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I just read the postgame transcript, and it’s definitely a good thing I didn’t ruin the UVA Basketball presser with questions about the actual game that was played tonight.
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VCU losing starting guard Nyk Lewis in the first minute wasn’t why the Rams lost to #3 seed Illinois on Saturday, but it sure didn’t help.
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I wrote on Thursday, on the train to Philly, about the one concern I had for UVA Basketball heading into its first-round NCAA Tournament game – that for seven of the nine rotation guys, it would be their first NCAA Tournament game.
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Kymora Johnson had 28 points, Sa’Myah Smith had 22, and #10 seed Virginia outlasted #7 seed Georgia, 82-73, in OT, on a day when temperatures in the Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, which doesn’t have AC, got into the low 80s.
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Allison Sheets, a fourth-year UVA nursing student, is heretofore to be known as Alli Brackets, by being among the final 0.01 percent of folks with a perfect bracket in the 2026 ESPN NCAA Tournament Bracket Challenge.
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Ideally, Tennessee runs its offense through the duo of senior point guard Ja’Kobi Gillespie and freshman power forward Nate Ament, but Ament, a sublime talent, is limited by a gimpy right ankle.
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Virginia’s 57-55 win over Arizona State in Thursday’s First Four ended at 11:17 p.m. Postgame interviews, getting on the bus, maybe they got back to the hotel by 1 a.m.
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What was Sam Lewis thinking, tossing the ball at TJ Burch after Burch was whistled for a reach-in foul with 5:32 to go, Wright State up one, 68-67.
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Home sales in Virginia were up 12 percent in February from January, with a staggering median sales price: $410,000. These numbers were reported on Friday by the Virginia Association of REALTORS® in its February 2026 Virginia Home Sales Report.
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We didn’t seem to have any media out in Iowa City for the Virginia-Arizona State First Four game in the 2026 Women’s NCAA Tournament.
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