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Miami Hurricanes hold off Pittsburgh, grab top seed for ACC tournament

Wooga Poplar made a career-best six 3-pointers for 18 points, and 16th-ranked Miami captured the No. 1 seed for the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament with a 78-76 win over No. 25 Pittsburgh on Saturday night.

Miami (24-6, 15-5 ACC) shares the regular-season title with Virginia, which clinched its half of the crown with a 75-60 win over Louisville earlier Saturday.

The Cavaliers cut down the nets in Charlottesville after that game — but they’ll be the No. 2 seed for the conference tournament, behind a Hurricanes team that was picked fourth in the league’s preseason poll and beat Virginia in the teams’ only meeting.