I touched base yesterday with Trysten Hill because I heard from a source that UVa had offered and the 6-foot-2, 308-pound lineman from Florida was very interested.

Well, he and I have talked some today and he told me that he'll be taking an official visit to Charlottesville this weekend and that UVa is in the top two along with UCF, which he took an OV to already. He has no other planned trips at this point other than the one to Virginia.

Though he told me that there are other schools in the mix, including Kentucky, South Carolina, and Cincinnati, this is definitely one to watch.

Buzz is taking advantage of that rule. Or was it the homer refs last night

How many times are we getting to the foul line a night with our guards?

With his 28 points vs. Wake Forest on Tuesday night, Malcolm Brogdon moved into 19th place on the all-time career scoring list with 1,485 points, one behind Donald Hand's 1,486 points. With his first 2 points, Brogdon will surpass Hand and move into 18th place. Word is that when told of this, Digger Phelps said, "Well, yeah that's true unless Hand scores as many or more for UVA in that game."

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• Virginia cornerback Maurice Canady measured in at 6-1, 191 which is how he looks on tape. He might not be a burner, but his length and ability to maintain position in-route are what scouts are looking for. He will likely be challenged more in practice than in the game. He can struggle against the double-move due to how aggressively he plays the position.

I think he is a 3rd or 4th round pick depending on 40 time that becomes a starter. Bears needs CB's

I for one feel this team is a bit of an enigma.

I understand the offensive ebb and flow as this is nothing new, but the defensive struggle to get a stop has me perplexed. That with a team of experienced players who should know what it takes to win games...I don't get it.

I attribute part of it to the improvement of the ACC as a whole. We won a bunch of games last year that we probably shouldn't have. Think about at Syracuse, at NCSU, VT...

The other part is I don't think we are pressuring the ball enough. Our on ball defense is soft. We are just a step too far off the 3 pt shooters.

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I logged off the board when the game turned south. I NEVER stop watching this team, but I just couldn't deal with the negativity. Surprise, surprise, I log back in after the win and there were a whole bunch of posters who supposedly never gave up on the team who wrote that same team off two pages of posts before. Its truly pathetic.

Real fans have the right to be wrong. You can say there are problems with this team and that the game appeared lost. But don't suddenly make yourself the champion of the team half an hour later. If you are a real fan, just own it. I've been wrong before, I'll be wrong again. Can't stand the hypocrisy on the board tonight.

I thought David Teel did a nice job in a recent article pointing out how this teaming is not crushing opponents like the last two teams. While lack of an enforcer inside and the failure to replace JA are two key points, another point is that this team has picked up some very bad habits. While they are playing well-enough at home and at neutral sites to rack up a number of impressive wins, and have only really been threatened once - Cal, their play on the road reminds me of the UVa football team over the last few years.

As UVa football fans, we all can recite (almost in unison) the dump, stupid, idiotic plays, play calls, turnovers or penalties that cost us game after game. The team would play hard. It would make some excellent plays, but in the end, it rarely won.

This year on the road, we are simply making the same devastatingly dumb plays that our football team made. For example against V. Tech, we play our trademark bs first half, but then LP lights it up during the first part of the second half. However, instead of putting away the game, Tech stays in it and ultimately wins the game due to atrocious defense, failure to rebound and stupid turnovers.

Against FSU, we were ready to put the game away at the half as we had the ball up 6. But instead of scoring and going into the locker room with an 8-9 point lead, we turn the ball over and allow their leading scorer - who we had shut down the entire first half to hit a 3. Those are the things losing teams do.

While we won at Wake, we were not much better. In final minute, we had 3 straight empty possessions and down 7 with 25 seconds left we committed a turnover.

While I have been on winning teams, I have been on losing teams where we never got the bounces, the call, etc. and frustration mounted with every game. As we saw with our football teams, these "little" things make it very hard to win games even against inferior opponents. Plus, the more you try, many times the worse it gets.

My hope is that this win wipes away the bad mojo we experience on the road, and gets them out of their road funk. Also, it may be better that we are playing a quality team on the road vs. a team we should blow out. Maybe that will help motivate the guys and alleviate some pressure.

