A startling revelation: UVA basketball plays better when Evan Nolte is on the floor. What's going on here?
Earlier this month, I took a look at expert predictions for Virginia basketball's 2015-2016 season. The various media projections had a couple common threads: They all had the Hoos in their "too early" top tens, they all noted the impact of the loss of Justin Anderson, and, among all the projections, each of the rising seniors were mentioned but one...none gave a thought to fourth-year Evan Nolte.
Who can blame them? Last season, Nolte's statistics were pedestrian, to say the least.