🏀 Virginia vs Georgia Tech, W, 75-61, 12-12 (5-8 ACC), Saturday, 8 February 2025, 1730, The CW

Saturday, February 8, 2025

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Jackets just played maybe their best half of the season on Saturday, put up 50 points in the 2nd half to come back on and upset Louisville, snapping the Cards’ 10-game winning streak.

Only go six deep, had five guys play over 30 minutes in that game.

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They’re down 3 potential rotation players due to injury (Reeves, O’Brien, Mustaf) and then their freshman center Onwuchekwa due to personal reasons. They do have two more scholarship players who they don’t seem to trust with minutes.

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The first part here makes it seem like we are honoring Thomas Rogers on Saturday:

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More genuinely, I love that quick shot of Tony wiping the tear before going to the handshake. Can see how much reaching that summit meant to him.

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Did anyone watch GT/Clemson last night. 3OT was fun. GT had 24 O rebounds. That could be a big issue on Saturday.

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Truly the good ol days. Hurts a little honestly. We knew we had it good, but it’s not even that I don’t think we’ll be good again, it’s that we were so good AND college basketball in general was in just such a better place. Plus the conference was so much better then. Almost every game felt meaningful.

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The good news is our defensive rebounding has seemed better lately. The bigs are working hard, and I’m seeing the guards (or at least Rohde) crashing down to help them out.

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…the banner kinda looks like a memorial for a 15 yo?

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Yeah, could have just added “head coach” and it wouldn’t have that dark undertone.

But then you get sued by the Dean and Markel families…

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Where to hang this weird mini banner in my house…

Think New Amsterdam GIF by NBC

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Perfect gift for your friend who says “Tony Bennett is dead to me”

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Saw shirts at Mincers with a similar theme. And I agree with @haney the dates just read tombstone.

But then again we did witness the sudden death of a program so maybe it works.

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Bennett was here for 15 years? That’s almost as long as Kihei.

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Twitter is of course running towards the awkwardness:

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Can’t wait to someday tell my grandkids about how Kihei recruited CTB to UVA

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Sarcasm Eye Roll GIF by LittleDemonFX

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I reached peak grumbly old man status last year when they would run out of programs 20 minutes before tipoff.

Conspiracy theory but Carla knew about the retirement all along (i.e. forced it) and was saving funds for this banner give away.

Good PR, sure, but you can bet Carla also factored in that budget will now be exactly 15,000 banners worth of $$ short of Byington’s buy out. Thereby forcing the Board’s hand into hiring Ryan Odom* as our next coach.

*a plan she began in 2018 when she paid off medical staff to forge x-ray results of a certain RS freshman’s wrist.

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I watched the first half. Didn’t realize until now that it went 3OT. Crazy.

George played all 55 minutes and they had 3 other starters at 49+ and then one guy off the bench with 43 minutes.

Also I was team Jaeden Zackery toward the tail end of the portal season. He had one of the most uninspiring box scores.

52 minutes, 5 points, 2 assists and 2 turnovers.

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JZ just got a lot of cardio in. A nice little sweat.

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