It pretty much goes without saying that Saturday’s game was disappointing. It was a bit of an “everything that could go wrong did go wrong” situation for Virginia Basketball. Jay Huff got into foul trouble and wasn’t on the floor enough. Sam Hauser struggled to get clean looks. And Virginia Tech got hot shooting the basketball. No team is going to win shooting under 40% while their opponent shoots 50%. Virginia Tech is a very good defensive team (modeled after Tony Bennet’s Pack Line), but their offense (mostly Keve Aluma) won the game.
Virginia will not face a team as good on defense until the postseason, so that’s nice.