Duke’s Kyle Filipowski (30) steals the ball from Maryland-Eastern Shore’s Nathaniel Pollard Jr. (12) during the first half of Duke’s game against Maryland-Eastern Shore at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C., Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022.
Ethan Hyman
ehyman@newsobserver.com
Though a few ACC basketball games have been played, league teams are in the midst of closing out their nonconference schedules before diving headlong into full-time conference play.
On the latest ACC Now podcast, News & Observer sportswriters Steve Wiseman, C.L. Brown and Chip Alexander discuss what North Carolina, Duke and N.C. State have accomplished and displayed in their nonconference games over the last five weeks. The N&O’s beat writers for the those three schools also take a look at where the ACC stands with league play beginning.
Steve Wiseman was named Raleigh News & Observer and Durham Herald-Sun sports editor in May 2025. He covered Duke athletics, beginning in 2010, prior to his current assignment. In the Associated Press Sports Editors national contest, he placed in the top 10 in beat writing in 2019, 2021 and 2022, breaking news in 2019, event coverage in 2025 and explanatory writing in 2018. Before coming to Durham in 2010, Steve worked for The State (Columbia, SC), Herald-Journal (Spartanburg, S.C.), The Sun Herald (Biloxi, Miss.), Charlotte Observer and Hickory (NC) Daily Record covering beats including the NFL’s Carolina Panthers and New Orleans Saints, University of South Carolina athletics and the S.C. General Assembly. He’s won numerous state-level press association awards. Steve graduated from Illinois State University in 1989.
