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The Atlantic Coast Conference and ESPN announced on Wednesday a restructured television rights deal that will increase the league’s exposure and pay member schools approximately $4 million more per year than the agreement the conference announced in July 2010.

After a breakout season at Wright State, former N.C. State guard Julius Mays is being pursued by the 2012 national champs and three Big Ten schools.

For the Atlantic Coast Conference, more teams and more games means a lot more TV money.

North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams on Tuesday defended his players who were enrolled in classes at the center of an internal university investigation of academic fraud and improprieties, saying the players who took UNC Department of African and Afro-American Studies courses did the work assigned to them.

Diamond DeShields of Norcross (Ga.) High leads a group of four heralded basketball players from the Class of 2013 who committed to North Carolina during the weekend.

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