9:00 pm
March 11

ACC Tournament: North Carolina v. #22 Virginia Tech

Who will WIN this matchup?

North Carolina Tar Heels (17-9)

#22 Virginia Tech Hokies (15-5)

 

Current odds:

North Carolina Tar Heels: (-170)

Virginia Tech Hokies: (+145)

 

• The spread for the game is North Carolina by 3.5 points.

• Sixth-seeded North Carolina (17-9) has rolled in two games across a five-night period, including Wednesday night’s 101-59 thumping of Notre Dame. That was the second-largest final margin in the history of the ACC tournament.

• Third-seeded Virginia Tech (15-5) is coming off a coronavirus-related pause. So this restart comes at a critical time. The latest pause involving Virginia Tech wasn’t devastating in terms of the team’s development, Young said. “We didn’t have a positive test,” Young said. “In working with our local health department, they thought it would be in everybody’s best interest that we pause. It was all a contact tracing issue that many of us have dealt with.”

• The Tar Heels have won three of their last four games. Those include a conquest of nationally ranked Florida State and blowouts of Duke and Notre Dame. The status of North Carolina forward Garrison Brooks is in question. He sat out Wednesday night’s game, marking only the second game he has missed across 132 North Carolina games played while he has been on the roster.

• Virginia Tech had two games canceled last week, so its regular season concluded in strange fashion. The Hokies played just four games in February. They joined Louisville and Boston College with league-low 13 ACC games played in the regular season. The Hokies haven’t played since defeating Wake Forest on Feb. 27. Virginia Tech is 2-2 in its last four games, with the other victory in overtime at Miami.

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