Maybe not 1 but they’d be up there. They weren’t a team that was mediocre all year and then got lucky in the tournament. They were a team that took a while to gel then played at an elite level the last month and a half of the season.
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Im going 1-3 to 2-2.
Going 0-4 with our new players and new offensive system would be like the UVA football somehow starting theseason 2-4 returning everyone with a new offensive system.
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Idk I feel like the main reason that people (me included) might be negative is that we’ve had really bad showings in these big-time non-con games in the past 2-3 years.
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Hate to blame the guy, but Garcia + Manek made the on court chemistry weird. Maybe it was Bacot + Garcia. Not gonna claim to watch enough UNC to know, but Bacot + Manek really worked, and then I think Hubert switching up Davis and Love (RJ to PG) helped, too.
For me, it’s the fact that Hubert weathered the early stuff pretty well, all return except for Manek, and Nance fits well (in some ways better) in the Manek role.
I don’t know about #1, but I think they’re definitely top 5.
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Love started making shots
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That will help make the coach look smart.
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I am predicting 0-4, mostly to offset the growing sense of optimism around here.
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If you don’t overthink it, yeah it makes sense.
Majority of poll voters: “Hmm…Final 4 team returns most their guys? Sound good, I have them #1.”
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On those 4 noncon games, I’d put the over/under for wins at 1.5.
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I’d put it at 1.2
A comment on the preseason AP poll:
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That is interesting to me. I doubt it’s a coincidence. I believe ACC teams should think more about scheduling than they do and if they turned it over to me and gave me like 20 possible games for the 12 and I could eliminate 8 for every team that I thought was a “bad deal” for the ACC, I really believe it might get 2-3 more ACC teams in tourney than we would have otherwise.
One thing I have thought would be wise I f you are trying to get “good OOC deals” is to not schedule games against teams who had a summer trip where they all got better together. Perhaps it’s easier to find a high major to play when you have been on one of those trips when the other team also has been on a similar trip.
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Yep. It used to mean way more and was taken way more seriously by whomever made the polls
Returning everyone? Our top four offensive linemen with eligibility all ttransferred away. We lost more talent without gaining it back than any other power five school!
If you didn’t know football was going to suck this year, I can’t help you. But the basketball team is basically in exactly the opposite situation. We are not installing a new offense.
Yeah, and those were teams where we were installing major new pieces who were expected to carry us and had never had a uva jersey on before.
Look at how we’ve done in out of conference with lots of people coming back - much better you will find out.
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That’s silly - here are the preseason rankings of some recent champs:
2022 - Kansas was 3rd and Villanova was 4th
2021 - Baylor was 2nd and Gonzaga was 1st
2019 - UVA was 5th … Mich State 10th and Auburn 11th
2018 - Villanova was 6th and Kansas was 4th
2017 - UNC was 6th … Oregon was 5th
2016 - Villanova was 11th … UNC was 1st and Oklahoma was 8th … UVA was 6th - ugh … tears
2015 - Duke was 4th … Wisconsin 3rd, Kentucky 1st, Mich St 18th
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I was pretty pessimistic preseason and didnt get the high rregard for UVA football before.
We are installing a new UVA offense. 5 out and continuous ball screen on top of new variations ofmover blocker that incorporate some of these new schemes. And Baylor and Houston are just way more athletic than us. Of course nothing is impossible and 4-0 is a possibility but 0-4 isn’t as improbable as you are making it out to be.
We have a lot of new pieces and a lot of different lineups possibilites. Of course we are going to go through growing pains as we try to find our best lineups.
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I’ll have to find the study when I get home. I believe it’s the AP poll after week 6 has been the most predictive (even more predictive than the final poll before the tourney) and every AP poll is more predictive than the preseason one.
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Im not making any prediction. I have no idea how we will do against any of those teams. I’m just waiting…impatiently
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I might have to take the over on the 1.2 but the under on the 1.5
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