Malcolm Brogdon had 18 points for Virginia (20-5, 9-4 Atlantic Coast Conference), and his reverse flip layup with 9.9 seconds left put the Cavaliers up 62-61. Virginia has a quick turnaround with Monday night’s home game against North Carolina State….
Advertisement
The Virginia Cavaliers rank 12th with an assist-to-turnover ratio of 1.54, while the North Carolina State Wolfpack rank outside the top 100 (163rd) with an A/TO of 1.08.
After halftime, the home team got rolling scoring six unanswered goals to take a 13-4 advantage into the fourth period.
The games played between the two schools at the Carrier Dome in both 2014 and 2015 have drawn sellout crowds of 35,446.
“It looked like we spread out, we stayed on him, we bothered – did his foot hit the floor? and all of that – but it seems like he got it off. He just kind of hung and moved it and made a huge play”.
Valentine’s Day weekend or not, Cameron Indoor Stadium has a habit of breaking Virginia’s hearts in recent years.
There was an immediate change in defensive intensity with Henson back in the lineup after the Syracuse game, and the Blue Devils’ opponents are shooting just 36 percent from the field and averaging 59 points per game since then.
There are maybe a handful of teams across the country that have the talent to match this capable duo.
“I’m the guy who comes in and tries to clean up”, he said.
Unranked Duke University pulled off a terrific upset of ACC rival No. 7 Virginia thanks to sophomore Grayson Allen’s buzzer-beating floater. Each of Duke’s previous two teams also dropped two of three at nearly the exact same spot in the schedule. Anthony Gill led the way for the Cavaliers, as he scored a game-high 16 points.
“The best way to learn is through experience, and during January, after losing Amile, we had to become a different team and they were learning that – there wasn’t a preseason to learn it”, coach Mike Krzyzewski said Monday.
It’s also worth noting that Duke’s 1992 NCAA title run began with opening wins over Campbell and Iowa in Greensboro and that was after they ran the ACC tourney table over Maryland, Georgia Tech and UNC a week earlier in Charlotte. Grayson Allen led all scorers with 19 points, and Brandon Ingram recorded his sixth double-double of the season (18 points, 10 rebounds).
Notre Dame (18-7) was ranked for the first two regular season polls, fell out and returned as No. 25 three weeks ago only to fall out again.
At the end of the third period, Duke and Wake Forest were tied, 38-38, as the Blue Devils held the Demon Deacons to only five points in the quarter.
The Wolfpack are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 road games and are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games overall. “Anytime you get outrebounded by 15 and you are 9-for-23 from the free-throw line you have no chance”.
Advertisement
“This stretch of games will test the mettle of great teams”, Bennett said. I believe Carolina will lead by 4-8 points nearly the entire game and make a small run at the end to win by 11, 82-71.
