UNC point guard Kendall Marshall recorded his first zero-turnover game as a starter, leading the Tar Heels with 22 points and 13 assists. C.J. Leslie, who fouled out late in the second half, led N.C. State with 24 points.

Here’s a roundup of the best stories about the game:

• Heels Muzzle Pack—Chapelboro.com
• UNC defeats N.C. State, 86-74—WRAL
• UNC beats N.C. State for twelfth straight time—The News & Observer
• Tar Heel Blue has video highlights from the game

Some Tweets from the game:

This game was the opposite of one in Raleigh, but with same result. State more than held its own inside, outscoring #UNC 42-22 in paint.

— Andrew Carter (@_andrewcarter) February 22, 2012

Kendall Marshall with a stat line for the ages for Heels: 22 points, 13 assists and 0 turnovers. Points is a career-high.

— Andrew Carter (@_andrewcarter) February 22, 2012

Final #uncbball stats, which also double as exhibit A in #kendallforcousy twitter.com/TarHeelMonthly…

— Tar Heel Monthly (@TarHeelMonthly) February 22, 2012

And it is Kendall Marshall’s first zero-turnover game as a starter. (He had four as a reserve as a freshman.). #UNC

— Robbi Pickeral (@bylinerp) February 22, 2012

(1/2) Earlier this year, Marshall said Zo Brown was the best ACC PG. Asked if he still felt that way. “Lorenzo Brown is still a great PG.”

— Jonathan Jones (@jjones9) February 22, 2012

(2/2) Q: In your opinion then, who is the best? KM: I’ll leave that up for y’all to decide. You can say whatever team wins ACC has best PG.

— Jonathan Jones (@jjones9) February 22, 2012

Oh, and Marshall said he thought he should have had two turnovers, not zero. Henson and Zeller said they gladly take them. #UNC

— Robbi Pickeral (@bylinerp) February 22, 2012

The game will be televised by the ACC Network and viewable on ESPN3.com outside of the ACC region.

Here’s a roundup of stories previewing the game:

• N.C. State to host the Tar Heels tonight—The Daily Tar Heel
• UNC-NC State: What to Watch—ESPN, North Carolina Basketball Blog
• Rivalry picks: NC State hosts UNC —WRAL
• UNC at N.C. State: Three things to watch—News & Observer

Harrison Barnes put together a well-rounded game leading the Tar Heels in scoring with 24 points and 7 rebounds. Tyler Zeller also had another great game, contributing to UNC’s significantly improved 49.2 percent shooting, going 6-9.

Both teams managed to avoid getting into foul trouble, with the Tar Heels only shooting 8 free throws.

Check back later for a scoreboard gallery from the game.

The statement, which was endorsed by 112 faculty members, was the result of meetings between an informal group of faculty members at UNC who came together to discuss the future of athletics at UNC, a news release said.

The principles are said to address the challenges associated with “the emphasis on Division I athletics and the scandals that are associated with the athletics enterprise.”

The three principles that the undersigned faculty hopes to see within the athletic department are institutional openness, educational responsibility and mission consistency.

Lewis Margolis, one of four main contacts about the statement and an associate professor of maternal and child health, was one of several faculty member at a Nov. 2, 2011, meeting with faculty and former Athletic Director Dick Baddour to discuss the athletics’ department at UNC.

One of a handful of faculty members who questioned why the University chooses to fund 28 varsity sports, Margolis proposed the idea that the University have only intramural sports instead of sports at the varsity level.

Another idea supported by some faculty members was to “de-emphasize” football.

Baddour responded that football and men’s basketball are the two “revenue sports,” which bring in enough money to fund the other 26 varsity programs.

NCAA investigation

The NCAA began investigating the school’s football program in July 2010 after Twitter images from then-UNC football players Kendric Burney and Marvin Austin sparked suspicions that the players may have been receiving improper benefits from agents. In the meantime, the then-Head Coach Butch Davis was fired and Athletic Director Dick Baddour announced his early resignation.

More than a year after the NCAA began looking into possible rules infractions, the University released a response to investigation on Sept. 19, 2011, which self-imposed sanctions including vacating all the wins of the 2008 and 2009 seasons, losing three scholarships a year for three years and paying a $50,000 fine.

University officials stood before the NCAA Committee on Infractions on Oct. 18, 2011, to defend themselves after hearing the NCAA enforcement staff present its case.

The NCAA has not yet issued a final ruling regarding the University’s case or its self-imposed sanctions.

