After a big win at Duke to close out their regular season, the fourth ranked University of North Carolina Tar Heels and University of Maryland Terrapins face off today in the first quarterfinal round game of the ACC Tournament at the Phillips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. The winner will advance to the semifinals of the ACC tournament on Saturday.
You can watch all the action between the Tar Heels and Terrapins live online here. Also, here is some video of a previous meeting between the two teams:
And here's more on this game:
The ACC has long UNC and Duke's conference, but the Terrapins have been right up there with the other teams in recent years. Still, UNC hasn't looked this good in a while. Roy Williams has his team peaking at the right time of year, and with a couple wins in the ACC tournament, the Tar Heels should be a number one seed in the NCAA tournament.
The NCAA tournament starts on Tuesday of next week with preliminary games in Dayton, Ohio. The real tournament starts on Thursday at lunch time. The top seeds in the NCAA tournament are likely to be Syracuse, Kentucky, North Carolina and Kansas.
The winner will advance to the semi-finals on Saturday.
Here's more on the UNC – Maryland game from SBNation:
ACC regular season champ North Carolina will open play in the 2012 ACC Tournament on Friday at noon when the Tar Heels take on Maryland. The Terrapins dumped Wake Forest in Thursday's opening round 82-60. Mark Turgeon was very pleased with his team's effort on Thursday.
"That's the best, most complete game we've played all year. We defended. We rebounded. We executed. We shared the ball." "We talked about just about dialing in and also having fun. I think the guys tried to have fun (Thursday). More importantly, they trusted their teammates on both ends of the floor. That's been a hard thing for us this year but (Thursday) we did it."
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