UVA First Half of the 2024-2025 Basketball Season
The Wahoo’s 2024-2025 season began on a sour note before they played their first game. Tony Bennett mysteriously retired leaving the team in a state of confusion.
But like all things, life goes on. Named the Interim Head Basketball Coach of the Hoos was assistant coach Ron Sanchez who previously had Head coaching experience at Charlotte. He also served nine seasons under Bennett so he’s familiar with his philosophy on coaching a team – should he decide to follow it.
If the first half of the Hoos season proved anything, it was their inability to consistently play at the same level of their competition – namely Tennessee, St Johns, Florida, SMU, and Memphis. All nationally ranked teams. They were outscored on average 72 – 56, a sixteen-point difference.
There’s No Place Like Home
It would have been nice if the Cavs played all their games within the confines of John Paul Jones Arena because they compiled a 6 -1 record there.
Overall, the Hoos did manage to finish the first half of their season with a 7 – 5 record heading into Conference play.
Defensively, they remain solid, giving up only 60 pts per game which is par for them.
But offensively, they need to score more points if they are going to be competitive against ACC opponents.
One area of concern are the turnovers. They averaged twelve per game in the first half of this season – four more than their average last year.
Go Hoos!
Now that they’ve had a dozen games under their belt, let’s hope the Cavs can build off that experience and be a contender rather than play a spoiler’s role in their Conference.
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I hope they can win it! Go Hoos!
Let’s go, HOOS!!
Even though Bennett’s departure from UVA wasn’t a shocker, it was disappointing in the way he left. I (along with others) have always seen Bennett as a man with character, poised, and honor, yet in my opinion he went against everything I thought he was with the timing of this decision. Bennett has been with UVA team for over a decade so to just up and leave was disheartening but most importantly he had built a reputation with his players that now he has abandoned! Many of our players came to play directly under him and were willing to buy into his system. As listed above, life goes on and the Cavs had to just work with what they have. I believe for such a drastic change they have done the best they can with what they have! That is not to say that much progression has to be made but they are getting the experience to mesh better as a team! Let’s not forget we have a lot of freshman and walk ons this year so the chemistry has not been built! Through it all, the team is trying to make the best and I applaud Sanchez for working with what he has and putting these freshman on the floor and giving them the experience.