By Whitey Reid
There came a point, somewhere very late in Monday night’s ACC/Big 10 Challenge game between Virginia and Penn State, where UVa guard Sammy Zeglinski just seemed to say, “Enough is enough.”
Zeglinski and Virginia’s guards had been worked over by Penn State stud Talor Battle, and found themselves down by 12 with under four minutes to play.
Virginia, behind Zeglinski, mounted a furious rally, trimming the lead to three points with just five seconds left. However, a Zeglinski 3-pointer at the buzzer was off the mark and Penn State escaped with a 69-66 victory in front of a crowd of 8,898 at John Paul Jones Arena.
“What I told the guys after is, ‘Gut-wrenching loss,’” said Virginia coach Tony Bennett, “but they fought, they scrapped and they didn’t quit.
“You’ve got to just keep building and when you see something like that, you have to say that’s a step forward in that area…I tried to encourage them with that.”
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