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Highlights and Game Notes: #16 UVA defeats Georgia Tech

Chris Graham

#16 UVA made it four in a row in the ACC with a 62-49 win over Georgia Tech on Saturday.

 

 

UVA Team Notes

  • uva basketballVirginia (15-3, 5-2 ACC) has won four straight games
  • Virginia has won two consecutive games against Georgia Tech and is 39-40 all-time vs. the Yellow Jackets
  • UVA improved to 8-2 at JPJ in 2016-17 and 37-2 at home in ACC play over the last five seasons
  • UVA is 61-2 when limiting opponents to 50 or fewer points under head coach Tony Bennett (6-0 this season)
  • The Cavs shot an ACC season-low 22.7 percent (5-22) from 3-point range

 

UVA Player Notes

  • London Perrantes (11 points) became the 47th Cavalier with 1,000 career points and fourth Cavalier with 1,000 career points and 500 assists (John Crotty, Sean Singletary & Donald Hand)
  • Perrantes (2 3-pointers) moved past Crotty (179 3-pointers from 1988-91) into eighth on UVA’s all-time 3-pointers list with 180
  • Marial Shayok had a career-high 19 points and has scored 10+ points in five of the last six games
  • Devon Hall (10 points) reached double figures for the seventh time in eight contests
  • Jack Salt played a career-high 35 minutes and helped limit Georgia Tech leading scorer Ben Lammers to seven points on 3-12 field goal shooting. Salt’s previous high for minutes was 27 on two occasions

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Chris Graham is the founder and editor of Augusta Free Press. A 1994 alum of the University of Virginia, Chris is the author and co-author of seven books, including Poverty of Imagination, a memoir published in 2019. For his commentaries on news, sports and politics, go to his YouTube page, TikTok, BlueSky, or subscribe to Substack or his Street Knowledge podcast. Email Chris at [email protected].