LOUISVILLE, Ky. – As Virginia players took the court for Thursday’s second half, Kyle Guy and De’Andre Hunter made a pact. The pair had combined to make four of 16 shots in the first 20 minutes, yet the Cavaliers still led Oregon by eight.
“We’re going to smile through it,” Hunter remembered Guy saying. The terms? “We agreed we were going to smile at each other every time we missed,” Guy said. “Which was quite a bit.”
It was indeed. The pair combined to go 8-for-28 on the night. Oregon mounted a comeback everyone knew was coming, but Virginia clamped down on defense and didn’t allow a field goal in the final 5:21.