ATLANTA—The Duke Blue Devils and the Florida State Seminoles won their ACC tournament semifinal games today to advance to tomorrow’s final. Duke’s Jon Scheyer scored 22 points and the Blue Devils rode a 12-2 second-half run to beat the Maryland Terps 67-61. Florida State’s Toney Douglas scored 27 points and the No. 22 Seminoles held on for a 73-70 victory over the top-ranked University of North Carolina Tar Heels.

ATLANTA (AP)—With every Wake Forest miss, the Maryland Terrapins got a little closer to the NCAA tournament. They might be in now. Greivis Vasquez scored 22 points and the Terrapins advanced to the semifinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament Friday night with a crucial 75-64 upset of No. 8 Wake Forest, which was doomed by its worst shooting performance of the season.

CHARLOTTESVILLE Virginia doesn’t have to fear the turtle any more. Respect? Yes. Fear? No. The 19th-ranked Cavaliers rallied from a 13-point second-half deficit to jolt the No. 8-ranked Maryland Terrapins 89-81 tonight in an emotion-charged ACC women’s basketball game in John Paul Jones Arena. The victory, constructed upon a 30-point explosion by senior guard/forward Lyndra Littles and a 28-point outburst by junior guard Monica Wright, erased two conspicuous blemishes from U.Va.‘s résumé. It snapped Virginia’s 17-game losing streak against members of the ACC’s Big Three: Maryland, Duke and North Carolina. And it gave the Cavaliers their first home-court conquest of a Top-10 opponent since 2003.

COLLEGE PARK, Md.—About a dozen miles from the city where Barack Obama triumphantly assumed the presidency yesterday afternoon, a less noteworthy event took place last night, unnoticed by the national TV crews.

Barack Obama’s inauguration is next Tuesday, Jan. 20, in Washington. About a dozen miles away in College Park, Md., Virginia and Maryland will play an ACC men’s basketball game that night. Typically, U.Va.‘s traveling party spends only one night in a hotel before a road game. Because of the inauguration, however, the Cavaliers will leave Charlottesville on Sunday and stay that night in Columbia, Md. They usually stay in Greenbelt, Md., but they’re heading farther away from Washington to avoid the inauguration-related congestion.