Saturday was the opening day of ACC play and the games went pretty much as expected, but with one exception, they were all reasonably close.
Miami beat Notre Dame 62-49, UNC took care of Notre Dame 78-70, Virginia cracked Syracuse 84-62 and NC State knocked off Syracuse 84-78.
Miami-Notre Dame was about defense and Miami’s was better. The ‘Canes pretty much shut down freshman star Markus Burton, holding him to six points.
Just as we thought, as anyone who pays attention probably thought, Miami was just going to be better than the Irish, and they were.