CHARLOTTE, N.C. (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Duke’s Maliq Brown took just one shot and made one steal in the first 30 minutes of Thursday’s ACC tournament quarterfinal. Still, the top-seeded Blue Devils, who had trailed Florida State by as many as eight in the second half, had whittled their deficit to a single point.
That’s when Brown, the ACC’s Defensive Player and Sixth Man of the Year, made a pair of plays that pushed Duke out to a lead it would not surrender.
The Blue Devils edged FSU 80-79 on Thursday to advance to the semifinals of the ACC tournament, thanks in no small part to the defensive prowess and instincts of Brown, the Culpeper native and former Blue Ridge High School star…