ACC TOURNAMENT SECOND ROUND

Tipoff: Noon, Spectrum Center, Charlotte, N.C.

Records: Pittsburgh (13-19, 5-13 ACC); North Carolina State (19-12, 10-8 ACC)

TV: ESPN2 (Kevin Brown, Jay Williams)

Notable: Pitt, the 15th seed, upset No. 10 Stanford, 64-63, Tuesday … NC State, the No. 7 seed, had a first-round bye after losing six of its last seven regular-season games … Pitt lost to NC State at home, 81-72, on Jan. 24, despite Pitt winning the rebound edge, 52-31. The Panthers missed 14 free throw attempts. Wolfpack senior guard Quadir Copeland collected 20 points and nine assists, senior forward Ven-Allen Lubin had 17 points and 12 rebounds, and sophomore guard Paul McNeil Jr. added 15 points. Roman Siulepa had 15 points and 13 rebounds for Pitt … Today’s winner gets No. 2 Virginia at noon Thursday in the quarterfinals.

Mirror prediction: NC State 74, Pitt 72

Mirror prediction record: 22-10

— Buck Frank

Maryland eliminates Ducks in opener

CHICAGO — David Coit scored 17 points, Elijah Saunders added 15, and Maryland defeated Oregon 70-60 in a first-round game of the Big Ten Tournament on Tuesday.

The Terrapins will play Iowa today in the second round.

Maryland held Oregon to 3-for-22 shooting (14%) with 0 for 10 from 3-point distance in the first half and the Terrapins led 33-12 at the break. Maryland scored the first nine points and the Ducks made their first field goal at the 8:46 mark, making the score 17-8. Maryland later ran off 10 consecutive points for a 31-10 lead. Coit scored 12 points in the first half.

An 11-2 run helped the Ducks cut their deficit to 12 points early in the second half, but Maryland allowed only three points over the next 5:30 minutes and the lead was 58-34 near the 8-minute mark. A dunk and a three-point play from Nate Bittle started a 15-2 run for Oregon and it was 60-49 with 4:30 minutes remaining.

Bittle scored 16 points, Kwame Evans Jr. 14 and Takai Simpkins 10 for 16th-seeded Oregon (12-20).

Michigan takes 3 Big Ten honors

Michigan won three of the top four Associated Press Big Ten men’s basketball awards Tuesday, with Yaxel Lendeborg voted player of the year and top first-year transfer and Dusty May named coach of the year.

Illinois’ Keaton Wagler was the unanimous choice for freshman of the year in voting by a panel of 16 media members who cover the Big Ten.

Lendeborg polished what already was a strong all-around game after transferring from UAB and led the third-ranked Wolverines to their first conference regular-season championship since 2021. He finished the regular season with one of his best outings, scoring 27 points and tying his career high with five 3-pointers in a 90-80 win over Michigan State on Sunday.

Lendeborg is averaging 14.7 points, 7.2 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game and has become a willing 3-point shooter. He also leads the Wolverines in steals and guards multiple positions.

May has built on an outstanding first season at Michigan. The Wolverines won 27 games and the Big Ten Tournament title last year and reached the Sweet 16. This season they sit 29-2 and well-positioned to make a run at the school’s first national championship since 1989.

Wagler entered the season under the radar among incoming freshmen. Though he was the state high school player of the year in Kansas, he was not seriously recruited by Kansas or even Kansas State. The nation knows Wagler now. He averages a team-best 17.9 points and 4.3 assists per game and shoots 41% on 3s and 81% on free throws. He scored the most points by a Big Ten freshman over the last 30 years with 46 against Purdue.

Purdue’s Braden Smith is an AP All-Big Ten first-team selection for a third straight year. He is joined on the first team by Michigan State’s Jeremy Fears Jr., Northwestern’s Nick Martinelli, Wagler and Lendeborg, who was a unanimous first-team pick.

Smith averages 14.9 points to lead the Boilermakers and his 8.7 assists per game rank second nationally behind Fears’ 9.1. Smith is the only player in NCAA history to have at least 1,800 points and 1,000 assists, and he has three of the top five single-season assist totals in conference games in Big Ten history.

Fears has been the catalyst for Michigan State, having scored in double figures each of the last 19 games and in 25 of 37 for his career. His 281 assists are second-most in a single season in MSU history.

Boozer, Scheyer win ACC awards

Duke star freshman Cameron Boozer is The Associated Press player of the year for the Atlantic Coast Conference, while the top-ranked Blue Devils’ Jon Scheyer is league coach of the year.

The AP announced its individual awards and all-ACC honors Tuesday for the 2025-26 season after voting by 18 media members covering the league. The list included Miami’s Malik Reneau as transfer of the year.

The 6-foot-9, 250-pound Boozer was the unanimous choice for player of the year as well as freshman of the year, the standout at the heart of Duke’s climb to No. 1 in the AP Top 25 as the ACC Tournament arrives this week in Charlotte, North Carolina. Boozer entered the week ranked sixth nationally in scoring (22.7) and 13th in rebounding (10.2), while his passing has stood out against constant double teams (4.1 assists).

Scheyer entered this year as the first coach to twice win the ACC Tournament in his first three seasons. The Blue Devils were picked to win the league again and are the top seed, but what’s stood out is the way they have progressed since mid-January.

North Carolina’s Caleb Wilson and Stanford’s Ebuka Okorie joined Boozer in making freshmen the top three vote-getters on the AP all-ACC teams. UNC, Louisville and Miami each had two selections on the 11-player squad.

Heat’s Adebayo scores 83 points in victory

MIAMI — MIAMI — Bam Adebayo scored 83 points, the second-best scoring effort in NBA history, to carry the Miami Heat to a 150-129 win over the Washington Wizards on Tuesday night.

Adebayo had 31 points in the first quarter, 43 by halftime and 62 by the end of the third quarter. He finished 20 for 43 from the field, 36 for 43 from the foul line and 7 for 22 from 3-point range.

Adebayo’s free throw makes and attempts both set NBA records for a game. The record for attempts was 39 by Dwight Howard — who got to the line that many times on two occasions. The record for free throws made in a game was 28, set by Wilt Chamberlain and Adrian Dantley. Chamberlain got the 28 free throws on the night he scored 100 points in 1962 — the only game better than Adebayo in NBA history.

The Associated Press