NC St. sends Duke Packin’

DJ Horne scored 18 points, including two clutch free throws with 15 seconds left, and North Carolina State ousted No. 11 Duke, 74-69, in the quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament on Thursday in Washington.

Kyle Filipowski had 28 points and 14 rebounds for second-seeded Duke (24-8), but N.C. State big man D.J. Burns Jr. kept him frustrated in the second half as the Wolfpack refused to yield. Tenth-seeded N.C. State will face either Virginia or Boston College in Friday’s semifinals, needing two more victories to secure an improbable automatic bid to the

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Duke heads into the NCAAs on a sour note after dropping its regular-season finale at home to rival North Carolina and then losing its ACC Tournament opener after receiving a bye into the quarterfinals.

North Carolina 92, Florida St. 67

In Washington, Armando Bacot scored 14 points and grabbed 10 of his team’s 48 rebounds to Seminoles’ 22, and fourth-ranked Tar Heels rolled into the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament semifinals with a victory.

Shooting for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, the ACC’s regular-season champions face Pitt, which beat Wake Forest in a battle of bubble teams, on Friday night with a spot in the final on the line.

Big 12 Houston 60, TCU 45

In Kansas City, Mo., Emanuel Sharp had 14 points and Jamal Shead scored 12, as the topranked Cougars rolled to a victory over the Horned Frogs in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Tournament. The Cougars will play No. 25 Texas Tech in the semifinal round on Friday night.

Pac-12 Arizona 70, USC 49

In Las Vegas, KJ Lewis led a balanced scoring attack with 15 points as the No. 6 Wildcats avenged an end of the regular season loss by rolling past the Trojans in the Pac-12 Tournament quarterfinals.

The top-seeded Wildcats (25-7) play Oregon on Friday night. Arizona is two victories from becoming the first three-peat Pac-12 champion since the Wildcats won four straight in 1988-90 and 2002. There were no conference tournaments between 1991-2001.

Atlantic 10 Duquesne 65, Dayton 57

Jimmy Clark III scored 16 points and Duquesne held off star big man DaRon Holmes II and No. 24 Dayton in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic 10 Tournament at Barclays Center.

Holmes scored 21 of his 24 points in the second half, but the Flyers (24-7), who came in with a NET ranking of 21, struggled from the field and now will have to rely on an at-large bid to make the NCAA Tournament.

No other team in the A-10 is in the NET top 70, but the league only got one bid last season for the first time since 2005. This year, all four top seeds lost in the tournament quarterfinals, leaving No. 5 seed VCU as the highestseeded team remaining.