Three Points from Wednesday's 56-51 win at Boston College:

1) Body language counts

When Richard Howell, Lorenzo Brown and C.J. Leslie slumped their shoulders, dropped their heads and sloughed off to the locker room at halftime, they were greeted with a warning from N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried.

"I told them that is not acceptable and we won't do that — and we have not done that any night this year," Gottfried said. "We were allowing things to bother us. Mentally, we were out of synch."

Pittsburgh and Syracuse are leaving the Big East for the Atlantic Coast Conference in a move ACC commissioner John Swofford said will strengthen the conference as its membership grows to 14.

The ACC announced the news Sunday morning and held a telephone conference with reporters to explain the move.

Big East bylaws call for each of the schools to pay a $5 million exit fee to the Big East and wait 27 months before departing. Pittsburgh chancellor Mark Nordenberg said the school plans to comply with those bylaws, but is open to an earlier, negotiated departure that wouldn’t leave the school with an extended lame duck status in the Big East.

Updated 9:35 p.m.

Big East schools Syracuse and Pittsburgh have signaled their intentions to join the ACC as the conference’s 13th and 14th members.

A high-ranking ACC source said Saturday on condition of anonymity that both universities have sent letters of application to the ACC. The schools’ additions would have to be approved by nine of the 12 ACC presidents, and signs Saturday pointed toward both schools joining the conference.

N.C. State chancellor Randy Woodson said the ACC will hold a news conference Sunday or Monday. Woodson said the 12 ACC presidents are unified on expansion, but he wouldn’t say whether they have voted on Pittsburgh and Syracuse.