Related:

Former UNC football Head Coach Butch Davis addresses the NCAA investigation

UNC officials enter NCAA meeting on infractions

Where are they now: players, coaches and agents of the football scandal

Anatomy of a scandal: Timeline of the NCAA investigation

From ‘Dickie’ to ‘Bubba’: New athletic director hired at UNC

Twitter photos from former UNC players released

Chairman of the African and Afro-American Studies resigns

Sports agent taught UNC summer course

UNC fires Butch Davis, Baddour resigns

NCAA sends UNC formal notice of allegations

Scoreboard gallery from UNC v. Miami on Jan. 10

UNC v. Miami Jan. 10 game recap and gallery

• Friday, Feb. 17 at 3:00 p.m.

• Saturday, Feb. 18 at 1:00 p.m.

• Sunday, Feb. 19 at 1:00 p.m.

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Tyler Zeller was UNC’s top performer, putting up 25 points and 9 rebounds. Although he received some criticism for a couple missed free throws that could have made in difference in Wednesday night’s loss against Duke, Zeller was on point this afternoon shooting 7-8 from the line.

Shooting from behind the arc was nearly non-existent for both teams, with UVA shooting 3-16 and Reggie Bullock landing UNC’s only three-pointer with 7:07 left in the game, bringing their total to 1-10.

The game remained close in the first half with only a 3-point margin, 6 ties and 10 lead changes, but the Tar Heels clearly pulled away coming out of the locker room, outscoring the Cavaliers 35-20 with only two more lead changes for the remainder of the game.

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Hairston’s injury will impact the Tar Heels’ already limited depth, especially at the guard position, following Dexter Strickland’s season-endng ACL injury in January. Hairston provided solid perimeter shooting for the Tar Heels during the early part of the season, but has regressed during ACC play.

The Tar Heels will need to find more offensive production from role players like Justin Watts and James Michael McAdoo against the Cavaliers, who are known for their solid defense. The Cavaliers are currently ranked second nationally in points allowed per game.

To watch: The game airs on the ACC Network  at 1 p.m.. Visit TarHeelBlue.com has further information.

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Scoreboard gallery from the game

UNC beats Duke in stunning buzzer beater

Here are some of the best stories on the heartbreaking loss for UNC:

UNC’s Adam Lucus on Duke’s final shot:

The highlights will show that [Austin Rivers's] buzzer-beater is how Carolina lost the game. It was not how Carolina lost the game. Up ten points with under 2:30 to play, it takes an unbelievable series of events to create a comeback. Like, for example, a pair of three-pointers off an offensive rebound and an uncharacteristic turnover, another offensive rebound that led to two more points, a Tar Heel tipping the ball into the Duke basket, and a last-second mismatch that leads to some uncertainty. All of that had to happen. If any one of those five things doesn’t happen—over a 150-second span in which the Tar Heels did not attempt a single field goal—this is a very different story. But they all happened. All five of them.

Lucus on blaming Zeller for the loss:

Understand this: to get anywhere close to blaming the loss on him is foolhardy. If Zeller hadn’t shown up in the first half, Duke might well have taken a double-digit lead into the locker room and coasted through the second half. He had 23 points and 11 rebounds and was a couple of made free throws away from this story being about his epic Carolina-Duke performance.

Roy Williams said Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski apologized for the Blue Devil celebration after the shot, but Williams told him that no apology was necessary, ESPN reports:

“I told them they should be excited about that; that doesn’t bother me at all,” Williams said. “When you’re a coach, they coach with a passion, just like we do. They had a passion that they showed when the shot went in … it’s two great teams fighting as hard as they can fight.”

CBS Sports on what the loss meant for UNC:

After he had made the game-winning jumper, got covered in teammates and completed an interview that was broadcast live to a national audience that must’ve been just as stunned as the rest of us, Duke’sAustin Rivers jogged off the court beside the North Carolina student section and delivered one last parting shot while looking at and saluting the heartbroken undergraduates. ”See y’all,” Rivers yelled with a big smile on his face. One student cussed at him. The rest just seemed too confused to respond.

Fox Sports on the improbability of a Duke victory:

Duke freshman guard Austin Rivers came up huge (29 points) and drained the final 3-pointer, securing a win that, for most of the second half, seemed highly improbable. Surely there was no way the struggling Blue Devils could come into this massive hallowed hall and beat perhaps the most talented team in the nation, a UNC squad playing its best hoops of the season. Not this Duke team fresh off a home loss to Miami — its second home defeat to a school from Florida in three weeks. Not these Blue Devils, who had been openly criticized by their own Hall of Fame coach the past few days. Are you kidding?

The players were left not knowing how to react, The Daily Tar Heel reports:

Immediately after the game, the typically positive Barnes hadn’t quite figured out just what to make of the whole situation. “You go out there, you don’t play well in the first half, you play well in the second half, and then you blow a 10-point lead and lose on a last-second shot,” Barnes said. “What can be said about a game lost like that?”