UVa won the doubles point to open the match. Danielle Collins and Maci Epstein won at No. 3, while Stephanie Nauta and Li Xi took the victory at No. 1. Collins, Nauta, and Julia Elbaba claimed singles wins to close out the match.
After losing for three straight seasons in the Sweet 16, the break-through victory Thursday proved sweet for the Hoos.
“The rewards are strong right now when you get into this situation,” Virginia coach Mark Guilbeau said in a news release. “The kids have really worked hard to get to this stage and you can see how happy they are and how hard they’re playing. I could see across the board that our kids could win points with margins of about four, five or six feet from the lines. That adds an incredible amount of positivity to the match.”
Read the full release here.
More on Harris’ NBA Draft Combine
Joe Harris worked out at the NBA Draft Combine in Chicago and put up some solid shooting performances. Harris led the entire combine on Thursday in on-the-move shooting from 15 to 18 feet when he made 30 of 37 shots. Here are few of the nuggets on what Harris has done so far from NBA.com:
- Uncontested spot-up shots from varying distances: 4-5/80% (NBA break left), 3-5/60% (NBA break right), 2-5/40% (NBA corner left), 4-5/80% (NBA corner right), 3-5/60% (NBA top key), 3-5/60% (college break right), 3-5/60% (college break left), 4-5/80% (college corner left), 5-5/100% (college corner right), 3-5/60% (college top key). That’s a combined total of 34-50/68%.
- Uncontested on the move shooting from 15-18 feet: 5-6/83% (15 break left), 4-6/67% (15 break right), 5-6/83% (15 break top key). That’s a combined total of 30-37/81% (no one else broke 80%).
- Lane agility (sprint, lateral shuffle, backpedal, lateral shuffle around the key): 11.11 seconds (9th among participants)
- Shuttle run (shuffle right, sprint left, sprint right): 2.92 seconds (5th among participants)
- Three quarter court sprint: 3.31 seconds
- Standing vertical leap (stationary): 28.5 inches
- Maximum vertical leap (stepping into the jump): 33.5 inches
Singletary In Town
The Daily Progress’ Whitey Reid caught up with Sean Singletary for an article about his future and the hopes of holding a basketball camp in Charlottesville in July. The piece talks about Singletary’s winding professional road, which has been limited by hip injuries. He suffered a torn labrum in his right hip again this past season while playing in the NBA D-League.
Singletary isn’t sure what his future holds, but he said that he would like to get into coaching at some point:
“I would love to coach, especially at UVa,” he said. “I’m sure they don’t have any positions open, but I would love to eventually come back and coach here. The town loved me and I love this town. Nothing would be better than giving back to the program because it’s done a lot for me.”
ACC to Experiment With 30-Second Shot Clock
The ACC spring meetings produced another interesting tidbit late on Thursday when commissioner John Swofford said that the league would experiment with a 30-second shot clock during men’s basketball exhibition games this season. NCAA men’s teams have used a 35-second shot clock since the 1993-94 season.
“Our coaches and ADs both felt it would be an enhancement to the game in today’s world,” Swofford said. “It adds more possessions and potentially would speed up the game.”
For a full article on Swofford’s comments and the 30-second clock, read this ESPN piece. ESPN’s Eamonn Brennan also weighed in here.
Graduation Weekend
There have been a lot of good stories from UVa sources with Graduation this weekend. The Afternoon Break pulled a UVA Today article on rower Emily Pik on Thursday. That same source has another good article on Michael Terrell, a former football and track walk-on at Virginia. Terrell tore a knee ligament and that cut his athletic aspirations short, but he’s graduating with an engineering degree this weekend.
Here’s a great quote from that article (click here to read the full article):
“Michael is one of the smartest people I’ve met here,” said Mary Beck, assistant dean for student affairs in the Engineering School. “His struggle was not with content, but with adjusting to the system we use to deliver that content.”
Tweet of the Day
2011 UVA starting OL. All 5 earned their bachelor degrees,1 earned his masters degree, & 4 are members of NFL teams. pic.twitter.com/oKznpFA5x8
— Scott Wachenheim (@CoachSWach) May 14, 2014
Hoo-Tube Video of the Day
Nothing like a little Virginia Drumline video to get you going on a Friday afternoon …
