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North Carolina quarterback Drake Maye made a clean sweep of the ACC’s Player of the Year awards on Wednesday. The redshirt freshman from Huntersville collected the league’s Rookie of the Year, Offensive Rookie of the Year, Offensive Player of the Year and the coveted Player of the Year honors.

The past four seasons are in the rearview. It’s here and it’s now for Nance, and there’s nothing more here-and-now in all of college basketball than the Tar Heels.

PORTLAND, Ore. — No. 1 North Carolina played Portland on Thursday to open the Phil Knight Invitational like it won’t be keeping that top ranking much longer.

Plus more notes on Week 12 of the college football season, including thoughts on Michigan RB Blake Corum and Georgia lineman Jalen Carter.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — A laminated piece of paper now residing in North Carolina coach Hubert Davis’ office just may be the key to the Tar Heels’ season. In the short term, it was definitely what inspired their 80-64 win over James Madison on Sunday at the Dean E. Smith…

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Pete Nance shouldn’t be compared to Brady Manek. But after No. 1 North Carolina’s tougher-than-expected 72-66 win over Gardner-Webb, the graduate transfer from Northwestern proved, just like Manek did last season, why he was a coveted addition to the lineup.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — It seems each week No. 15 North Carolina plays a game that begs the question: Surely it can’t continue to win games this way?

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — No. 1 North Carolina beat down a spirited effort from the College of Charleston for a 102-86 victory Friday in a game that the final score disguised just how tough it was.

Well, things are officially getting weird. Have been for a while, actually, but Saturday cemented it: This is now the wildest, strangest college football season in recent memory in North Carolina.