4 of UVA’s starters from the 2019 National Championship game are now in the League.
Good chance that Huff joins them next year, and Key has an increasing chance as well.
Wow.
EDIT: Further thought: If Huff and Key make the League, that would mean that 6 out of the 8 guys who logged minutes in the Championship Game for us will have made the League. I’m getting ahead of myself a bit with a projection on Huff and Key, but can any other team make that kind of claim?
Mama-D Mama-do on the way to the league too! 
https://twitter.com/prestonwillett/status/1367163815775903749?s=21
Looking at the bucks roster, it looks like he and Divencenzo are the only players that have won a championship (please correct me if I’m wrong). They need that mentality now
Great day (and season for that matter) for the NBA Hoos
I’ll have to look it up but those Villanova teams were pretty loaded.
2016 had Ochefu Jenkins Hart Arcidiacano Brunson Booth Bridges and Reynolds. That’s at least 5 off the top of my head.
DiVincenzo was on that team too, but didn’t play in the final.
Glad to see Ty getting regular burn and playing with confidence (not that he ever lacked it)
https://twitter.com/markemoran/status/1367324271027052544?s=21
This was really cool to see how well our guys did last night!
All of Ty’s touches
I appreciate that Ty is just as shocked to ever be called for a foul in the NBA as he was at UVA.
In all seriousness though, love seeing him get time on the floor and knock down some shots.
Mamadi listed as Out on the injury report due to Health protocols- ?
Maybe has to quarantine before joining the team?
I think it’s 3 consecutive negative tests after leaving for the G-League buble.
This Guy’s all grown up
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMDziGJBqBC/?igshid=ohvz072nkvtw
Ok now you with the puns too? Will these Guys ever stop?! Cmon!
From CBS Sports on justification for De’Andre Hunter as Most Improved…
Why De’Andre Hunter should win the award: If the award was handed out today, Hunter likely would not win. He’s only played 18 games. But he gets my vote (and James Herbert’s, too) because in those 18 games he had become arguably the second-best player on what was, at the time of his injury, a plus-.500 Hawks team in the thick of the Eastern Conference playoff race. When Travis Schlenk drafted Hunter, he saw a guy with more offensive potential than he was able to display in a regimented Virginia program. He was right. Hunter was immediately a pretty good 3-point shooter as a rookie, something Schlenk envisioned as a corner-spot-up byproduct of Trae Young’s creation, but this season Hunter has become a guy who can create his own offense by putting the ball on the floor and getting into the lane for pull-up jumpers and touch finishes.
Last season, Hunter shot 30 percent from the short mid-range, per CTG. This season he’s at 59 percent. Last season, he made 32 percent of his jump shots off the dribble, per Synergy. This year he’s at 49 percent. HIs 127.3 points per shot attempt ranks in the 93rd percentile league-wide among small forwards, up from 104.0 and the 31st percentile last season, per CTG. It all adds up to a five-point uptick in scoring, from 12 PPG last season to 17 this season with a 64 true-shooting percentage, up from 52 as a rookie. Bottom line, if Hunter doesn’t get hurt, there’s a chance Lloyd Pierce is still coaching in Atlanta. The Hawks have gone 6-11 since he went out, and even though Bogdan Bogdanovic didn’t play a single game in the month of February either, anyone who has watched the Hawks this season knows how much Hunter’s absence has been felt, and in that absence, perhaps, lies his best case for Most Improved Player. – Brad Botkin
Yeah I never saw Hunter operate in the mid range or go to the rack during his time at UVA. What a lazy take
Exactly! Hell- watch our national championship run and his jump shooting against Culver and Texas Tech. Secondly he shot *I believe 45% from three his last year here from MORE than just the corners so he was really slept on even by this so called expert.
Brax with 14 points early in the 4th in the G-League semi-finals.
Edit: takes a seat with 6 minutes to go. Up to 21 points including 5 of 6 from deep.