It was an exciting and long day as four 2012 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Tournament second-round games took place at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, N.C. on Friday.#8 Creighton Bluejays vs #9 Alabama Crimson Tide...
In-Game notes:
The #2 Duke Blue Devils take on the #15 Lehigh Mountain Hawks in the first game of the night session at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, N.C. on Friday.
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| The Lehigh Mountain Hawk faithful cheering on their team before tip-off |
1st half:
- Mason Plumlee starts the scoring off for the Blue Devils
- Lehigh keeping pacing with the Blue Devils - tied 4-4 after two minutes of play
- Mason Plumlee already has three dunks recorded out three shots taken as Duke leads 8-6 with 16:09 remaining
- Duke assistant coach Wojo giving the Blue Devils some direction during the TV timeout to cope with an energetic Mountain Hawk team
- Lehigh playing a trap zone defense that is making Duke work the ball around to find the open shot - Austin Rivers misses an easy layup
- Lehigh brings it up the court and Mackey McKnight hits a three-pointer to take the lead 9-8 and that is followed up by a Duke turnover that results in Jordan Hamilton working to score another two points on the lay-up and the foul - he misses the FT
- Lehigh leading 11-10 with 13:01 to go - possibly surprising some but it's still early
- Big Duke turnover and Lehigh's C.J. McCollum drives in for an uncontested dunk
- Duke scores one and still trails by one point - 15-14 with 9:30 to play
- McCollum continues to be a one-man Blue Devil-killer scoring anothe two plus the foul - Lehigh leading 18-14 with 8:05 to go
- Both teams battling in the paint and on the boards - pretty even right now for a #2/#15 match-up
- Rivers score two of three FT's and brings Duke to within one point of the Mountain Hawks
- Lehigh scores off another Duke turnover but Mason Plumlee gets another dunk
- Mountain Hawks still lead the Blue Devils, 21-19 with 4:08 left
- McCollum crosses over Josh Hairston before taking a fadeaway jumper that drops - Lehigh up 23-21 now
- Lehigh's John Adams gets a pass from McCollum and extends the lead to 26-23 but Rivers answers back for Duke and ties it, 26-26 with 1:38 to go
- Score is tied 28-28 a d with ball keeping possession for the final shot of the half - Dawkins gets the pass and he pulls up with a short jump shot and gives the Blue Devils the 30-28 lead headed into half-time
Interesting notes at the half:
Duke: 11-26 (42.3%) - leading scorer - Mason Plumlee - 10 points
Lehigh: 10-26 (38.5%) - leading scorer - C.J. McCollum - 12 points
2nd half:
- As the half begins, Duke takes control early on
- Duke goes on a run with five straight points - another dunk from Plumlee and a three from Tyler Thornton sandwich a three byr Lehigh's Gabe Knutson - Duke leads 35-32
- Hairston gets a layup and extends the lead to five points again - 37-32
- Duke has changed is defense to a zone which is effective so far this half in slowing down the Lehigh offense
- Duke misses on their possession but Knutson gets an offensive rebound, the score and the foul - brings Lehigh to within one with 16:22 remaining
- Lehigh's zone defense is really creating problems for Duke and keeiping the Mountain Hawks in the lead - 39-37 until Austin Rivers drops a three-pointer and Mccollum takes an offensive charging foul
- Duke leads 40-39 with Rivers at the line for two - he hits both and extends the lead to 42-39 with 13 minutes left
- McCollum drives into the paint and lays one up over Mason Plumlee and gets the foul
- Duke turns it over on the ensuring possession and Lehigh scores after Justin Maneri wins the offensive rebound
- McCollum hits a three and Lehigh leads 47-42 with 11:18 remaining in the half
- After a few runs up and down the court, Duke's Mason Plumlee scores with a baby hook - now trail 47-44
- Rivers drives he lane and hits a short jumper to pull within one point
- Plumlee gets a layup and Duke is trying to get control of this game but Lehigh is making it very difficult - lead changes a few times bu with 6:56 remaining Lehigh leads 52-49
- Rivers comes up short and a three-pointer and then on the ensuing tussle for the ball Duke's Seth Curry is called for an intentional foul - Lehigh's McCollum going to the FT line to increase the lead and hits one of two - extends lead to 53-49 and they get the ball too
- Lehigh can't score and Duke brings the ball up the floor and Plumlee finishes River's effort
- Knutson scores another basket for the Mountain Hawks
- Curry can't convert and Lehigh comes back down the court - still leading 56-51 with 4:05 to play
- McCollum steals it, Thornton steals it back and then alley oops it to Mason Plumlee for the dunk - Duke trails by three - 56-53 with 3:13 left
- Mason Plumlee at the FT line - he makes one of two
- Lehigh turns it over and Duke brings it up looking to score but Rivers drives too hard and no one rebounds
- McCollum makes him pay for it with a three
- Duke doesn't score and then Lehigh's John Adams flies in for a monster jam - Mountain Hawks lead 61-54 with 1:51 to play
- Curry hits a three that takes time to go in but it does, so Lehigh lead is four - 61-57 with 1:31 left
- Thornton fouls out for Duke and McCollum goes to the FT line - he hits them
- Lehigh leading 65-57 with 50.4 seconds to play
- Down by six, Lehigh inbounding and 50 seconds to go and knutson socres a wide-open dunk
- Dawkins answers for Duke with a three-pointer - still a five-point Lehigh lead - 67-62 - 38.5 seconds to play
- Another Lehigh inbound and Duke fouls to send McCollum to the FT line - he misses them both
- Rivers comes down and tries a three-pointer and he gets fouled - goes to the line to shoot three and he hits two of them - trail by three - 67-64 with 28.6 to go
- McCollum takes it and dishes to Knutson who scores a dunk - 69-64 Lehigh lead
- Knutson is fouled and shoots two and scores both - extends lead to 71-64 with 16.3 seconds to play
- Duke inbounds and up the floor - a long three misses but Rivers follows-up with a layup and gets the foul - 71-67 - 7.8 seconds to play
- Lehigh scores two more on FT's and Duke comes down and hits a three-pointer 0 73-70 with 1.2 seconds to play
- Curry fouls out with Lehigh at FT line - hit both
- Game over as #15 Lehigh upsets #2 Duke
