Virginia and second-year coach Amaka Agugua-Hamilton concluded their second straight .500 season with a 73-55 loss at Villanova on Sunday in the second round of the WBIT.
UVA (16-16) fell behind by 16 in the first half and never got closer.
Villanova (20-12) got 30 points from All-Big East first-teamer Lucy Olsen.
Virginia got 12 points each from Camryn Taylor and Kymora Johnson, and 10 from Alexia Smith.
The loss ends a season in which the ‘Hoos scored four AP Top 25 wins, lost by three to defending national champion LSU, but couldn’t put things together night-in, night-out.
“We fought at times, especially down the stretch. We never gave up,” Agugua-Hamilton said after the game. “I’m just really proud of our group. We had a year filled with so much adversity, and I’m just really proud of how we continued to fight.”
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