We're underway in the Steel City--apologies for the delay in getting the thread going.

UVa starting Ames, McKneely, Rohde, Cofie and Buchanan again tonight.

I have 4 tickets and parking pass for Saturday's game for $100. Call me 434 2097475. SOLD

After a visit to Charlottesville this weekend, 3-star ATH Jordan Vann committed to UVa early this morning. Vann is listed as a WR and could end up there, but could also be slotted as a DB. Vann picked UVa over offers from West Virginia, Duke, Kentucky, Kansas and others. He's Virginia's 3rd commit in the 2026 class, joining QB Ely Hamrick and last week's commit, OL Dylan Biehl.

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Lost to #3 OSU on Friday 5-2 but beat #1 Texas today 4-3. And their No. 1 recruit has not yet enrolled (if he still can) which would make them even better

Lost to #3 Ohio State on Friday -5-2; but beat #1 Texas today 4-3; and their No.1 recruit has not yet enrolled for the spring - not sure he still can but would make them even better. All in all good weekend

Glad we won, but how many unforced turn overs did we give them today not paying attention and players sneaking up behind and picking players for fast break points.

That last throw in from Clark from outbounds along side the basket, out to the 3pt line to Noyan was almost a disaster cause Noyan ran back, miss timed her jump and was coming down at the peak of her jump losing her balance and tipped the ball that a Syracuse player ran up and tipped it away and Noyan reached for the ball and made contact and the girl stumbled as the buzzer went off. They could have called it a foul so we dodged that one.

So Noyan continues game after game now throwing the ball to the other team. To day she had several and one she even put her hand over her mouth she was so embarrassed that she threw it right to a Syracuse girl in the numbers instead of Latimore, who she intended to throw to but Latimore had two girls standing right in front.

Clark, McGhee and Hurd need to learn to stay with their offensive player on defense and quit running off on to a female already covered or doubled team. We got burned badly on them leaving their man wide open for easy open threes, along with pedestrian watching their man on a half attempt to get around a screen and then watch the girl drive in for an uncontested layup.

Now I know I will hear from some, but say what you want, when Casey Valenti-Paea #10 the Aussie girl came in she stuck to her defensive assignment like glue and stayed in front and wouldn't let the same girl that was bombing on Clark and McGhee get off a shot. If people are honest and saw the game they will agree.

Casey also saved a half dozen balls her teammates either lost/mishandled going out of bounds by running and hustling/diving out of bounds and throwing it back in play or chasing it down before a defender got to it. When Mox sat her down the last 1:50 seconds and Brought McGhee and Clark in I was saying, "What is she doing?!??!?!" Does she want Syracuse to have open three looks and actually they did get the looks and bricked them so we dodged a big one.LOL

I personally would have kept in the defender that didn't allow the player to get off shots.

Thoughts anyone.

I promise I won't beat up on Rohde, but can't get over how he thought he was the answer at the end. After blowing a two on one fast break pass from Murray, Rhode got chastised by Dan Bonner how he dribbled to far up under the basket and instead of dribbling out, Rhode tries to reach back with a bad one had flip to the other side of the rim for a bad shot and fail.

Again don't know why Rohde or staff or teammates thinks he should have handled the ball and taken that kind of shot on the last play. Oh well.

Here's the photo in the last 3.2 seconds:

Don't even see Blake Buchanan and what the heck is McKneely doing. He's looking like he doesn't even want to be involve in the last shot as if he knew Rohde was going all the way. Ames and Murray are the only ones looking to try and get open.

Rohde couldn't throw it down the middle as some were saying on Murray going toward the rim. Rohde would have thrown it away like he did in the throw in the previous loss; short and had it picked with the two guys (34, 10) in the middle. That's why Murray flared out away for him to throw it and be open. Unfortunately Rohde never looked that way. Murray could have been a naked busty female fan and he wouldn't have seen her looking at the play back.LOL