ACC Tuesday Hoops: Heels, Noles, Jackets take Big 10 beatings

Terrell Leads Wake Forest Past Iowa, 76-73: Freshman J.T. Terrell had 32 points, including the game-winning three-pointer with 2.7 seconds left, to lead Wake Forest to a 76-73 win over Iowa at the Lawrence Joel Coliseum at Winston-Salem.

The Deacons move to 4-3 on the season while the Hawkeyes fall to 3-4.

With the game tied at 73 in the final minute, Terrell made a fadeaway three-pointer from 25 feet to put the Deacs in front 76-73. On the ensuing inbounds pass, Ty Walker knocked the pass away from the Iowa player as time expired.

Terrell started the game 0-for-3 behind the arc, but proceeded to hit seven of his final eight three pointers. Terrell finished with 32 points, becoming the first Wake Forest freshman to score 30-plus points in a game since Chris King scored 34 points on March 4, 1989. Terrell's seven three pointers made also tied the school's freshman record, equaling the mark set by Robert O'Kelley on January 31, 1998.

Sophomores C.J. Harris and Ari Stewart scored in double figures for the Deacons as well, with 12 and 10 points, respectively.

Junior Ty Walker fell just short of a double-double, with eight points and eight rebounds, along with five blocks.

No. 2 Buckeyes Top Noles, 58-44: Ohio State freshman Jared Sullinger was a load for Florida State to handle.

In just his sixth collegiate game, the 6-foot-9 widebody out of Columbus, Ohio, muscled his way to the third double-double of his blossoming career with 11 points and 13 rebounds to lead the second-ranked Buckeyes to a 58-44 victory at Tallahassee.

"He loves to win and he knows how to win," Ohio State coach Thad Matta said. "For him to go 36 minutes, I mean it was hotter than a beach in that gym tonight and I was really, really pleased with how he kept competing."

Sullinger defended Chris Singleton, Florida State's top scorer, for part of the game. Singleton was held to eight points, half his season average.

"We knew defense was going to win the game," Sullinger said.

Jon Diebler led the Buckeyes (6-0) with 12 points and David Lighty added 10.

Ohio State jumped to a 7-0 lead and never trailed, building its biggest lead at 40-23 on William Buford's jumper with 15:45 left in the game.

Florida State (5-2) closed within 49-42 on Deividas Dulky's only 3-pointer with 4:30 left.

"We've been on the road in difficult situations before," Lighty said. "I think it's us not being rattled and just being ready for everything that comes at us."

Ohio State had a 42-33 rebounding advantage, but dominated the offensive boards 17-7 with Sullinger getting six.

"I pride myself on the rebounding," Sullinger said. "If I'm not rebounding, I'm really not effective."

Freshman Ian Miller had 11 points and Derwin Kitchen added 10 for the Seminoles, who shot 35.4 percent and committed 22 turnovers, including 14 in the second half. Florida State shot 33 percent in a 55-51 loss to Florida on Sunday.

"I hate to say it, but they outmuscled us," Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton said. "We gave them too many extra possessions."

Both teams shot poorly in the early going, but Ohio State's domination of the backboards allowed the Buckeyes to stay comfortably ahead on the way to a 28-17 halftime lead.

Florida State shot just 26.1 percent in the first half while Ohio State was slightly better at 36.7 percent but enjoyed a 25-14 rebound advantage.

Singleton had a second straight cold-shooting night, making just 2 of 9 tries from the field on the heels of a 2-for-12 showing in Sunday's loss.

Ohio State is 6-0 against Florida State, including consecutive victories in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. The Buckeyes prevailed 77-64 in last year's game at Columbus.

Georgia Tech Loses to Northwestern, 91-71: When they're sizzling in practice, Luka Mirkovic figures Northwestern's best shooters will make about 70 percent of their 3-pointers.

In a game?

This is about as good as it gets.

John Shurna scored 21 points, Drew Crawford added 19 and Northwestern hit a blistering 12 of 19 3s in a 91-71 victory over Georgia Tech in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge at Evanston, IL.

