
UVA Basketball talks with media on eve of Sweet Sixteen: Transcript
UVA Basketball coach Tony Bennett and players Kyle Guy, Ty Jerome, De’Andre Hunter and Jack Salt talk with reporters on the eve of the team’s Sweet Sixteen game with Oregon.

UVA Basketball coach Tony Bennett and players Kyle Guy, Ty Jerome, De’Andre Hunter and Jack Salt talk with reporters on the eve of the team’s Sweet Sixteen game with Oregon.

UVA basketball is playing for a spot in the Sweet Sixteen, I’m sitting courtside in the Colonial Life Arena, and my wife, at home, texts me a great story idea. I think Mamadi Diakite is better as a blonde.

Chris Graham and Rod Mullins discuss Brad Keselowski’s win at Martinsville and look ahead to the race this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway.

The Mark Moses Show is joined by Chris Graham of The Augusta Free Press to recap the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament to look ahead to Sweet Sixteen games coming up this Thursday night.

Oregon is a 12 seed. Easy win. Right? Nah. The Ducks (25-12) have won 10 straight, and remind me of one of those Harold Deane-era UVA teams from the early to mid 1990s. The ones that had Cory Alexander, and then didn’t, and had to adjust to life without him, and eventually did.

The ACC leads all conferences with five teams among the Sweet Sixteen, with No. 1 seeds Duke, UVA and UNC joined by No. 4 seeds FSU and Virginia Tech.

The first thing we did was look at where we were in the seat assignments. Actually, no. Step back. The first thing we did was apply for the credentials. This year was my fifth NCAA Tournament as a media member. I never take the credential thing for granted. The approval is always celebrated.

In the locker room with UVA basketball players De’Andre Hunter, Ty Jerome, Mamadi Diakite, Kihei Clark and Braxton Key following the win over Oklahoma that sends the ‘Hoos to the Sweet Sixteen.

After the Marvel Comics ending to Duke-UCF, the UVA win over Oklahoma played like a documentary, and not even one of those good ones, like the one about the Fyre Festival.

Virginia stifled a potent Oklahoma offense, holding the Sooners to 36.5 percent shooting, and the ‘Hoos advanced to the Sweet Sixteen with a 63-51 win on Sunday in Columbia, S.C.
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