Duke University NCAA News

Jon Scheyer came to Duke to win championships. Many of the ones he wanted most, he has won.

Ryan Houston ran for a career-high 164 yards and Jheranie Boyd scored the clinching touchdown midway through the fourth quarter to help North Carolina beat Duke 19-6 on Saturday.

Duke's Thaddeus Lewis is the first player in school history to throw for more than 2,000 yards in four straight seasons.

Published: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 1:05 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 1:05 p.m. Line: North Carolina by 10.

ATLANTA a ' Chick-fil-A Bowl representative Tilden Martin will visit Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill, N.C. on Saturday to scout the Duke-North Carolina game.

Coach: Mike Krzyzewski . Last season's record: 30-7 overall, 11-5 in ACC . Postseason: Lost in third round of NCAA tournament to Villanova .

Last Duke win at UNC: 2003 . The Coaches : David Cutcliffe: 9-11 at Duke; & Butch Davis: 17-16 in his 3rd season at UNC; Last week : Duke def.

Duke's Nolan Smith, center, seated between teammates Lance Thomas, left, and Miles Plumlee, right, will have to sit out the first two games of the regular season because he played in an un-sanctioned basketball game this Summer.

The Virginia football team has gone 26 years without consecutive losing seasons, but now finds itself in danger of seeing that happen.

Sounding sullen after another loss, Virginia coach Al Groh called on fans to lay off his players as they leave the field.

Notre Dame forward Luke Harangody and Kansas teammates Cole Aldrich and Sherron Collins are the leading vote-getters on The Associated Press' preseason All-America team.

The Virginia football team remembers last year's loss in Durham, though it's a game the Cavaliers would love to forget.

DUKE vs. VIRGINIA WHEN: 3:30 p.m. WHERE: Scott Stadium; Charlottesville RADIO/TV: 850AM, XM193, Sirius214; ESPN360.com THE BUZZ: After racking up just 198 yards in last week's loss to Georgia Tech, U.Va. will have a chance to come out of today's game as one of just two one-loss teams in the ACC's Coastal Division if it can move the ball and keep up ...

Virginia is doing a defensive about-face. One week after facing a Georgia Tech team that runs more than any team in the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Cavaliers will entertain pass-happy Duke on Saturday afternoon.

Skinner has passed for 1,949 yards this season and with 51 more will reach 2,000 yards for the fourth straight season.

Mike Krzyzewski's 30th team at Duke also might be his biggest. Coach K says "there never was a 30-year plan" when he left Army to take the job of rebuilding the Blue Devils' proud program.

Thaddeus Lewis has completed 64.1 percent of his passes for 1,972 yards and 14 touchdowns.

Lose to a Football Championship Subdivision team, contend for a division title? That's the lightly traveled path two of the Atlantic Coast Conference's biggest surprises have taken to remain competitive in the tough Coastal Division.

For better or worse, Virginia's football players are given a game plan for their upcoming contest on a weekly basis.

Duke and North Carolina were picked in a dead heat to win this season's ACC regular-season basketball championship in media voting yesterday at the conference's annual Operation Basketball.