The Wildcats (5-0) buried 31 of 48 overall and were particularly on target from the outside, with Shurna and Crawford leading the onslaught.

"It was crazy," said Mirkovic, Northwestern's center. "We just shoot a ton of 3s. For our warmup each practice, we have this exercise ... where we just shoot a lot of 3s, so I'm not surprised that those went in."

Shurna hit 7 of 8 shots, including all four 3s. Crawford converted 8 of 11 overall and 3 of 5 from long range. Michael Thompson added 14 points and four assists, giving him 403 in his career and making him the second Northwestern player to pass 400 assists.

Alex Marcotullio hit 3 of 5 3-pointers while scoring 13, and the Wildcats matched the program record they set last year for wins in November.

They're off to their best start since the 1993-94 team won its first nine, and with their eyes on their first NCAA appearance after making the NIT the last two seasons, they just passed a tough early test.

"We're just trying to build and get that momentum going," coach Bill Carmody said.

Georgia Tech (4-3) got 16 points from Glen Rice and 11 each from Iman Shumpert, who grew up in nearby Oak Park, Ill., and Maurice Miller. But Brian Oliver struggled in a big way after a career performance against Syracuse. He went from scoring a personal-best 32 in a loss to the Orange to managing just three on just 1-for-9 shooting.

"There were some things I probably could have done differently with my shot," he said.

There wasn't much they could do about the Wildcats, though. Open or guarded, they simply weren't missing.

"It was frustrating," Shumpert said.

Georgia Tech coach Paul Hewitt got his first career win at Welsh-Ryan Arena when Siena beat Northwestern early in the 1997-98 season, but he'd probably just as soon forget this one.

In the first meeting between these programs, the Wildcats simply came out firing.

They hit an incredible 10 of 12 3-pointers and 22 of 29 shots while building a 55-37 halftime lead and got a loud ovation as they headed to the locker room.

"Great performance, a great shooting performance," Hewitt said.

Illinois Handles Tar Heels, 79-67: If Tuesday night's game against North Carolina was a midterm exam, Illinois coach Bruce Weber wasn't ready to give his team an "A'' for the full 40 minutes.

"Probably a B-plus," he allowed.

But the 20th-ranked Illini's 79-67 victory over the Tar Heels was more impressive in the eyes of North Carolina coach Roy Williams, and one Illinois player, guard Demetri McCamey, in particular.

"Demetri was something else," Williams said. "He never looked like he felt pressure or anything."

McCamey finished with 17 points, second to teammate Mike Davis' 20. But he had eight assists in a game where five Illini scored in double figures, and keyed a tough perimeter defense for Illinois (7-1) that put the Tar Heels (4-3) on their heels early and kept them there.

"We go as Demetri goes," Davis said. "He opened with eight quick points, and it was all downhill from there."

Mike Tisdale had 14 points for Illinois, while Jereme Richmond added 12 and D.J. Richardson 11.

North Carolina center Tyler Zeller picked up three early fouls and spent more than 9 minutes of the first half on the bench while the Illini built a 37-30 halftime lead.

John Henson led the Tar Heels with 16 points while Zeller finished with 10.

Illinois opened the second half with a thud of a dunk by Davis, a short basket by Richmond and two points from Tisdale to stretch what had been a seven-point halftime lead to 43-32 less than 2 minutes into the second half.

A 3-pointer by Bill Cole, playing off the bench for the first time this season, upped Illinois' lead to 56-43 with 13:19 to play.

Freshman center Meyers Leonard followed that less than a minute later with a dunk off a nice dribble into the lane and feed from Richardson that stretched Illinois' lead to 58-43.

The Tar Heels shaved what had been a 16-point lead to 66-55 with a 3-pointer by Justin Watts and two points inside by Henson with 7:21 to play.

But McCamey and Davis pushed the lead to 70-55 on the next two possessions. McCamey hit a short jump shot and Davis made two of three free throws.