National Basketball Association
Boston College 66, Georgia Tech 65
When: 1:00 PM ET, Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Where: Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, North Carolina
Officials:
# Louis Andrakakos, # Bill Covington, # Jamie Luckie
Attendance:
N/A
By SportsDirect Inc.
Boston College 66, Georgia Tech 65: Olivier Hanlan scored 25 points, including the go-ahead basket with 10.9 seconds left, as the Eagles edged the Yellow Jackets in the first round of the ACC tournament in Greensboro, N.C.
Hanlan added eight rebounds and five assists before making a step-back jumper on the baseline to win it for Boston College (13-18), which plays fifth-seeded North Carolina in Wednesday's second round. Patrick Heckmann had 19 points and Dimitri Batten added 10 for the Eagles, who have won four straight contests.
Tadric Jackson led the way with 16 points while Charles Mitchell scored 14 and grabbed 11 rebounds for Georgia Tech (12-19), which had a chance to win it, but Corey Heyward missed a driving layup in the final seconds. Robert Sampson chipped in with 12 points and Demarco Cox had nine to go along with nine rebounds for the Yellow Jackets.
Georgia Tech trailed by as many as seven in the first half, but grabbed 12 offensive rebounds to offset Heckmann’s 12 points and trailed only 35-34 at intermission. Cox converted a three-point play and Jackson drained a 3-pointer as the Yellow Jackets built an 11-3 run to take a 57-52 lead with 4:54 left.
Boston College, the 12th seed, scored the next five before Georgia Tech - seeded 13th - answered with six straight, capped by a corner 3-pointer from Sampson, for a 63-57 lead with 1:49 to go. The Eagles responded as Hanlan ended a 7-0 burst with a layup for a one-point lead with 41.4 seconds remaining, but Jackson made a short jumper in the lane to set up Hanlan’s heroics.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Hanlan, who was named first team All-ACC, scored 16 points in the second half and is averaging 25.4 over the last 11 contests. … Georgia Tech played without leading scorer F Marcus Georges-Hunt, who suffered a broken right foot in the team’s last game against North Carolina and is done for the season. … The teams have met three straight years in the first round of the ACC tournament, with Boston College winning two of them.
Top Game Performances
Georgia Tech |
|
Boston College |
Tadric Jackson 16 |
Scoring |
Olivier Hanlan 25 |
Travis Jorgenson 3 |
Assists |
Olivier Hanlan 5 |
Charles Mitchell 11 |
Rebounds |
Olivier Hanlan 8 |
Robert Sampson 3 |
Free Throws Made |
Olivier Hanlan 8 |
Corey Heyward 2 |
Steals |
Dimitri Batten 2 |
Demarco Cox 1 |
Blocks |
Dennis Clifford 2 |
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Points |
FG% |
3PM-3PA |
FTM-FTA |
Assists |
Rebounds |
Blocks |
Steals |
Turnovers |
Georgia Tech
|
65 |
41.3 |
3-15 |
10-15 |
12 |
43 |
1 |
4 |
9 |
Boston College
|
66 |
44.7 |
8-20 |
16-21 |
11 |
24 |
2 |
4 |
8 |