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Among the variety of improbabilities we saw during the second half Monday night: NC State achieved a double-digit lead, NC State went 10 minutes without scoring, and DJ Funderburk fouled out shortly after a bogus double technical call. Also there was the improbability of NC State winning this game at Virginia despite those latter two things.
What a wild, mostly painful second half that ended up being, damn. I feel like I need a shot and a cigarette.
Factors
Four Factors | NC State | UVA |
---|---|---|
Four Factors | NC State | UVA |
eFG% | 44.1 | 39.0 |
TO% | 10.6 | 17.7 |
OR% | 19.4 | 32.4 |
FTR | 27.5 | 30.0 |
Pace and Efficiency
Team | Pts | Poss | OFF_EFF | DEF_EFF |
---|---|---|---|---|
Team | Pts | Poss | OFF_EFF | DEF_EFF |
NC State | 53 | 56 | 94.6 | 91.1 |
UVA | 51 | 56 | 91.1 | 94.6 |
NC State pushed its two-point halftime lead to 11 on a CJ Bryce three-pointer with 13:46 remaining, then didn’t score another point until there was 3:42 on the clock. Over that span, Funderburk—who had been State’s best player by far—fouled out and UVA built a four-point lead.
But just when it appeared certain that the Wolfpack was toast, Jericole Hellems finally ended the drought with a three-pointer to cut the UVA lead to one, and after a Mamadi Diakite free throw pushed the margin back to two, Markell Johnson buried a triple to give State the lead back.
Hellems made another big play by grabbing an offensive board and scoring to push the lead to three, and CJ Bryce canned a clutch elbow jumper to make it 52-47 with about 30 seconds left.
Not that the game could end in a tidy fashion, mind you. The Pack had to go and miss all three front-ends in the second half, doing so twice in the final 25 seconds to keep UVA around. Which about near killed me, but hey, I made it, and hey, we won.
And this is a big one, no doubt about that.