UVA

[MidloTrader]

Was at our #15 win against Syracuse and at UMBC's shellacking of UVA on Friday. Painful to watch Hoos implode. They simply choked in 2nd half and Retrievers played like they had for couple weeks when it was "win or go home". No matter how well you play D, you still have to score and keep scoring to get the lead and more importantly keep the lead.

 

[KE Spider]

Since this is a UVA thread, I will give this quick thought. UVA only reached the NCAA final 4 one time in Ralph Sampson’s four years. 1979-1983. Granted the college teams were much better back then, but still he was by far the best player in the country. National player of the year for 3 years. His teammates made the final four the year after he left, so it wasn’t that the supporting cast was terrible. Still amazes me that they didn’t make the final four three years and win it all twice with Ralph.
Sorry the young guys on the board didn’t get to see him play, and with one and done, you will never see anyone like him again.

True.

They never won the ACC Tournament Championship with Sampson either, I believe, despite winning the regular season a couple or three times. Virginia unexpectedly folding in basketball is not a new phenomenon.