ACC tournament live updates: UNC rolls, Duke survives, VT bounces ND, Miami advances
The top seeds in the 2022 ACC men’s basketball tournament take the court Thursday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
With a chance to advance to the semifinals on the line, ninth-seeded Syracuse — playing without Buddy Boeheim, who was suspended after punching Florida State’s Wyatt Wilkes during the Orange’s win Wednesday — will take on top-seeded Duke in the day’s opening quarterfinal game at noon. Miami-Boston College and then Notre Dame-Virginia Tech will follow.
Third-seeded North Carolina and sixth-seeded Virginia meet for the final game of the day, scheduled to tipoff at 9:30 p.m.
The News & Observer has seven journalists on site in New York covering the tournament, including C.L. Brown, Steve Wiseman, Luke DeCock and Andrew Carter. They will be providing live updates and analysis here throughout the week. We’ll also post scores and recaps of each game.
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ACC tournament live updates and scores
North Carolina 63, Virginia 43
Virginia is normally the team with the disruptive defense making an opponent struggle to run its offense. But North Carolina gave the Cavaliers a dose of what that feels like in its 63-43 win during the ACC tournament quarterfinals on Thursday.
The No. 3 seed Tar Heels (24-8) held the No. 6 seed Cavaliers to just 13 points in the first half on 5-for-27 shooting. It was the fewest points allowed in a first half during the shot clock era in ACC tournament history.
Carolina as a team wasn’t great offensively, either, but forward Brady Manek was. Manek shot 7-for-11 in the first half and outscored UVA by himself in the first half with 19 points. It was the first time a UNC player outscored a team in a half since Reggie Bullock had 21 points to Maryland’s 20 in a 62-52 win on Jan. 19, 2013.
Manek finished with 21 points, but helped the Heels avoid the same slow starts that plagued the other top three seeds that earned double byes in the tournament. Both No. 1 seed Duke and No. 2 seed Notre Dame trailed at halftime and No. 4 seed Miami only led No. 13 seed Boston College by two.
Virginia Tech 87, Notre Dame 80
The seventh seed Hokies strengthened their NCAA Tournament hopes with a strong showing in their win over the No. 2 seed Irish. Keve Aluma scored a team-high 20 points as Virginia Tech shot 57 percent from the field. It led for 39:30 of the game’s 40 minutes and never trailed.
The Irish continued the day’s trend of teams that earned a double-bye starting slow. Notre Dame trailed by 16 in the first half, but was able to chip its deficit down to 11 at halftime.
Prentiss Hubb led the Irish with a game-high 23 points and helped them pull within 69-63 with 4:55 left. Notre Dame had two shots to make it one possession game, but Hubb and Dane Goodwin both missed 3-pointers and the Hokies staved off their rally.
A Hubb layup made the score 79-75 with 48 seconds left. But the Irish got no closer as the Hokies closed the game by going 8-for-8 from the free throw line.
Support for Ukraine, 5:50 p.m.
Preparing to face Virginia Tech Thursday night, Notre Dame’s players hit the Barclays Center court for their pregame warmups wearing shooting shirts with a tribute to the war-ravaged Ukrainian people. The shirts had “Pray for Peace” and the blue and yellow Ukrainian flag on the front.
Miami 71, Boston College 69 OT
Playing its third game in three days, No. 13 seed Boston College pushed Miami into overtime before the fourth-seeded Hurricanes prevailed on Jordan Miller’s buzzer-beating layup. The Eagles (13-20) had a chance to take the lead but Makai Ashton-Langford missed a shot with five seconds left. Miami’s Charlie Moore fired the ball down court to Miller, who scored the game-winning shot.
Boston College led by as many as six points in the second half. But Miami used a 14-3 run to take a 61-56 lead with 3:55 to play. BC, though, battled back to tie the score at 62. Miami led 65-62 before Jaeden Zackery’s 3-pointer with 15.6 seconds forced overtime. The Hurricanes (23-9) will play Duke at 7 p.m, on Friday night.
