Greensboro, NC – Alyssa Ustby scored 12 points and won 18 rebounds and Lanie Grant made two free throws with remaining 7.3 seconds to give No. 14 North Carolina a 60-56 victory over Florida No. 22 in the quarterfinals of the Tournament of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Reniya Kelly, who lost the previous three games with an injury, hit a jumper with just over a remaining minute to give the tar heels the leadership and she Connected again near the foul line to put it 58-54 with 20.4 seconds.
Ta’niya Latson made two free throws for the seminols with 11.4 for the end, but then they had to fail three times before Grant went to the line. The player of the year of Virginia Gatorade of 2024 and the first affiliates to UNC, calmly, the clinchers after a waiting time for ice.
The fifth sown tar heels play with the winner of No. 7 NC State and Georgia Tech in the semifinals on Saturday.
Lexi Donarski also scored 12 points for the Tar Heels (27-6) and Indya Nivar added 10. With Maria Gakdeng grabbing 16 rebounds, the Tar Heels had a 53-40 bouncing advantage, 17-9 in the offensive end for a difference of 21-2 at second chance points.
Makayla Timpson had 15 points, eight rebounds and tied a tournament record with eight blocks for sown room seminols (23-8). Latson added 13 points and O’Mariah Gordon had 12.
Florida State won the confrontation of the regular season 86-84 when Latin made a tray when time is over. This time, the top scorer of the nation had half of its average score at 3 of 14 shots, since the seminols had their lowest score game of the season.
The greatest advantage in the second half was five points.
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