where do they get it from. watching off the ball, that time, never saw him coming until it was too late and tat got the block without the foul. >> matt: malone, way off the mark. shooting only 18% on his three-pointers this season. signed out of south atlanta high school in atlanta. virginia answers with their own three. that is the second three-pointer for jeff jones and he has eight, the. >> daymeon: if you are auburn, you got to find out where he is at. no matter what the scouting report says, when a guy knocks down three of them, you have to watch him. >> daymeon: reed a guy who tries to pick it up when feels like his team needs it the most. a scoring point guard from that position. >> matt: the rebound knocked out of bounds by auburn. bad luck on that one. 7:43 left in the first half and the virginia cavaliers coming out strong. dewayne reed trying to keep the auburn tigers in the ballgame. - basically, it's about symmetry. - ugh! i'm good. to be honest here-- ugh! ah! - hooked it. - i'm good. - my bad. - i'm good. i'm the ma-- ugh! i'm good. - ready? - no. ah! oh! - announcer: men can take anything... - i'm good. ...except the taste of diet cola, until now. pepsi max. the first diet cola for men. ahh, this is good. >> matt: 7:43 to play in the first half. virginia with the 25-16 lead over the auburn tigers. sec versus seatbelt coming up on friday night here on css, live from nashville as the tennessee volunteers take on middle tennessee state and that will be followed by vanderbilt versus western kentucky. friday night at 7:00 eastern right here on css. tony bennett in his first season as the virginia cavaliers head coach following in the footsteps of his father. played for him at wisconsin green bay and coached with him at wisconsin and then at washington state. among the challenges with the new coaching staff, daymeon, is not one player on the virginia roster recruited by the coaching staff so they are working with a brand new set of players and a coaching staff that has not worked together until the start of this season. >> daymeon: and at the same time, they are excited about the recruited guys already and coach bennett excited about the new kids that they have coming in as well as working with the group that they have this year for the duration of the season. >> matt: when you talk about a bennett coached team you talk about defense which makes their dead last rank ghtsing in the conference so hard for them to swallow. landesberg had to fire up a three. didn't hit anything and auburn brings down the floor as the shot clock was running down on them. foul is going be called on sene. >> daymeon: still learning to play this basketball game. people forget how young he is and i think he has a world of potential defensively. we know what we can do, he can block shots. he has to continue to improve offensively to develop a turn around jump shot. if he can do that, he will make a world of difference for that virginia team. >> matt: brendon knox at the free-throw line and the rebound battled for and won by auburn. ross got to it. beat two guys to it as well. hargrove. and that is what jeff lebo wants to see. they want to see him slice through the hole. that was the game plan right there and gets the tigers back to within 7. >> daymeon: early in the season, hargrove was taking too many threes for jeff lebo's liking. said to try to get his teammates involved. >> matt: long three-point attempt by calvin baker. reed. hargrove. hits the three. hargrove with 7. >> daymeon: hargrove before that troy game had two double doubles back to back and a guy who really gets going. >> matt: and landesberg answers with a spinning move to the hoop. six-point lead for the cavaliers. reed splits the defense. and that is what has bothered tony bennett this season. >> daymeon: tony bennett is such a nice guy. a lot of times, people mistake him for being soft which is the last thing. you are exactly right, he doesn't like that there. >> matt: foul is going to be called on reed. watch dewayne reed split the defense here. >> daymeon: he has four blue jerseys around him, matt, but uses the old jump shot to try to separate himself and then with the nice kiss off of the glass a nice finish by him and a guy who at any point in time can really take over a basketball game because of his ability to get to the rim. it is probably quicker and more difficult to stay in front of than anybody else in the sec. >> matt: auburn has gotten eight from reed. you see the tigers 5-13 on their first 13 shot is. they went nearly six and a half minutes with only one bucket. the fact that they are down only four is good news for them. landesberg. wow. >> daymeon: tough. >> matt: he really is. got reed up in the air and waited for him to go by him. sullivan launches the three. and the rebound comes right to reed. >> daymeon: landesberg a guy who shows you how good it is to get to the rim. we have seen tonight time and time again he will make space and