The shot clock was off. Tie game.
Cool, calm and collected, Tra Holder dribbled the ball up the court slowly against USC (17-8, 8-4 Pac-12). Most of the 12,377 on hand figured head coach Bobby Hurley would take a timeout to draw up a play. He didn’t, citing Coach K as basis for the tactic.
“I’ve been in a lot of those situations and there have been times that I know that my coach that I played for at Duke in those situations would not want to give the opponent an opportunity to make a defensive adjustment,” Hurley said.