Going into the intermission of Saturday’s matchup with #12 Virginia, Florida State’s Dwayne Bacon had three points on 1-for-5 shooting.
At halftime, FSU’s Head Coach Leonard Hamilton had some encouragement for his young guard. “I told Dwayne at halftime, I said, ‘Son, you’re taking great shots, and you’ve just got to keep shooting the ball and they’re just going to start falling.’ I didn’t feel uncomfortable with that at all because we have the utmost confidence in him.”
And, boy, did the shots fall. Bacon shot a red-hot 10-for-13 (77%) from the field in the second half, going 5-for-7 from three - including the game winner with two seconds left on the clock.