Actually, the Louisville series I remember most fondly came in the early 80s. Virginia destroyed them when they were highly ranked and had Scooter & Rodney McCrae. Matt Blundin almost led a comeback in Freedom Hall in the second series, but the second game in U Hall wasnât all that pretty. Coach Holland brought in some great home & home series in the 80s. Nolan Richardsonâs Arkansas teams and Norm Stewartâs Missouri teams both went 0 - 2 against UVa. Virginia also played Houston quite a bit. The most notable game came during a trip to Japan when Ralph was ill, and Jimmy Miller & Kenton Edelin (I think) played center against Olajuwon and UVa won. The '84 national semi-final was memorable, too. There was a home & home with Notre Dame, too, but UVaâs home game was played in Landover.
Your memory is amazing. We played ND 4 times in my 4 years and of course I am 4 and 0 there
Coach Holland wasnt afraid to play the real our of conference teams. You have to love that. Especially back then when you knew you would proly lose 70 percent if your away ACC games
I paid an inexcusable large ammount to go to that high gym GW calls a stadium and watch that game. At the time I thought I could not be more pissed at the program.
Then Tony said hold my beer you ainât seen nothing yet
The reminders of all the awful early season in-state losses arenât exactly getting me pumped to play more of those games haha. The only notable win I can think of was beating VCU on the road in like 2014 or 2015.
Nolte making that diving tip steal will forever live in mind. Didnât ty and Kyle beat VCU in Richmond? Maybe 2018. They also beat them in Cville the title year but I think that was a December game. When Tony gave the super aggressive high 5 to Kihei.
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Yeah, theyâve beaten them several times, just more that those games werenât really big deals.
I think it was Seattle Hoo that said that 15-16 UVa team had senioritis. Meaning they didnât really show up for everything; just when it mattered. (until of course, they didnât)
Felt like they lost every road game until that banked shot at Wake. Then things turned around.
If Iâm not mistaken they were CTBs only team to go undefeated in JPJ. God I hate saying that.
8 year old me at that wake game hour had a heart attack after that shot
wut.
edit: This is like seeing a recruit post their childhood photos and itâs all in HD because they are so young
All this reminiscing about U Hall, even though Iâve been going to UVA football games since I was a kid (starting 1995), I cannot recall seeing a game in U Hall; looks like such a great atmosphere for night games, I really love the ambiance of old school basketball gyms. My dad certainly is nostalgic for the days of Ralphâs House.
Was there no historic value to the arena, no attempts to save it? I wish somebody would release a book of photography inside U Hall, hard to find quality pictures online where its not being torn apart. Architecturally it was an iconic mid century building, shame its gone.
It was a great place to see a game. Good sight lines and atmosphere. Didnât love it so much working out in the gym in September as it did not have AC. I have a lot of great memories in that buildingâRalphâs House.
I believe you mean Glen RiceâŚ
I played in the hot dog night halftime media game. I proudly represented the sports department at WTJU (Iâm not making that up - there were two of us). I scored in my black and red Ralph Sampson Pumas and the P.A. guy who was doing play-by-play said something about me wearing Air Jordans (smh).
While I have some nostalgia for UHall, not much of it is for its architectural value. The court is a rectangle. UHall was a circle. It doesnât take an architectural genius to figure out the issue⌠I think it was from an era where various rectangle-court and rectangle-field and diamond-field sports teams were convinced to build circular arenas. Youâd have to ask an architectural historian why⌠Itâd probably make more sense for a circle sport, like swimming which takes place in above ground circular pools, from my own personal experience.
I played one game in U-Hall. They had an alumni game the first year it opened. I played in it. Not sure they had any more after that. Maybe it was just a U-Hall opening thing. I had my career high in that game (barely double figures). Made me wish they had opened it earlier 
It was of the same era as the Richmond coliseum, the Norfolk Scope, the Hampton Coliseum, all of which are⌠CIRCLES! And also all of which time has passed by.
The circle configuration was in theory better for other things like concerts, circuses, monster trucks, etc. Moreso in theory than in practice. The circle was also a more structurally sound shape for the building materials and practices they were experimenting with.
Youâre all under arrest for thread hijacking
hahahahahha yeah iâm only 19 and take i have to be youngest one on LRA 