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Derwin Kinchen scored the last three points Friday to help No. 22 Florida State escape with a 64-62 ACC quarterfinal win over Georgia Tech in Atlanta. With Georgia Tech leading, 62-61, on Zach Peacock's jumper with 32 seconds left, Kinchen followed a timeout with a layup and a free throw. Toney Douglas led the winners with 25 points. Solomon Alabi scored 14 with six rebounds, and Kinchen finished with eight points and five assists for the fourth-seeded Seminoles (24-8), who next face...
Top-ranked North Carolina survived a huge scare Friday and edged Virginia Tech, 79-76, in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals in Atlanta. The tournament's top seed trailed, 26-17, with 6:45 left before halftime, but started its rally when Wayne Ellington's 3-pointer put them up, 63-60, with 11:30 left in the contest. UNC's four-time all-ACC forward Tyler Hansbrough scored six of his game-high 28 points in the final 6:13. Ellington scored 16 with four assists and four rebounds and Deon Thompson...
Lewis Clinch scored 32 points Thursday to lead Georgia Tech to the biggest surprise in the ACC Tournament's opening round -- an 86-81 win over Clemson. The Yellow Jackets were seeded 12th and last in the tourney, but built a 13-point lead with 4 minutes to play and held on down the stretch. Clemson -- which owns a win over Duke this season and which defeated Georgia Tech twice during the regular campaign -- is a certain at-large pick for the NCAA Tournament. But the Tigers' seeding likely...
A 14-0 second half spurt Thursday helped Virginia Tech down Miami-Florida, 65-47, in a first-round ACC Tournament contest at Atlanta. After leading by just 28-24 at the break, the run swelled Tech's lead to 57-37 on J.T. Thompson's dunk with 7:23 left, and FSU had no answer. Malcolm Delany led Tech with 17 points and five assists. A.D. Vassallo scored 14 with eight rebounds and three assists. Thompson scored 12 with nine rebounds, and Jeff Allen added nine points, five rebounds and four...
A 14-0 second half spurt Thursday helped Virginia Tech down Miami-Florida, 65-47, in a first-round ACC Tournament contest at Atlanta. After leading by just 28-24 at the break, the run swelled Tech's lead to 57-37 on J.T. Thompson's dunk with 7:23 left, and FSU had no answer. Malcolm Delany led Tech with 17 points and five assists. A.D. Vassallo scored 14 with eight rebounds and three assists. Thompson scored 12 with nine rebounds, and Jeff Allen added nine points, five rebounds and four...
Toney Douglas scored 16 of his 22 points in the second half Sunday, helping 24th-ranked Florida State secure a 63-53 ACC win over Virginia Tech. The key sequence for Douglas came with 6:37 left in the game when his 3-pointer, followed two free throws, gave FSU what turned out to be an insurmountable 50-42 advantage. FSU led 32-25 at the break, and were able to slip away after a layup by Malcolm Delaney drew Tech within 45-41 with 9:06 left. Douglas was the only player in double figures, but...
Tyler Hansbrough touched off a late 10-point run Wednesday and No. 2 North Carolina clinched a share of the ACC title by downing Virginia Tech 86-78. The Tar Heels own a one-game lead over Duke with one game to play and they can wrap up an undisputed conference championship with a win over the Blue Devils in Chapel Hill Saturday. A Duke victory in that game would leave the two old rivals sharing the ACC crown. Virginia Tech trailed by only a point with 5:03 to play, but Hansbrough started...
Seventh-ranked Duke used 21 points apiece from Kyle Singler and Gerald Henderson Saturday to post a 72-65 win over Virginia Tech. Jon Scheyer added 16 points for the Blue Devils, (24-5, 10-4 ACC), who have won four in a row and moved within a game of fifth-ranked North Carolina in the battle for the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season title. A.D. Vassallo had 26 points and 10 rebounds for the Hokies (17-11, 7-7), who lost for the fourth time in their last five games. J.T. Thompson and...
HAMPTON, Va., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Electroactive polymers (EAPs) are touted as the basis for future artificial muscles. Virginia Tech professor Don Leo researches these complex, engineered materials that mimic human tissue and muscle. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO ) "In the past two decades, scientists and engineers have been making significant progress in the development of materials that have properties that emulate natural materials," Leo...
A.D. Vassallo hit two free throws with 12 seconds left Wednesday and Virginia Tech survived a last-second 3-point try to defeat No. 13 Clemson 80-77. Virginia Tech hit seven 3-pointers in the second half and was 11-of-19 from long range overall, avenging a four-point loss at Clemson last month. Malcolm Delaney led the Hokies (17-10, 7-6 ACC) with 26 points and Vassallo had 21. Terrence Oglesby had 22 points and hit 4-of-7 shots from beyond the arc for the Tigers (22-5, 8-5). Clemson cut its...
