Well, it's coming from more than one guy vs JA last year.

All the worries about being better than last years team? Maybe not on defense, but on offense it's showing more and more

The final score was 85-64. In spite of being double teamed, Huff led Voyager with 19 points, 7 rebounds, and 5 blocks. Voyager's record is now 11-1.

Question - I'm going to the subject game. Where is the best place to 'tailgate' before home basketball games?

Getting started with UVa's Tony Bennett...

Asked about the offense, Bennett said they turned the ball over too much but guys made shots and that was the difference. They made the next pass, got in the paint, and hit the 3-point ball well.

On the patience UVa showed to run its offense early, Bennett said they had to try and wear Villanova down. He didn't like the way Virginia started the second half. "It was hard to get the ball shifted against them," he said, adding that UVa had to take advantage of the inside plays as well as moving the ball. Guys had to make plays off the dribble to get there.

More coming...

I went to yahoo.com to log into my yahoo email account and one of the headlines streaming across the top of the webpage is "Virginia's Potent Offense". Hoo would have ever thought that this would be headlines? The article went on to address the inside (Gill) and outside (Parrentes, Brogdon, and Thompson) threats... Good stuff.

Paige and London with Malcolm in the back court.

When do Mendenhall & assistants hit town?

After we play Cal on Tuesday, we will have played 5 games since Dec 1 that aren't that far off talent-wise from what we could see in the NCAA tournament.

William & Mary is sitting at 6-3, with close losses at Dayton and at Howard aside from the loss to us. They've beaten NCSU and ODU. A team of their caliber is who we're likely to see in Round 2.

Ohio State has struggled some early, but have some talented young players, and just handled Kentucky yesterday. The rankings won't reflect it now, but I have a hard time seeing 32 better teams in the country...plus we beat them in their building. They could be our Round 3.

Cal as a Sweet 16 team could be a bit of a stretch, but they're 9-2 and rising. They're young but very talented. They definitely will be a test...especially with Martin as coach.

The WVU game had a Sweet 16, even Elite 8 feel to it...IMO it helps that a game like that was at MSG rather than on the road or JPJ. Argue if you'd like, but I think a big reason why Duke has had success in the NCAAT has to do with K scheduling big OOC games at neutral sites...that's how it is in the tourney. WVU plays a style we don't see every night, and I could see them getting past the first weekend of the NCAAT.

The two teams we saw yesterday are both Final Four caliber. We pulled away when Tony was able to guard Ochefu straight up with Tobey. Most teams won't have the luxury of having a 7'0 as talented as Mike to do that. More often than not teams will need to double him, and he's a good enough passer to find one of their many 3 point shooters on the wings. Let's not underestimate our win yesterday...that was a very good team. We'll only play 3 more teams (UNC, Duke, Miami) who are as dangerous the rest of the season...not sure Duke is right now, but they should have Jefferson back when we play them.

I think Tony knew exactly what he was doing with scheduling this year. 5 good games in a row...2 of them not at JPJ. This is the type of OOC stretch that will prep us much better for March than the last 2 years.

I lived in Hawaii, Guam, California during my career, where I saw a lot of teams with Hawaiian and Tongan kids on various west coast college and high school teams and they had some massive linemen or the quick muscular RBs and kick off returners.

The problem they use to have was lack of exposure out on the islands and lack of high school resources back then. My ex taught and was a coach (track and Basketball) in both Hawaii and Guam and several High Schools and back then they were lacking in equipment and even simple things like bleachers around the field for fans/family to sit in. Now they are slowly catching up and getting more exposure, along with training programs/weigh training programs and better coaching on the islands they didn't have before.

I saw several of the new coming football staff and I'm sure most probably know about it, but Mark Atuaia wife is the former lead singer from the singing family group "THE JETS" back in the 80's. She is Elizabeth Wolfgramm and she was the lead singer of the group.

London had 1 assist and 4 turnovers and UVa still beat a top 15 team going away. It has become apparent that UVa is winning differently this year but I never would have guessed in a million years that London could have that sort of assist to turnover ratio and we could still beat a very good team with relative ease. It wasn't easy but it wasn't that hard, either. Villanova led for maybe a grand total of 5 of the 40 minutes of game time.

At Iowa State no less! - Paul Jesperson had 21 on 7 3s before fouling out late. We move up for sure.

The much maligned Buckeyes, whom everyone said wasn't a good win for us, it taking it too Kentucky.

Hoos with a statement win, flip the channel and Puke gets beat, at MSG at that. It doesn't get better than that! Santa with an early Christmas present!!!

Since there are going to be many of us watching, I thought I'd start a game thread.

Greetings from Charlottesville, where No. 8 UVa hosts No. 12 Villanova in about an hour and 45 minutes. I'll be back with some notes once the teams get out and start getting warmed up.

I wanted to pass along that while the thought is that Marial Shayok had time for the hand/wrist to heal, he took a bump to the head and sat out a couple of practices. Not entirely sure what we'll see from him today or if he'll be impacted at all but that's something to watch. Also, sources told me late in the week that Malcolm Brogdon sat out a couple of practices following the broken nose but he should be good to go today.

As always, have at it folks...

We can do EVERYTHING. Our offensive and defensive efficiency are unmatched. I don't see any game on our schedule being a danger game until over 3 weeks from now vs. Miami. Bennett is now able to mix and match lineups based on our opponent. I totally agree with NJHOO, this was a 2-3 matchup in the tourney and we MORE than rose to the occasion. We'll almost certainly lose another game or two, but this team is FOR REAL. The wealthy people on this board should be buying their final four tickets NOW, you won't be disappointed!!!

"This is a deep team.

Is it the nation's best? Maybe. Is it good enough to claim a third straight ACC title? Almost certainly.

If the Cavaliers keep scoring like this, no goal is out of reach. "

Just rewatching the game and it is clear that we play 40 minutes of D. That is how we are able to grind down other teams Most teams have spurts and use a lot of energy to play for 5-8 minutes but then slack off. Today, we played 40 minutes of constant solid D. Its like gravity, it never lets up, and neither does our D.

We had too many TOs, and Nova made some big 3s, but we simply wore them down so that they did not have enough in the tank to take the lead. The other strength this year is our depth. CTB is playing 8-9 kids regularly and therefore we are stronger late in each half than we have been in the past.

All about playing 40 minutes of D, being constant and relentless with the D.

all have one thing in common- THEY LOST Our preseason schedule has been tough but we are prepared for the ACC

and now add ISI who lost to Jesperson lead UNI

Why is this important to the Hoos?

Because BYU's coaching staff are all coming to Charlottesville after this game. I'm a Cougar fan for the next 3 hours.

"Don't start nothing, won't be nothing"

Guy led all scorers with 34 points with 4 3-pointers. Just as impressively, he had 11 rebounds.

I am going to watch it to see how "our" new coach(es) do.