Bottom line, this team still has a chance to be year 3 of one of the best 3 years eras in the history of Virginia sports. However, it is also has the chance to be the forgotten year between the historic 2013-14, 2014-15 teams and new era led by AN, MD. TJ, KG. etc

ACC games are basically the only games K takes Duke on the road. Their OOC sched is (except for the occasional ACC/Big 10 Challenge) at Durham or neutral sites.

Right now we're freaking out over how poorly we've played on the road. Do we need to?

We manhandled teams the caliber of VTech & GTech in Charleston. We beat a WVU team at MSG that's better than GW, FSU, and all but about 7-8 teams in the whole country. I don't think it's that we can't win away from JPJ...our guys just seem out of sorts against a hostile crowd.

Not a great trait, but not the worst in the world either. Games at tournament sites will be neutral or possibly even slightly in our favor depending on the location...teams that aren't as talented will not have 8-12K screaming fans in their corner desperate for an upset.

Bringing this back around to Duke...they always lose a game or two on the road in the ACC they shouldn't. Pretty much happens every year. What they do in the OOC may actually better prepare them for the postseason...you can't argue with their success. I respect Tony for going to places like GW, VCU when other high profile programs will not...but do we need to? Does it really help in March?

Looking for a little scoop on what the new staff is up to and who they might be looking to close,has Kwontie Moore really been granted a medical shirt?

Polls mean nothing in the grand scheme of things, but fans care about that.

We're ranked 11.

#4 Kansas lost
#5 Texas A&M lost
#10 Providence lost

And its only Wednesday...

Since I watched the replay in shock I wanna focus on what's wrong because no matter how great that was (that was ------- awesome), we could be in trouble.

This has to be an offensive team. Yes TB is a defensive coach, but like Arden said, FOM has hurt this team because we aren't built with the speed on defense to compensate for the rule changes that don't allowed us to be aggressive on the edge and bumping cutters.

Our bigs are soft (even Gill sometimes). How many times instead of going up with authority do we go up soft which leads to not getting and 1's or missing layups?

Quickness- Our main issue this season on defense. We are slow. The rule changes hurt that, but teams are splitting us left and right or we are too slow to recover.

Pace of play- Why is the only time we look to be quicker on offense is when it's late in games? I know this irks a lot of people on the board, but the tempo needs to pick up in a hurry.

Road games? Defense travels, but if we can't score or show more effort on the road it won't matter. We should be 0-4 on the road which is sad because we are better than every team we faced in ACC road games so far.

1st and 2nd year guys- these guys go in and the inconsistencies are too much. Yes MS, DH, DT, JR, IW may step up, but we are done in the tourney by the 32 if we don't get consistent contributions from one or two of these guys.

Nolte and Tobey- Nolte hadn't scored in a month and a half. Tobey is Tobey. Sometimes good, mostly bad.

In my honest evaluation of the team, maybe expectations for this group was just too high (hint why the lower expectations for next year's group actually might lead to us going further than this team). We don't have the quickness, consistent third scorer, the energy leader. Next season we might have guys learning, but AN will make a bigger impact than some think. The guy will be a 1st round pick when he leaves. Kyle Guy is ready and this is LP's team.

If we get past the 16 this season I'll be stunned. We have our work cut out.

Does anyone know how to find the WF game on ESPN3 or elsewhere to watch the last 5 minutes again?

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/129973/129973

It's a mess. I don't blame Michigan nor do I blame kids, but this is college football at its best

I can't blame kids for changing their mind. Can't blame a school for taking a better kid

If you sign early. You hold to it or sit a year unless the HC or recruiting coordinator leaves for another school. feelings on both sides get hurt and the perception for everyone is bad

After rewatching the final minute a third time, I have come to the conclusion that maybe, just maybe, God is ACTUALLY ON OUR SIDE. I have no other explanation for DT's shot going in. If you watch carefully, DT's shot actually curves on its downward trajectory to hit the backboard at precisely the correct angle to go in the hoop. As though a finger from above nudged the ball ever so slightly.

After all these years, after all the heartbreak, after all the close but no good shots, this may in fact BE THE YEAR! Time to change the signature

We are 14-0 when not on an opponent's home floor. 10-0 at home and 4-0 at neutral sites. This would suggest that UVa is a very hard team to beat unless you have them on your home floor in front of your fans.

We need linemen on both sides, and Trent seems to be excited about the offer.

Now we know how that feels from the other side.