Back on July 30, we wrote about how UVA Basketball had added a game with Arkansas to its November schedule.
Today, UVA Athletics put out a release to tell us that, indeed, Virginia and Arkansas will play on Sunday, Nov. 8, at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C.
The game tips at 1 p.m. and will be broadcast on ESPN.
Tickets go on sale to the public on Friday, Sept. 4.
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“We are excited to announce this nonconference game against Arkansas at Capital One Arena,” UVA coach Ryan Odom said, per a quote from the release. “We have great respect for coach John Calipari and his program and look forward to bringing Virginia Basketball to the nation’s capital.”
A CBS Sports Too Early Top 25 out on Aug. 10 has Virginia at #9 and Arkansas at #10, so, this one should be fun.
The November-December schedule also has Kentucky (CBS: #16), a road game at Maryland – ignored in the Too Early Top 25s that I’m seeing, but that arena is a super tough place to play – and the Battle 4 Atlantis, with a field that includes the likes of Marquette, Texas A&M and Xavier.
None of those are in the Too Early Top 25s, but they’re all name programs.
Oh, and then there’s a game in December in MSG against a certain UConn team (CBS: #4).
You may have heard of them.
All of that, plus a home-and-home with Duke (CBS: #2).
That’s a decent schedule that our guy is putting together.
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