and that will get singleton back to the free-throw line. and because of the fourth foul, demontez stitt will check back in. as you mentioned, offensive for defensive institutions. we'll see plenty of them between now and the end of this one. >> mike: saw oliver purnell trying to get some size out there defensively. >> tim: and a reminder, immediately after our game, it's game two of acc sunday night hoops, our doubleheader, duke and virginia. duke now because of -- well, two reasons really, the thumb injury was one factor. but today earlier michigan state did beat perdue. one would think the squad could be the beneficiary for possible number one seed, especially if they are to continue this roll that they're having in the acc regular season and win the acc tournament. >> mike: michigan state thinking the same thing. they could be. >> tim: absolutely.

>> mike: it's just a shame what happened. >> tim: booker, a reversal, nice move inside. and it's 43-39. matt too. kitchen need help. reid comes away with the inbound pass. tanner smith picks up the foul. >> mike: good play. that's what you do. you try to draw the shot-blockers to you. and booker did a nice job laying low along the baseline, making himself available. >> tim: you notice clemson now waste nothing time in either trying to come away, mike, with the steal or go ahead and give up the foul. >> mike: florida state struggling so much at the line in tonight's game. 65% overall on the year. >> tim: singleton right at 50. alabi is your most reliable guy

on the floor for florida state. hit three of their last three. but they are 10 of 17 overall. 45-39. half-court shot by young. tanner smith lost it. driving baseline. and it's touched by florida state. 15 on the shot clock. on the wing. a three ball. by tanner smith.

and a quick 30-second timeout taken. only 27% on the year for tanner smith. but really, a timely shot for him. and here is the drive. you get the two-man game and you're setting up singleton. snuck in on the post player, allowed tanner smith to get a good look. when they lost terrance ogles by, that smith would help in that area. he's got a great stroke. the percentage just hasn't been good. >> mike: but i don't know that that was such a bad defensive play by singleton. he didn't want grant getting inside. he was sitting in his lap. you got a guy who is not proving himself as a three-point shooter, but tanner smith came up big. percentage-wise, that's the way to play. >> tim: you just get a feeling use watch the game, mike, and at some point clemson, they just continue applying this pressure. florida state's fortunate that

they haven't turned the ball over any more than they have. and if you don't get the steal, then you're going to have to make free throws. >> mike: that's really the tempo of this game. >> tim: been very difficult for florida state to get the ball past the court. each time they went along the sideline. >> mike: and i can't think of any agency in the game either where they have gotten it past half-court, but gotten back in their offense. >> tim: if you're just joining us after clemson's largest lead, 32-27 here in the second half, florida state went on a 9-0 run. >> tim: reid, that looked to be a lot of leverage by booker.

the foul committed by tanner. >> mike: it wasn't a great closeout that time by jerai grant. used the pump-fake well and got into the paint. >> tim: second foul on booker. >> mike: you see this right here. you have to come out of control. grant got turned around a little bit, out of position and that forced booker to step up and make a play. >> tim: generally going to get whistled, and he was. lauderdale links, the home of ryan reid. came to florida state by way of boyd anderson. >> mike: they made their last pitch at the line after being 7 of 14. they're certainly going to have more chances one would think before this is done.

>> tim: stitt finds booker. right back to demontez. out of bounds to florida state. they have an over rule here. >> mike: he's down. >> tim: sure. well, his hand was hurt, now his ankle is hurt. >> mike: a tough night at the office. >> tim: has he ever. loucks is going to check in for him. >> mike: i think the team you get loucks and another ball handler against clemson. >> tim: still a two-possession game with 1:48 remaining.

trying to work the pick-and-roll. kitchen. singleton puts it on the bench, and in doing so going to induce -- i like that play. again, looking for a second like he was going to settle for the three. instead of doing that, put pressure against the foul call. >> tim: mike, he does have an innate ability to put it on the deck and face up player. and then the creative skills to at least get fouled when he goes inside. don't forget coming up. there was a time in the season you would have said he was the player of the year this year. he'll have to have that kind of evening against duke. >> mike: against duke they have a way of taking out the top four.

