Georgia throttled Georgia Tech 18-6 on Monday night in the Athens Regional to put the Bulldogs in the Super Regional.

The Dawgs, winners of the SEC East, will host N.C. State in a best-of-3 series starting Friday (noon). Game 2 is set for Saturday (noon) and Game 3, if necessary, on Sunday (4 p.m.) in Athens, Ga.

Georgia Tech actually led Monday's game 5-3 after the first inning but was undone by six errors.

Florida State gave the ACC four teams in the Super Regional with its 16-7 win over Tulane on Monday night.

The matchups for the four ACC teams in the Super Regionals:

Coastal Carolina (50-12) @ UNC (49-12)
N.C. State (41-20) @ Georgia (39-22)
Arizona (41-17) @ Miami (50-8)
Wichita State (47-15) @ FSU (52-11)

The other four series:

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The ACC placed three teams in the top eight overall seeds for the NCAA baseball tournament with Miami (No. 1), North Carolina (No. 2) and Florida State (No. 4) all earning top seeds.

The top seeds all will host four-team regionals as did eight at-large schools, like N.C. State.

The Wolfpack (38-20) will host James Madison (38-17) in the 7 p.m. game of the Raleigh regional while Charlotte and South Carolina will also meet at Doak Field.

The Tar Heels (46-12) will play Mt. St. Mary's (21-32) at 6 p.m. Friday in Cary, with Elon and UNC-Wilmington rounding out the regional.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Georgia Tech scored two runs in the top of the ninth on three consecutive North Carolina State errors to beat the Wolfpack 10-9 on Wednesday in the opening game of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.

The Yellow Jackets' rally produced the fourth lead change of the game and handed the Wolfpack their first three-game losing streak of the season. The two teams combined for 19 runs, 28 hits and eight errors.

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• How low can the ACC go?
• Boston College and Clemson
• Florida State and Maryland
• N.C. State and Wake Forest
• Va. Tech and UVa
• UNC and Duke

2007 record: 7-6, 4-4 ACC

Returning starters: Offense 4, Defense 4.

Quarterback?: No. Taylor Bennett (7 TDs, 9 INTs) transferred to Louisiana Tech.

Avoid in the ACC: N.C. State, Maryland, Wake Forest

Coaching situation: After winning seven games for the fifth time in six seasons, Chan Gailey got the boot. He was replaced by Navy's Paul Johnson. At Navy, Johnson turned one of the worst programs in the country into a consistent winner (45-29 in six seasons). Plan B in the coaching searches at both UNC and N.C. State in 2006, Johnson was Plan A for both Georgia Tech and Duke in 2007. He chose to return to the state of Georgia, where he coached I-AA power Georgia Southern for five seasons in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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• Wake Forest and N.C. State
• Boston College and Clemson
• Florida State and Maryland
• Va. Tech and UVa
• Miami and Ga. Tech
• UNC and Duke

If you thought the ACC was bad last year, or the year before, or the year before ... brace yourself for 2008. The league could be even worse, if that's possible.

Attrition, either through the NFL Draft, graduation or suspensions, has hit the division champs, Boston College and Virginia Tech, hard.

Traditional powers Miami and Florida State, who went a combined 12-13 in 2007, are no longer reloading but out-and-out rebuilding. FSU is doing so with the handicap of an academic scandal.

The ACC, and Coastal Division in particular, is so bad that Duke could equal its combined win total since 2004 before October ends.

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When the ACC spring meetings begin Sunday at Amelia Island, Fla., discussions of expanded conference scheduling will not be limited to basketball.

Also under review will be the possibility of going to a nine-game league format in football. Under the current system, ACC teams play eight conference games. Each school in the two six-team divisions — Atlantic and Coastal — play the other five division members plus three from the opposite division.

Should a nine-game format be adopted, each team would play four games against teams from the opposite division.

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Former Georgia Tech quarterback Joe Hamilton got busted Monday for a DUI, hit-and-run and marijuana possession, according to the AJC.

In Hamilton's car, police found an open bottle of Heineken beer on the floor board behind a passenger seat and a marijuana cigarette in the ash tray, the police report said.

Hamilton, the 1999 Heisman runner-up (it's true, look it up), works as Geogia Tech's assistant director of player personnel.

Thursday, Aug. 28
Jacksonville State @ Ga. Tech
Charleston Southern @ Miami
N.C. State @ South Carolina
Wake Forest @ Baylor

Saturday, Aug. 30
Boston College vs. Kent State (@ Cleveland)
Alabama vs. Clemson (@ Atlanta)
James Madison @ Duke
Delaware @ Maryland
McNeese State @ UNC
USC @ UVa
Va. Tech vs. East Carolina (@ Charlotte)

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North Carolina will play Michigan State at Detroit's Ford Field and Duke will play at Purdue in next season's ACC/Big Ten Challenge.

As expected, N.C. State will be left out of the made-for-TV event for the first time because it finished last in league play. The Big Ten features 11 teams; the ACC has a dozen.

The schedule:

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Two North Carolina women's basketball players were selected at the end of the first round of today's WNBA Draft, although the order is somewhat surprising. N.C. State's Khadijah Whittington and Duke's Wanisha Smith went in the second round.

LaToya Pringle went 13th to the Phoenix Mercury, while Erlana Larkins was picked by the New York Liberty as the last pick of the first round.

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CHARLOTTE — DeMarcus Nelson can't change what happened in his last game at Cameron Indoor Stadium, but he can control how his Duke career ends.

Nelson delivered the best all-around game of the tournament in Duke's 82-70 win over Georgia Tech, one game after what was arguably the worst of his All-ACC senior season.

On senior night last Saturday, Nelson scored a season-low six points in an 76-68 loss to UNC. He had more turnovers (four) than field goals (three).

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Staff photo by Ted Richardson

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski

Georgia Tech coach Paul Hewitt

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CHARLOTTE — Duke matched UNC's quarterfinal score with an 82-70 win over Georgia Tech, moving the two teams one step closer to a Sunday title game.

DeMarcus Nelson's 17 points, and critical 3-pointer after Georgia Tech cut a 20-point lead to 52-50, lifted the No. 2-seeded Blue Devils into Saturday's semifinals with Clemson.

A balanced effort and good early 3-point shooting helped the Devils bounce back from their loss to UNC last Saturday.

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CHARLOTTE — No. 7 seed Georgia Tech held form in its 94-76 victory over Virginia on the opening day of the ACC Tournament.

The Yellow Jackets believe it means they'll show different form against No. 2 seed Duke on Friday at 7 p.m. Georgia Tech lost to Duke 71-58 while committing 20 turnovers on Feb. 27.

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Staff photo by Robert Willett

Georgia Tech coach Paul Hewitt

Virginia coach Dave Leitao

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CHARLOTTE (AP) —Anthony Morrow scored 18 points in his return to his hometown Thursday night, and Georgia Tech pulled away from Virginia late, winning 94-76 in the first round of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.

Jeremis Smith also scored 18 points for the seventh-seeded Yellow Jackets (15-16), who shot 56.9 percent — the team's best in league tournament play — and knocked down 54 percent of their 3-pointers. They won their third straight and advanced to Friday night's quarterfinal against second-seeded Duke.

Sean Singletary had 20 points and 10 rebounds and Mamadi Diane added 18 points while making his first seven shots for Virginia (15-15), which lost its league tournament opener for the second straight year.

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Today's topic: Joe and Tudor preview the ACC tournament.

Staff video: Rob Roberts, Tim Lee, Joe Giglio and Caulton Tudor.

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