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November 15, 1996
Clemson stuns No. 3 ranked Kentucky, the defending national champion, 79-71, in Indianapolis. Harold Jamison leads the Tigers with 20 points. It's the highest-ranked team Clemson has ever beaten away from home. Rick Barnes' team would finish the season with 23 wins and the school's third-ever Sweet 16 appearance.
November 17, 1979
No. 3 ranked Duke defeats No. 2 Kentucky 82-76 in overtime in the inaugural Hall of Fame Tipoff Classic in Springfield, Mass. The Blue Devils, led by Mike Gminski, Gene Banks and Vince Taylor, would later repeat that triumph over the Sam Bowie/Kyle Macy Wildcats in the NCAA Tournament. The ACC champs will edge Kentucky 55-54 in Rupp Arena in the Midwest regional semifinals.
November 21, 1987
North Carolina upsets No. 1-ranked Syracuse, 96-93, in overtime to win the Hall of Fame Tipoff Classic in Springfield, Mass. The Tar Heels, forced to play without standouts J.R. Reid and Steve Bucknall, start redshirt freshman Pete Chilcutt, who contributes 13 points and 14 rebounds, along with true freshman Rick Fox, who chips in with 15 points and seven rebounds. Senior guard Jeff Lebo leads the Heels with 20 points, hitting the two game-clinching free throws in the final seconds.
November 22, 2004
Wake Forest is ranked No. 1 for the first time in school history after opening 3-0 with victories over George Washington, VCU and Yale. The Deacons will beat Providence and No. 18 Arizona to hold the top ranking for another week, but a loss at Illinois in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge will drop Wake Forest to No. 6 in the Dec. 6 poll.
November 24, 1985
North Carolina's Brad Daugherty hits an ACC record 13-of-13 field goals as UNC opens the 1985-86 season with a 107-70 victory over UCLA in Carmichael Auditorium. Daugherty, a 6-11 senior center, would end his career with a career field goal percentage of 62.0 - the best in ACC history at that time. That figure has since been passed by three other players, including current leader Brendan Haywood of UNC (63.7 percent), but Daugherty's single-game record still stands.
November 24, 2002
Maryland beats Miami of Ohio, 64-49, in the inaugural game in the $125 million Comcast Center on the Terps' College Park, Md., campus. The Terps also use the occasion to celebrate their 2002 national championship, won in the last season of Cole Field House.
November 25, 1989
Wake Forest routs Davidson, 84-65, in the first official game to be played at Lawrence Joel Coliseum. The new facility, built on the site of the old Winston-Salem Memorial Auditorium allowed the Deacons to move back close to campus after playing its "home" games in Greensboro for nearly a decade. The school would reach an important milestone a week later, when in the second game played in Joel on Dec. 2, Wake Forest beats Cornell for the 1,000th win in school history.
November 25, 1989
Unheralded freshman Tim Duncan starts the first game of his college career, but plays just 10 minutes in Wake Forest's 70-68 victory over Alaska-Anchorage in the first round of the Great Alaskan Shootout. Duncan doesn't attempt a shot from the floor and goes scoreless in his first college game, but he does offer a small glimpse of the future with seven rebounds in his 10 minutes of action. Just 24 hours later, the future national player of the year (and future NBA MVP) records the first of his 87 career double-doubles with 12 points and 12 rebounds in a victory over Hawaii.
November 26, 1982
Clemson's Milan Belich hits the first 3-point shot in ACC history and he does it at a dramatic moment - a 3-pointer at the buzzer that forces overtime against Texas A&M in the first round of the Great Alaskan Shootout. The ACC operates that season under experimental rules, including a 3-point line and a shot clock. The rules can be used by mutual consent in non-conference games and Texas A&M agrees to use them in the opener for both teams - a decision that allows Clemson to pull out an 82-79 victory in double overtime. It would be another four years before the NCAA adopts a 3-point shot for all games.
