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Updated 03/14/2010 04:36 PM

No. 4 Duke holds off Georgia Tech 65-61 to win ACC

By: Associated Press

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News 14 Carolina's Caroline Blair wraps up ACC Tournament coverage with this report from the Greensboro Coliseum.

GREENSBORO -- Kyle Singler scored 20 points and Jon Scheyer hit a critical 3-pointer with 18 seconds left to help No. 4 Duke beat Georgia Tech 65-61 in Sunday's Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championship game.

Scheyer finished with 16 points for the top-seeded Blue Devils (29-5), who let an 11-point lead with 6 minutes slip all the way to one before Scheyer's big shot. Nolan Smith also had 16 points to help Duke earn a league-record 18th tournament title, breaking a tie with rival North Carolina.

In a tournament filled with upsets, it took a gritty effort from Duke's high-scoring "Big Three'' to hold off a determined comeback from the seventh-seeded Yellow Jackets (22-12), who were trying to become the first team in tournament history to win four games in four days.

Duke has won nine of the past 12 ACC tournaments and is in prime position to grab a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament.

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