2011-12 Boston College Basketball: Virginia Game Thread (9:00 PM, ESPNU)
by Brian Favat on Jan 26, 2012 7:00 PM EST
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Boston College Eagles (7-12, 2-3 ACC) vs. No. 19/21 Virginia Cavaliers (15-3, 2-2 ACC)
Time: 9:00 PM Eastern
Date: Thursday, January 26, 2012
Place: Charlottesville, Va.
Arena: John Paul Jones Arena
Capacity: 14,593
TV: ESPNU
TV Announcers: Anish Shroff, Adrian Branch
Online: ESPN3.com
Radio: WRKO 680 AM
Radio Announcers: Jon Meterparel, Malcolm Huckaby
Internet Audio: BCEagles.com
Line: Boston College +19
Last Time Out: Boston College lost to Wake Forest 71-56 to fall to 7-12 on the year (2-3 in conference play)
Series: Boston College and Virginia have met 13 times. Virginia leads the all-time series 7-6.
Last Meeting at JPJA: Boston College 63, Virginia 44 (February 26, 2011)
Last Five Meetings:
W - Boston College 63, Virginia 44 (February 26, 2011)
W - Boston College 70, Virginia 67 (January 19, 2011)
L - Virginia 68, Boston College 62 (March 11, 2010)
W - Boston College 68, Virginia 55 (March 3, 2010)
W - Boston College 76, Virginia 63 (March 12, 2009)
Trends: BC has won the last four regular season meetings with the Cavaliers, dating back to February 17, 2008, and five of the last six overall. All six of BC's victories over Virginia have come since BC joined the ACC. After winning two straight ACC games, the Eagles have dropped its last two ACC games. After starting the season 14-1, Virginia has lost two of its last three games.
Virginia's 2010-2011 Record: 16-15 (7-9 ACC)
Virginia's Probable Starters:
G - Jontel Evans (Jr.) - 5-11, 188 lbs., Hampton, Va. - 5.9 PPG, 3.5 APG, 1.9 RPG
G - Sammy Zeglinski (Sr.) - 6-1, 184 lbs., Philadelphia, Pa. - 9.0 PPG, 2.6 APG, 2.9 RPG
G - Joe Harris (So.) - 6-6, 211 lbs., Chelan, Wa. - 12.5 PPG, 1.6 APG, 4.1 RPG
F - Akil Mitchell (So.) - 6-8, 234 lbs., Charlotte, N.C. - 3.4 PPG, 0.7 APG, 3.9 RPG
F - Mike Scott (Sr.) - 6-8, 237 lbs., Chesapeake, Va. - 16.6 PPG, 1.6 APG, 8.7 RPG
Boston College's Projected Starters:
G - Jordan Daniels (Fr.) - 5-8, 153 lbs., Fontana, Ca. - 5.8 PPG, 2.4 APG, 1.3 RPG
G - Matt Humphrey (Jr.) - 6-5, 192 lbs., Chicago, Il. - 9.6 PPG, 1.3 APG, 3.3 RPG
G - Lonnie Jackson (Fr.) - 6-3, 170 lbs., Valencia, Ca. - 7.4 PPG, 1.6 APG, 2.5 RPG
F - Ryan Anderson (Fr.) - 6-8, 217 lbs., Lakewood, Ca. - 9.6 PPG, 1.0 APG, 6.4 RPG
C - Dennis Clifford (Fr.) - 7-0, 241 lbs., Bridgewater, Ma. - 10.1 PPG, 1.1 APG, 5.2 RPG
Leave your pre-, in- and post-game comments below.
Go Eagles!
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Clifford is going to have an amazing size advantage.
Joe Harris might be out tonight for UVA.
by EagleAboveTheRim on Jan 26, 2012 7:04 PM EST reply actions
Send it in down Low then!
Run, press and trap and send the offense thru the post and Clifford the Big Maroon Dog.
Yeah, doubt it’ll happen, but getting 1-2 Cavs into foul trouble early will be huge for BC.
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this one has ugly written all over it
UVA certainly much better than the Eagles, but with a propensity to struggle to score (5 of last 6 games under 60 points). BC #298 in the country offensively and UVA #2 in the nation in scoring defense. How about 52-40 UVA? Might be giving both sides too much credit offensively! A flash back to the ACC days of old when Dean Smith went to the Four Corners, except both teams will be trying to score.
I don’t think Virginia is capable of blowing out anyone (with apologies to Georgia Tech).
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Great job following his shot by Ryan Anderson. He does so many things right, love his game.
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by A.J Black on Jan 26, 2012 9:08 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
I don’t even care if we win, but how overrated is UVA?
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More or less than their football team?
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Tough one. I think hoops is less overrated than football. Virginia football in the Peach Bowl was an absolute joke.
