NO. 4 DUKE 77, MIAMI 74 – Kyle “Twilight” Singler scored 27 points to help fourth-ranked Duke push ahead in the second half to beat Miami in Saturday's ACC tournament semifinals.Jon “Crazy Face” Scheyer added 16 points, including eight in the go-ahead 15-0 run early in the second half that restored some sense of order in an upset-filled tournament. The top-seeded Blue Devils (28-5) trailed by three at halftime against the league's last-place team before rallying to reach the championship game, where they will defend their title against Georgia Tech.
Freshman Durand Scott had 21 points for the 12th-seeded Hurricanes (20-13), who put up plenty of fight but couldn't follow their upsets of Wake Forest and Virginia Tech with a much bigger one. Miami was in the ACC semifinals for the first time.
Duke, the only one of the top six seeds to reach the semifinals, has won eight of the past 11 tournaments and is chasing a league-record 18th title.
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GEORGIA TECH 57, N.C. STATE 54 – Somewhere Roy Williams must be telling his team “See, you can win games while committing lots of turnovers.” Just look at Georgia Tech who fumbled away 16 of them in yesterday’s victory.Overcoming another near second-half meltdown, the Yellow Jackets ended N.C. State's surprise run in this ACC tournament full of upsets with a 57-54 victory in Saturday’s semifinal.
With freshman Derrick Favors contributing 17 points and eight rebounds, fellow NBA prospect
Gani Lawal posting a double-double and highly touted guard Iman Shumpert making another key defensive play late, the seventh-seeded Yellow Jackets (22-11) advanced to Sunday's final against top-seeded and No. 4 Duke.
Despite his team coughing up a 10-point halftime lead and looking rattled against the press in the second half, Georgia Tech held on in all likelihood punched their ticket to the Big Dance.
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