Halftime: Virginia 7, N.C. State 0Posted Oct28, 2006 at 01:33 PMChlorophyll? More like bore-a-phyll. Or punt-a-phyll. Or philcollins-a-phyll. Yep. It's early for us sportswriter types. But we still come through with "Billy Madison" ripoffs and original, totally awesome puns that make perfect sense. Here's a fact for you: In their past four ACC games the Virginia Cavaliers have given up zero first-half points. Think about that for a second. They shut out North Carolina, Duke, Maryland and now N.C. State in the first half of every one of those games. That's some serious coaching preparation on the part of defensive coordinator Mike London, and obviously some great execution of that plan by the players. Adjustments? Those have been hit or miss. We'll see what happens today. QB Jameel Sewell has been steady again. He's 5-for-9 for 60 yards, no touchdowns and no interceptions. He did throw one pass that could have been picked, a floater down the left sideline, but he got away with it. (He also went 0-for-4 in quarter two after 5-for-5 in quarter one.) The teams have combined for nine punts, and all three punters (John Deraney for N.C. State and Ryan Weigand and Chris Gould for UVa) are doing well. I know that's not very sexy to point out, but it's been key thus far. Nobody's gotten a short field to work with. State has outgained UVa 170-113. QB Daniel Evans is 14-for-19 for 127 yards, no touchdowns and no interceptions. The Cavs are 1 of 5 on third-down conversions, but the Wolfpack entered the game as the best team in the ACC preventing third-down conversions, so that's not overly surprising. |
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