>> tim: a good matchup. two big misses by singleton. opening the door for clemson with a minute and change left. young, he rattles it home. and it's a one-possession game with 1:10 left. >> mike: nice play after the three-man games. >> tim: snaer back out there. reid has it swept away. grant gets it started. three-on-one to stitt, and he is fouled. boy, exactly what oliver purnell would have prescribed. let's take a look at this two-man game right here. he just reverses and uses booker again to get the screen and knock down the shot. >> tim: that was the first block, mike, by clemson as jerai

grant came up with it at just the right time. >> mike: at the other end, reid trying to off the dribble. and grant figuring this break and getting two free throws. >> tim: just like that. demontez stitt to make it a 1 point game. >> mike: if you're clemson, no foul and in that situation, just play solid defense. >> over time, that kind of pressure and clemson will deliver weighs on you. and while florida state is able to stave them off for much of this game, you got a feeling that it was only a matter of time before they had a chance to maybe get back the lead in this game. and jerai grant's block certainly has given them the chance. >> mike: that's the one thing that with florida state, they don't have the act to pull away from you offensively and bury you. and certainly they had an opportunity to do that in the first half.

clemson's defense that. >> came up and defended very well and allowed themselves to stay in it. you let a team linger like that, their confidence runs, they played much more efficiently offensively in the second half with the tigers. >> tim: when you inquiry now what leonard hamilton has in front of him, first and foremost, make sure that the best guy inbounding the ball does so, and this none of those guards, mike, can run away. they've got to come back and help, don't they? >> mike: it's got in the perimeter three-ball handing. you've got loucks, kitchen and snaer, all who are very good with the basketball. and you've got your bailout guy in solomon alabi. if you're clemson, you do not have to foul here. you're going to get it back with plenty of time to maybe factor your own shot. >> tim: you don't want to be in a position to have to make free throws to close this one out if you're florida state. they've been inconsistent there as well. >> mike: if you're clemson, the guy you want to put on the line is singleton. >> tim: look at that.

snaer losses. the tigers with a chance to take the lead right here. and 15 second differential between the shock and game clock. the 20th florida state turnover. young for three. yes! >> mike: how about the drive and the foul and the fill-in behind by young. what a terrific play. >> tim: 49-47. loucks will get it over mid court and a time-out. this worked out just the way oliver purnell wanted. first the turnover. snaer just lost it here. >> mike: you wonder if he had a hurt wrist, if he couldn't catch the basketball. but young digging in. and this is the drive in. everybody collapses. the good kickout by booker. what a big-time shot by andre

young. we said he'd be playing in winning time together. indeed. >> tim: super sophomore that had that career game in the first meeting. back at littlejohn. and as oliver purnell told me, he said this guy is one of our big-time players. how about the reaction emotionally from the clemson bench? watch this? >> mike: it's been to two shots andre young. they had the same reaction at the end of the first half, and he comes up big there. how about those six points in the game? >> tim: that's your basketball game right there. and that sense of urgency, mike, by the team that appears to be more desperate. i believe is the theme of the weekend in college basketball. >> mike: a lot of upsets with the higher ranked teenagers. a lot of road victories, which hasn't been the case in this league. >> tim: room for notre dame in the big east. that was yesterday. louisville today.

now florida state reaches for the tie right here. for the win, the three-ball. alabi, he is fouled. booker was airborne. foul committed by number 3. >> mike: they cleared out a lot of space. he has a open look over the top inside. the best free throw shooter. 81%. coming into this game. think about it. gone to the line 109 times. improving the free throw shooting for florida state.

in fact that's his specialty. >> tim: you can certainly appreciate it too, mike as a guy that will take you to the free-throw line a great deal in college as well as in the pros. you were always up and around 80, 85%. >> mike: you don't hang your resume on making a 75% shooter an 80% shooter. but when you can take a guy in the 50s and make that jump, that's a major overhaul, a reclamation project. >> tim: our game reset. each team with a time-out remaining. which could be crucial. particularly if they tie the score at 49 with this next free throw for solomon alabi. if you're clemson and thinking of the potential of needing a bucket late, andre might be your good night. he is the just for men player of the game.

>> booker comes down with it. that's just the pressure of the moment. we talk about free throws and percentages. and it's all about scoring clock. and he did pull the string a little bit on that. it wasn't the same follow-through. >> tim: singleton picked up the foul. that was all that florida state could do. booker will get to the free-throw line. now dulkys is going to check into the game. brian reid will sit down. so you get another three-point shooter on the floor. >> mike: booker 3 for 5 tonight at the line.

