Negative. 7 North Carolina walked into Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday and walked out with its first outright ACC identify since 2017.
The Tar Heels beat Negative. 9 Duke, 84-79, clinching the manage spot within the convention and a sequence sweep in their rival. It’s the 9th immediately future UNC has defeated Duke within the season finale with an ACC identify at the series, a streak going back to 2001.
A Duke win would have led to a crack ACC identify, with the Negative. 1 seed within the ACC match aspiring via a tiebreaker hinging at the NC Circumstance-Pitt recreation upcoming Saturday.
Cormac Ryan used to be the hero of the night time for UNC, well-known the group with a career-high 31 issues on 8-of-12 capturing (6-of-8 from deep). That integrated this dagger within the ultimate two mins:
Mins upcoming, Ryan made the separate throws to seal the sport.
Harrison Ingram, the hero of last month’s 93-84 UNC win in Chapel Hill, used to be once more robust with 14 issues, 10 rebounds and two assists.
UNC got here out scorching in 1st part; Duke scorching in second part
The Duke public used to be slightly quitness within the opening mins of the sport, as UNC opened the sport on a 17-4 run to tug an early double-digit manage. 9 of the ones issues got here from Ryan, who strike 3 3-pointers within the first 4 mins.
UNC driven the manage to 27-12, however Duke controlled to climate the hurricane and spent the after 10 mins clawing again into first rate distance. The manage used to be right down to 9 issues at halftime, opening the door for an early Duke run in the second one part.
Kyle Filipowski, who had best 4 issues within the first part, scored 8 issues within the first 3 mins and led a fee to short the manage to at least one. UNC regained its composure from there, responding with a 9-1 run to tug again keep watch over.
Duke didn’t manage for a 2d within the recreation.
Kyle Filipowski will get away with tripping Harrison Ingram
It’s no longer an actual UNC-Duke recreation with out that one era for enthusiasts to argue about till the after recreation. This recreation’s era got here halfway throughout the first part, when Filipowski and Harrison Ingram each strike the ground then a leave out.
Ingram were given up first and began operating over the legs of Filipowski, who responded by sticking one leg out and tripping Ingram. Filipowski after looked at then showing a minute limp and didn’t go back till a number of mins upcoming.
Negative foul used to be known as at the play games.
It won’t be the most controversial time Filipowski has tripped someone, nevertheless it indubitably were given some consideration on social media.
