Twitter Gold: Jaemyn Brakefield’s Emotions Go Off The Chart Against Virginia

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports When people said Jaemyn Brakefield would bring emotion to the court, they weren't kidding.Jaemyn Brakefield had a tremendous game against Virginia Saturday night. He brought huge emotion off the bench and did as much as anyone to pump Duke up in what is almost always now a taut and emotional game.

Duke used the versatile Brakefield in place of Mark Williams quite a bit against Virginia and he ended up with 11 points, five rebounds and four blocks.

The most important of those was against Kihei Clark as Virginia’s terrific point guard drove for a layup.

On the following play, Brakefield blew by Virginia’s 7-1 Jay Huff for a reverse layup and, as it turned out,…