>> tim: if he makes it, florida state still has a chance to tie wit a three. clemson and the free-throw shooting over this last stretch in the last five minutes of the game, up over 80%. the lead is three. stitt will quickly check in for clemson. and jerai grant sits down. >> mike: well, let's see what happens here as they get the clock under five seconds. >> tim: dulkys. singleton to get the quick time-out with 7.2 remaining.

this game is so huge in the middle of the acc conference. you look at the story for clemson. this is just so big for them, mike. largely because it would give them their second road victory in the conference. and for florida state, if they could get to 9 and 5, it will virtually -- and they've got another home game left. for clemson it would assure them .500 in the conference and give them 20 wins, which wasn't the benchmark today that it has been in years fast. but it still looks good on the resume. the road win is the big part of that. >> tim: with the games coming up that they have, imagine the confidence that you glean from having a road victory against a team that has won three in a row in the acc like florida state has. >> mike: i'm curious now to see what oliver purnell does to the situation. if one, he decides to wrap up, and at what point did he decide to wrap the guy up on the outside and not let them hit a bomb. you are definitely building a

wall around the three-point line and defending on the outside of that. >> tim: one would think too, mike, 7.2 remaining, they would need desperately to get the ball up quickly when opportunity. >> 7.2 seconds left in florida-state-clemson game. they have tipped off. we'll get you out to that game as soon as they conclude. right now clemson and sfu, 7.2 seconds left in regulation. >> tim: shooting a paltry 22% in the first half. a great half-court shot gave them the momentum necessary to make a strong run here in the second half. kitchen will inbound it for florida state. dulkys and snaer, both options along with luke loucks. dulkys from the way it was projected by booker, and he quickly fouls. >> mike: first team all defense, acc. wow.

>> tim: what a play. they're switching everything. what you want to do in that situation. you've got smalls out there. you can do that. and then booker watching a three-point attempt. see him out there, he is recovering. he reads the play correctly. and even with the quick release able to go up, not only block it, but gets the possession back and forces a foul. >> tim: that was mindful, mike of the one syracuse had in the game against kansas for the national championship. they had one. booker. no doubt about it. booker may put this one away. a shooter's touch. >> mike: this is a game that would have been better served on radio. but at the end of the day, it is a huge win for oliver purnell. much more important win for them.

>> tim: the three. two huge plays by trevor booker. and andre young's performance, both at the end of the half and at the end of this game. the difference of florida state. and the final is clemson 53, florida state 50. what a big win for oliver purnell. >> mike: no question about it. it took a lot of heart to shed a really sub-par first half and come out and get the win. >> tim: well, for mike gminski, >> tim: well, for mike gminski, this is tim it't cth er knowold mus. you!of te! exc... what grndwithan ♪ yout habe so nice ♪ grndwithan

welome, to warm up. obviously he is hurting and the coaching staff told us they did not know whether he will -- whether or not he'll play. hasn't practiced all week.

>> rich: he's been the guy that opponents have had to stop to beat virginia. landesberg with 17 a game sorely missed so far. zeglinski a back cut to scott and a turnover for virginia. so far so good for number five duke. the blue devils on the road at virginia. boston lager continues to be

ry ial six ted sine it took the best beer in america award. nobody had tried an am bee th tha f flavor. ty yff, sti obsessed witon l sam adams lager continue meda oveworl that's pretty cool.

the images from haiti are heart-breaking-- homes, hospitals, and schools destroyed; families searching for loved ones; parents trying to feed their children. but we can all do something. we can help the american red cross as it delivers the food, water, and medicine that can save lives. donate $10 by texting "haiti" to 9-0-9-9-9. visit redcross.org or call 1-800-red-cross. thanks for your help. number five duke ha a 7-2 lead. our golden corral starting lineups. the triple threat for duke of zoubek. for virginia no sylven the start with sammy zeglinski in the backcourt, calvin baker, mike scott and jerome meyinsse.

>> dan: and meyinsse will have to pick up what they lost, as is mike scott. they are two guys who are capable of putting points on the board for virginia. i think it's an absolute necessity they do so tonight. >> rich: scheyer steps into a three. >> dan: and the problem is duke not only applies defensive pressure, they apply offensive pressure. they score and then it gets tougher for you, particularly virginia, who just has not been scoring very well at all here during this six-game losing streak. >> rich: mustapha farrakhan in the ball game for virginia. a little jump hook, he's got all four of virginia's points. >> dan: nice aggressive move by meyinsse. i think he is going to find himself in a one-on-one matchup. duke will not double team him so he'll have some opportunities. >> rich: same shot, scheyer missed that one. shot blocked by meyinsse and it's virginia ball. virginia certainly without landesberg would love to get this sellout crowd involved you get a crowd involved in the game, some hustle plays.

a good blocked shot. meyinsse doing a nice job coming over. he scored four points. the virginia offense needs to, though. >> rich: back door cut. oh, just off the front of the iron. farrakhan with the miss. >> dan: that was close but that wasn't easy, rich. duke really doing a nice job contesting. man-to-man for virginia. >> rich: miles plumlee. scheyer. it's a two. singler. and the first offensive rebound of the night for duke will get free throws for singler. >> dan: now jeff jones went after that ball and mistimed his jump because it bounced strangely on the rim. but if you're jeff jones and you're matched up against kyle

singler, you shouldn't even worry about going after the rebound. just block singler out and keep him away from the basket. >> rich: so singler at the line. he's got five. offensive rebounds for duke have been enormous this year. >> dan: well, they really have done a great job. the most amazing stat there is they have got the longest active streak in the ncaa with 17-plus offensive rebounds in a game. 17 offensive rebounds in a game is a lot. to do it five games in a row. and so what virginia has to do is make sure they block out. >> rich: andre dawkins in for duke. full-court pressure. farrakh farrakhan, zeglinski finds jones.

sherrill, zeglinski. it's duke ball. >> dan: boy, virginia has only made one field goal and they have missed wide-open shots. a wide-open one by jeff jones, a good tipout by sherrill. this is within zeglinski's range, wide open again. they're going to have to start making some shots. one for nine on the cavaliers. >> rich: mason plumlee is in to join his brother. singler, zeglinski, virginia wants to run off missed shots. jones. boy, one of ten. >> dan: you like to play quickly but you don't want to hurry, rich, and that was a hurried shot. >> rich: singler, so strong. and back to the line he goes. mike krzyzewski add

ññññññññññññññññ

>> rich: time for our lexus playbook. >> dan: and the duluvi really do a great job with patience and decision-making. you can be patient even when you're running the fast break. in this particular case jon scheyer gets down the court, two virginia cavaliers catch up with him. miles plumlee comes down the court but he's not the open guy. scheyer waits for kyle singler who knocks it down. >> rich: singler knocks down a free throw and then exits the game. jenn hildreth, you've got more on a guy that might be the player of the year in all of college basketball, jon scheyer. >> jenn: jon has really grown into his role. he's always had good instinct and he's learned to trust them. he said he's super quick and it's my ability to jump out of the building. when really we know it's his brain. he outsmarts people and i think you see that a lot on the floor. >> rich: farrakhan hits a much-needed three for virginia. >> dan: that's a huge basket for the virginia cavaliers.

farrakhan is the guy who's capable of giving them some offense. >> rich: scheyer lost his dribble. nolan smith back in. stripped of the ball. this is jontel evans. that's a goaltend. >> dan: one of the ways to get back in the game when you come out of that time-out shooting only one for 12, it always helps if you can get an easy basket and this is the way you get an easy basket, you force a turnover. look at that, even on that play, even though it's a goaltending, here are the duke blue devils contesting everything. that's why they're such a strong defensive unit, they don't give up anything. you have to earn it. >> rich: mason plumlee, it stays with duke. and mason will sit down. brian zoubek back in.

>> dan: and this is another strength of the duke blue devils. they can just keep running these big, big guys in. >> rich: duke has their original starting five back in the ball game. thomas, couple buckets for lance thomas. >> dan: and that's a bonus for duke. kyle singler drawing an awful lot of attention with that dribble into the lane. >> rich: duke already has six assists in this ball game. again, if you just joined us, sylven landesberg, leading scorer for virginia, one of the top scorers in the acc, has not played yet. zeglinski a fall-away three, his first bucket. he had a two for ten shooting night in miami earlier this week.

>> dan: that was not an easy shot. kyle singler right there defensively. >> rich: singler whips it across to scheyer. smith. it's a virginia foul. will sherrill with the push. our telecast tonight is on afn, the american forces network, broadcasting to u.s. armed forces serving in 175 countries as well as ships at sea. they're watching around the world, iraq, germany, italy, southwest asia, south korea and japan. thank you for all that you do. tonight you get a taste of acc basketball from virginia. a duke foul. a rebuilding virginia team facing a red-hot duke team that is number five in the country. >> dan: and brian zoubek picks up that foul hanging onto assane

sene. >> rich: zoubek with two personals will sit down. >> dan: and zoubek for the most part during this great february run by duke has been able to stay out of foul trouble. >> rich: out of foul trouble and in the stat sheet. he's averaging ten points and a dozen rebounds his last four games. it's down to a ten-point duke lead. evans. where will virginia get their points? sherrill picks up his second foul. >> dan: virginia is not going to get any time at all to get comfortable. if you're a virginia guy and you catch the ball, you have to be ready to shoot it because the duke blue devils are coming right after you. you're not going to get the

opportunity to stand there and get yourself set. you've got to get your feet in position as you're catching the pass so you can let the ball go right away. >> rich: scheyer off the screen. jump stop and a finish. >> dan: boy, scheyer may kid around with jenn about the fact that he's got no quickness. he's got enough quickness. he's got really quick feet and he's very, very skilled. you may not want him in the decathlon but certainly you'd want him on the basketball court. >> rich: evans, scott, look at that play by thomas, who was falling down but had the esence of mind t strip the ball. >> dan: that's ano

overtime win at virginia tech yesterday. number five duke on top of virginia. kyle singler 14 early points leading the way.

