry and Ryan Kelly —have received invitations to the NBA Combine, the league announced Thursday night. Curry and Kelly, both recovering from offseason surgeries, will not participate in workouts.
Here is a list of all the ACC alumni headed to the May 15-19 workout in Chicago:
ESPN announced the match-ups for the 15th annual ACC-Big 10 challenge. They are as follows:
Tuesday, December 3rd
Midnight Madness will come two weeks earlier this year.
The NCAA announced Friday that teams now have 42 days (six weeks) to hold their 30 preseason practices, starting this fall. Previously, teams only had four weeks to schedule in those 30 practices. The college basketball season begins Nov. 8, so practices can start on Sept. 27.
A side view of North Carolina's Coastal Division championship rings, which were distributed to the team on Monday. Photo via Twitter (@uncfootball).
CHAPEL HILL — North Carolina finished last season in a three-way tie for first in the ACC Coastal Division, and had the Tar Heels been eligible to play in the postseason they would have won tiebreakers against Miami and Georgia Tech and represented the Coastal in the ACC championship game against Florida State.
UNC wasn’t eligible, though, because of NCAA sanctions resulting from the academic fraud and impermissible benefits scandal that rocked the football program in 2010. Even so, UNC is calling itself Coastal Division champions. There is signage inside the football offices to that effect and, now, there are championship rings, too.
North Carolina's Giovani Bernard was the first running back selected in the NFL draft
CHAPEL HILL — For the third time in the past five years, at least five North Carolina players were selected in the NFL draft, which began last Thursday and ended on Saturday. It was another productive draft for the Tar Heels, who have produced four first-round picks during the past three drafts.
Before some thoughts on UNC’s draft class, a recap of when and where the Tar Heels went:
