Virginia Basketball Double Bonus: Viva Las Vegas

Kris Wright

November 23, 2022 1

The Virginia basketball team picked up two big wins in Las Vegas last weekend, taking down then No. 5 Baylor and then No. 19 Illinois in games on Friday and Sunday. The victories delivered the Continental Main Event title to the Hoos and sent them soaring all the way to No. 5 in the newly released polls.

With two top 5 wins on the resume already for Tony Bennett's team, Hoo fans are even more excited about the season than when it started. It's a great time to start the Double Bonus series. Let's look at something spotted in both games from UVA: halftime adjustments.

Virginia Added More Flare For Baylor

On Friday night in Vegas, the Hoos trailed the Bears 33-30 at the break. They proceeded to come out of the locker room on a 30-5 outburst. That run was fueled in part by 3-point shooting as UVA hit 8 of 10 downtown shots to open the second half.

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camp43 November 23, 2022 at 9:14 PM

Great article. You did a really nice job intergrating the stats with the story. UVA just looks a lot more agressive on offense in bunch of diferent ways this year. I love the way the guards are agressively driving to the hoop this year, especially Franklin. It looks like they have the green light from Tony to that. It is something that I have been waiting for Virginia to do for years. I love me some Tony, but I have been frustrated that we were not doing this on O. It seemed silly not take advantage of how easy it is to pick fouls when driving after some rule changes several years ago. Now we are doing it and, Hey presto!, we are getting to the line a lot more.

Virginia Basketball Double Bonus: Viva Las Vegas

Virginia Added More Flare For Baylor

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