acc sunday night hoops is delivered to you by pizza hut. right now get any pizza, any size, any crust and any toppings for one low price. all your favorite pizzas just the way you want them, only at your pizza hut. and brought to you in part by

your local lexus dealer. and by just for men hair color. live forward. number five duke on the road and on top with nolan smith at the line. he drops in a free throw. >> dan: and that's his first point of the game. duke has built this 14-point lead without any offensive contributions by nolan smith. >> rich: mike krzyzewski was telling us before the ball game the complement of smith, scheyer and singler are called the big three because they provide so much scoring power for duke. but that's not always easy to balance three scorers at once. >> dan: well, one of the -- usually you have one scorer and that scorer is very assertive. that's the point mike krzyzewski was making. when you've got three guys who have to blend together, sometimes one has to be assertive, sometimes another has to be assertive, sometimes they all have to be assertive. putting together that team chemistry is a very interesting process. i think that's one of the

processes about coaching that mike krzyzewski enjoys the most. >> rich: scheyer had 19 points, smith at 18 points. >> dan: scheyer doing a great job getting the pass to the wing. >> rich: scott against thomas. >> dan: tough shot. >> rich: duke right now outrebounding virginia 15-8. >> dan: duke is not missing many shots and virginia is missing a lot of shots, so a lot of rebounds for duke to have. >> rich: nolan smith. >> dan: that's pretty easy. i think virginia needs to take a page out of that book. rather than settle for the jump shots, they need to try to get the ball to the basket on the dribble. they have to be able to attack this defense. >> rich: farrakhan, an offense that looks lost without sylven

landesberg. >> jenn: unfortunate news for the cavaliers. just talking to the trainer for virginia and he said that landesberg will be out for the remainder of the game. this just the second game in his career that he didn't start and the second one he'll miss, guys. >> rich: he's been the show for virginia over the last half a dozen games. >> dan: makes the challenge very difficult for virginia. usually it's to try to find somebody to complement landesberg, now they have got to replace him entirely. and they have got to do it against one of the top teams in the country. >> rich: scheyer. >> dan: virginia stays in the man-to-man. >> rich: smith again. out on the break is baker. he can't finish. boy, virginia is five of 20 from the field. >> dan: and they have had some pretty good shots. >> rich: and that's the

frustrating thing for tony bennett, he told us that today. in this six-game losing streak, he feels that his team is getting good shots. >> dan: singler was open inside and thomas just couldn't find him. >> rich: smith against zeglinski. miles plumlee the miss. virginia with the basketball. down big at home. on a five of 20 shooting night. >> dan: scheyer thought he had a chance to get the steal but didn't move quickly enough. didn't anticipate the way he normally does. >> rich: tony bennett was hoping that coming home to a familiar environment might help the shooting percentage. so far that hasn't happened. they have got to get a shot up.

meyinsse does. >> dan: meyinsse has been very aggressive taking the ball at the basket. of course it would be nice if that environment helps, but the guys in the dark uniforms are contributing to a very difficult environment no matter where you are. >> rich: duke brings its own environment. >> dan: that's right. >> rich: crossover dribble but smith missed the floater. one thing virginia has done well that they set out to do, they have kept duke off the offensive boards. >> dan: there isn't any question virginia has done a pretty good job blocking out. unfortunately for the cavaliers they haven't been able to turn those defensive rebounds into very many transition opportunities. >> rich: pick and roll sene. doubles and he gets it inside to meyinsse. >> dan: boy, meyinsse and sene is not a combination you usually see for virginia but they're playing pretty well together. meyinsse now with eight points. >> rich: remember brian zoubek has been on the bench with two fouls for the last seven minutes.

>> dan: boy, you can just feel the crowd wanting to get involved in this game. >> rich: scheyer. oh, my. missed the shot and it's a duke foul. miles plumlee over the back. a weekend of upsets. virginia trying to climb back in this one against number five duke.

