Duke vs North Carolina

On North Carolina second play of the second half, the Tar Heels ran Justin Jackson off a staggered triple screen, which he canned for a three-pointer.

And now, as Notre Dame takes on Duke in Saturday night’s title game at the ACC Championship at the Barclays Center, it’s the beginning of a month that could define the junior guard’s career, and the Fighting Irish’s program under head coach Mike Brey.

It has been an unusual season for the Blue Devils, who have encountered injuries, the controversy surrounding star guard Grayson Allen and the absence of Krzyzewski due to back surgery. “That’s why I was really proud of my guys because everyone was strong today”. They’re a gifted offensive team. Carolina could have worn us out, but didn’t.

“And the people who don’t want us to win, they responded”.

Koloski wasted no time in the second half to score, finding the net three minutes into the half. Tomorrow, that’s four in a row, and we’ll play – whatever it is will be really good.

We are just days away from Selection Sunday when the full NCAA Tournament field will officially be released. “So this is very unusual”. Duke got huge night from runner-up in the ACC POY race Luke Kennard with 28 points and also had Grayson Allen, Jayson Tatum, Frank Jackson, and Amile Jefferson all in double figures scoring. The duo was a combined 17 for 17 from the line. Duke was up by 13 when Williams cleared his bench in final 20 seconds and Stilman White hit a smoother three-pointer to make the final margin 10.

Then, Jason Tatum scored on a dynamic dunk for Duke, and Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski called time out. That came back in late January, at home against NC State. His dunk and and-one free throw put the game out of reach.

With his 14th ACC title, breaking a tie with North Carolina legend Dean Smith.

The Tar Heels made just 2 of their final 13 shots. Krzyzewski made a point Thursday of saying how much fun he’s having coaching this team right now.

Kennard’s basket in the lane with 15:23 put Duke up 46-45. “We might have been a little exhausted, but we just didn’t knock them down”. “I think we already had energy, and people saw it”. Duke beat the Irish 84-74 after jumping out by 12 points in the first half and coasting to victory. Hot shooting early is necessary again for ND to have a chance to beat Duke, which is starting to get comfortable coming back from deficits.

Duke the game started well, leading by as many as nine points in the first half.

They would take a 34-29 lead into halftime and outscored Miami 23-14 in the first ten minutes of the second half that to end the competitive phase of the game. They won this tournament in 2015, putting them in a tiny, two-member club: Schools who joined the ACC since the turn of the century – a group that includes Syracuse and Louisville – to win the ACC tournament. It would seem that North Carolina may be out.

With that, the ACC championship belonged to Duke for the first time since 2011.

However, it is also possible that the Pac-12 champion could supplant the ACC on the top of the bracket and relegate Duke and UNC to two seeds.

UNC has controlled the action at the rim: 20 points in the paint.