Somebody may have already done this, but I threw this together. Basically shows minutes played in first year, then total minutes played for the rest of the player’s career after their first year and minutes played per completed season after their first year. Obviously a little rough, but I thought slightly interesting. Players whose first year came after a redshirt are italicized. I left off guys who are so early in their careers it’d skew the numbers (Reece, Shedrick, McCorkle)
Nothing terribly surprising. The guys who ended up contributing less at UVA than you might have expected based on their first year minutes were most noticeably Evan Nolte, KT Harrell, and Casey Morsell. The guys who became solid contributors despite low minutes their first year are Jay Huff and Jack Salt. But the most noticeable trend, as we all know, is that bigs don’t play as much their first year and can become contributors later, but guards who don’t play much their first year don’t tend to do a lot here either due to transfer or inability to earn playing time (unless you’re Devon Hall).
As somebody said above, if there is a concerning thing about this year, its where the three Ms currently stand. Taine is currently at 128 minutes, Igor at 96 minutes, and Carson is at 70 (with 22 last season). There’s pretty much no precedent (except for Devon Hall) for guards going from under 450 minutes in their first year to becoming a contributor, and for wing types there’s almost no precedent for those playing under 250 minutes their first year. It’s not looking super likely any of the three Ms get to either of those marks. That said, trends are just trends, and if rules were like they used to be, maybe Taine and Igor would normally be redshirting this year and their minutes next year would be more like previous players’ first year minutes. Who knows.