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Destiny Adams scored eight of UNC’s 25 fourth quarter points and also finished the game with nine rebounds. Her teammate Alyssa Ustby grabbed a career-high 18 rebounds.

UNC visits Wake Forest on Saturday night in the renewal of a long-running series that has included wild comebacks and video-game scores the past two seasons. This time, the Tar Heels (8-1, 5-0 ACC) arrive with a 5-0 record in road games after going 0-5 last year and can clinch the league's Coastal Division title.

UNC went to the Sweet 16 last season. What should we expect this year? And can N.C. State defend its ACC title for the fourth straight year?

UNC played in the national championship game last season. Can they make it that far again? Coach K is gone. Does that change expectations for Duke?

Conference realignment has the power to change what college sports look like. The reality is, when a team switches conferences, it doesn’t impact just one sport. In the crossfire, women’s sports can be overlooked and become an afterthought.

The Wolfpack would love a second straight milestone victory over the the fifth-ranked Tigers on Saturday night. The two undefeated teams play at Death Valley, where North Carolina State last won 20 years ago.

The Atlantic Coast Conference is relocating its headquarters but remaining in North Carolina. The league announced it would move its offices from Greensboro to downtown Charlotte in 2023. The league was founded in Greensboro in 1953.

Chelsea Gray scored 20 points to lead the Las Vegas Aces to their first WNBA title in a 78-71 road win over the Connecticut Sun in Game 4. Gray went 9 of 13 from the floor, and was named MVP after averaging 18 points over the run.

As the landscape in college sports shifts, the ACC shouldn’t have to worry about its schools leaving, but as the revenue gap between it and other conferences will only grow wider, anxiety about being left behind figures to build among its member institutions.

This week in North Carolina politics, Governor Roy Cooper signed an executive order related to abortion issues. Meanwhile, he did not yet act on the state budget, which the Legislature sent him a week ago. In our Friday review, Rob Schofield and Clark Riemer discuss those stories, America’s latest mass shooting, and the future of the Atlantic Coast Conference.