At the RBC Center in Raleigh, Wake Forest Wake Forest won a close game against Virginia Commonwealth 79-78.
Duke plays Alabama State at 7:10 p.m. North Carolina meets Air Force in Denver at 9:40 p.m.
North Carolina State plays Friday in Orlando against Louisiana-Lafayette. Tip-off is scheduled for 12:15 p.m.
The last time the NCAA Tournament was held in Raleigh was at Reynolds Coliseum in 1982.
The Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau and its bid partners have submitted a bid to be an NCAA Tournament site in 2007 or 2008. A decision will come this summer.
College basketball fans will be able to watch all 63 men's NCAA Basketball Tournament games on
WRAL-TV5 and WRAL-Digital
. The WRAL NewsChannel will carry post-game press conferences of ACC teams approximately one hour after games end.
The NCAA Tournament will preempt regularly-scheduled CBS programming.Soap operas will resume Monday where they left off Wednesday. Primetime programming will be rescheduled.
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