For Tar Heels, Last Shot and Next Opponent Are Both a Surprise ATLANTA - North Carolina's Kendall Marshall has been labeled a guard with limited scoring value, and for good reason. He hunts teammates, not shots, and when the shot clock gets to a single digit or it is the end of the game, Marshall is usually passing to other options ahead of him in the offense, like the swingman Harrison Barnes or the 7-footer Tyler Zeller. Marshall, an old-school point guard who set the A.C.C."s single-season assist record this season, had the last shot for a change Saturday afternoon and made an old-school bank shot that saved North Carolina from elimination and the Atlantic Coast Conference from the embarrassment of having empty seats in Philips Arena for Sunday's A.C.C. tournament final. The score was tied when Barnes, the Tar Heels" leading scorer, was shut down on a drive for the winning shot. He passed the ball to Marshall, who banked in an 8-footer with 10 seconds to play as short-handed North Carolina beat North Carolina State, 69-67. "To hear most people tell it, I'm one-dimensional, all I can do is pass, can't score," Marshall said. I don't look to score first option; we have seven other McDonald's all-Americans that I can get the ball to. In high school, they put the ball in my hands. In college, it changed a little bit. 4 Tar Heels (29-4) will play Florida State in Sunday's championship game. The 17th-ranked Seminoles (23-9), the tournament's third seed, beat sixth-ranked Duke, 62-59, in the other semifinal. North Carolina played without forward John Henson, the A.C.C. defensive player of the year, who hurt his left wrist in a fall in Friday's quarterfinal win over Maryland. Zeller, the A.C.C. player of the year, led Carolina with 23 points, but he fouled out with 1 minute 8 seconds to play. The next best offensive option was Barnes, a 6-foot-8 sophomore, but he is more of a shooter than a creator, and he was bottled up with 20 seconds left when he passed to Marshall. Marshall, a 6-foot-4 sophomore who is averaging almost 10 assists, reset the offense and called out a 1-4 flat set for himself. He drove to the left side, lowered a shoulder to knock back North Carolina State defender Alex Johnson and banked his shot off the backboard. There was no foul called on Marshall, which went against the tenor of a physical game. Zeller and North Carolina State's C. J. Leslie fouled out, and four other players had four fouls. The loss of Leslie, a 6-foot-8 sophomore, was a blow for the fifth-seed Wolfpack (22-12), who were trying to solidify their case for a spot in the N.C.A.A. tournament field. Leslie scored 22 points, but he fouled out with 8:03 to play because the N.C. State bench lost track of how many fouls he had. Leslie picked up three fouls in 91 seconds and left the game with the Tar Heels leading, 58-52. In the second semifinal, Florida State also had to call on a secondary option to beat Duke. The Seminoles led by a point with 12 seconds to play when guard Luke Loucks came off a screen at the top of the key and made a 15-foot jump shot to make the score 62-59. "The ball felt like it was in the air 25 seconds before it went in," Loucks said. It was a big play because the Seminoles" 3-point lead meant they would not have to contend with drives to the basket for a potential tying shot by Duke's aggressive guards Austin Rivers and Seth Curry. The Blue Devils had to look for a 3-pointer, and Rivers did everything he could to draw a foul behind the 3-point line on Florida State's Michael Snaer with six seconds to play. "He tried to jump and come under my arms and get me to foul him, and I just threw my hands up over my head as fast I could," Snaer said. Florida State, which has never won the A.C.C. tournament, thumped North Carolina, 90-57, on Jan. 14. This is only the second A.C.C. tournament championship game for the Seminoles, who lost the 2009 title game to Duke, also in Atlanta. Snaer, a junior guard, led Florida State with 16 points. Rivers led Duke with 17 points. The Blue Devils played without the 6-foot-11 forward Ryan Kelly (11.8 points per game) after he sustained a sprained ankle in practice last week. "We don't want to be the ugly stepsister again; we don't want to be some hit-and-miss program," Snaer said. We're not on Tobacco Road, but we want some respect from people in this league.