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[ man ] it makes you look forward to the warmer days of spring, but noble pils will be gone before you know it. acc sunday night hoops is delivered to you by pizza hut. get any pizza, any size, any crust and any topping for one low price. and brought to you in part by american airlines. we know why you fly. we're american airlines. and by john hancock, the future is yours. >> rich: duke on top big at virginia. jerome meyinsse at the line. virginia playing without sylven landesberg, their star guard, averaging 17 a game. >> dan: landesberg draws so much attention from opposing defenses, his teammates get more open opportunities than they have seen tonight. the cavaliers, they started the game shooting one for 12. they started the second half shooting one for ten. so that is just not a very effective formula against a team like duke. mike krzyzewski told us before the game, he asked him about sylven landesberg. he said he thought landesberg was one of the best players in the country and that he drew more attention because of his ability, that you always had to be aware of where he was on the court, that you had to make sure you had him covered up, and that creates extra opportunities for his virginia teammates, and those opportunities have not been forthcoming tonight. >> rich: we saw him drop 27 on the road at miami this week. and mason plumlee with a nice step-through move in the lane. the lead back to 21. virginia kicks it away. what separates this duke team in your mind from some of the other duke teams in the last few years? is it the big three? >> dan: i think it's a combination of things. number one, i think they have three very reliable scorers. you get into tight game situations and you've got three guys who you know can go get you a basket. you don't have to rely on one of them. and then i think their inside guys know their roles very well, they defend very well, they rebound the ball very effectively, they set screens, they just play very well together. >> rich: zoubek in the ball game, singler off a zoubek screen and that's a big screen to come off of. >> dan: that's just what we're talking about. mason plumlee at the top doesn't try to make a spectacular move, he just keeps the ball moving and kyle singler keeps moving without the ball and comes off the screen. >> rich: 19 for singler. farrakhan. mason plumlee with the block. scheyer, singler, ball fake. short on the three. >> dan: he sort of lost his rhythm there with the ball fake. >> rich: jeff jones. >> dan: just when virginia thinks they may have a breakaway kind of situation, duke comes back and forces them to take a tough shot. nothing has come easily to the cavaliers tonight. >> rich: they have shot 25%, nine of 35. mason plumlee. >> dan: and see the other thing about these big guys is they're not expected to score an awful lot, but they have scored some key baskets. they can score. all of them have had big games this year. >> rich: 54-29. number five duke on top. this day in duke history a memorable one for mike krzyzewski. krzyzewski. we'll look it't cth er knowold mus. you!of te! exc... what grndwithan ♪ yout habe so nice ♪ acc. >> dan: boy, there's some big games left. the clemson tigers with a big win today. georgia tech needs a victory. wake forest losing over the weekend. now they have got to go to florida state the same day as the duke-maryland game. there virginia knocks down a three. there's a lot of basketball left to be played in the atlantic coast conference. important games as teams vie for ncaa tournament bids. of course the automatic bid is at the acc tournament champion but the acc looking for a number of at-large bids and a lot of teams still in contention. >> rich: it was duke that won the tournament last year. smith misses a three. duke beat florida state in the acc championship game last year, also beat maryland and boston college on their way to that title. calvin baker feeds the post. meyinsse. i tell you what, jerome meyinsse is having a pretty solid night. 16 points. >> dan: he has been aggressive, he has caught the ball for the most part ready to do something with it and he has attacked the basket. he hasn't tried to shoot jump shots. >> rich: that one is off the glass. andre dawkins. duke was a number two seed for the ncaa tournament last year. obviously with what has transpired this weekend, a pretty good shot at a number one seed if they can win out. now, obviously a lot is down the road. maryland, of course, this week and then the acc tournament. baker out of control and turns it over. long night for virginia here. a dominant performance by the number five team in the country, the duke blue devils are cruising tonight. 56-34. >> rich: number five duke cruising right now 56-34. on the road at virginia. all four of duke's losses have been on the road, but tonight the blue devils came in thinking they had to stop sylven landesberg and found out when the ball was tipped off that they didn't because landesberg didn't come out with the starters and has not played with a deep thigh bruise. >> dan: certainly makes the job much easier without sylven landesberg. but despite that, the duke blue devils have played with intensity, they have played with effort on the defensive end. they're still doing what they need to do offensively. nice cut by singler. real impressed with singler's movement without the basketball. we've said that a couple of times and i think it bears repeating. he's just doing a great job getting himself open. >> rich: mike krzyzewski making a few tweaks to that offense