UNC coach Roy Williams said he was "stunned" and "shocked" by Maryland's decision to leave the ACC and join the Big Ten. ROBERT WILLETT

LAHAINA, Hawaii — North Carolina coach Roy Williams said on Monday that he was “stunned” and “shocked” by the news that Maryland would be leaving the ACC to join the Big Ten.

“I’m an old ACC guy,” Williams said after his team’s 95-49 victory against Mississippi State in the quarterfinals of the Maui Invitational. “I’ve been around a long time. I’ve been around probably longer than the league has, I don’t know. So I was shocked by it and didn’t see it coming whatsoever.”

Updated 10:44 p.m.

RALEIGH -- Throughout the week, Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said the only way Duke could truly put its loss at Stanford in the past was to get back to work.

The Dental Foundation of North Carolina declined Thursday to make public the report that details some of the travel spending that Tami Hansbrough did while working there.

The foundation's executive director, Paul Gardner, provided a synopsis of her time there that included details from the report. But he said the foundation did not have to produce the report because it is a nonprofit and not a governmental entity, and therefore not covered by the state's public records law.

The foundation raises money for UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Dentistry. Hansbrough worked for two years as a fundraiser for the foundation before being hired to raise money for UNC-CH's student affairs office.

She resigned Wednesday after we reported that Chancellor Holden Thorp had found questionable travel she and the vice chancellor for university advancement, Matt Kupec, took at university expense. She and Kupec were in a relationship. Kupec resigned Sunday.

The synopsis said Hansbrough, the divorced mother of former UNC-CH basketball star Tyler Hansbrough, was hired Dec. 8, 2008, just as her son was beginning his senior year and final season on the team, one that would bring the university a national championship. She won the job after a search that included 40 other applicants.

Hansbrough took fundraising trips to the ACC Tournament in Atlanta and the NCAA Tournament in Memphis in 2009. The synopsis only listed expenses related to the Memphis trip of roughly $1,100. There were no expenses listed for the ACC trip.

The synopsis said Hansbrough met with donors and prospective donors on both trips, and did not charge the foundation for game tickets. The information was shared with UNC-CH's athletic department.

The synopsis said Hansbrough raised nearly $5 million while with the dental foundation.

ACC football teams will travel to Notre Dame in a regular rotation. GETTY IMAGES

CHAPEL HILL — So yesterday was a busy day.

In case you missed it, we had some good stuff both in print and online about Notre Dame joining the ACC. I’d recommend giving it all a read or two:

CHAPEL HILL—When Notre Dame basketball coach Mike Brey and atheltic director Jack Swarbrick first talked about conference realignment, Brey had one request.

"I told our AD when conference movement was being talked about and the Big 12 was coming after us for this same kind of setup, I said, ‘Jack, we just can’t lose the East,'" Brey said. "'The East is important to our school, especially our basketball program. Please don’t take me to the Big 12.’"

Brey, a former Duke assistant under Mike Krzyzewski, got his wish when Notre Dame announced Wednesday it was joining the ACC as a full member in every sports expect football.

Wait a second. Wasn’t the ACC was dead and buried? Roadkill on the side of the BCS highway?

It wasn’t so long ago that, for some reason, the mere idea of an additional bowl game between the SEC and Big 12 meant the end of the ACC as we knew it and guaranteed the preeminence of the SEC, Big 12, Big Ten and Pac-12 forever and ever amen. Florida State and Clemson had their bags packed and were ready to flee. The ACC was on the verge of irrelevance, if not total disintegration.

With the addition of Notre Dame on Wednesday, the ACC is clearly very much alive, very much relevant and very much a factor in the big-money world of college sports going forward.

Notre Dame is joining the ACC as a full-member in all sports except football, the conference announced on Wednesday.

The ACC announced that its council of presidents unanimously voted to accept Notre Dame as the league’s 15th member. Notre Dame will compete in the ACC as a full member in all conference-sponsored sports with the exception of football, in which it will play five games annually against ACC teams.

It wasn’t immediately clear when Notre Dame, a current partial member of the Big East, would join the ACC.

Now that Notre Dame’s in the fold, a coup of staggering proportions for the ACC and comissioner John Swofford, assuring the relevance of the conference long into the future, if it was ever really in doubt, the only question left is who’s No. 16?

With 14 teams for football and 15 overall once Notre Dame joins -- and NBC’s football megadeal with the Fighting Irish expires in 2015, so mark that date on the calendar -- the ACC is going to need one more team to balance out the conference at some point down the road.

Connecticut was mentioned back when Syracuse and Pittsburgh were invited aboard, but there are two schools that fit the ACC far better, both athletically and academically. One would be easy: Rutgers. Another would require some behind-the-scenes maneuvering on the par of the Notre Dame move: Vanderbilt.

North Carolina coach Larry Fedora said last week that he wished his team had experienced more adversity during its dominant season-opening victory against Elon. The Tar Heels faced plenty here on Saturday against Wake Forest – and they also experienced their first loss of Larry Fedora’s coaching tenure. 

Updated 11:45 p.m.

DURHAM - The first play from scrimmage of 2012 could not have gone much better for Duke’s defense.