Virginia has the pace of the game that they want – the teams combined to only score 59 points. They also have shut down Auburn’s three point attack as the Tigers are 3-14 from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n
But Virginia is only 3-9 from three point range themselves and are not getting the offensive rebounds that they got against Purdue (the Cavaliers had 17 offensive boards against the Boilers but they have only 3 in the first half against the Tigers).<\/p>\n
The Tigers have to be thrilled – Harper and Brown only have 7 points. But they have 13 points from their bench and Anfernee McLemore has 7 (including a big 3 close to the end of the half) that have kept them in the game. The Tigers finished off the half on a 14-6 run – giving them a 3 point halftime lead.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers need someone to score other than Ty Jerome – who has 13 points. Their defense is doing exactly what is almost always does – but they will have to find a way to beat Auburn’s defense if they want to advance to the National Championship.<\/p>\n
Will #5 Auburn knock off the last remaining #1 seed and make their first ever championship game in their first ever Final Four! They are 20 minutes away – but I am sure the Cavaliers will put up a fight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Virginia has the pace of the game that they want – the teams combined to only score 59 points. They also have shut down Auburn’s three point attack as the Tigers are 3-14 from beyond the arc. But Virginia is only 3-9 from three point range themselves and are not getting the offensive rebounds that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}