to help in that process. >> dan: guys who move, particularly guys who move without the basketball, are much more difficult to guard than somebody who stands there, somebody who just pounds it with the dribble. >> rich: not many of those guys of 6'8", 230. >> dan: no. >> rich: meyinsse backing in. jerome meyinsse keeps adding on to a big night. >> dan: this is -- if you're the virginia cavaliers and you want to take something positive from this, jerome meyinsse being aggressive on the inside, you know, they don't need necessarily mike scott and sammy zeglinski to be extra offensive once landesberg gets back, meyinsse fills the bill very we well. >> rich: that's one of the reasons scheyer is such a tough guy to guard as a point guard. he just took him right down the lane, shot over him and scored. >> dan: he's got the quickness to get himself in scoring position and he has the drive to convert once he gets there. >> rich: zoubek sends that one into the seats. >> dan: yeah, that's a guy who's like 5'9" going in against a guy who's seven feet tall. nice job by evans to get inside, but duke forces him to take a tough shot going underneath the basket and gives zoubek a chance to swat it. >> rich: farrakhan. 24-point lead for number five duke. scheyer around the edge. a straight-on three. 18 for scheyer. >> dan: boy, that was a deep one. >> rich: singler with 21. scheyer with his 18. >> dan: the cavaliers really struggling to shoot the ball. they have made, what, a few field goals in the second half? >> rich: it's not pretty. 28% from the field for virginia. >> dan: blocked shot there. >> rich: zeglinski, nice look for sene and virginia couldn't convert. assane sene the sophomore out of senegal. >> dan: we talked about jon scheyer and his opportunity to create opportunities for teammates. that time plumlee draws the defense and scheyer converts. >> rich: duke up 66-36. we talked about duke and maryland, very comfortable headed toward the ncaa tournament, but there are some other teams in the acc with some work to do. >> dan: as we take a look right here, overall records very good, florida state dropped a tough game today to fall to 8-7. you are see clemson at 8-6 along with virginia tech and wake forest. the rpi an important number. not the only number to consider, but you see each of the teams with pretty good rpis. virginia tech the strength of schedule 132, that could be a bit of a burden but virginia tech is in a situation if they keep winning they're okay. you know, florida state and wake forest are going t welome, scheyer certainly gives you that. i mean this is a guy that makes all the plays. he is a very effective shooter. he gets into the lane and can use his quickness to get there and his size to score. obviously a great hustle play coming up with the basketball, so he gives you all the effort that you can want and then he's able to take the ball and get it all the way to the goal, so he's one of those guys you have to guard him in all area of the floor because he can shoot the three, pull up and shoot the jumper, drive the ball to the basket and find open teammates. >> rich: that's a high-low plumlee look from mason plumlee to miles plumlee. marshall plumlee is in the building tonight, the third of the plumlee brothers. you can see scheyer's line. >> dan: interestingly enough, the third plumlee brother is here on a recruiting visit to virginia. >> rich: he plays in the same prep school in north carolina that his brothers did. career high 21 points, seven rebounds. tat. solomon tat, the senior out of nigeria. >> dan: well, once again, where virginia has had had success tonight and admittedly they haven't had a lot of it but where they have had had success is penetration off the dribble and finding guys inside. for the most part tonight it's been jerome meyinsse. that time it was solomon tat. good catch and a nice shot against pressure. >> rich: steve johnson in for duke. that's part of the equation that virginia has not had in the six-game losing streak when landesberg has been healthy and playing, is any support inside. tat with a three-point play. >> dan: maybe that's a sign for tony bennett and his cavaliers of better things to come here as they go into the last week of the season and think about playing in the acc tournament, if they can get good production on the inside. >> rich: jordan davidson also in for duke. virginia down big, playing without sylven landesberg tonight. dawkins and duke. >> dan: the duke team ranked fifth in the country coming in playing very, very well, haven't lost a game this month. it was going to be hard enough for the the cavaliers with sylven landesberg and it just became an impossible task when it turned out that that deep thigh bruise prevented him from playing at all tonight. >> rich: virginia came out and missed 11 of their first 12 shots and fell in a deep hole that they never got out of. mason plumlee put a shoulder down, lost the ball. spurlock, oh, in traffic, and he'll get a free throw. the freshman out of woodbridge, virginia, tristan spurlock. >> a very highly touted freshman that nobody doubts his ability on the offensive end. he has had a difficult time adjusting to the speed of the college game and the defensive work that tony bennett expect, but it's a young man if he keeps working hard he's going to have a pretty good career here at virginia. >> rich: tony bennett has signed five highly touted freshman class coming in next year. certainly they will fight for playing time next season. >> dan: tristan spurlock, all he's got to do is look a little bit north for inspiration on how to play in tony bennett's system. landon mill born has become a thousand point scorer for the terps. just because your freshman year doesn't go quite the way you want it doesn't mean you can't have a great college career. you're just not going to play very much for tony bennett unless you play on the defensive end of the court. >> rich: here comes evans. and a foul on the play. our player of the game, just for men hair color player of the game, kyle singler. 