slowly but surely get to the rim. >> matt: in the corner. off the mark. offensive rebound, however, by the tigers. they are fourth in the sec in that number. >> daymeon: talked about one of the keys in shot selection. that time, reed took a three-pointer. they settle for the three-point shot too much when they need to go to the basket. >> matt: landesberg has 13 of the cavaliers' points. he had twelve 20-point games to set the record. >> four on the shot clock, sherrill. sullivan got the rebound and was standing on the baseline when came down. >> daymeon: back breaker. >> matt: watch the great control by landesberg just to get reed in the air and wait for him to go by. pull the ball back and put it in. ever. >> daymeon: landesberg 13 points, eight straight double figure games. this is really a game for him to really excel because you see ross the young freshman for auburn just went out. auburn doesn't have a lot of size. they don't have the taylor made small forward. >> matt: and sene called for the foul on the inbounds and that is number three on him. sene who has already fouled out ones this season and only played in four of their seven games is already in foul trouble here with four minutes to play in the first half. >> daymeon: it is unfortunate. you can see the frustration on the young fellow's face. of course, he wants to win. if you are coach bennett, you teach him, you really allow those type of fouls because it is him going hard and simply making mistakes early in his career. >> matt: reed working against zeglinski. hargrove now with ten on the shot clock. crossover dribble. spin move and the block from behind. ahead to landesberg with 15 points for landesberg. star out of holy cross high school in new york, 2008 mcdonald's all american. mr. basketball in the state of new york. lived up to the billing last year, 2009 acc freshman of the year. >> daymeon: and right now just basically putting the team on his back and refusing to allow auburn to get back into this game. >> matt: reed standing for the three. reed has really struggled. he and hargrove both struggled with the shots on the perimeter this season. one of the reasons why the auburn tigers are 4-4. 3:04 to play in the first half. landesberg and the virginia cavaliers an cc yes! ♪ do you need anybody?! earn double hilton hhonors base points. real value from your friends at hampton. >> matt: late first half, virginia with the eight-point lead. bennett has to be happy with the way they are playing. they already have three blocks in the game and they only average two per game. >> daymeon: you just saw one of them there. the good defense leading to offense. watch this change as he splits the defenders. that is what you see in the pro os because that shot looked a lot easier than it was. he was going full speed and the last two steps he slowed up to allow one defender to pass by and got it up with the finger roll and kiss off the glass before the next defender could get there. >> matt: landesberg with 15. the rest of the cavaliers 16. 10 touches for landesberg and 15 points on the 20 touches at sherrill at the line hits the free-throw and makes it a nine-point lead again. >> daymeon: will sherrill out of new york and phillips academy andover, averaging 14 minutes but called in to start this ballgame tonight again because mike scott their big 6'8" pow power forward out with a high ankle sprain that was first learned about when posted it on facebook. inside they go. and knox got fouled. mike scott posted on his facebook page that he had a high ankle sprain and that is how people found out about it. we found out of course today when was not participating in the shoot around. check out talking hoops starting friday, january 15th. 9:00 eastern time. in depth look from college football from top notch experts who know the game's best. coming in january. brendon knox. see his season numbers. averaging 18 minutes, 6 points, 3 rebounds. senior out of georgetown, south carolina high school by we wayf spartanburg methodist college. >> daymeon: and knox a guy who was -- coach lebo wanted to try to go to him and try and establish an inside presence. right now, though, haven't seen a lot of that. knox a couple of passes inside but i feel like if you are auburn you want to try to get in there a little bit more. >> matt: auburn hit the first four free-throws and missed the last four free-throw attempts. landesberg working on hargrove. hit the side of the backboard. they want to go inside to knox who is double teamed. put it on the floor. tripped and fouled by baker. >> daymeon: a good decision. look at this line-up out here right now, knox is probably as big or bigger than anybody on the floor and what they do is simply move it around, go out one end, good entry pass, the double team getting there too late and knox going up and showing a little strength. if you are auburn you got to knock them down once you get to the charity stripe. >> matt: knox just dropped his contact lens on the floor. he had it on his finger trying to put it in and now dropped it on the floor. sullivan found it for him. well, he missed two free-throws wearing the contact lenses. perhaps he should go without them, daymeon, i'm not saying anything. >> matt: he had nine points and five rebounds against troy the other night. number one field goal shooter on the team which you might expect from a bulky 6'10", 238-pound senior. 