TOP-RANKED CAVS MOVE TO ACC FINAL

YORK» Kyle Guy scored 15 NEW points and No. 1 Virginia advanced to the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game with a 64-58 victory over No. 19 Clemson on Friday night.

The top-seeded Cavaliers (30-2) got several crucial plays from role player Jack Salt down the stretch and will face 12thranked and sixth-seeded North Carolina for the tournament title Saturday night in Brooklyn in a rematch of the 2016 ACC championship, won by North Carolina.

Virginia’s only ACC Tournament crowns came in 1976 and 2014.

• Luke Maye scored 17 points, including North Carolina’s last field goal with 5:33 remaining, and No. 12 North Carolina held off a late rally by No. 5 Duke for a 74-69 win.

FRIDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS In the AAC quarterfinals.

Kyle Washington scored 15 points and Gary Clark added 12 points and 11 rebounds to help No. 8 Cincinnati beat SMU 61-51. … Landry Shamet scored 24 points, Rashard Kelly had 16 and No. 11 Wichita State beat Temple 89-81. … Galen Robinson scored 18 points, Rob Gray had 17 points, six assists and five rebounds, and No. 21 Houston beat UCF 84-56. In the Big 12 semifinals. Malik Newman poured in 22 points, Silvio De Sousa filled in admirably for ailing big man Udoka Azubuike and ninth-ranked Kansas beat short-handed Kansas State 83-67. … Daxter Miles Jr. had 22 points for West Virginia, and Niem Stevenson’s half-court heave at the buzzer bounced harmlessly off the iron, giving the No. 18 Mountaineers a 66-63 win over No. 14 Texas Tech.

In the SEC quarterfinals. Lamonte Turner scored 15 points and No. 13 Tennessee locked down on defense to beat Mississippi State 62-59. … Collin Sexton scored 31 points and Alabama used a 28-3 run to start the second half and go on to defeat No. 16 Auburn 81-63. … Jaylen Barford scored 27 points to help Arkansas beat No. 23 Florida 80-72.

In the Atlantic 10 quarterfinals.

Jeff Dowtin scored 18 points, Jared Terrell added 16 points and No. 25 Rhode Island survived a challenge from VCU 76-67.

In the Pac-12 semifinals. Deandre Ayton scored seven of his 32 points in overtime and grabbed 14 rebounds, lifting No. 15 Arizona to a 78-67 victory over UCLA. The Wildcats get a chance to defend their Pac-12 tournament title against Friday’s late OregonSouthern Cal winner on Saturday.

In the Mountain West semifinals.