GAME THREAD: MBB at Virginia

[GHammond]

One good thing - only 32.2 more seconds of Pastner.

[PonyPride]

Virginia's best shooters — McNeely and Rohde — are a combined 2 for 18 tonight
UVA leads, 50-45

[PonyPride]

Edwards drains a 3 to end 12-0 UVA run

50-48, Cavs lead

[PonyPride]

Sharma hits 2 FTs
UVA 52, SMU 48
18.7 to go

[fan]

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[PonyPride]

Cross (0 points, 4 fouls) replaced by Tibet Görener

Miller 3 closes it to 52-51

7.4 seconds left

[PonyPride]

Virginia's Taine Murray misses 2 FTs

SMU calls timeout with 4.1 seconds left, trailing 52-51

[PonyPride]

Miller hits buzzer-beater 3 to win!

[PonyPride]

Not over — 0.4 seconds left on clock

UVA can run the baseline, but the Cavs are 94 feet away

[mustang1992]

Lol, what a terrible game.

[Hop Sing]

I guess they just wanted an exciting ending!!

[PonyPride]

Cofie shot from mid-court was on target, but short — SMU wins, 54-52

Ponies improve to 13-4, 4-2 in ACC
UVA falls to 8-9, 1-5 in ACC

Up next for SMU: 1 PM (Central time) Saturday at Miami on ESPNU

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[PonyPride]

Boopie Miller is going to get credit, and his game-winner was impressive, but credit has to go to the defense. Ugly game, but holding McNeely and Rohde to 2/18 shooting is remarkable. That's where the game was won.

[shadowman]

Well,

We got lucky there. What an ugly game. SMU was stuck on 45 for about the last 5 minutes of the game which turned an 8 point lead to 2 point deficit. Then, we are down 5 with 30 seconds to go.

SMU then makes 3 three pointers in the last 30 seconds and a 82% FT shooter for Virginia misses both free throws with under 10 seconds setting the game winning shot.

Should have definitely lost that game, If Virginia would have shot even close to their average from behind the line (38%) we would have been blown out. It wasn't like we played great defense, most of their misses were wide open, they just couldn't buy one.

Hopefully we can shake that performance off, count ourselves lucky and play much better in Miami.

I will say it was fun to finally see us win one like that, was definitely exciting!