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Eric Dailey Jr. finishes with 25 points and Skyy Clark scores 17 as UCLA blows out rival USC 90-63 to head into the Big Ten tournament on a dominant note.

Can anyone stop Cooper Flagg and Duke?

Freshman Kon Knueppel scored 17 points to help No. 2 Duke beat rival North Carolina 82-69 on Saturday night and clinch the outright Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season title. Cooper Flagg added 15 points, nine rebounds and six assists despite first-half foul trouble for the Blue Devils (28-3, 19-1). Duke blew a 15-point first-half lead and trailed by seven midway early after the break, but responded with 12 consecutive points to turn the game and silence a roaring hostile crowd.

Darius Maddox had 18 points to help George Mason defeat Richmond 64-60 on Saturday night, earning the Patriots a share of the Atlantic 10 Conference regular-season title. George Mason (24-7, 15-3) shares the title with VCU, but the Rams earned the top seed by virtue of a 70-54 road win over the Patriots in the only matchup this season. George Mason earns two byes and won't play until Friday's quarterfinals at Capital One Arena in Washington.

Few teams have bulldozed their way to an ACC regular-season title quite as convincingly as this year's Blue Devils.

Jackson Sivills had 17 points in Wofford's 72-60 win over East Tennessee State on Saturday in the Southern Conference Tournament quarterfinals. Sixth-seeded Wofford will play seventh-seeded VMI in a semifinal on Sunday. Sivills added six rebounds for the Terriers (17-15).

Cameron Corhen and Brandin Cummings each scored 16 points as Pittsburgh snapped a four-game losing streak with a 93-67 rout of Boston College in the regular-season finale on Saturday. The Panthers (17-14, 8-12) finished the regular season in a logjam in the ACC standings, where as many as five teams could finish tied at 8-12 and tiebreakers will be employed to determine seeding into the conference tournament that begins Tuesday in Charlotte, N.C. Boston College (12-19, 4-16), which won 20 games and earned a bid into the NIT a year ago, is one of three teams not participating in the ACC Tournament.

Ryan Kalkbrenner's 27 points helped Creighton defeat Butler 87-74 on Saturday. Kalkbrenner also added 15 rebounds for the Bluejays (22-9, 15-5 Big East Conference). Steven Ashworth added 23 points while shooting 8 for 19, including 7 for 15 from beyond the arc while he also had six rebounds and 11 assists.

Viktor Lakhin scored 12 of his 16 points in the first half as No. 11 Clemson opened a double-digit lead and beat Virginia Tech 65-47 on Saturday for the program's record-tying 26th victory of the season. The Tigers (26-5, 18-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) matched a mark set by the 1990 team led by Dale Davis and Elden Campbell, who won Clemson's only ACC regular-season crown.