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Women’s basketball: UVA hosts Virginia Tech on Thursday

Chris Graham

UVA women’s basketballThe UVA women’s basketball team (6-9, 0-2 ACC) hosts Virginia Tech (13-2, 0-2 ACC) on Thursday in a Commonwealth Clash game at 7 p.m. at John Paul Jones Arena.

Broadcast Information

  • The game will stream on ACC Network Extra, which is available to authenticated subscribers of ESPN3 through WatchESPN and the ESPN app
  • All of the 2018-19 Virginia women’s basketball games – home and away – are available locally on the radio on NewsRadio 1070 AM and 98.9 FM WINA and on AM 910 WRNL in Richmond
  • Fans can also keep up with the action through live stats on VirginiaSports.com

UVA Team Notes

  • Junior Jocelyn Willoughby (East Orange, N.J.) is third in the ACC and eighth in the nation in three-point shooting, making 48.4 percent of her attempts
  • Willoughby grabbed the 500th rebound of her career with 5:56 remaining in the third quarter of the Clemson game. She leads the team in rebounding at 7.9 per game. She also led the team in rebounding as a freshman when she averaged 6.2 per game
  • Willoughby has scored in double figures in six of the last seven games, with two 20-point performances in that span
  • Senior forward Mone Jones (Durham, N.C.) had back-to-back games with double-digit scoring for the first time in her career, with a career-best 12 points against Florida State and 10 at Clemson
  • Sophomore guard Brianna Tinsley (Madison, Va.) is averaging 13.3 points per game in her last three games, including scoring 19 against Florida State
  • Junior guard Dominique Toussaint (Staten Island, N.Y.) has scored in double figures in four of the last five games
  • The Cavaliers have two players averaging in double figures for the season, Willoughby (12.9) and Toussaint (11.1), but have four players scoring in double figures in ACC contests: Willoughby (14.5), Tinsley (14.0), Jones (11.0) and Toussaint (10)
  • Junior forward Lisa Jablonowski (Ernster, Luxembourg) is averaging 11.6 point per game in the last three games, including a 17-point performance against Charlotte. Jablonowski is shooting 68.4 percent (13-of-19) from the field in that same span
  • Jablonowski has seven steals in the last three games. She had nine steals in the first 13 games
  • In the last six games, five different players have led the team in scoring, with only Toussaint repeating as the game-high scorer in that span
  • Virginia is 21st in the nation and third in the ACC for fewest fouls per game, averaging just 14.0 per contest. Not a single Cavalier has fouled out of a game this season
  • The Cavaliers scored a season-best 23 second-chance points at Clemson (off 19 offensive rebounds). The team scored a season-high 28 points in the paint against Florida State

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Chris Graham is the founder and editor of Augusta Free Press. A 1994 alum of the University of Virginia, Chris is the author and co-author of seven books, including Poverty of Imagination, a memoir published in 2019. For his commentaries on news, sports and politics, go to his YouTube page, TikTok, BlueSky, or subscribe to Substack or his Street Knowledge podcast. Email Chris at [email protected].