With two wins over the weekend, UNC and Duke advanced to the 2nd weekend of the NCAA tournament. The two teams are two wins away from playing each other in the Final Four and a third matchup of the season. Duke will play Villanova at 9:57 ET on Thursday night and UNC will play Gonzaga at the same time on Friday night.
UNC took care of Radford over the weekend with ease as Ty Lawson rested his sore toe. On Saturday, Lawson put on his Superman cape and scored 23 points against LSU despite being in obvious pain. Other than Lawson's return, the factor of the game for UNC against LSU was rebounding. LSU owned the offensive glass for most of the game, but the Heels slowed the Tigers down late and it led to the victory.
The Blue Devils also took care of business on Thursday night against Binghamton. Duke is at their best when they have an offensive balance and are not relying too heavily upon their big three of Singler, Scheyer, and Henderson. On Thursday night it saw the Blue Devils with six players in double-figures. On Saturday, Duke fought hard with a Texas team that boasted a big man in the middle that all of the analyst said would be Duke's downfall. Duke did get beat on the boards but only by a slight margin despite most of their big men in foul trouble. The factor of the game was turnover percentage where Duke owned the Longhorns.
The rest of the ACC floppeed miserably over the weekend as Maryland was the only other team to make it out of the first round. The Terps then ran into a Memphis team that couldn't miss from behind the arc. The ACC is now the joke of the tournament in many respects and will be fighting for bids again next season after not showing up this year.
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