November 27, 2007 by chrisgraham
We are live at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville for tonight’s ACC-Big 10 Challenge game between Virginia and Northwestern.
Virginia is 5-1 on the season - and is coming off a 74-60 loss to Seton Hall on Saturday in the final round of the Philly Hoop Group Classic.
Northwestern is 1-3 on the season.
Check back here for updates and analysis during tonight’s game.
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A lot of fans disguised as empty seats. A lot.
This game is on ESPNU - which means most of you out there can’t watch it on TV.
Thanks, Comcast.
It’s Nov. 27, and Virginia is already playing its seventh game.
This dates me - but I remember as a second-year in 1991 when our season opener was after Thanksgiving.
What2Watch4
#22 Michael Thompson - 15.3 ppg, 52.9 percent 3-pt FG
#20 Craig Moore - 12.8 ppg
BTW … media pregame meal left a lot to be desired. They ran out of food three times, and all I ended up getting was a bowl of fruit.
Neato - a laser show!
Looks like some of the fans took off their empty-seat disguises.
Virginia is going to be susceptible to teams that zone.
The success of the three-point game could be deceptive. This team shoots threes well when it drives into the lane and dishes back out to open jump shooters. Not when it passes the ball around the perimeter and has to shoot contested threes.
Definitely a Northwestern pace.
Virginia 12-7, 14:48/1st
Virginia has four threes.
The pace is starting to look more like a Virginia pace.
Smile and Smooch Cam. See ya later.
Some of the fans put their empty-seat disguises back on.
That’s at least three Virginia turnovers at the top of the key.
Two by Singletary, one by Baker.
UVa. 20-11, 12:04/1st
I want to get mad at Virginia for not dribble-penetrating, but they’ve made six threes so far.
Virginia 26-11, 10:42
Virginia has made eight threes.
I don’t expect them all to fall - but then there was that Gonzaga game last year. I think they’re still making threes in that one, and it’s been over for 10 months.
Eventually, they will have to do something in the lane.
Fans chanting “We want chicken!”
Raising Cane’s has a promotion - Virginia makes nine threes, everybody gets free chicken.
With 30 minutes to go, I think they’ll get their chicken.
Joseph will be in the doghouse …
He had a breakaway dunk - and he decided to do a reverse that ended up a little short of the mark.
Ugh.
Virginia 29-17, 7:30/1st
Did I miss it? What kind of food did you have pre-game? No ESPNU for me … boo.
SS doesn’t look right. He seems a step slow tonight.
The Chicken Ball.
Question - why doesn’t Mike Scott start?
Aggressive Northwestern D - Singletary pump-faked, dribbled in, and still shot a three.
Virginia has 10 3s.
And the thing is, it seems to make sense that they’re shooting them. Northwestern is giving them the shots and overplaying the dribble penetration.
Virginia 39-20, 3:53/1st
The three barrage continues. This one goes to 11.
Virginia 50-25, 1:33/1st
That stuff I said earlier about needing to dribble penetrate more … forget that.
Virginia 54, Northwestern 29, half
Virginia made a bazillion threes.
More when we get the stats in a few.
I’m starving.
Starving? Didn’t you get food before the game? If not, get you one of those greasy subs there at the half. Seems like this game will be an easy win for Virginia.
Virginia 19-31 FG
12-20 3-pt FG
Northwestern 11-25 FG
5-15 3-pt FG
Virginia 19-11 rebounding advantage
Virginia 13 assists on 19 made baskets
Mamadi Diane 14 points (4-5 3-pt FG)
Calvin Baker 13 points (5-5 FG, 3-3 3-pt FG)
Sean Singletary 6 points, 7 assists
See above for reasons re: starving.
Basically, they ran out of food (and no, it wasn’t Tucker McLaughlin’s fault).
To put 12-20 3-pt FG into perspective - that’s 36 points on 20 shots, or the equivalent of 90 percent shooting from the field on those 20 shots.
Virginia 60-31, 15:50/2nd
Question - why did we get stuck with friggin’ Northwestern?
And in the role of The Bull in a China Shop … Lars Mikalauskas.
Diane 20 points, 6-8 3-pt FG
Virginia 70-37, 13:04/2nd
The crowd is into the 70. Leitao is into the 37.
Question - do Cavs get 100?
70 points in 27 minutes = 104 points (?) in 40 minutes
Dinner of Champions - two hot dogs and a bottled water.
Virginia 79-46, 7:25/2nd
The pace is back under 100 - around 97.
Virginia win here gives ACC 2-0 advantage in The Challenge.
GT leads Indiana 51-49 in second half, FSU is up at the half on Minnesota.
Singletary just shot his first (and probably last) free throw of the game. He came in averaging nearly 8 FTA per game.
Zeglinski doubles his scoring for the season.
Virginia 90-48, 4:16/2nd
Andy Burns is about to make his earliest career entry.
Andy Burns scores - crowd reduced to tears.
That will do it from here. Check out tomorrow’s “SportsDominion Show” for a recap of tonight’s game.
Come on complaining about the food! I can’t believe Rich Murray graces you with a press credential.
I used to work in the sports department at the NV with a Scott German. One and the same?
That comment was not at a jab at you. It used to be that the U.Va. was very anti-internet sites and the issuing of press credentials. I guess he is starting to get the picture now.
I didn’t assume it was a jab. I just wanted to make sure I had the right Scott in mind!
The folks at UVa. have been pretty good to us over the years. I would say it was 2005 when we first were credentialed for football, and then we did basketball in ‘06-’07 and then again this year. They’ve also had The Sabre and CavCorner there for at least that long - funny thing, we usually sit together on press row, The Internet Guys, and I don’t think it’s by accident.