The Virginia basketball team dropped its third straight game and lost its first home game of the season in the process. That sets the stage for two final games on the current schedule with Miami at the John Paul Jones Arena on Monday and Louisville at the Yum! Center on Saturday.
With basketball season now in the final days of the regular season, there’s plenty on fans’ minds when it comes to UVA hoops and the postseason tournaments. Here are a few popular threads from the week:
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- At this point, would Sweet 16 be considered a successful season? ~ Harebear
- Sorry if BTTTS. Per this official Tweet, once the field is set, if any team is forced to withdraw due to COVID, their opponent advances by forfeit. ~ HowieT3
- I always think about our players when we lose. ~ Beetle
- Defense and our roster ~ rhulcher
- Man, seeing UVA at 30th in Def Eff. on KenPom is tough to stomach ~ G-Len Portier
- I think we need to throw the ball into Huff on the low block every time. ~ braveshoo (EDGE thread)
- Peculiar version of the Hoos. ~hoosnick (EDGE thread)
And with that, let’s look at the rest of the Fan Friday picks.
Fan(s) Of The Week
Wahoowa!
Student Fan(s) Of The Week
Can’t wait to see this sight again.
Feature Photo Of The Week
UVA fans hope Tony Bennett can find the right buttons to push with this year’s team.
This team just shows how spoiled we are in the Bennet era. 11 ACC wins and we are grousing.
Fair enough and I agree with you.
2 thoughts:
1. Rhetorical and I have thought a lot about this: so I should savor and be grateful for teams that are, say 20th-30th in the country, because we hade a 20 year drought of coaches that didn’t quite work out, where that was the absolute upside? I guess, but what is wrong, given we have the best coach and among the best facilities in the country, and a success rate to go along, to ask what happened to those teams that are better than 20th-30th? BTW-I will not waiver from the best coach/best facilities line.
2. I was actually reacting to any predicted complaints about how unfairly we are seeded, whenever that occurs. I just do not think we are much better than a 6-8 seed, so at that point, being picky about seeding seems to me to be a bit much. Just play it out.
I think we are going o be bounced by any team with a mobile 6′ 7″ or taller forward with some driving skills; I just hope that team is a recognizable name in the college basketball universe, lest there be another bad mark on the Bennett in the NCAA’s column. I will be stunned, grateful and thrilled if we win our first game in the tournament.