Last Night in College Basketball: A Wild ACC Tourney Day, and Miami (OH) Goes Down

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The ACC men’s tournament quarterfinals brought plenty of chaos. Clemson — the 5-seed — took on 4-seed and No. 19 team UNC on Thursday, and while the favorite from the perspective of the season-long metrics said, that maybe wasn’t true in practice. North Carolina came into the game 24th in the NCAA Evaluation Tool, 12 spots ahead of Clemson, but also a not-insignificant portion of that ranking came out of having freshman forward Caleb Wilson around for 24 games, in which he averaged 19.8 points, 9.8 rebounds and 2.7 assists.

Wilson has not played since Feb. 10, and is out for the season officially after undergoing surgery on a broken thumb: in the stretch without him, the Tar Heels were 5-2 and scoring 0.3 more points per game than they allowed, whereas in Wilson’s 24 games UNC averaged 81.9 points scored and 70.7 points allowed. So yes, over the course of the season, the Tar Heels have been better than Clemson, but those Tar Heels don’t exist any longer in 2026, either. Not that Clemson was at full strength, either: it lost junior forward Carter Welling to a torn ACL in its win over Wake Forest earlier in the tournament.

And yet, UNC still made this one a game despite the lack of Wilson. Down 39-31 at halftime and eventually trailing by 18, North Carolina exploded for 48 second-half points — the problem is that its defense, never exactly a strong suit even when whole, still allowed 41 to the Tigers. Because UNC had no timeouts left when it grabbed a rebound with just