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Lost to N.C. State by 2 TDs, lost to Southern Miss … needed OT to beat Idaho, beat Indiana … Indiana! by a field goal.
Got waxed by a Virginia Tech team (38-0) that got waxed x2 by Clemson.
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I’d love to see more production from Heckmann. Dude has really lost his way with this back injury.
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Anyone know when Patrick Heckmann will show up again this season?
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Clifford neeeds to Foul Harder!!
Knock some people down!
Clifford needs to be the Big Maroon Dog and BITE!
I love the hustle!!!
Aside: I can’t stand those Nike uniforms with the watermark on the back. “Wahoos” … so dumb.
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Is it sad that at this point I’d rather see Danny Rubin in the game than Heckmann?
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And Ryan Anderson is limping.
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Scott was fouled there? Looked like he stepped out of bounds. Generous foul imo.
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Maroon Dog!!!
Freshman.
Nice lefty hook.
This summer he will becoma a MONSTER!!
Eagles go for the big Bunny in the next 3 years!!
Bunnies
When I was a kid, when you went to Rye Playland and you knocked over the 3 lead bottles with that marshmellow softball, the big Guido gave me a the Big Bunny.
This was in the days before that little fake pink bastard SOB Energizer Bunny and the movie BIG with Tom Hanks.
I want Bunnies at BC.
FYI — BC does not allow the Playboy photographers on campus to take pictures of our coed babes for showing their big racks and little twinkies or mouse traps and they would be rightly expelled!
No Bad Bunnies at BC!!!
So we get our Bunnies in National Titles!
There ya go!
Awesome, thanks.
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by Brian Favat on Jan 26, 2012 10:28 PM EST up reply actions
Kid likes that Hook and is gaining Confidence!
Like the late great Al McGuire said….
You need big aircraft carriers to win Bunnies!
We have one BIG MAROON DOG and we can add more in the next 2 years!
GO EAGLES!!!!!
At least even Clifford is joking about needing to hit the weight room.
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This color guy on ESPNU is really corny.
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Hello fellow eagles
Joining in for the game
Boston College, Class of 2010
by polarbearbrother on Jan 26, 2012 10:06 PM EST reply actions
What up polarbearbrother
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by Brian Favat on Jan 26, 2012 10:28 PM EST up reply actions
Did we just go 3-3 from the line?
I blacked out.
Looks like it
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by polarbearbrother on Jan 26, 2012 10:10 PM EST up reply actions
yea he did
and isn’t under 50 percent on the year
by bloomsday16 on Jan 26, 2012 10:11 PM EST up reply actions
Are we home on Saturday?
If so, this away Thursday, home Saturday is killer
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by polarbearbrother on Jan 26, 2012 10:11 PM EST reply actions
Sunday, not Saturday
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by Brian Favat on Jan 26, 2012 10:29 PM EST up reply actions
Though I agree about the short turnarounds. The @ N.C. State Thursday night to vs. Wake Forest Saturday at noon was a killer.
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by Brian Favat on Jan 26, 2012 10:29 PM EST up reply actions
just checkin in at the half
I didn’t see what we did early on but we look good right now
Moton for the three!
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by polarbearbrother on Jan 26, 2012 10:14 PM EST reply actions
mike scott
Doing a pretty good Craig Smith impression, here.
by cwm2005 on Jan 26, 2012 10:17 PM EST via iPhone app reply actions
not to mention
i liked it when smith hit shots
by bloomsday16 on Jan 26, 2012 10:22 PM EST up reply actions
3 boards by Scott also kinda weak.
by cwm2005 on Jan 26, 2012 10:40 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
LET THE BIG MAROON DOG EAT!
Feed Clifford coming out of the TO and keep doing it until they stop him.
I’m buying into the Big Maroon Dog
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by polarbearbrother on Jan 26, 2012 10:20 PM EST up reply actions
Get the ball to Clifford down low and not away from the Hoop!
With his back to the hoop and let him spin and elevate?
if for no other reason
then to get scott in foul trouble
by bloomsday16 on Jan 26, 2012 10:20 PM EST up reply actions
Hitting the threes today. I like it.
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by polarbearbrother on Jan 26, 2012 10:21 PM EST reply actions
Lead cut to 3. Keep it up. 41-44, 10:52
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by polarbearbrother on Jan 26, 2012 10:24 PM EST reply actions
ALL TIED UP 44-44
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by polarbearbrother on Jan 26, 2012 10:25 PM EST reply actions
danny sling shot rubin
Less worthless tonight
by cwm2005 on Jan 26, 2012 10:26 PM EST via iPhone app reply actions
anderson's game
doesn’t really have a place in this game… its too bad
haha no
did he play well? he’s actually my favorite player we have
by bloomsday16 on Jan 26, 2012 10:29 PM EST up reply actions
And like 9 of first 11.
