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Riley Leonard scored on a 44-yard go-ahead touchdown. It was Duke's first win against Clemson since 2004 and ended a 28-game losing streak against top-10 opponents.

Stanford and Cal are the ninth and 10th schools to inform the Pac-12 that this school year will be their last in the conference, eight of those departures have come in the last two weeks.

The 21st-ranked Tar Heels are picked to finish third in the league. Getting near the top of new division-less league will require a step forward defensively.

Before he became the commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference, Phillips was the director of athletics at Northwestern. Three lawsuits against the school have named him as a defendant.

Athletic director Nina King also announced the salary pool for assistant coaches and support staff would be increased.

The scandal has led to at least three lawsuits and the firing of football coach Pat Fitzgerald. Phillips has been named as a defendant for two of the lawsuits along with other university leaders in their oversight roles.

The Demon Deacons are now in control of their bracket and a win away from the best-of-three finals. Their next game is Wednesday against the winner of a Tuesday elimination game between SEC rivals LSU and Tennessee.

Brock Wilken hit three of Wake Forest’s record-tying nine home runs, and the Demon Deacons routed Alabama 22-5 to win the Winston-Salem Super Regional.

This weekend, Duke could feel like one of the centers of women’s college basketball. For the first time since 2017, the Blue Devils will host games during the first weekend of the women’s NCAA Tournament. Meanwhile, UNC and N.C. State are part of eight ACC teams in the field.

The Blue Devils are North Carolina’s highest-seeded team in this year’s tournament, but they’re joined by 10th-seeded N.C. State, and No. 15 UNC-Asheville.