♪ ♪ ♪ [ nnou allat yp owhate alone. ♪ f lexus rx never has a e be signfeeltura ♪ see exusr.

>> jenn: the virginia cavaliers trying to keep pace with the fifth ranked blue devils without their leading scorer. senior jerome meyinsse putting this do you know. he has eight of his team's 18 points. he is also our john hancock academic star. he's an economics major, 3.61 gpa, three-time member of the acc honor roll. so far pretty good numbers on

the court in this one. >> rich: all right, thank you, jenn. you're right. virginia needs contributions from meyinsse, from scott, from zeglinski. none from landesberg tonight. the star from virginia is out with a bruised thigh. >> dan: virginia has had their best success when they have been able to get penetration of this duke defense. >> rich: baker tough shot, mason fumbling with the rebound. >> dan: sam did a nice job following that ball but wasn't able to get the offensive rebound. again you see the penetration, getting inside that duke defense is going to be a big key. >> rich: scheyer penetrates. out to dawkins. clean look at a three and andre dawkins, the freshman, out of chesapeake, virginia, has a lot of family and friends in the house tonight.

>> dan: unlike virginia, duke has been making open shot opportunities. >> rich: calvin baker gets in trouble. zeglinski. that's not where you want assane sene with the basketball. >> dan: the duke blue devils do a great job moving the basketball. andre dawkins, he's just standing right out there. gets the ball from scheyer and knocks it home. this virginia defense collapses when jon scheyer is able to get the ball into the lane. >> rich: dawkins off the screen. sene with the rebound. >> dan: that was not a good opportunity that time by dawkins. he made that first one and i think he was expecting to see if he was really feeling it

tonight. >> rich: four of ten from beyond the arc by the blue devils. two of eight virginia. sweeping hook. duke with the ball and the lead. >> dan: again, that's a very close shot opportunity but well contested by the duke blue devils. again, assane sene is not a

his brother e.j. meyinsse, zeglinski. left hand count them. >> dan: boy, that was a great move by zeglinski. jon scheyer just not able to stay with him. zeglinski sees an opening, gets past lance thomas. thomas reaches, instead of stepping with his feet and that allows zeglinski to get by. andre dawkins is the only guy left and he's not a shot blocker and was not in position to take a charge. nice move by sammy zeglinski. >> rich: out of philadelphia, a sophomore.

he's been a three-point shooting threat but hi offense as well as the rest of the cavaliers' offense really affected with the loss of sylven landesberg. number five duke sitting atop the acc. maryland with an incredible win last night. that double overtime win at virginia tech, 104-100. virginia tech, clemson and florida state, wake forest at 8-6. talking about the ncaa tournament. then duke and maryland right now looking good. >> dan: they're looking pretty good and it's going to be a pretty good-looking basketball game when they play one another this week up at maryland. that might be the game of the year. of course it's going to be hard to top that game maryland played against virginia tech last night, but these are two teams i think that are comfortably in the ncaa tournament right at the moment. both teams playing with an awful lot of confidence, an awful lot of poise. both teams with very experienced and skilled players, so that

will be a very interesting matchup. of course the duke blue devils focused on this one right at the moment. >> rich: headed towards halftime with a 14-point lead. >> dan: mike krzyzewski called that use it or lose it time-out. >> rich: scheyer comes to get the ball with ten seconds left. >> dan: the purpose of that was to set up the final play. >> rich: nolan smith, sene, zegzeg ski -- zeglinski has got to get it up and he just missed it from half court. virginia without their star, sylven landesberg. kyle singler goes off for 15 in the first half. and the cavaliers and landesberg head to the locker room and they will try to regroup against number five duke. jenn hildreth is with chris collins. >> dan: coach, what's your

biggest concern heading into the second half? >> they're three-point shooting. we actually gave them a lot of open looks. they got a lot of guys that can hit from three, we've got to do a better job with that. >> jenn: what has been working well for you guys. >> we're playing hard. i thought we finished well and kyle really got it going. hopefully the other guys can follow suit the second half. >> jenn: thanks very much. rich. >> rich: thank you, jenn. number five duke trying to avoid a weekend of upsets. so far so good for the blue devils. on the road and on top at virginia, 35-21. we're coming back to charlottesville after this. f i l ecs sgrou

causy we tarts of withollaas from hut it'ne. pizy siy cr ftops ju do. eat s, s pan zza.evernt. ♪ f wevener? ♪ not n ecs thister. [ maouncight ana at hut is j0. anza, ze, any, antopp- onl at yzza

boston lagermyor

i to a g ease aromas. ulb isollearomas. its cr it rworks.

acc sunday night hoops is brought to you by acura. acura, advance. and by golden corral's great american seafood tour. it's all part of the dinner buffet, all for around ten bucks. our acura halftime report from charlottesville where number five duke is on top of virginia, rich waltz along with dan

is shooting the ball, they have done so well. they have eight assists and virginia only two for eight from the three-point line and that's the great equalizer and the cavaliers haven't been able to use it.

