They were going to be “The Fab Five – Part II”, remember?

They were going to be the ones who put Virginia basketball back on the map. Five young men from around the nation, each a talented player in his own right, that together were going to unite and become an unstoppable force.

Or at least that was how the song went back in the fall of 1998.

You remember it, don’t you? That curious time when the stain from the disheartening end to the Jeff Jones Era still lingered, and before Gillen Mania had taken root in Charlottesville?

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