No. 1 seed Duke edged No. 2 seed Virginia 74-70 in a thrilling ACC Tournament title game on Saturday night that could be enough to earn the Blue Devils the No. 1 overall seed in the 2026 NCAA Tournament. The Blue Devils will remain the No. 1 overall seed in CBS Sports Bracketology entering Selection Sunday despite a strong push from Michigan and Arizona.<\/p>\n
Isaiah Evans led the way for the Blue Devils with 20 points, including 13 in the second half, as Duke overcame a historic defensive effort from Virginia’s Ugonna Onyenso. The Cavaliers’ center set an ACC Tournament title game record with nine blocked shots as he made life hard on Duke star Cameron Boozer.<\/p>\n
Boozer, the frontrunner for Naismith Player of the Year, finished with just 13 points on 3-of-17 shooting while struggling against Onyenso’s length on the interior. But his twin brother, Cayden Boozer, stepped up to help lift the Blue Devils to their second straight ACC Tournament title.<\/p>\n
Cayden Boozer finished with 16 points, five rebounds and four assists. The game was a back-and-forth affair that featured 16 lead changes. Malik Thomas led Virginia with 18 points while Sam Lewis added 17. UVa is expected to remain a No. 3 seed in CBS Sports Bracketology after the loss.<\/p>\n
Read on below for takeaways from Duke’s second straight ACC Tournament title win on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 1 seed Duke edged No. 2 seed Virginia 74-70 in a thrilling ACC Tournament title game on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":656657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[278231,109227,2076,1372,278230,278229,278228,278232,62,67,132,68,32858],"class_list":{"0":"post-656656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-2026-acc-tournament","9":"tag-acc-tournament","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-duke-blue-devils","12":"tag-duke-vs-virginia-game","13":"tag-duke-vs-virginia-recap","14":"tag-duke-vs-virginia-score","15":"tag-duke-wins-2026-acc-tournament","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-virginia-cavaliers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116231417693091125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}