Cape Fear Christian Academy has postponed its Mid-Carolina Conference basketball games on Friday night with New Garden Friends of Greensboro to January 24. … East Carolina took an 80-79 men’s basketball win over Temple in Greenville on Wednesday night as Jayshayne Woodard drove and scored for the Pirates with 10 seconds left. … Host N.C. State edged Notre Dame, 66-65, as Ben Middlebrooks hit the deciding free throw with 11 seconds to go. … The Campbell men take a 1-1 Coastal Athletic Association record into tonight’s 7 p.m. contest at Hampton (1-2). … The Orange Bowl tonight matches  Notre Dame (13-1) and Penn State (13-2) in the semifinals of the College Football Playoffs (ESPN, 7:30 p.m.). … Men’s college basketball games involving ranked teams tonight include No. 15 Oregon at Ohio State (Big Ten Network, 6 p.m.), No. 20 Purdue at Rutgers (Fox Sports 1, 6 p.m.) and Washington at No. 16 Michigan State (Big Ten Network, 8 p.m.). … The Carolina Hurricanes host Toronto tonight (ESPN+, 7:30 p.m.). …  The Sony Open gets underway at the Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, Hawaii, today (Golf Channel, 7 p.m.). … New UNC football coach Bill Belichick reportedly has received interest from Las Vegas about its vacant NFL coaching position.