UVa and VT are set to tip off from Blacksburg just after the top of the hour on theCW. Hoos looking for a third straight win and their first at Cassell since 2020. Hoos are going with the same starters today: Rohde, Ames, McKneely, Cofie, Buchanan

Rogers in front of him is solid, but McIlroy and Scheffler 4 shots behind him might be bigger threats, so fingers crossed he can close this one out.

Wins against SMU and Virginia Tech this is a different season. This team will make the NIT and or CBI. Add Chance Mallory and a 3 and D wing and your are cooking

The softball team defeated #4 UCCLA 7-6. The men's squash team beat #14 Rochester 8-1. The wrestling team won their match with American 30-8. The women defeated Pitt in basketball 80-67. The men's tennis team defeated #19 NCSU 4-1. Last, but not least the baseball team shut out Rice 7-0.

He”s going out in the final group of the Genesis Invitational today, only one stroke back of the leader. He was the leader after the first round and fourth after the second. He was paired with Rory McIlroy yesterday and outplayed him by 5-6 strokes.

With some luck, he could pick up his first win. He is driving it great, not missing any putts he should make. He just needs a few more of the long ones to go in.

You can catch the finish on CBS.

Virginia won 73-70 in a game in which the team had a comfortable lead; I was thinking very comfortable lead, but no lead this year has been very comfortable. Both teams made 23 of 50 field goal attempts; The Hoos made 1 more three pointer, the Hokies had 1 more two pointer, and Virginia had 2 more made free throws thanks to several VPI misses on the first shot attempt on and ones. Virginia had 30 rebounds, and Tech had 28. Individually, McKneely scored 22 points, and Robinson had 15; Buchanan and Robinson, in what was his best all-around game, each had 7 rebounds.
I was able to exhale when the final whistle blew.

Highly touted Hoos opener in Puerto Rico against Michigan. Woolfolk gets start. His stuff still looks mediocre to me. Still misses high in the zone and wild. Down 2-0 in the 3rd.

On Episode 598 of the CavsCorner Podcast ("Primed and Ready"), we talk about UVa's continued momentum on the hardwood and what it was like to celebrate Tony Bennett's 15-year career on Saturday.


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Ok, I think Sanchez gets replaced but MOX stays at least another year or end of contract. She's a good recruiter, but slightly average as a coach.

Column: On touching greatness, time, and The Man In The Arena being honored following an incredible 15-year career at UVa.

"We are all now the keepers of the memories those times produced."

Mox keeps McGhee out on the floor game after game that can't guard and now Noyan also is horrendous with drifting back in the paint leaving her girl wide open for easy 3pt shots.

Mox puts in the Aussie girl that shuts down McGhee's girl at the 3 pt line and even hits a three then brings back McGhee to repeat the same bad habit of drifting off like she has ADD. You could see Johnson chewing on her at the last 3pt given up and shot going into commercial.

McGhee should be getting limited time for dragging her feet on defense game after game.

Also the bad passes/turnovers by McGhee and Clark on fast break she has Latimore running opposite of her with the defender guard Clark and she takes it to far under the rim and turns it over with a weak flimsy under hand that gets picked. Why not dish to Latimore before you run under the rim. JUST STUPID playing!

The female zebras are also horrible. You can clearly see the VT player that flopped was in the restricted area and we get a foul call. You had Clark run in to the huge double door refrigerator VT center and while she is moving her feet and no call.

Greetings from John Paul Jones Arena where the Jackets and Wahoos will tip things up in about 35 minutes here on the day UVa will celebrate the tenure of Tony Bennett and (presumably) debut a banner that will hang in the rafters in his honor.

I'll have updates for you shortly.

As always, have at it folks...

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Seven teams competed in dual competition (men and women tennis, men and women squash, men basketball, men lacrosse, and softball), and all seven won. I can smile when I see my Hokie friends tomorrow.

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.

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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Hokies and the Hoos will tip It up in a few. UVa going with Dai Dai Ames, Isaac McKneely, Taine Murray, Jacob Cofie, and Blake Buchanan to start.

As always, have at it folks...

On Episode 597 of the CavsCorner Podcast ("They Contain Multitudes"), we talk about UVa's unexpected thrashing of Pitt and then look ahead to Saturday's celebration of Tony Bennett.


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Coach Elliott met with the media today to discuss his 2025 recruiting class, and particularly the transfer additions, most of whom have come onboard since Elliott's most-recent availability. Video is below:

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