![]() And Akil Mitchell, the game's defensive MVP, also added 7 points and a game-high 15 rebounds. Mike Tobey had 8, making three buckets in the game's opening minutes. Joe Harris had 15 on 5-11 shooting, and Gill added 12 more, 10 from the line. Two of the attempts were earned after a Sulaimon technical foul it was Duke's second T of the game, with Coach K earning one late in the first half.īrogdon's season-high 23 points led the Hoos after scoring between 10 and 19 points in each game during the regular season, he had just 6 against FSU and broke the 20-point barrier today. When Quinn Cook answered with a three of his own, Malcolm Brogdon made a lay-up, then made free-throws down the stretch to seal the title. With the lead at 4 points, Joe Harris found himself wide open on a UVA fast break, and drilled a three-pointer. The Hoos made just 25 of 38 FTs overall, but their ability to get to the line against a reaching Duke defense was key UVA played a much cleaner defensive game, allowing just 11 Duke free-throws. Gill scored 12 points on the game, with 10 coming from the free-throw line, but those came on 17 attempts. A minute later, Anthony Gill got to the line and made both free-throws to bring it to 6. Mitchell tapped in a Joe Harris miss to extend the lead to 4 with five minutes to play. Though Duke did manage to rebound 34% of their own misses, UVA outperformed them on the offensive glass, finishing with a 38% OReb%.įinally, as the clock moved under 5 minutes, UVA managed to put some distance between the teams. UVA did it by holding Duke down to a 44.4% eFG% and keeping them from the free-throw line. Holding the vaunted Duke offense to 1.06 PPP is an impressive feat. The Wahoo defense was intense and motivated from start to finish, and wouldn't allow Duke to go on a run. Rasheed Sulaimon, who buried the Hoos in the teams' first matchup in Durham, had just 2 points on 1-6 shooting. While Akil guarded him, Jabari was just 5 of 17. Parker got going in the second half, usually when he went against Gill and/or Tobey, and finished with 23 points, but needed 24 field goal attempts to get there. One can't say enough about Akil Mitchell's defense on Parker he's the best defender in the ACC, and it was apparent tonight. While UVA held the lead for much of the period, Jabari Parker and the Blue Devils wouldn't go away. ![]() The Hoos grew stagnant on offense, and the Blue Devils crawled back, going into the break trailing UVA 28-25.įor 15 minutes in the second half, neither team led by more than 3 points. UVA drew first blood, using suffocating defense to open up a 13-4 lead, but the Hoos wouldn't see a margin like that again until the game's final seconds. With both teams playing their third game in as many days, Duke and Virginia competed in an intense, well-played, and closely-contested championship game. Now, UVA awaits its NCAA seeding, which will be announced on tonight's 6 PM Selection Show. ![]() In front of a loud and pro-UVA crowd in Greensboro, the Hoos cut down the nets for the second times this year. They today, they continued their run by outlasting Duke in a classic ACC final matchup, winning 72-63 and taking home the program's first conference title since 1976. ![]() The Virginia Cavaliers are the 2014 ACC Champions! The Hoos won the conference regular season championship, finishing with a 16-2 record.
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