21 points, six of ten from the field. >> dan: a solid all-around game for singler. he got them started. made a couple of three-point baskets, had three rebounds, had three assists, had a blocked shot, so a complete game for kyle singler. >> rich: he had 12 as duke went out to a 20-4 lead. >> dan: then again nothing really spectacular by kyle singler. i use the word workman-like and i think that characterizes his effort along with the duke effort tonight. they just went out and did what they had to do. >> rich: evans hits a couple of free throws. maryland is next, then north carolina. duke tries to nail down an acc regular season title. they're going to go to 12-2 with this win. virginia will have lost seven in a row. well, if you're talking about number one seeds, the boilermakers of purdue beaten by michigan state and of course the devastating injury to robbie hummel as well. >> dan: you can look at duke's resume there. even if robbie hummel was playing for the purdue boilermakers, the numbers for duke, they have won more games against the rpi top 50 than any team in the country. they have obviously played a very good schedule, and purdue, that is not a shabby resume. but again, without robbie hummel, i think they struggle to maintain that number one seed although i think the boilermakers have a little easier finishing regular season schedule than the duke blue devils. >> rich: we focus so much on rpi when it comes to who's going to make the tournament or not make the tournament. what about for the number one seeds? how much does the selection committee weigh rpi when you're looking for a first and a second seed. >> dan: well, i think the thing you have to understand, rich, is the rpi is only one of a series of factors. you know, the strength of schedule obviously plays into it. how well a team performance. you know, it's important whether a team is playing down the stretch as it used to be, but there are a number of factors that are looked at and i think that the rpi is just one but that strength of schedule, who did you play, who did you beat, where did you beat them, i think all that plays into it. >> rich: right now the numbers favor duke. >> dan: well, they do, particularly because purdue doesn't have robbie hummel. that doesn't mean they can't continue to win. they're finishing games with indiana at home. and even without robbie hummel they ought to be favored to win. >> rich: the back cut, steve johnson scores for duke. >> dan: certainly this is a duke team that looks awfully good right at the moment. >> rich: it's a duke team that came in here and on a weekend of upsets took care of business, and they did it quickly. mike krzyzewski, tony bennett, for coach k win number 858. jon scheyer with a big night. we'll have him with jenn hildreth when we return. duke, number five in the country, and looking like it tonight, 67-49 the final. >> rich: number 5 duke beats virginia. a big reason jon scheyer. 20 points, five steals, he's with jenn hildreth. >> jenn: well, jon, your team winning its eighth in a row making it look easy tonight. why is this team playing so well right now? >> i just think our defense has been a strength for us and we build off of that. offensively we're just sharing the ball and taking good shots. >> jenn: one step closer to that regular season acc title. what do you need to do going forward. you've got a couple of tough games left. >> obviously we're fortunate to be in this position, we're happy where we are but obviously we have two big games this week. we just need to prepare and keep doing what we're doing. they're going to be two tough games and we have to be ready to go. >> jenn: you joked with me earlier in the season when you told me you were super quick and could jump out of the building. you showed some athleticism tonight. >> i appreciate it. i mean i was kidding around, but obviously i feel i am athletic and i can do certain things so, you know, i had some good drives and good plays today. >> jenn: your numbers backing it up, my friend. congratulations on the win and good luck the rest of the way. >> thanks a lot. >> rich: jon scheyer impressive tonight, number five duke 25-4 now, 12-2 in the acc. a tough loss for virginia. we'll finish it up when we return. at ada et ition for asonrs allthe [ ca r ousprisona we'roduc el aoble laid out and turned daily by hand. ] four hops from bavaria and one from bohemia. we get a very bright, hoppy note with a clean finish. it's got a lot of flavor. and refreshing. [ man ] it makes you look forward to the warmer days of spring, but noble pils will be gone before you know it. >> rich: on a weekend of big upsets in college basketball, duke makes sure there was no upset tonight in charlottesville. just a lot of blue devils. number five duke a winner 67-49. next sunday our final acc sunday night hoops game of the season, clemson and wake forest 6:00 eastern. coming up next, final score. for dan bonner, jenn hildreth, i'm rich waltz. f omedtrok i to a g ease p aromas. ulb isollearomas. its cr it rworks. jusbuck, savns oy. it'ne. malunceght any at hut st pizy si y crnd any topping only ly a piz.