DAVIDSON, N.C. (AP)—Brendan Plavich hit seven 3-pointers and scored 23 points—all in the final 11 minutes—to help Charlotte rally to an 87-68 win over Davidson on Wednesday.
Plavich, the 49ers’ leading scorer at 15.4 points per game coming in, was held scoreless until he hit a turnaround jumper with 10:32 left.
After teammate Martin Iti’s bucket, Plavich nailed three consecutive 3s, one from 25 feet, another from 27 feet and the third an off-balance heave from the left corner to put Charlotte ahead 60-46 with 8:08 to go.
Plavich hit four more long 3-pointers as the 49ers (4-2) closed the game on a 42-14 run to hold onto the Hornets Nest Trophy, given annually to the winner of the in-county rivalry.
Plavich has made at least three 3s in every game and is 31-of-58 from behind the arc this season.
Curtis Withers added 15 points and 10 rebounds and E.J. Drayton scored 15 as Charlotte rallied from an 11-point first-half deficit and shook off the hangover of a triple-overtime loss to Alabama on Saturday.
Brendan Winters had 19 points and Ian Johnson added 14 for Davidson (3-4), which was outrebounded 39-27 as it lost to Charlotte for the eighth time in nine tries.
Davidson erased an early 8-2 deficit by hitting five of its first six 3-point attempts.
Logan Kosmalski’s layup with 3:51 left gave the Wildcats their largest lead, 37-26.
But Davidson would go nearly eight minutes without scoring and miss 15 of 16 3-pointers during a 24-minute stretch.
