Monica Wright Drafted #2 Overall in WNBA Draft
Thursday, April 08 2010 by Tim - 0 comments
Just moments ago, Monica Wright was drafted as the #2 overall pick in the 2010 WNBA draft by the Minnesota Lynx. The draft is still ongoing, and you can follow it on the WNBA site if you’d like.Jerry Ratcliffe: Still Wrong
Wednesday, March 31 2010 by Ben - 3 comments
Sorry, to be piling on; I'm a bit like the last cop to catch fleeing fugitive, George Bluth, Sr. I just thought this point was just too much to pass up. In his article trashing Sylven for leaving , Ratcliffe drops this gem, “For instance, just look at Landesberg and [Maryland’s] Greivis Vasquez,” one observer said. “They’re about the same size, same athletic ability. But Vasquez is more heady, more experienced, a better shooter.” One couldn’t have said that about Vasquez after his sophomore season, but the Terps’ star profited greatly by sticking around an extra two years, developing his game....
Wright Named National Defensive Player of the Year
Tuesday, March 30 2010 by Tim - 0 comments
I won’t try to re-write the entire article. Instead, you can get it here . But I do want to pull out a few pertinent parts. She is the first-ever Virginia player to earn the award. … This year she has been named the Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year, ACC Defensive Player of the Year, First Team All-ACC and the Richmond Times-Dispatch Virginia State Player of the Year. Wright is also a State Farm Coaches' All-America Team finalist, a State Farm Wade Trophy finalist and a Wooden Award finalist. Both he Wade Trophy and the Wooden Award will be presented next week, so cross your fingers...
In which I get my britches in a wad; Tom Ziller on Sylven Landesberg
Thursday, March 25 2010 by Ben - 1 comments
I love Tom Ziller . He's smart, funny, and an outstanding NBA writer. He does excellent work illustrating his points with clever graphics and has a sound understanding of advanced basketball statistics (including their limits, as well). I have also heard that he once ate 13 tacos in a sitting. Impressive. So, needless to way I was heartbroken when I saw this . Here was an NBA writer I respected painting Sylven Landesberg's last season at UVA in a bad light and implying that he hadn't improved an iota under Tony Bennett. I disagree with this view, wrote him, and he updated the post to reflect this...
Great Jeff White Article About Tony Bennett
Wednesday, March 24 2010 by Tim - 1 comments
Just had to pass this article along. Great article and interview.Landesberg’s Season Ends, Cavs Fall to Maryland
Sunday, March 07 2010 by Tim - 0 comments
As I sat in JPJ yesterday watching the team warm up (I got there very early, so I saw pretty much all the warm-ups), I had this nervous feeling about a missing person from the floor: Virginia’s leading scorer, Sylven Landesberg. Initially, I just chalked it up to the injury problems he’s been having lately – he was probably in the back gym or the training room or something like that. But when the team came out for the final warmup (the more public one where they get to run in to the band playing) and Sly wasn’t with them… I knew something else had to be up. A quick jump onto TheSabre told me that...
Wright Named ACC Player of the Year
Thursday, March 04 2010 by Tim - 0 comments
As anticipated, the Atlantic Coast Conference named Virginia’s Monica Wright Women’s Basketball Player of the Year today. She had been named the Preseason ACC Player of the Year at the start of the season, so it’s good to see her live up to the hype. Earlier in the week, Wright was also named ACC Defensive Player of the Year. I’m not positive, but I think that might be the first time the two awards have ever gone to the same team, much less the same person. I got tired of looking through the ACC archives after going back four years. Monica leads the ACC in both points (23.0ppg – only player above...
Baseball Opens Season in Style
Saturday, February 20 2010 by Tim - 1 comments
I’ll have more on the opening weekend of the 2010 Virginia Baseball season after it’s all said and done, but I wanted to toss something up here about the game yesterday. The ‘Hoos fell behind the East Carolina Pirates 0-2 in the bottom of the first inning, but Sophomore star Danny Hultzen settled into a groove and went 5 scoreless innings afterwards. The Cavaliers would score twice in each of the 4th, 6th and 7th innings to take a 6-2 lead. The aforementioned first inning issues and a couple of late pitching miscues notwithstanding, it was a very solid opening outing against a VERY solid East Carolina...
Women Get Revenge For Early Loss
Monday, February 08 2010 by Tim - 0 comments
In the Virginia Women’s Basketball team’s second ACC game of the season – and first ACC home game of the season – all eyes were on Monica Wright. If she kept up her pace of points, she would surpass Dawn Staley and take over first place on the Virginia all-time scoring list. Monica did just that. But there was also a basketball game that day, one that counted for the ACC standings. Virginia did not prevail in that regard. Tonight, nearly a month later, the lady Cavaliers traveled to College Park, Md. to attempt to get revenge for that early home loss. And revenge they got. Led by Monica Wright...
Virginia Offense: Back from the Dead? UPDATE
Monday, February 01 2010 by Ben - 5 comments
You'd think so. I'm not sold just yet. After a lackluster performance against VT (although, my hunch is that, were I to crunch the stats, Virginia would have averaged well over 110 PPP at the 4:58 mark of the second half of that game. They were terrible thereafter.) , Virginia came out and thumped UNC on Sunday night. Does a great game against a mediocre Carolina defense exonerate them? I doubt it. Let's see how they fare against NCSU on Wednesday. Anyway, here's the updated chart people were clamoring for: Here's the graph from last year:...