Duke 88, Syracuse 79
No. 9 seed Syracuse played without the ACC’s leading scorer but led by a point with 3:32 to play before Duke scored the game’s final 10 points to post a nine-point win.
The top-seeded Blue Devils advance to play either Miami or Boston College in Friday night’s semifinals at 7 p.m.
Wendell Moore led Duke with 26 points while Jeremy Roach scored 19 points off the bench as Duke placed five players in double figures.
Buddy Boeheim, the ACC’s leading scorer, sat out the game serving a one-game suspension the ACC implemented after he punched Florida State’s Wyatt Wilkes during the Orange’s 96-57 win on Wednesday.
Having defeated Syracuse 79-59 and 97-72 in the regular season, the Blue Devils had trouble containing Jimmy Boeheim (28 points) and Joe Girard (23) in this game.
Another buzzer beater, 12:59 p.m.
After Darius Maddox beat the clock and Clemson to give Virginia Tech a buzzer-beating win Wednesday night, a clock issue at the end of the first half of the Duke-Syracuse game gave Syracuse a chance to inbound the ball with 1.6 seconds left.
Joe Girard III had dribbled up the court unaware that time was expiring and never got a shot off the first time, but hit a quick-trigger 3-pointer from the corner in front of the Duke bench to give Syracuse — playing without suspended first-team all-ACC guard Buddy Boeheim — a shocking 40-36 lead over the top-seeded Blue Devils.
How to watch the ACC tournament’s quarterfinals
ESPN and ESPN2 are broadcasting all four games Thursday, beginning with the matchup between top-seeded Duke and ninth-seeded Syracuse.
ESPN and ESPN2 are available through Spectrum cable or over satellite with DirectTV and Dish Network. You can stream the ACC Network on WatchESPN.com with a valid cable or satellite subscription. Alternatively, cable cutters can access it via YouTube TV and Hulu+ Live TV or ESPN’s streaming service ESPN+.
ACC tournament schedule
Thursday, March 10 — Quarterfinals
| Gm. | Time | Matchup | TV |
| 8 | Noon | No. 1 Duke vs. No. 9 Syracuse | ESPN |
| 9 | 2:30 p.m. | No. 4 Miami vs. No. 13 Boston College | ESPN2 |
| 10 | 7:00 p.m. | No. 2 Notre Dame vs. No. 7 Virginia Tech | ESPN2 |
| 11 | 9:30 p.m. | No. 3 North Carolina vs. No. 6 Virginia | ESPN |
Friday, March 11 — Semifinals
| Gm. | Time | Matchup | TV |
| 12 | 7:00 p.m. | No. 1 Duke vs. No. 4 Miami | ESPN/ESPN2 |
| 13 | 9:30 p.m. | No. 7 Virginia Tech vs. Winner Game 11 | ESPN/ESPN2 |
Saturday, March 12 — Championship
| Gm. | Time | Matchup | TV |
| 14 | 8:30 p.m. | Championship | ESPN |
ACC tournament betting odds
According to the Action Network, Duke is the strong favorite to win the ACC tournament with odds sitting at -130.
UNC has the second-best odds at +800 (8-to-1), followed by Wake Forest, Notre Dame and Virginia Tech, which all have odds of +1000.
Ticket prices
Thursday’s quarterfinals were selling for an average of about $84 per session, according to a release from ticket broker TickPick. The get-in price for Friday night’s semis is $110 with an average ticket of $177 — and the title-game average Saturday was $204 as of Tuesday.
All-session passes for the ACC were reselling for the most of any Power 5 conference: $904 compared to $889 for the Big East across the East River at Madison Square Garden, $772 for the Big 12, $677 for the SEC and $663 for the Big Ten.
This story was originally published March 10, 2022 at 10:29 AM with the headline "ACC tournament live updates: UNC rolls, Duke survives, VT bounces ND, Miami advances."