ACC basketball standings: Duke, Notre Dame, Clemson all lose, helping Virginia's chances

Saturday was about as good a day of ACC basketball as a Virginia fan could have hoped for.

Louisville, ineligible for postseason play because of a self-imposed ban, beat Duke. Georgia Tech reached up from the cellar to beat Notre Dame. NC State held its home floor against Clemson, and Pitt beat Syracuse at the Carrier Dome.

All in all, three teams within a game of Virginia in the ACC standings lost, opening up a slightly more comfortable gap between the first and second tiers.

Of course it wasn't a perfect weekend as the universe couldn't chart a course for UNC and Miami to both lose their matchup in Chapel Hill.