UVA Basketball: ‘Hoos hold off furious second-half rally, finish off Hokies, 76-72
Virginia led by nine with 50 seconds to go, but had to make a free throw with 4.4 seconds left to salt away a 76-72 win over Virginia Tech on Saturday.
Virginia led by nine with 50 seconds to go, but had to make a free throw with 4.4 seconds left to salt away a 76-72 win over Virginia Tech on Saturday.
Not very pretty, but give Virginia credit for a bounce-back win Tuesday evening, defeating Wake Forest, 75-70.
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When you watch Ryan Odom’s UVA Basketball team’s games closely, the thing you notice with the opponents is, the tongues, dragging.

At the 9:50 second half media timeout, Ohio State, up 59-53, had gotten 26 points from Bruce Thornton, on 11-of-freakin’-14 shooting.
Courtney Lane was stellar in four and a third innings of scoreless relief, and the UVA offense put up double-digits in a 10-2 run-rule win over Coastal Carolina on Sunday at the Kickin’ Chicken Classic.
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I cut a promo on UVA Basketball coach Ryan Odom on Wednesday to try to egg him on into getting in the ear of officials when it feels, like it did in the three-OT loss at Virginia Tech, that they’re ganging up on his guys.
Solid email this morning from Alan, regular reader, on the Tech-UVA game, the kind of good that got me to think through what we know, to this point, in Year 1 of Ryan Odom, about our new-look UVA Basketball program.
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