National Basketball Association
Virginia 57, Georgia Tech 28
When: 8:00 PM ET, Thursday, January 22, 2015
Where: John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, Virginia
Officials:
# Tim Clougherty, # William Humes, # Michael Stephens
Attendance:
13809
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No. 2 Virginia 57, Georgia Tech 28: Malcolm Brogdon scored 13 points and the host Cavaliers leaned on their suffocating defense to remain undefeated.
Virginia (18-0, 6-0 ACC), the nation’s leader in scoring defense at 50.6 points per game coming in, held the Yellow Jackets (9-9, 0-6) to 24.5 percent shooting in continuing its best start since opening the 1980-81 campaign with 23 straight victories. Justin Anderson added seven points and four assists, and the Cavaliers got 25 points from their bench.
Marcus Georges-Hunt scored seven points to lead Georgia Tech, which finished with just two assists in dropping its first six conference games for the first time since 2008-09. It was an historically bad night for the Yellow Jackets, who scored their fewest points in a game since 1949 and did not make a 3-pointer for the first time since 2005.
Georgia Tech hit five of its first 11 shots, pulling within 13-10 on Georges-Hunt’s jumper with just under 11 minutes left in the first half. Anderson scored five points during a 10-0 surge to put the Cavaliers ahead 23-10, and Virginia held the Yellow Jackets to 2-of-14 shooting the rest of the period en route to a 28-16 advantage at intermission.
It was more of the same after halftime as the Cavaliers limited the Yellow Jackets to 12 points in the second half, Georgia Tech’s lowest-scoring half since joining the ACC in 1979. Brogdon’s jumper just over four minutes into the half ignited a 24-4 run that pushed the Virginia lead to 55-22 with 3:50 to play.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Virginia extended its homecourt winning streak to 21 games. … Georgia Tech F Robert Sampson, son of Virginia legend Ralph Sampson, scored two points and recorded seven rebounds. … Georgia Tech’s previous low point output in an ACC game was 36 against Miami (Fla.) in 2012.
Top Game Performances
| Georgia Tech |
|
Virginia |
|
Marcus Georges-Hunt 7 |
Scoring |
Malcolm Brogdon 13 |
|
Corey Heyward 1 |
Assists |
Justin Anderson 4 |
|
Robert Sampson 7 |
Rebounds |
Darion Atkins 8 |
|
Demarco Cox 2 |
Free Throws Made |
Anthony Gill 3 |
|
Marcus Georges-Hunt 1 |
Steals |
Justin Anderson 1 |
|
Robert Sampson 2 |
Blocks |
Justin Anderson 1 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Points |
FG% |
3PM-3PA |
FTM-FTA |
Assists |
Rebounds |
Blocks |
Steals |
Turnovers |
| Georgia Tech
|
28 |
24.5 |
0-12 |
4-8 |
2 |
29 |
3 |
3 |
10 |
| Virginia
|
57 |
45.3 |
5-9 |
4-6 |
13 |
33 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
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