Teague's Late Shot Fends Off Cavaliers
U-Va.'s Landesberg Is Held in Check: Wake Forest 70, Virginia 60
Calvin Baker, who led Virginia with 13 points, watches Tony Woods go up for a layup. The Cavaliers played without injured 7-footer Assane Sene.
(By Andrew Shurtleff -- Associated Press)
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Feb. 28 -- On a day when both teams' stars struggled, Wake Forest's Jeff Teague provided just a little bit more offense than Virginia's Sylven Landesberg in the 13th-ranked Demon Deacons' 70-60 victory Saturday at John Paul Jones Arena.
Teague scored just 12 points -- eight below his average -- but hit a crucial three-pointer with 2 minutes 11 seconds left after Virginia had pulled within 56-53 on Mike Scott's jump hook. It was one of only two three-pointers for Wake Forest and the only one for Teague, who finished 2 of 9 from the field.
Wake Forest Coach Dino Gaudio said he gave Teague a little pep talk with about 4 1/2 minutes left, telling him "every time you're open I want you to shoot. And he hit a big, big three for us."
Landesberg, who leads Virginia at nearly 18 points per game, had an even more frustrating afternoon. He scored just 10 points.
"When you guard Sylven, five guys have to guard him," Gaudio said. "When he takes a dribble with the basketball, just take one step closer to him."
The Demon Deacons (22-5, 9-5 ACC) shot poorly against Virginia's zone defense, but they more than made up for it with dominance under the basket. They scored 22 of their first 24 points on layups, putbacks and dunks, many of them in transition. Fifteen of their rebounds came at the offensive end.
"I think rebounding is essentially an aggression statistic," said Virginia Coach Dave Leitao, clearly unhappy with Wake Forest's 42-28 advantage in that category. "I think every man looks at the other man sometimes to grab a rebound, and obviously that is not the proper mind-set."
Virginia (9-16, 3-11) was without 7-foot center Assane Sene, who injured an ankle in Thursday night's loss to Miami. Sene, who leads Virginia with 34 blocked shots, was replaced in the starting lineup by Tunji Soroye, whose only field goal of the game gave the Cavaliers their only lead at 2-0.
Calvin Baker led Virginia with 13 points. Mamadi Diane added 12 in just 17 minutes off the bench.
