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GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Its been a season of firsts for No. 6 Virginia. The Cavaliers are savoring their latest one by sticking around the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament a little while longer than usual. Virginia advanced to the ACC semifinals for the first time since 1995 by pulling away to beat Florida State 64-51 in a quarterfinal Friday. Joe Harris matched a season high with 20 points and Anthony Gill added 16 for the top-seeded Cavaliers (26-6). They shot 48 per cent, forced 15 turnovers and earned their third double-digit victory over the Seminoles this season while winning their 14th in 15 games. "We really just wanted to go out there and prove to everybody that we deserve to be here, we deserve the No. 1 seed," Gill said. Okaro White scored 17 points and Aaron Thomas added 13 for the ninth-seeded Seminoles (19-13). They shot 43 per cent against one of the nations best defences but couldnt keep the Cavaliers off the boards when it counted most, and were denied their third victory over a top-seeded team since 2009. A victory would have gone a long way toward propelling them back into the NCAA tournament. Instead, the Seminoles can only sweat it out until selection Sunday. "Our record speaks for us to be on the bubble, but I think were a great team," White said. "We had a tough time throughout the course of the season, but I think weve shown everyone were a team that should be out there. I think were a team thats up to the level of a lot of the teams that are going to be in the NCAA tournament, but its hard." Virginia established a 31-25 rebounding advantage -- 21-13 in the second half -- and finished with 17 second-chance points. "We talk about outlasting people all the time," freshman London Perrantes said. "We know that nobodys going to want to guard us 35 seconds every time down the court, so we know that if we keep running our offence, theyre going to get frustrated and were going to get good shots." White pulled Florida State to 61-49 with his jumper through contact with 3:25 left. But he missed the free throw and the Seminoles didnt hit another field goal the rest of the way. Virginia will face fifth-seeded Pittsburgh, which beat No. 15 North Carolina 80-75, on Saturday in the first semifinal. Thats unfamiliar territory for a Cavaliers program that hadnt reached the semifinals in nearly two decades -- the longest drought in the conference. In matching a league record with 16 conference victories, Virginia earned the No. 1 seed in the tournament for just the second time and first since 1981. The Cavaliers only tournament title came in 1976 and until Friday they had won only four ACC tournament games since that last semifinal appearance -- and none since 2010. "Weve done a lot of things that we havent done for years," Perrantes said. "So for this to happen for us now is definitely a relieving experience." They led for all but about eight minutes of this one and were in control throughout -- even if it took a while for the scoreboard to finally reflect that. "Its very hard to come back on a team like Virginia when theyre coming down and using 30 seconds of the shot clock," White said. "You cant get down on them." Harris, who matched the season high of 20 points against Hampton on Nov. 26, was 7 of 12 and hit at least half of his shots for the first time since a win against Maryland on Feb. 10. "He has a good feel when to let it come and when to be assertive," ACC coach of the year Tony Bennett said. "He senses. He doesnt get it right all of the time (but) he senses when something is required of him." Virginia pushed its lead into double figures for the first time on Gills free throw with 13:57 left that made it 43-33. 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Its not going to be perfect all the time, but what we want them to do is play more in that direction that we played tonight.The Leafs out-shot the Blue Jackets 32-20. The 20 shots were the second fewest of the season (10 vs. Buffalo Oct. 28) and the second time in 42 games Toronto allowed under 24 shots in a game.That itself was an accomplishment.I think its all part of the process, defenceman Cody Franson said. To keep a team to under 25 shots takes a lot of work. But the work that youre doing allows you to play a less exhausting game. If you play hard in your D-zone you dont spend as much time down there, and therefore you dont have to spend as much time hitting people and trying to defend. You can get in the offensive zone and not necessarily have to be as physical.When the Leafs (22-17-3) got chances, they took advantage. Tyler Bozak, Daniel Winnik, Phil Kessel and James van Riemsdyk scored on 2013 Vezina Trophy winner Sergei Bobrovsky, and van Riemsdyk added an empty-netter for good measure.All that came after Blue Jackets centre Ryan Johansen scored 3:15 in on the first shot on Jonathan Bernier, who finished with 18 saves. Horachek told his team to stick with it, dont let anything bother you and just keep going, and players listened.Our team really responded, captain Dion Phaneuf said. We stuck with the way that we had to play. We didnt give up a whole lot all night and it was start-to-finish probably one of our strongest games that weve played as a team.For a team striving for some measure of consistency, this was it. General manager Dave Nonis blamed fits of inconsistency for the firing of coach Randy Carlyle on Tuesday.Leafs president Brendan Shanahan delivered the same message in speaking with players Friday morning, that this isnt good enough. The group that took the ice against Columbus (18-18-3) looked like it took that message to heart.Hes the boss of our organization and the president of our team, so when he addresses the team, the team listens with open ears, Phaneuf said. It wasnt a negative meeting, but it was about what he expects from our team — very straightforward, professional, and I thought our team responded well and in the right way.The Blue Jackets didnt respond thee way coach Todd Richards would have liked.dddddddddddd Two Toronto goals came as a result of the puck going in off a defenceman, and the Leafs two power-play goals came after some poor discipline.They were bad penalties, Richards said. We lost too many battles on the walls, in the corners. I think we took four penalties so youre giving a team, plus the five-on-three just off of a line change. So, bad penalties. You arent giving yourself a chance to win.Columbus goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky was playing his first game since signing a US$29.7-million, four-year extension earlier in the day. Bobrovsky stopped 27 of the 31 shots he faced and couldnt be faulted much for the loss.It was tough, Bobrovsky said. Tough game. Tough start, but weve got to find a way.The Leafs found a way by committing to the kind of defence-first style Horachek wants. Its not that theyre suffocating in their own zone, but keeping shots against down by keeping the puck and dictating the pace is part of the plan.They always say when youre in the offensive zone, its tough for them to score some goals, Winnik said.Scoring two power-play goals for the first time in over a month, the Leafs showed they could make a team pay for penalties. But perhaps the most impressive part of this victory was how they didnt go into a shell after building a three-goal lead.Instead, the Leafs kept pushing and limited the Blue Jackets opportunities to get back into the game.I think thats been one of our faults this year is when we have leads like that, we sit back, Winnik said. But I thought we did a great job of just taking it to them.The Leafs embark on a four-game road trip that takes them to Los Angeles, Anaheim, San Jose and St. Louis. They face the Stanley Cup-champion Kings on Monday.Horachek has been around the game long enough to know its impossible to play this kind of game every night. But his players can try.Thats the kind of game that were striving towards on an every-night basis, Franson said. If we can play like that as a group, we spend less time in on our own zone and were a much better team because of it.Notes — Leafs goaltender Jonathan Bernier finished with 18 saves for his 16th victory of the season. ... Referee Dean Morton was upended by David Clarkson in an accidental collision early in the first period. Morton flipped in the air and went down to the ice in pain. After being attended to by training staff, Morton was helped off and did not return. Marc Joanette worked the rest of the game with linesmen Greg Devorski and Mark Shewchyk. ... Kessel was playing in his 406th consecutive game, second in Leafs history behind only Tim Horton (486). ... The late J.P. Parise was honoured on the video screens in the first period. Parise, a member of Canadas 1972 Summit Series team, died Wednesday night from lung cancer. 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