68% from the field. a good majority from close range. >> daymeon: knox last year was really the main center who came in behind bar bette barbour whd a double double in the sec. now, he started out early in the year as a starter for the team and now has been overtaken a little bitly lett. both of those guys getting a lot of minutes for coach lebo. i think coach waiting to see if the cream rises to the top between the two guys. >> matt: i have seen people struggle trying to get them in your eyes. can you imagine the pressure of trying to get one of those on your eyeball with an arena full of people watching you and waiting for you to do that so you can continue the game. that is pressure. >> daymeon: i think he handled it pretty well. >> matt: he just hit the free-throw. not so much on that one. under two minutes to play in the first half. virginia has led for most of the half to that man right there, landesberg who now has 17 points here in the first half, just says i'm bigger and stronger and taking it to the basket at will. >> matt: and there is ten nba scouts in the building and i got to put on a show. the former georgia billy head coach here scouting for the phoenix suns tonight. pete babcock here tonight scouting for the cleveland cavaliers. they got a row full of them over there. auburn now more misses -- there is dennis phelpson. auburn now 6-12 at the free-throw line tonight. >> daymeon: still remember coach felton winning the sec championship. >> matt: incredible accomplishment. won four games in three days. had to move over to georgia tech and play because of the tornado that hit downtown atlanta and damaged the georgia dome. won a double header on saturday to get to the championship game. it was a wild ride. they couldn't keep up that momentum the following year. >> daymeon: virginia really trying to set the inside presence off of the bounce versus going inside to their big man. >> matt: sene back in there with three fouls and had the rebound and lost it. sullivan ends up on the deck. actually, that is waller who ends up on the deck. landesberg picks up his first personal foul. that will get tay waller at the line. a senior out of manchester, georgia. same high school that produced corvotny barbour. >> daymeon: a streaky shooter. as a player it doesn't seem it would make a difference being out the two games back to back. he is still adjusting only playing two games against troy and a&m. over 100 three-pointers in the sec last year. third in three-point field goal percentage. so auburn know hass he can do from behind that line. >> matt: one of two starters returning from last year's ball club. they have a lot of pieces that some of those players are guys that did play last year but they were role players now being asked to do a whole lot more this year than they have been asked to do in the past. eight-point lead for virginia. tay waller. starting to heat up. >> daymeon: virginia with basically one possession now. surely want to take it down to the wire. film' coach bennett somehow some way i'm getting it to landesberg and letting him go to work. >> matt: jones the miss. shot clock reset so now virginia can play for the final possession. too timeout called by tony bennett. use it or lose it timeout here with 20 seconds left in the first half. >> daymeon: and coach tony bennett that time probably didn't like that shot by landesberg. even though he was wide open, probably wanted to take that clock down a little bit more to try to take the momentum into the half. >> matt: tune in mondays at 10:30 eastern for the ride on css. join former nfl players and coaches as they take eight under the radar high school quarterbacks through agility, technical training for a shot at being developed as an all american. join the ride mondays at 10:30 eastern only on css. auburn shooting 41% from the floor, daymeon, and 33% on the threes. 50% at the free-throw line. and right now, they trail by five. they have lost every game this season that they have trailed at the half. >> daymeon: well, and right now, when you look at all of the shots, very crucial. not for the statistics of the outcome of when they trailed at the half but to take some kind of momentum into the halftime. if i'm coach tony bennett i will have a play drawn up to try to get it into landesberg's hand with about eight seconds left. >> ball knocked out of bounds by hargrove. 