Duke enters ACC tourney as team to beat
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Clemson's LeLe Hardy is like most other players here this week. She wants her Tigers to avenge a lopsided loss to Duke by spoiling the Blue Devils' perfect season.
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Seniors Alison Bales and Lindsey Harding led top-ranked Duke to its first unbeaten regular season. Now they're looking for something bigger &#151; a perfect postseason.
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Hosting Duke and North Carolina in the same week was an opportunity for Boston College to show it belonged among the Atlantic Coast Conference elite. Instead, losses to the Tobacco Road rivals dropped the Eagles from the top spot in the conference and proved that while they can play with the ACC's uberprograms, they are not one of them yet.
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Duke's depth really took care of short-handed North Carolina, keeping the second-ranked Blue Devils alone atop the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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The team that few thought could contend for an Atlantic Coast Conference title less than two months ago is now one game away from winning it on its first try.
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North Carolina power forward Erlana Larkins lingered behind the 3-point line before practice Wednesday, swishing jumper after jumper. Post players knocking down 3s with ease? Hey, anything's bound to happen when Duke and North Carolina meet.
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Sean Singletary hits the game-tying jumper in regulation and follows that with a difficult baseline floater for the game-winner in overtime as Virginia stuns No. 8 Duke, 68-66.
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Miami is the only unbeaten team left in the ACC, which means it currently controls its own destiny. However, NC State knows it can get right back in the race with an upset over the Hurricanes
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North Carolina is young, deep, talented &#151; and hardly without flaws. But by winning their first Atlantic Coast Conference tournament title since 1998 with an 89-80 victory Sunday over North Carolina State, the eighth-ranked Tar Heels clearly re-established themselves as a force in the NCAA tournament.
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TAMPA -- First-year coach Sidney Lowe and North Carolina State are headed to the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game against rival North Carolina.
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Virginia Tech is set to play North Carolina in Chapel Hill for the first time as an ACC school on Tuesday.
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The perfect season is over for Duke. Ashley Key hit the go-ahead jumper with 1:19 remaining and No. 24 North Carolina State gave top-ranked Duke its first loss, a stunning 70-65 defeat in the semifinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament Saturday.
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Carolina tags Miami with their first ACC loss as UNC upsets their first top five opponent. The Heels&#39; offense puts up over 540 yards against the vaunted Canes defense.
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RALEIGH, N.C. -- Tyler Hansbrough will probably play in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament despite breaking his nose during the blood-filled final seconds of No. 8 North Carolina's victory over 14th-ranked Duke on Sunday.
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Duke knows how to perform in front of a full house, even when most of the fans are rooting for the other team.
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They were determined to get off to a better start in Atlantic Coast Conference play.
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Virginia Tech gets dominated in its first ACC men's basketball game as North Carolina soundly defeats the Hokies, 85-51, on Sunday.