Big win for UNC. They’re now projected in the “last four in” for the ACC Tourney.
Tony Bennett has owned most teams in the ACC the last 6-7 seasons, but Duke hasn’t been one of them. UVa beat Duke in 2013 in Charlottesville, 2014 in the ACC title game in Greensboro, and 2018 at Cameron. Overall, though, Bennett is just 3-11 vs Coach K. However many of the losses for UVa to Duke out of those 11 were close games. Duke beat UVa 72-70 last year at Cameron for instance.
I think it will be another close, hard fought, low scoring game in the high 60s or low 70s Saturday. If UVa can continue shooting the ball better from deep (mainly Woldetensae), they’re going to give Duke a good game. Their defense is still superb and they’ve been playing good basketball lately winning 7 of their last 8 with the 1 loss being when they took Louisville down to the wire at the KFC YUM! Center.
Just wanted to point out that if UVa beats Duke on Saturday, the Devils will be the #4 seed.
Oh how the mighty have fallen...
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"Amazing what a minute can do."
Losing at home to Virginia 26-11.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Kihei Clark drained a 3 with 2 seconds left as UVa beat VT 56-53 in Blacksburg.
UVa improves to 20-7, 12-5.
VT falls to 15-13, 6-11.
Folks UVa is hot and will be a tough out the rest of the season. I wouldn’t want to play that defense in a postseason tournament game do or die scenario.
UVA struggles to score. They have #212 AdjO in the country. Not good.
Against ACC teams with AdjO > #50, UVA is 3-4. One of those wins was in OT. And the other was the first game of the year in the bizarro "let's play a conference game day-1" decision.
None of those opponents has as good an offense as Duke.
Look, I think it will be a tough game. It's UVA in Charlottesville. But if we play reasonably solid defense, I would be surprised if UVA can score with us.
- Chillin