Duke has chance to get Maliq Brown back for UNC game

There is a chance Maliq Brown could return for Duke in its game at North Carolina on Saturday night. Coach Jon Scheyer said Brown would “try to” practice Thursday, while making it clear his defensive savant of a backup center has not practiced in the past two weeks because of his separated left shoulder. “Maliq’s been telling me for two weeks, ‘I’m ready,’ even when he hasn’t been,” Scheyer said.