With 5 minutes to go in the first half, Duke is trailing State by 3, 29-26. I wish I weren't stuck at work!
For the ACC WBBT Friday matchups in Greensboro we have:
Early game: GT (4) and UNC (5). GT wins by one point, 54-53.
3PM game is #6 NCSU and #1 Duke.
6PM is #2 Miami and #7 Wake.
8PM is #3 MD vs #6 UVA.
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For Duke, they have trailed the whole game so far. With 9:55 to go in the first half they are down 17-14. Three fouls for each team. Now 19-17 State at 8:56, with State picking up 2 more fouls (now 5-3).
Now a time-out with 6:54 in the first, Duke down 24-21.
In their only match-up this season, in Jan. in Durham, Duke won by over 20.
With 5 minutes to go in the first half, Duke is trailing State by 3, 29-26. I wish I weren't stuck at work!
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
Half, 37-36 Duke.
Lots of O-rebounds for State! Too many Duke T/O's!
We are shooting 15-30 (50%), and 3-7 for 3's (43%), and 4-9 (!!) for FT's (44%).
State is shooting 14-36 (39%), and 2-10 from 3-range (20%), and 6 - 7 FT's (86%).
We lead in total Reb's, 20-19, but State strong in O-rebounds.
We lead 18-12 for pts in the paint.
Their bench outscoring ours 12-4.
Gray has 16 pts and 6 reb's. E'Williams has 6 pts and 3 reb's.
Last edited by -bdbd; 03-02-2012 at 03:58 PM.
Coach P mentioned Liston's foul trouble and said our defense must improve in the second half. I saw very little, took a long time to get ESPN3 working.
Man, if your Mom made you wear that color when you were a baby, and you're still wearing it, it's time to grow up!
14:19 to go in the second half.
Score is tied 44-44.
Too many T/O's and missed FT's by Duke.
State has converted several fastbreak buckets, even on our made FT's...
Last edited by -bdbd; 03-02-2012 at 04:32 PM.
58-54 Duke, 9:30 to go.
59-58 State at 8:27.
60-59 Duke, with the ball at 7:52. Timeout Duke. 6 fouls for Duke, and 4 for State so far this half.
5:41 to go. State sinks a 3, now up 64-62. 7-4 Duke has more fouls.
66-63 State at 3:45.
Last edited by -bdbd; 03-02-2012 at 04:47 PM.
So much for Coach P being a genius.
State up by 2.
Liston misses scoop shot with 30 sec.
State misses 2 FT's. Duke down 2 with 15 sec - t/o.
Gray fouled, missed front of 1-and-1 with 2 sec left.
State wins 75-73.
Good effort at late comeback, as we were down 8 with under three to play. But e'Wil fouling out with just over 2 min left on a marginal call didn't help. (In fact, nobody's gonna claim "Duke gets the calls" after this one! 2nd half foul count: 12 for Duke and 7 for State.) Ugh!
Now wait for the NCAAT. Hope for a #2 seed.
This is the first time in ACCT history a 9 has beaten a 1.
Gray 25 pts, 7 reb
Liston 14 pts
Williams 12 pts, 7 reb, 5 fouls
Selby 10 pts
Team Rebs: 40 vs 40
Duke t/o: 22 (vs 15 for State)
Steals: 8 (vs 12 for State)
Shooting:
Duke 29-61 (47%)
3's: 6 - 15 (40%)
FT's: 9-19 (47%)
Last edited by -bdbd; 03-02-2012 at 05:20 PM.
This was a total inexcusable failure on all levels.
No excuse for this. We beat State like a drum this year, and shocked them with an amazing comeback over there last year. It looked to me like we played afraid. Hopefully a good lesson for Elizabeth that tournament play is different. Maybe too much complacency after COY for P. Or maybe just fatigue after tall the injuries. I see a #3 seed, and no better than a Sweet 16 at this point.
Clarification:
Shooting:
Duke 29-61 (47%) vs State 27-69 (39%)
3's: 6 - 15 (40%) vs State 5-18 (28%)
FT's: 9-19 (47%) vs State 16-20 (80%)
State played tough, and seemed to come up with more than their share of the loose, 50-50 balls. We had way too many turnovers. The defense wasn't as energetic as usual. And a few critical calls went their way.
Terrible FT shooting by Duke.
Next play.
The reason they lost is 100% free throw shooting. You can't shoot <50% and expect to win a game, let alone deserve to.
EW needs to learn to stay out of foul trouble better. It cost them a shot at Uconn last month, and certainly cost them here. Can't forget that she's a freshman with a huge burden. She will be a great player.
1200. DDMF.
Well, at least Mrs Harper is rather attractive.
A movie is not about what it's about; it's about how it's about it.
---Roger Ebert
Some questions cannot be answered
Who’s gonna bury who
We need a love like Johnny, Johnny and June
---Over the Rhine
I'm not saying she's at fault for committing the falls, she needs to figure out how to not get called for them. If it means learning how to play effective defense while doing something that doesn't look like the foul to a ref, then she need to learn it. I'll add Haley into that group too.
The fouls cost them against uconn, and they cost them today. If the refs make bad calls all the time, one has to figure out how to act so the ref doesn't call it. It sort of the anti flop. One flops because one can get a call for a foul that wasn't there. You gotta figure out how to use body language, positioning, whatever to NOT get called for fouls that aren't there.
1200. DDMF.