Tae Davis made a free throw with 0.5 seconds remaining and Notre Dame pulled out a 55-54 victory against Pittsburgh in the first game of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament Tuesday at Charlotte, N.C.The winning opportunity came after Notre Dame’s Markus Burton missed a shot but Davis collected the rebound and was fouled by Zack Austin. After making the first free throw, he missed the next attempt and then time expired.Davis had a team-leading 11 points and Burton, the ACC scoring leader at 22.2 points per game, and Nikita Konstantynovskyi both posted 10 points for the Irish (15-17).Notre Dame, which has won three games in a row, takes on fifth-seeded North Carolina (20-12), which received a first-round bye, in the second round Wednesday afternoon. The Tar Heels beat the host Fighting Irish 74-73 on Jan. 4.Jalan Lowe’s 17 points and Cameron Corhen’s 10 paced Pitt (17-15), which lost five of its last six games. The Panthers led 47-43 with just under four minutes to play.Brandin Cummings made two free throws for Pitt for a 51-50 edge with 1:35 remaining, only for Notre Dame, 14 seconds later, to regain the lead at 52-51 on a pair of Davis foul shots.Cummings drained a 3-pointer, but the Irish were even again on Konstantynovskyi’s tip-in at the 49-second mark for 54-all.
