Duke tops Miami

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Kyle Singler scored 27 points to help

fourth-ranked Duke push ahead in the second half to beat Miami

77-74 in Saturday's Atlantic Coast Conference tournament

semifinals.

Jon Scheyer added 16 points, including eight in the go-ahead

15-0 run early in the second half that restored some sense of order

in an upset-filled tournament. The top-seeded Blue Devils (28-5)

trailed by three at halftime against the league's last-place team

before rallying to reach the championship game, where they will

defend their title against the winner of the North Carolina

State-Georgia Tech semifinal later Saturday.

Freshman Durand Scott had 21 points for the 12th-seeded

Hurricanes (20-13), who put up plenty of fight but couldn't follow

their upsets of Wake Forest and Virginia Tech with a much bigger

one. Miami was in the ACC semifinals for the first time in its

history.