National Basketball Association
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Virginia 57, Georgia Tech 28
When: 8:00 PM ET, Thursday, January 22, 2015
Where: John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, Virginia
Officials: # Tim Clougherty, # William Humes, # Michael Stephens
Attendance: 13809

No. 2 Virginia 57, Georgia Tech 28: Malcolm Brogdon scored 13 points and the host Cavaliers leaned on their suffocating defense to remain undefeated.

Virginia (18-0, 6-0 ACC), the nation’s leader in scoring defense at 50.6 points per game coming in, held the Yellow Jackets (9-9, 0-6) to 24.5 percent shooting in continuing its best start since opening the 1980-81 campaign with 23 straight victories. Justin Anderson added seven points and four assists, and the Cavaliers got 25 points from their bench.

Marcus Georges-Hunt scored seven points to lead Georgia Tech, which finished with just two assists in dropping its first six conference games for the first time since 2008-09. It was an historically bad night for the Yellow Jackets, who scored their fewest points in a game since 1949 and did not make a 3-pointer for the first time since 2005.

Georgia Tech hit five of its first 11 shots, pulling within 13-10 on Georges-Hunt’s jumper with just under 11 minutes left in the first half. Anderson scored five points during a 10-0 surge to put the Cavaliers ahead 23-10, and Virginia held the Yellow Jackets to 2-of-14 shooting the rest of the period en route to a 28-16 advantage at intermission.

It was more of the same after halftime as the Cavaliers limited the Yellow Jackets to 12 points in the second half, Georgia Tech’s lowest-scoring half since joining the ACC in 1979. Brogdon’s jumper just over four minutes into the half ignited a 24-4 run that pushed the Virginia lead to 55-22 with 3:50 to play.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Virginia extended its homecourt winning streak to 21 games. … Georgia Tech F Robert Sampson, son of Virginia legend Ralph Sampson, scored two points and recorded seven rebounds. … Georgia Tech’s previous low point output in an ACC game was 36 against Miami (Fla.) in 2012.
Top Game Performances
 
Georgia Tech   Virginia
Marcus Georges-Hunt 7 Scoring Malcolm Brogdon 13
Corey Heyward 1 Assists Justin Anderson 4
Robert Sampson 7 Rebounds Darion Atkins 8
Demarco Cox 2 Free Throws Made Anthony Gill 3
Marcus Georges-Hunt 1 Steals Justin Anderson 1
Robert Sampson 2 Blocks Justin Anderson 1
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Points FG% 3PM-3PA FTM-FTA Assists Rebounds Blocks Steals Turnovers
Georgia Tech 28 24.5 0-12 4-8 2 29 3 3 10
Virginia 57 45.3 5-9 4-6 13 33 3 4 4