Bad news for UVa. hoops: Scott to miss remainder of 2010-2011 season
The expected bad news regarding Mike Scott’s injured left ankle was confirmed Monday. The 6-8 senior will miss the remainder of the 2010-2011 season due to the need for a second operation on the ankle.
Scott, who leads Virginia in scoring (15.9 points per game) and rebounding (10.2 rebounds per game), had arthroscopic surgery on Dec. 16 to remove loose pieces of cartilage from the ankle. He returned to play just a week later, scoring 12 points and pulling down eight rebounds in 31 minutes off the bench in UVa.’s 59-53 loss to Seattle. Read more
Hot shooting pushes UVa. to 84-63 win over Howard
Mustapha Farrakhan made his first 11 shots from the field en route to a career-high 31-point night.
The only blemish in the box score: that last missed shot.
Farrakhan’s hot shooting paced a surprising 67 percent shooting night from Virginia in a fast-paced 84-63 win over Howard Tuesday night. Read more
The young shall lead: Freshmen key to UVa. win
Freshman K.T. Harrell scored 15 points as homestanding Virginia posted a much-needed win, 64-50, over Louisiana State University Sunday in John Paul Jones Arena.
The Cavaliers (9-5) broke a two-game losing streak despite the absence of leading scorer and rebounder Mike Scott, who missed his second consecutive game relating to ankle surgery in mid-December.
LSU, too, was banged up, with starting forward Storm Warren sidelined with an Achilles tendon injury. Starting guard Ralston Turner, who scored 11 points, was also forced to the bench late in the game with a foot injury. Read more
UVa. 64, LSU 50: Not pretty, but … get used to it
Another night without Mike Scott, another wrenching performance, but Virginia also got another win.
“We have a ways to go, but it was a nice little performance,” said UVa. coach Tony Bennett after the Cavs’ 64-50 win over LSU Sunday night. Read more
‘Hoos, without Scott, knock off Oregon
Five minutes before tipoff, members of the Virginia media staff were handing out typed press releases announcing that Mike Scott, the ‘Hoos leading scorer and rebounder, would miss Friday’s game with Oregon after having arthroscopic ankle surgery on Thursday.
The first 10 minutes of the televised game in the John Paul Jones Arena went according to the new script. Oregon jumped out to a 15-6 lead, and Virginia had seven turnovers against the Ducks’ press.
Senior Mustapha Farrakhan was unfazed. “He came in when we were a little rattled and said, We’re going to be OK, we’re going to be OK,” coach Tony Bennett said of Farrakhan, who ignited a first-half flurry that got UVa. back into the game with a transition three, and later ignited the crowd in the second half in a sequence with Virginia up 35-31, blocking a shot and hitting another three on the wing on the ensuing fast break.
Oregon would get no closer than five points the rest of the way in what turned out to be a 63-48 Virginia win.
“Coach told us to stay in the moment and be thankful of the opportunity to play. We rallied behind each other and played together,” said Farrakhan, one of three Cavs in double figures with 17 points.
Freshman KT Harrell, starting in place of Scott, scored a game-high 20 points on 8-of-12 shooting from the field, on a dizzying array of midrange jumpers off screens in Bennett’s motion offense.
“I’m relaxed and playing my game, trying to be aggressive offensively,” Harrel said.
Sammy Zeglinski scored 12 for Virginia (7-3) in his second game back from October knee surgery.
Virginia shot 50 percent from the field despite getting just one field goal in four attempts from the nominal post players in Bennett’s rotation. Bennett went with a four-guard lineup in Scott’s absence out of necessity more than anything else.
“I’d look sometimes and there’s four freshmen and a sophomore, and I thought, Just hang on, what’s going to happen here. But fortunately from a matchup standpoint, we sizewise could match up with them with four guards,” Bennett said.
“I told the guys yesterday, I said, It’s going to be hard. You’re going to go through some rough patches. We’re without Mike, we’re without Will (Sherrill). I said, Embrace this challenge. That was my message to them on the day when I knew Mike was going to have surgery. I said, Just embrace this. Let’s take this challenge. I know it’s going to be tough,” Bennett said.
Bennett didn’t give any kind of definitive timetable for Scott’s return following the surgery. The coach said the injury occurred in practice last week and flared up again this week when Scott tried to play through pain in his ankle.
“It’s all about how quickly the swelling gets out and how functional he can be. I’m hoping it’s not too long,” Bennett said.
Story by Chris Graham. Chris can be reached at freepress2@ntelos.net.
'Hoos, without Scott, knock off Oregon
Five minutes before tipoff, members of the Virginia media staff were handing out typed press releases announcing that Mike Scott, the ‘Hoos leading scorer and rebounder, would miss Friday’s game with Oregon after having arthroscopic ankle surgery on Thursday.
The first 10 minutes of the televised game in the John Paul Jones Arena went according to the new script. Oregon jumped out to a 15-6 lead, and Virginia had seven turnovers against the Ducks’ press. Read more
Sans Scott: These Cavs are going to struggle
Posted by afp on December 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“Now we’re back to square one,” UVa. coach Tony Bennett said of the health issues of senior Mike Scott, whose bad ankle kept him off the court for Virginia’s lackluster 60-47 loss to Iowa State Thursday night.
He could also have been talking about his team as a whole. The defeat was the second in a row for the ‘Hoos, who have seen an 8-3 start that included wins over Minnesota and Virginia Tech turn into an 8-5 headscratcher. Read more
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