UVA Basketball: ‘Hoos clamp down on D on Stanford in 70-55 win

This will be another one with me praising the defense from our UVA Basketball squad, which you could have probably foretold from the final score.

Stanford ended up with 55 points, and got there after making six of its 31 shot attempts from the floor in the second half.

That’s a 19.4 percent clip.

The Cardinal (13-4, 2-2 ACC) settled in the second half – 17 of the shot attempts were threes, not ideal, to say the least, from a group shooting 34.4 percent from long-range coming in.

Coming in, the freshman was averaging 22.6 points per game.

Their dude, Ebuka Okorie, who had 31 in the one-point, late-rally win at Virginia Tech on Wednesday, finished with 14 today, and it took him 20 shots – he was 5-of-20 from the floor, 0-of-6 from three, in 30 minutes.

The other guy in the Big 2 for Stanford, 6’8” power forward Chisholm Okpara, who appears to have been chiseled from granite, marble and a titanium alloy, didn’t make a shot from the field, and finished with three points – he was averaging 14.6 points per coming in.

Virginia (14-2, 3-1 ACC) forced 15 Stanford turnovers – six of those were shot-clock violations.

Player notes

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• Thijs de Ridder had one of those games were he appeared annoyed with the idea of failure: 22 points, 8-of-11 FG, 1-of-2 3FG, 5-of-5 FT.
• The point guards: Chance Mallory had 13 points (4-of-8 FG, 2-of-4 3FG, 3-of-3 FT, four rebounds, three assists) in 26 minutes; Dallin Hall had six points and six assists in 33 minutes.
• The centers: Ugonna Onyenso had five points, six rebounds and five blocked shots in 20 minutes; Johann Grunloh had five points, five boards and two blocked shots in 20 minutes.
• Shooting guards: Malik Thomas was only 5-of-15 from the floor to get to his 11 points; Sam Lewis only had eight, but his back-to-back threes, the second draining at the 12:21 mark, were what put this game away, turning a 12-point game into an 18-point lead.
• Devin Tillis is grinding right now: he had his second straight goose egg; Tillis had averaged 8.0 ppg off the bench in his previous six.
• DNP: Elijah Gertrude (coach’s decision) and Jacari White (left wrist).

Odom Ball

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• Points off turnovers: Virginia +2
• Second-chance points: Virginia +11
• Points in the paint: Virginia +14
• Threes: Virginia +3

Shooting zones

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• At the rim: Virginia 12-of-18, Stanford 10-of-18
• In the paint (including rim): Virginia 17-of-29, Stanford 11-of-26
• Midrange: Virginia 2-of-6, Stanford 2-of-4
• Threes: Virginia 6-of-22, Stanford 5-of-26
• Free throws: Virginia 14-of-17, Stanford 14-of-17

Virginia in the NCAA metrics

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• NET: 20
• KenPom: 15
• BartTorvik: 13