šŸ€ Virginia vs Miami, Saturday, 21 February 2026, 1400, ESPN2

If this is the way Lucas’s teams play, I’m gonna hate future Miami games. (But you’re right, the team needs the experience of facing that kind of team)

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Another awesome gritty win. Love this team. Go HOOS!!!

That game was wild. I need a cigarette.

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The crowd pop off that Jacari step back 3 was unreal

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I actually thought we played pretty well. The fouls were the only big issue for me, and I don’t think we got the best whistle.

That Miami team was sinking everything they threw up and we still won.

We shot 58% against a good defensive team in Miami and defense came up when it mattered despite being manhandled every possession.

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Totally agree

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They should have lost to VT at home the other night. They’ve only beaten 3 top 75 kenpom teams all year. They are not as good as Arkansas or Tennessee. Not even close (and all the metrics back that up).

Per THECZAR: ā€œKenpom Off moves from 34 to 26. Def goes from 16 to 17. I’ll take that.ā€

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Bro, they played as well as Duke today, I don’t give a crap what they’ve done the rest of the year. Get off it

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Miami is 41 on defense. Duke is 2nd. We’re going to have to play a lot better on both ends to stay close.

Yes, because what we’re doing right now clearly isn’t working. :roll_eyes: Good lord, you’re a broken record. And you know what? I think Ryan Odom knows better than you, so . . .

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I’ve seen a team all year that has played to their competition, for better or worse. A lot of guys who come up big when they need to. I expect they’ll do a lot of the same next Saturday as well.

They’ve really earned my trust as gamers.

We played so well offensively today we gained 8 spots in kenpom lol. That’s an excellent performance.

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Dang man, you are miserable. If you can’t recognize both of those teams played incredibly high level ball today and we came out on top, idk what else to say. We’re not gonna play much better than we did today, especially on offense. They have good players and made tough shots all day.

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Im not judging how good they are based off of one game. I’ve watched Tennessee several times. They’re, at best, as good as Miami. Miami might be better. Arkansas just gave up 117 points. Metrics aren’t everything. Just watch the teams play. Miami is a tournament team and could make the second weekend, depending on what draw they get. I’d take Miami over Tennessee on a neutral court.

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Yep, okay let’s agree to disagree, no big deal. I’m judging them off of their whole year, not one game.

I don’t feeling like I’m saying anything controversial. We got a great win today. It’s exciting and fun, but in my opinion we have to play better against the better teams when we matchup on neutral floors.

Biggest surprise of the night was CTB saying his new hobby is making an old fashioned. Easy Tone.

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LOL

https://x.com/TheFieldOf68/status/2025317815444533450?s=20

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So we knocked down their defensive rank by five spots in a single game!? Seems pretty good to me

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Hey dude how about we make it to the round or 32 first before you spend every game thread worrying about it. I’ve never encountered someone who lives less in the moment

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  1. Highly recommend watching UVA games while on Percocets. Dont recommend herniated disc flair ups though

  2. The @Hooandtrue Analytic rank has this game as a 47 out of 16. Really impressive

  3. We need to sue the NCAA to get another year of Jacari White.

That’s all I have to add. And also Chance Mallory

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