Leonard Hamilton, the conference’s longest-tenured men’s basketball coach, ended his collegiate career with an opening-round loss to Syracuse on Tuesday night at Spectrum Center in Charlotte, not far from where he grew up in Gastonia.

Leonard Hamilton's legendary career at Florida State ended Tuesday with an early-round exit from the men's ACC tournament. What he said:

Notre Dame, the winner of the opening game of the ACC men’s basketball tourney at Spectrum Center, earned a date with the Tar Heels at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday after defeating Pitt.

Across the board in uptown, Patel, who sits on the visitors authority board, predicts rate gains of 25% to 40%. Toni Sawhney, co-owner and general manager of the 123-room Holiday Inn Express & Suites in South End, told CBJ that “reservations have been a little slow” but she remains optimistic business will tick up this week.