While the football team might be struggling, the Virginia Cavaliers mens basketball team is off to an encouraging 3-0 start. Game 4 comes against the Texas Southern Tigers, a team that made the NCAA Tournament as a 16 seed last year after a cinderella conference tourney run through the SWAC.
Despite rostering Shaquille O’Neal’s son Shaqir, the Tigers have failed to build on last year’s momentum in the beginning of this year. They’re 0-2, with one of the worst offenses in the Division 1 thus far. This will be Virginia’s last lower-tier opponent before a late November gauntlet, so the ‘Hoos need to tighten things up before it gets more difficult.