Austin Rivers, Mike Krzyzewski and the No. 6 Duke Blue Devils squeaked by the Virginia Tech Hokies, 60-56 in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals on Friday. Duke advances to Saturday's semifinal round.

Tyyler Thornton scored a career-best 13 points and Austin Rivers hustled for a clinching three-point play that carried the sixth-ranked Blue Devils to a 60-56 victory over cold-shooting Virginia Tech in the ACC quarterfinals Friday night.

C.J. Leslie had 19 points and 14 rebounds and N.C. State, attempting to remove all doubt about its NCAA tournament status, beat Virginia 67-64 on Friday to advance to the semifinals of the ACC tournament.

North Carolina had five players score in double figures as they defeated Maryland 85-69. CineSport's Noah Coslov, staff columnist Luke DeCock and the Baltimore Sun's Jeff Barker discuss the outcome.

The Triangle Volleyball Club will send seven teams to Atlanta this summer to compete in the USA Volleyball Girls Junior National Championships.

The first of the Morrisville-based club’s teams to qualify was Triangle 18 Black, which qualified in the 18 Open division by finishing third at the Big South National Qualifier in early April.

The remaining six bids were earned at Carolina Region bid tournaments held in Greensboro on April 30.

ATLANTA -- The Carolina Hurricanes have done everything they can to get in position to make the playoffs.

They've won 40 games. They have 91 points. They've recovered from some tough losses to score clutch victories.

Now, will the Canes finish it off?

AT&T will vacate 221,000 square feet of space in a Highwoods Properties building in Atlanta early next year.

Raleigh-based Highwoods announced the move during its conference call with analysts this morning.

AT&T is consolidating its footprint into company-owned space.
 

Correction: It marked UNC's lowest field goal percentage since 1956

ATLANTA – North Carolina coach Roy Williams felt so fortunate Sunday that his team was trailing by only one point at halftime, he figured his Tar Heels would pull off a third straight come-from-behind victory.

Not even close.

Georgia Tech, ranked last in the league in field goal percentage and field goal percentage defense, stifled the Tar Heels for a 78-58 win. UNC (12-5, 2-1 ACC) couldn’t stop Iman Shumpert (30 points) or Glen Rice Jr. (24) and turned the ball over 18 times. To top it off, the Heels went the final 8:47 of the game without hitting field goal.

ATLANTA -- It took 30 games, but the Carolina Hurricanes finally got their first look Thursday at the Atlanta Thrashers.

Turns out, it was a long look.

The Hurricanes and Thrashers went 60 minutes, then an overtime, before finally settling it in a shootout. Carolina won it 3-2, getting shootout goals from Jussi Jokinen and Sergei Samsonov.