BLUEFIELD — Sammy Zeglinski scored 16 of his season-high 21 points in the first half to help Virginia snap a nine-game losing streak with a 68-62 Atlantic Coast Conference tournament first round win over Boston College this afternoon.
Mike Scott had 11 points and 13 rebounds for the ninth-seeded Cavaliers (15-15), who won their first game in a month and their first tournament game in four years.
Virginia hadn’t won a tournament game since beating Virginia Tech in the first round of the 2006 tournament in Greensboro.
Both Marshall and West Virginia are slated to play later today.
The Thundering Herd will meet Tulsa in the Conference USA quarterfinals at 7:30 p.m., while West Virginia will play Cincinnati in the Big East quarterfinals at 9:30 p.m.
Virginia Tech earned a bye in the ACC tournament, and will play either Wake Forest or Miami on Friday in the quarterfinals at 2:30 p.m.
See Friday’s Daily Telegraph for recaps on all of today’s games.
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March 11, 2010
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