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Heading into the final week of the regular season, Notre Dame is guaranteed a spot among the top four seeds of next week’s Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament.

The Fighting Irish (21-8, 14-4) can clinch the conference’s No. 2 seed and bolster their NCAA Tournament status Wednesday night when they face Florida State in Tallahassee, Fla.

Attaining the No. 1 ACC Tournament seed is not impossible for Notre Dame, but that would require first-place Duke to lose its last two games.

The Seminoles (15-13, 8-10), meantime, do not project as an NCAA Tournament team unless they win the ACC Tournament. They need one more victory to secure a bye to the second round in the conference tournament as one of the top nine seeds.

Notre Dame, 17-3 since a loss to Indiana on Dec. 18, blew out Georgia Tech on Saturday, 90-56, as Dane Goodwin scored 17 points and Blake Wesley 15.

The Fighting Irish are looking for their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2017.

“I think we are in an amazingly strong…

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