WASHINGTON
For the first time, fans could sit in the stands at the ACC tournament with a beer. And for a while, N.C. State fans could have used a few. At noon. On a Tuesday.
At first, it was to numb the pain of watching Cat Barber get dunked on by Bryant Crawford. By the end, it was in celebration of a win over Wake Forest and another chance at Duke.
If Tuesday tournament basketball in Greensboro was a jarring scene, this was even stranger, the stands at Verizon Center sparsely populated but generally tinted red by commuting N.