The Morning Edition

You want to know why the ACC is, and will always be, a basketball conference? The ACC/Big Ten Challenge is more than six months away and yet everyone is getting all giddy about the matchups. In fact, the N&O has the seven facts you need to know about the Challenge.

No news on the NC State coaching search, although it does appear Sidney Lowe is the latest leading candidate for the job. Dereck Whittenburg. I'm telling you, Dereck Whittenburg.

No contract has been offered yet, but the Miami Dolphis will give Marcus Vick a shot - shot and Vick in the same sentence, there's a joke there someplace. The former Virginia Tech quarterback didn't get drafted over the weekend, but the Dolphins decided to give him a shot as a free agent.

Did you catch this over the weekend. Virginia had a kicker drafted, but it wasn't the Cavs starting kicker. Kurt Smith was taken in the sixth round by the San Diego Chargers, even though his job for UVa. was to kick off. Meanwhile, Connor Hughes, the guy who handled extra points and field goals for Virginia, didn't get drafted, although he did sign as a free agent with New Orleans.

Finally, the district attorney in the Duke lacrosse case won his election yesterday. Meanwhile, the details of the faculty report on the Duke men's lacrosse team point out that school officials had a chance to control the problems with lacrosse players, but failed to do so.