>> rich: cavaliers need points, they got some from jerome meyinsse. as the senior pushed down eight. 35-21 duke. n ] ha cal 7 [ mal th ♪ [ ma lf torie the [ ad a i'a flke arfly stin a b ♪ f floa a bly. fg liee. fgonnt liutte ing bee

♪ f stin a.. stin a b ♪ womalf torie e g. n #2 thaght.

hi ♪stlie) ♪("worrappy >> rich: number five duke on the road and in control. senior jon scheyer, junior kyle

singler part of the triple threat. one of the reasons duke is up big.

>> rich: virginia without their star, sylven landesberg, down at the half to number five duke. that's it for the acura halftime report. the second half straight away.

is ioing ny fson.

d ent m, dre youults are ally at ri for 1n1 rus et's togethe and the getour ccin you'tectelf lp p e spf th flu vs ar e tst tiv evenflu. getactsu.go together, we can all fight the flu. >> rich: second half ready to go. number five duke up 35-21. virginia will have the first possession. mike krzyzewski looking for career win number 858. you see what adjustments tony bennett and virginia have made. your leading scorers tonight, singler with his 15. scheyer with 7 for duke.

>> dan: one of the adjustments that they have made is assane sene and jerome meyinsse together in the game. >> rich: farrakhan in the lane. zoubek patrolling there. he got a piece of that pass. shot clock running down, farrakhan has to get it up. he does. it draws iron and virginia will keep that possession. tony bennett right now telling the official that the ball hit the rim. from our vantage point, it looked like it did. >> dan: i'm not sure it hit the rim before the shot clock expired. and that's the issue. the ball does hit the uess it did hit the rim before the shot clock expired because they're going to give it back to virginia. meyinsse comes down with the

rebound and the cavaliers will keep it. >> rich: and they get a fresh 35. zeglinski and sene, this is the turn-around. zoubek sucks up a rebound. virginia has very few offensive threats on the floor right now. not only is landesberg out for the night, mike scott not on the floor. singler shot blocked. >> dan: mike scott hasn't been an offensive threat when he was on the floor. didn't score against miami, didn't score in the first half tonight. >> rich: zero of seven at miami and zero of four in the first half here tonight. evans, fouled out high. with jenn hildreth. >> jenn: yeah, i talked to tony bennett coming back on the floor. his team really in a tough situation, one they haven't been in all year not having sylven

landesberg. he said defensively we need to be more sound. we cannot give up easy shots to duke on the defensive end. offensively we panicked and took some early shots. we just need to calm down but likes the effort. >> rich: jenn, for tony bennett and the rebuilding projects he's been involved in as a player, as an assistant coach, defense has been the cornerstone because his father, one of the best defensive coaches in recent ncaa history, dick bennett. >> dan: well, but your defense, it's always harder to play defense when you can't score. and i don't know that there's any real connection, objective connection that you can make between the way you play offense and the way you play defense, but if you simply struggle to score on offense, it makes playing defense that much more difficult. >> rich: virginia would be okay if tony bennett had some more eligibility left because he could flat out score when he was in college. he is still the all-time leading

three-point shooter percentagewise in ncaa history at wisconsin green bay. virginia coughs it up. smith is tackled at half court by farrakhan. >> dan: nice job that time by the duke defense staying in front of farrakhan. he wanted to take the ball to the basket. >> rich: there's tony with ritchie mckay, his top assistant, by his side. tony averaged over 20 a game for his father and was part of the rebuilding process at wisconsin and at washington state. scheyer, step-back three. >> dan: how did he get that ball past meyinsse. did he dribble that ball between meyinsse' legs? that was really a weird-looking thing. he lost control of the ball, somehow regained it and made a three. >> rich: strong move but he couldn't flush it.

