Maryland 91, UNC 108
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RecapI came away from this game not knowing what to think. Sure, we had our highest scoring first half of the season (60 points), but we also gave up the second highest points in a game for the year (91).
We got out to a rare fast start. Wayne Ellington had 8 points in the first 6 minutes. He went on to score a game high 34 points on 7-9 shooting from 3. He was on fire. In the second half he scored 7 points in a 1 minute span. But he didn't just do well shooting. He also led the team in rebounding including 7 offensive rebounds! Outstanding game for Mr. Ellington (I won't mention the 4 turnovers on a few bad passes, ok, I guess I did). Tyler Hansbrough had a pretty solid game scoring 24 points, but was only 7-16 from the field. Ty Lawson scored 21 points on 4-5 from 3, 6 assists, 4 steals and ZERO turnovers. Great job. Danny Green scored 16 on 4-6 shooting from beyind the arc. As a team, we shot 64% from three! That's 11 percentage points higher than our next closest game (53% against Kentucky). It goes without saying that we were on fire. After a
quick check over on StatSheet, this was our 5th best three point shooting game since 1996.
While it was nice to see us shooting so well from outside, the game was ultimately a little disappointing because we let Maryland shoot 48% which is higher than any other game this season. In all honesty, there is a good chance we would have lost this game if we weren't raining threes. But a win is a win, especially in conference play, so onward and upward.
Next up is
Virginia on Saturday. If you recall,
we beat UVA pretty easily on January 15th. I watched a little of their
game against Duke this past weekend and they didn't look good. Let's hope they don't bounce back against us!