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by Brian Favat on Jan 26, 2012 10:30 PM EST up reply actions
he hasn't really had any touches in the second half
by bloomsday16 on Jan 26, 2012 10:30 PM EST up reply actions
There has to be cause for excitement for the future...
when you’re biggest mainstays on offense are freshmen.
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by polarbearbrother on Jan 26, 2012 10:30 PM EST reply actions
And when your coach is a “scrapper.”
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by polarbearbrother on Jan 26, 2012 10:31 PM EST up reply actions
He is terrible. Just stupid cliche after stupid cliche.
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BC will be nasty when they stop going huge portions of the game playing like balls.
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by A.J Black on Jan 26, 2012 10:34 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
#Backhandedcomplimented
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by polarbearbrother on Jan 26, 2012 10:35 PM EST up reply actions
BC will be nasty when they grow up and the rest of the ACC is still playing like balls.
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by Brian Favat on Jan 26, 2012 10:36 PM EST up reply actions
someone tell daniels to stop shooting
by cwm2005 on Jan 26, 2012 10:35 PM EST via iPhone app reply actions
BIG MAROON DOG!
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by polarbearbrother on Jan 26, 2012 10:37 PM EST reply actions
Ya, needed that last one to go down
by cwm2005 on Jan 26, 2012 10:39 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
Rick Majerus and the entire B10 approve.
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BC doesn't force shots?
O RLY announcers? Have you SEEN Matt Humphrey play basketball?
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Btw, that’s a picture of Spaz, GDF and me, from left to right.
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by Brian Favat on Jan 26, 2012 10:42 PM EST up reply actions
I’ll take 37 min of close game, on road against ranked opponent.
by cwm2005 on Jan 26, 2012 10:42 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions 1 recs
Not a lot of close misses for Humphrey
by cwm2005 on Jan 26, 2012 10:44 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
I hate losing..to anyone in any event including Pirate Yachting
8 bit level?
Wow…
Time for a generation fast forward….
The greatest University in the Galaxy OWNS Pirate Yachting.
Bite your tongue, sir.
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by Brian Favat on Jan 26, 2012 10:42 PM EST up reply actions
You know, if Nate Freese had just made that FG at the end of the Duke game … and IF BC hadn’t committed a false start penalty in the final offensive possession against Northwestern …
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by Brian Favat on Jan 26, 2012 10:44 PM EST up reply actions
Oh, sorry. I thought we were talking about moral victories …
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by Brian Favat on Jan 26, 2012 10:45 PM EST up reply actions
And if Spaz spent any time on the recruiting trail, perhaps we won’t lose out on 2* tight ends to freaking Harvard …
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by Brian Favat on Jan 26, 2012 10:46 PM EST up reply actions
Yup
Different was amount of time he spent with Harvard coach vs. time spent with Spaz.
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by Brian Favat on Jan 26, 2012 10:50 PM EST up reply actions
I agree Hoya here. It’s a different measuring stick.
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by polarbearbrother on Jan 26, 2012 10:48 PM EST up reply actions
We really were 6-6 this year, you guys.
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by Brian Favat on Jan 26, 2012 10:51 PM EST up reply actions
Well duh. That’s the kind of record the best coach in fifteen years gets you. And if we hadn’t lost, we would have been National Champions!!! WOooo!
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by polarbearbrother on Jan 26, 2012 10:53 PM EST up reply actions
God, I hate our Athletics Department right now.
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by Brian Favat on Jan 26, 2012 10:53 PM EST up reply actions
JESUS HUMPHREY
there’s three minutes left you don’t need to shoot that quickly
Now that's just not fair...
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by polarbearbrother on Jan 26, 2012 10:44 PM EST reply actions
Ridiculous
UVa did not play as well as the final score will indicate.
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by Brian Favat on Jan 26, 2012 10:45 PM EST up reply actions
Sarcasm?
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by polarbearbrother on Jan 26, 2012 10:47 PM EST up reply actions
Not at all
Final score wasn’t even close to representative of the way Virginia played = unfair.
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by Brian Favat on Jan 26, 2012 10:51 PM EST up reply actions
Gotcha.
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by polarbearbrother on Jan 26, 2012 10:51 PM EST up reply actions
They started forcing shots in the end desperation.
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by polarbearbrother on Jan 26, 2012 10:49 PM EST up reply actions
I felt like we almost had that one.
I’m disappointed, but I’m still feeling really good on what the Don is doing.
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by polarbearbrother on Jan 26, 2012 10:51 PM EST reply actions
So who is the third?
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by polarbearbrother on Jan 26, 2012 10:56 PM EST up reply actions
FSU is making a strong case with the UNC and @ DUKE wins.
by Wisconsineagle on Jan 26, 2012 11:13 PM EST up reply actions
UNC result aside, NC State is up there and gets a shot at UVA this weekend.
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