>> dan: you're not going to get very many better opportunities than that if you're the virginia cavaliers. you can see virginia really trying to pick up the tempo defensively. >> rich: singler's miss, meyinsse has it. and it's a duke foul. >> dan: we were talking about that last play by jon scheyer. as he takes the ball, he's going to take it, he dribbles it right over the leg of may instan-- me. he got the opportunity to take it from jon scheyer and you really need to do so because he gets on balance and gets scared away very quickly. >> rich: a good deal of our pregame chat with mike krzyzewski centered on scheyer. and all that he means to this team. the scoring ability, his leadership, valuing the ball, his defense. >> dan: he just has a very good sense for the game and that combined -- people joke about it but he is a very good athlete. you know, he's not a guy who's

going to jump out of the gym or run a 40-yard dash in three seconds, but he moves very well, he moves his feet, he has great eyes for the game, great mind for the game. >> rich: scheyer's miss. i think that's part of athleticism. >> dan: that's my point. i didn't articulate that very well but you don't have to run really fast and jump really high to be a good athlete. >> rich: meyinsse, and he's going to the free-throw line. if it zoubek, it's his third personal. >> dan: you know, there was a time when people talked about somebody who was a good athlete who could do a lot of different things. that might mean play a lot of different sports, but just had a lot of different skills. that's what jon scheyer has. so he's an athlete in the old way.

>> rich: it it's not like he's a rundown old jalopy when it comes to his physical skills in the new day. >> rich: in a 6'5" point guard who values the basketball, who has one of the best assist-to-turnover ratios in the country and scores 19 a game. is he the player of the year in the acc? >> dan: i really think that the player of the year in the acc is between he and greg. >> rich: they'll meet this week when duke and maryland square off. scheyer drains it. >> dan: just as we're talking about it, he gets himself in position, lets the ball go and he scores. all this business about how he's not really athletic, he's just really smart, well, he is really smart and he is pretty athletic and he's got some great basketball skills. >> rich: thomas knocks away the farrakhan shot. this is scheyer. with thomas following. can't save it and virginia has

the ball. jon scheyer, one of the top players in the country. number five duke avoiding the upset in virginia. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ nnou allat yp owhate alone. ♪ f lexus rx never has a e be signfeeltura ♪ see exusr.

>> rich: about 45 minutes before this ball game started, it we inal purdue. michigan state beating pu, and that means one, t and eego d i twe utbe iav onofth >> dan: and you notice number one, two and three, they all go down but number one and two go down on the road and michigan state wins on the road but against a depleted purdue squad out robbie hummel but the duke blue devils really taking care of business here tonight. >> rich: jenn hildreth has more on duke. >> jenn: just one of the things that in the back of the duke

players' minds when i talked to jon scheyer, you know, his senior class has never won an acc title. since coach krzyzewski took over in 1980 and won his first acc title the '85-86 time, since that time they have never gone more than two years without winning the acc or the tournament until now. but they all know what's at stake. it would sure mean a lot to him and his class to get that acc title. >> rich: hoecoach krzyzewski, j, told both you and dan and me tonight that the ability of this team to focus on the task at hand is what separates this team from some of the others. this team, he said, really doesn't care about who got upset today, really doesn't care about who's doing what. evans, singler, farrakhan followed. when you play the last game of a

weekend like this and the one, two and three teams go down and you're number five, duke came out and made a real statement early in this game. singler, nice soft touch. >> dan: well, one of the things you heard chris collins talk about at halftime as he was going off was that they wanted to tighten up the defense on the three-point shooting by virginia. even though the cavaliers missed open shots, virginia has had no three-point looks in this half. >> rich: farrakhan, that's a push by singler. . >> dan: you can just see the virginia offensive players. they're in a little bit of a hurry here. farrakhan had more time on that. he made that shot much more difficult than it needed to be. you do the jump stop, you go up and shoot a jumper rather than that little floater that was very flat and hard. they were fortunate to pick up

the foul. >> rich: they have been leaning so heavily on sylven landesberg these last three weeks that they really seem lost without him. zeglinski, scott is in along with jeff jones for virginia. if you just joined us, landesberg has not played, deep thigh bruise. ev evans takes it to the bucket. two shots coming up. thursday night the lights are on, the house will be jumping, a pac-10 double header, arizona state trying to keep their tournament hopes alive takes on usc. ucla will take on arizona. it starts at 8:30 eastern, 5:30 pacific on thursday night. >> dan: one of the things we talked about before the game, rich, was if virginia was going to pull the upset, they were a 75% free throw shooting team, they had to be able to get to the free-throw line.

they have not been there very often tonight. that's only free throw attempt number six and seven. >> rich: four for seven now. jontel evans forces a duke turnover. >> dan: and duke has not turned the ball over very much. that's only four turnovers in the ball game now. >> rich: the plumlees are in, mason and miles. that was miles with the block and the foul. >> dan: good catch that time by meyinsse, just not quick enough