Miami women’s basketball entered its first-ever Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championship game knowing it had grown stronger in finishing off top-25 opponents, how much there was left to prove after falling to multiple in the regular season.
Instead, the collective fatigue of playing a fourth game in four days kept the Hurricanes from becoming the lowest-seeded team in conference history to win the ACC Tournament and shock the rest of college basketball.
Seventh-seeded Miami’s magical run through the conference tournament ended in a 60-47 loss to top-seeded NC State — winners of three straight ACC championships — at the Greensboro Coliseum in front of over 9,000 fans Sunday.