21.5 seconds. number 15. standing with one foot in the paint. there he is. ball is going to end up in his hands if at all possibly. zeglinski in trouble. double dribble. >> daymeon: coach jeff lebo at that time realizeing that they probably wanted to go to landesberg and saying we will double team them and we will not allow them to run their set. element of surprise always crucial for coaches especially coming out of half and getting in the game situations like right now right before the half. >> jeff lebo exercises his use it or lose it timeout before the end of the half. what are they going to do now with 14 seconds to work on offense here and possibly get a final basket going into the locker room. >> the first thing you don't want to do. a lot of peeples are 14 seconds and take the time and holly gag. do you don't want to push but you want to put yourself in a better position to run whatever sets you are going to run. >> matt: get the offense set in a hurry. >> daymeon: once you do that, you don't have a lot of time with 14 seconds. three or four seconds and you want to have it in your best player's hand and try to create. get to the rim and get you a good shot. especially being in the bonus if you our auburn. >> matt: and now we are down to five. the ball tipped. sullivan at the buzzer. frankie sullivan at the buzzer! and the auburn tigers with a big kick of momentum as they head into the locker room. >> daymeon: shot by frankie sullivan. but i tell you what, he is a guy who put up 21 a game at daytona beach in the tournament and a big shot that time. but i tell you, if you are auburn, you can't get too excited. you are still down two points and virginia really dominated the first half. it will be interesting to see what happens coming out of the second half, matt. >> matt: fannie mae sullivan the in up one three-point shooter on this auburn team nails the three as the horn sounds. and virginia who led for most of the first half still does but their lead only two as they go to the locker room. ( thumping ) ( rhythmic clapping ) ( chanting ) ( shouting ) gatorade-- that's "g." >> matt: and we are back halftime at the beard-eaves coliseum on the campus of auburn university. virginia with a 34-32 lead at halftime. but it was five and now it is two because frankie sullivan nailed one right before the horn to give the tigers a big dose of momentum going into the lockinger room. >> daymeon: not quite sure if coach jeff lebo called it like this or drew the play up but a big-time shot but the sophomore in frankie sullivan. more,sn't play like a so mar, matt. all tournament team at daytona beach and a guy who i think really is kind of the future for this auburn team. >> matt: in this ballgame we have seen one of the best freshmen from a year ago, sylven landesberg who was named the acc fresh man of the year. let's take a look at six of this year's top freshmen in college basketball. >> espn u number 1 recruit. keith gao wan was expected to fill the shoes of blake griffin at oklahoma at those are big shoes. luckily for the sooners he is 6'9" and around 300-pound. there has been hype about his offensive skills, leading the mcdonald's all american game at 20 points have, he is expected to keep up his numbers and help oklahoma. number six overall recruit and number two power forward, john henson is sporting carolina blue and a lot of potential on the tar heel team. at 6'10", henson is long and lean. he has proven how good he is on court as one of four 6'10" forwards he is playing small forward and getting some early playing time. after o waffling, number five recruit, as espn u's number one point guard in the country, a lot is expected from john this season. he already dunked on gary stackhouse over the summer, thus already making a name for himself. he is expected to be a tough playmaker who helped the wild cattrano driving past his opponents. henry is known for his offensive game. henry not only has range but punch. in addition to his offensive tex tarity henry was expected to use his size and athletic ability to be a great defender. he could make an enormous impact. number two overall recruit and number one power forward, derek favors is one of six new recruits at georgia tech where he already stands out from the crowd. he has incredible national athletic ability. he is is expected to be tough not only on the offensive end but also as a defensive player. look for georgia tech to be favored this season. espn u number one overall recruit and shooting guard, avery bradley landed in texas. bradley's three-point shooting should make up for the loss of a.j. abrams but it is not just bradley's shooting skills that separate him from the pack. his defensive expertise will make it tough for any team facing texas. expected to combine his defensive and offensive abilities to lead the longhorns to victory. >> matt: and here is a look at those six freshmen impact players and what they have done so far. john wall at kentucky averaging 18. and john calipai. derek favors at georgia tech with 13 points per game. >> daymeon: and you talked about the acc derek favo