AFP editor Chris Graham leads our live blog as #13 UVA hosts Robert Morris in college basketball action on Saturday.
Broadcast Information
- The Virginia-Robert Morris game will be televised on ESPNU, streamed online on ACC Network Extra and broadcast on the Virginia Sports Radio Network, VirginiaSports.com and Virginia Athletics mobile app on iTunes or Android.
- Live statistics will be located on VirginiaSports.com and the Virginia Sports app.
Team Notes: UVA
- Virginia is led by senior point guard London Perrantes, who is a Wooden and Naismith Player of the Year and ACC Player of the Year candidate.
- Perrantes is averaging team highs in points (10.2 ppg) and assists (4.4 apg).
- Isaiah Wilkins (6.2 ppg & 5.1 rpg) leads the team in rebounds (46) and steals (16) and is second in blocked shots (12).
- Marial Shayok is averaging 9.6 points off the bench, while Darius Thompson has added 8.9 points per game off the bench.
- Newcomer Kyle Guy is averaging 8.1 points on 55.6 percent shooting, while Jarred Reuter leads the team in field goal percentage (65.7%) and free throw percentage (81.3%), and is second on the team in rebounding at 4.4 per game.
- Mamadi Diakite is averaging 6.3 points, 3.3 rebounds and 1.8 blocked shots in 15.5 minutes per game.
Team Notes: Robert Morris
- Robert Morris enters Saturday’s game @ Virginia leading the Northeast Conference in scoring defense (68.1 ppg) and three-point field goal percent defense (.303) while ranking third in field goal percent defense (.447).
- The 2016-17 version of the Colonials are one of the youngest teams in head coach Andrew Toole‘s seven-year tenure at RMU, as three freshman and three sophomores help make up the rotation. Through 10 games of the year, the Robert Morris underclassmen have supplied the Colonials with 49.7 percent (1,094-of-2,200) of the minutes played and 54.3 percent (365-of-618) of their scoring.
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