The Big Ten and Atlantic Coast Conference championship games were also played Saturday night.
Last season: 441 yards (26th) and an Atlantic Coast Conference championship, Clemson's first since 1991.
Across the 12-team Atlantic Coast Conference this season, the story is much the same.
Gee said the Atlantic Coast Conference added Notre Dame at a time when it was feeling vulnerable.
The burst turned a 22-13 deficit into a 34-27 lead for Duke (21-1, 11-0 Atlantic Coast Conference).
In September, the school announced that it would join the Atlantic Coast Conference in all sports except football.
Louisville's position figures to become even stronger as the school moves into the more lucrative Atlantic Coast Conference.
The Zags claimed the last of the coveted No. 1 seeds, edging out Atlantic Coast Conference champion Miami.
Despite a slow start, Miami (23-4, 14-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) never trailed and improved to 13-0 at home.
The highest winning percentage in that time belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference, which also boasted kenpom.com's highest average rating.
Notre Dame is independent in football and late last year committed to join the Atlantic Coast Conference in all other sports.
Four of those came in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament last weekend, which UNC won for just the second time since 1990.
The Atlantic Coast Conference has not made public its 2011-12 tax filing.
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Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame are heading for the Atlantic Coast Conference next season and Louisville will follow the season after that.
No. 2 is the Atlantic Coast Conference with 12, including six first-rounders.
Syracuse (29-9), heading to the Atlantic Coast Conference this summer, lost at Marquette 74-71 during the Big East regular season on Feb. 25.
That duo provided Duke (27-4, 14-4 Atlantic Coast Conference) all the punch it needed to earn a season sweep of the Tar Heels.
While Saturday marks the final Big East game between Syracuse and Louisville, the two schools will meet again in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Syracuse is leaving for the Atlantic Coast Conference and Marquette for a new, basketball-centric conference that will assume the Big East name next summer.
Syracuse, which is leaving for the Atlantic Coast Conference this summer, lost at Marquette 74-71 during the Big East regular season on Feb. 25.
The backcourt that guided the Hurricanes to their first Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season championship now has them positioned to add the tournament title, too.
However, 2013 will be its final season in the Big East as it announced late last year it was moving to the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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Notre Dame is headed to the Atlantic Coast Conference next season.
Both schools are leaving for the Atlantic Coast Conference next season.
Syracuse is moving to the Atlantic Coast Conference after the season.
This year's Military Bowl will feature a team from the Atlantic Coast Conference and an opponent from Conference USA. It will be broadcast nationally on ESPN.
But its schedule is evolving: In 2014 Notre Dame will end its series with Michigan and begin playing five games annually against Atlantic Coast Conference opponents.
"At this point in the process, the discussion and momentum seems to surround a four-team, three-game approach, " Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner John Swofford said in a statement.
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The Cardinals who, like Syracuse, are moving to the Atlantic Coast Conference were the only No. 1 seed to make it to the Final Four.
This is a collection of college basketball's big boys, with two teams from the Big East, and one each from the Big Ten and Atlantic Coast Conference.
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