The waiting is over for Mike London. He’ll take the field and run the Virginia football players through their first practice of the spring this afternoon.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — A first-round bye gave the Virginia Tech men’s basketball team a much-needed break entering today’s ACC tournament quarterfinal matchup with Miami at Greensboro Coliseum.

Amber Mays admittedly doesn’t know a whole lot about Kentucky women’s basketball.

“I know about John Wall,” Mays said. “He’s my favorite men’s college player.”

In the next few days, Mays and her Liberty teammates will get plenty familiar with UK’s women’s team. The 13th-seeded Flames will meet fourth-seeded Kentucky at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Louisville’s storied Freedom Hall, which is set to close after this season.

Upsets reduces the number of at-large spots available for Virginia Tech’s basketball team.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Kyle Singler provided a textbook example for attacking a 2-3 zone defense in the second half of Duke’s 77-74 ACC Tournament semifinal win over Miami on Saturday at Greensboro Coliseum.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Javier Gonzalez was desperate, and desperation makes for great theatrics on the basketball court.

HIGH POINT, N.C. — Task one on a scouting report on Liberty’s women’s basketball team: Contest everything Devon Brown does.

Freshman forward Scott Wood scores all 18 of his points on 3-pointers in Wolfpack win.

Greenberg simply says, “I’m coaching at Virginia Tech.“

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Virginia Tech coach Seth Greenberg has the next couple of days all figured out. He thinks he can keep his players’ minds off their team’s still-questionable NCAA tournament fate by doing a few simple things.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Late in Virginia’s 57-46 ACC Tournament quarterfinal loss to Duke on Friday afternoon at the Greensboro Coliseum, Cavaliers guard Sammy Zeglinski stole the basketball from Duke’s Jon Scheyer, raced the length of the court, missed an easy layup, got the rebound, missed another layup and watched as Duke’s Lance Thomas pulled down the rebound.

News, notes and ruminations from the Greensboro Coliseum in advance of today’s ACC tournament quarterfinals. Blog will be updated throughout the day.

Start fast, stumble to the finish. The preceding sentence perfectly summed up both North Carolina’s basketball season and its 62-58 first-round ACC tournament loss to Georgia Tech on Thursday evening.