Dallin Hall, the starting point guard for the UVA Basketball team last season, has entered the transfer portal with a do not contact tag, meaning, he knows where he intends to play, assuming he gets a fifth year.
Ryan Odom would no doubt have loved to have had Hall (5.9 ppg, 4.4 assists/g, 55.1% 2FG, 32.0% 3FG) back for another run, but nobody could have foreseen the series of moves that appear to be giving guys like Hall who were thought to have exhausted their eligibility an extra season.
In June, the NCAA rolled out a new five-in-five model that will give incoming freshmen five years of eligibility – and as part of that, current student-athletes who would be using their final year in the 2026-2027 academic sports year are being given the option to do a fifth year next season.
But the new model didn’t address guys from the high school class of 2022 who had exhausted their fourth year of eligibility, like Hall.
A federal judge in Colorado took the lead on that, issuing a temporary injunction that will allow class of 2022 athletes to have a fifth year.
The UVA Football program is taking advantage of the injunction to add two D linemen, Jacob Holmes and Cazeem Moore, to the roster for the upcoming 2026 season.
But Odom has long since fleshed out his roster for the 2026-2027 season, with Hall’s backup last season, Chance Mallory (9.3 ppg, 3.4 assists/g, 49.6% 2FG, 34.5% 3FG), expected to move into the starting lineup, and Loyola-Marymount transfer Jan Vide (12.1 ppg, 4.0 assists/g, 46.9% 2FG, 32.3% 3FG) slated to get the backup minutes.
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