https://augustafreepress.com/coach-...g-with-tony-bennett-changed-virginias-season/ I love this kid and he's going to be so good as a leader next year.
This portion of a shitty ESPN article with finals predictions simultaneously gives me chills and makes me want to throw up with nerves. Who is going to be the final image of the "One Shining Moment" montage on Monday night? Medcalf: It's going to be Tony Bennett. And I don't even think it's a conversation if Virginia wins. He has endured the most embarrassing loss in the history of the NCAA tournament, and now he is on the mountaintop. On Monday night in Prince's hometown, I think his squad will write the final scene of a story that Disney will one day showcase on the big screen. Dick Bennett, his father, will be there. I imagine they will embrace as the confetti is falling at U.S. Bank Stadium. I believe ultimate redemption is coming for Bennett. Gasaway: I'll stick with both my preseason and my post-Selection Sunday picks and say the final image will be a beaming Bennett as time expires, the UMBC ghosts having been banished at last and forever. Now, do I feel serenely confident in that pick knowing Texas Tech was the laptop underdog in each of the past three games yet was never seriously challenged in the last two minutes of any of those contests? Not in the slightest. However, I guess the one thing we're yet to see from five Red Raider opponents in this tournament (something West Virginia supplied when it beat Texas Tech in the Big 12 tournament) is 3-point shooting that clocks in at better than 33 percent. Virginia can deliver that. Schultz: Kyle Guy. After calmly knocking down the three biggest free throws of his life, Guy will put together another clutch performance against Texas Tech's top-ranked defense. Guy is a great shooter (39.2 percent on 3s) who has the creativity and charisma to handle the big stage. Expect Ty Jerome to find him out of pick-and-rolls for some clean looks, but also expect Guy to create his own offense, an area in which he does not get enough credit. Guy is capable off the bounce -- especially as a pull-up jump shooter -- and a high-level athlete who finishes through contact. Who knows: Maybe he will finally remove that indelible Twitter avatar image of the UMBC loss from 2018. Cronin: My guess is we'll see a smiling Kyle Guy in similar fashion to the hero's walk-off he had against Auburn. Guy's up-and-down tournament and shooting struggles might have caused him to fade into the background at moments over the past few weeks, but when Virginia's season came down to the junior needing to hit three free throws, no one on that team doubted the ability of the person taking those shots. The type of pressure he faced at the free throw line on Saturday is something so few will ever be able to understand, and whatever demons he needed to exorcise during this tournament never caused his confidence to take a hit. For a team that has been among the top stories of the tournament in its thunderous charge back after being on the wrong side of history last March, I bet we see Guy with another ice-in-his-veins moment against Texas Tech that is celebrated as confetti pours from the ceiling and the nets are cut down in Minneapolis.
Good luck tonight dickheads. I've got a degree from your fine institution so I'll go all ACC bro/top tier for this one.
Honestly never thought I’d see UVA play for a national championship in basketball. My family has had tickets through the Gillen years -> JPJ, was at the last ball in UHall game v. Maryland, Opening game at JPJ W against Arizona (RIP Lute Olsen...or is he alive? IDK). Majestic Mapp, Travis Watson, Jason Cain, JR Reynolds....Singletary all these names I remember looking back. Went up to about 5-6 games this year and most since since I moved back to Richmond. Crazy to be here boys, enjoy tonight.
Not really upset if either team wins, but I’m going with the Wahoos because I think it would be an awesome story to lose to a 16-seed one year, only to come back the next year and win the national Title. Get it done, UVA!
I think that if we make more points than them in the second half we should be okay but I’ll need to check the analytics
The ACC Network gonna be littttttt! Football and Basketball champs! #North Carolina State Wolfpack don't screw up in the CWS.