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to the floor and the sightlines are great as a result. I don't go to basketball games for the food, I don't need music blaring at me, and I can see the existing scoreboard. I ignore most of the other "entertainment." In the current college sports environment, I'd much rather invest in the product on the floor than a new facility.

running catch UNC had).

It’s especially questionable in an aluminum bat league.

to have a spot on the roster somewhere.

methodologies are similar, so that agreement is not surprising. Neither our offense nor defense was bad. Neither were either excellent, so we ended up with a mediocre season. Hopefully, you remember that we did try switching to a 1-3-1 zone versus Georgia Tech. We played it poorly and got torched. (In fairness, at times we played our man-to-man poorly and got torched in it.)

before the game or during a timeout. It looked like it was a good call by the rules, but normally it is not enforced if the big guy clears to the edge of the lane rather than just camping underneath. In that sense, it was a crappy call. It wasn't nearly as bad as the mystery call on the Juke Harris drive.

We don’t pay as much as others do, so we don’t have as much quality depth. That makes it hard to overcome injuries.

is no guarantee that "fresh blood" will be an improvement.

for anything (unless you win the entire tournament). Absent a win against UVa, we'll have to "win the whole %$&$^ thing." (Where's Lou Brown when you need him?)

game he hasn’t done well with things out of the normal offensive flow.

he was lackadaisical going after it. Lawal is really bad about not passing to someone who makes a diagonal cut and then throwing behind them after they abandon it. We got another two turnovers from him that way tonight.

more revenue from those who do attend by offering luxury boxes, club-level seating, etc. Some decrease in capacity might even be desirable to drive up demand for seats.

building that doesn't make it to the top of the college of engineering's priority list for renovations (let alone the university's). In contrast, Cassell is "only" 64 years old. On this basis, "at some point" could be many years in the future.

or invest the amortized equivalent of that in purchasing a better roster. Someone may have tried that analysis, but I've not seen it posted. So, yes, I am interested in a basketball arena. But I'm trying to come up with the most favorable economic argument for it.

That makes the $40M in 2011 about $72M now. I'm not an events marketeer, but I'm guessing there is a bit more of a market for concerts in Phoenix than there is in Blacksburg. So any substantial additional revenue for the venue would come from luxury seating at men's basketball and, to a lesser extent, women's basketball games. How long does it take to recover the investment?

as you do. With the Lawal and Johnson injuries, we've missed essentially one starter worth of minutes over the season. That's a lot, especially when you look at what we've been short in recent games: an additional outside shooter and someone to stop dribble penetration. Johnson is not elite at either of those, but he's very good at both and is versatile enough on the defensive end that we could get away with playing a Hammond, Schutt, Johnson lineup against the right matchups. That's an excellent perimeter shooting combination. At other times, we could play Johnson rather than Schutt and have roughly the same perimeter success with better defense. (Johnson has roughly the same 3-point percentage as Schutt in lower volume, but challenges defenses more inside the 3-point line.) Lawal's injury hurt, but an injury to a player with Johnson's versatility forcing him to miss nearly all of conference play was one that few teams in the country could absorb. We would not have been a championship contender with him, but I think we'd be safely in the tournament field right now.

surprised they hit them all. Also, after Xavier's Dante Jackson, Duke's Sean Dockery, and Miami's Charlie Moore, you should have expected Boopie's shot to go in. I've reached the point that I'm surprised when our opponent misses one.

unplayable.

to Hansberry. We're getting nothing out of doing so

non-white percentages are close.

early.

record. I think that's a pretty fair estimate. I'd feel much more comfortable with 21 wins and 10-8 in the ACC.

other times. Other than the shot against Bedford, they've had a lot of open looks.

really played to the crowd that game and, unfortunately, came out on top.

e-mail. Since it seemed relevant to this discussion, I stayed in the Ticketmaster queue to see what the offer was. The discounted tickets are $21.50 each. That doesn't sound like much of a discount to me and it is a Saturday game.

has potential to be a really good player and I really like his physicality, but do you really think lineups with him on the floor are our strongest lineups right now? Even in the dark ages when I played (high school) basketball, the "6th man" was important for lineup stability when subs happened. Coaches would preach that "it doesn't matter who starts, it matters who finishes." I (and others, judging by the message board) thought that he should have come in sooner in the second half. However, I also wondered if the minutes from Wednesday caught up to him.

from the officials. It's not surprising and is a big part of why it is hard to win on the road. We benefitted from that on Wednesday and did not today.

for an NBA draftee.

not already focus on? The 23-24 was 6th in the nation in free throw percentage. Did Young forget how to coach it since then? UVa is now 7th nationally in offensive rebounding percentage. While the on possession where the got 3 offensive rebounds was frustrating, overall we did a good job yesterday. (It is something that has been an issue in other games.) Avdalas is 183rd nationally in fouls committed per 40 minutes. I don’t see reaching in being a problem for him.