It hasn’t been the smoothest of lead-ins to the 2016-17 Virginia basketball season.
Heading into the 2016-17 men’s college basketball season, everyone has their eyes on three Cavaliers – senior guard London Perrantes, junior forward Austin Nichols and freshman guard Kyle Guy.
Virginia fans have gotten used to the sight of senior point guard London Perrantes strutting down the court — holding up three fingers — returning to the defense after hitting a clutch shot.
When the AP preseason college basketball rankings came out a week ago, Virginia was ranked eighth.
Last week, the team announced that it had suspended Nichols for two preseason exhibition games and the first game of the season on the basis of violating team rules.
Sunday afternoon marked the second annual Blue-White scrimmage for the Virginia men’s basketball team.
This intrasquad scrimmage will be an opportunity for fans to witness a Cavalier team that has undergone many changes since it was last on display in the NCAA Tournament.
With basketball season just under two months away, the Atlantic Coast Conference released Virginia’s 2016-17 schedule.
The Virginia men’s basketball team gained three things during their early-August tour of Spain: valuable playing time, new experiences and wins.
A late surge by the Orange torpedoed the Cavaliers’ quest for their first Final Four berth since 1984, but the real success for coach Tony Bennett’s team came in the manner they comported themselves against the challenges of the regular season.
The Cavalier faithful have experienced their fair share of heartbreaks over the years, but few will sting more than Virginia’s 68-62 loss Sunday night against Syracuse
Top-seeded Virginia got a taste of its own medicine Sunday night, and boy it sure was bitter. The Cavaliers (29-8) led No. 10 seed Syracuse 35-21 at the half, but the Orange (23-13) unleashed a torrid 25-4 run to win 68-62 and reach the Final Four.
It would be unfair to diminish coach Tony Bennett’s success the past two seasons. How far the Virginia basketball program has come since that fateful 87-52 loss against Tennessee Dec. 30, 2013 is truly remarkable.
Senior center Mike Tobey scored a season-high 18 points off the bench as No. 1 seed Virginia dismissed No. 4 seed Iowa State 84-71 in the Midwest Regional Semifinals in Chicago, Ill.
To ease my stress, and hopefully yours, I find comfort in numbers — almost all of which favor Virginia through the weekend. Here’s a list of the most reassuring stats that I’ll be reading over and over again during the next 24 hours or so to keep me calm, cool and collected.
No stranger to having his name called, senior guard Malcolm Brogdon was once again tasked with rising to the challenge Saturday night. As has so often been the case, Brogdon responded and took over both ends of the court while leading No. 1 seed Virginia past No. 9 seed Butler, 77-69.
Hampton embraced their role of spoiler, and did what any team punching above their weight must do — hit hard and hit early.
I came up with a ranking for each of the other 67 teams in the NCAA Tournament to whom we could lose — forget that the play in games already happened — in order of how grief-stricken I would be if our exit came against that team.
The NCAA tournament expanded to a 64-team field in 1985. In that span of time, No. 16 seeds are 0-124 against their top-seeded opponents.
A day after suffering a defeat in the ACC championship against North Carolina, Virginia is likely feeling better about itself. Not only did the loss come against an NCAA No. 1 seed, but the Cavaliers earned a No. 1 seed themselves.
