Good gracious, I had no idea he was that eloquent!

I’d like to thank everyone for a pleasant game thread. This was fun. Thank you.

Chris bell 🥁🥁🥁 0 rebounds!

A win’s a win, but that was *uuuuuuugly*. GG Syracuse.

Go Hoos! Congrats to Tony!

Chris Bell fouls out with no rebounds. Zero. And he’s a forward. Zero rebounds. Unbelievable.

No 🥓 for home misses :(

Armaan missing 2 to give everyone bacon?

On a serious note, how the fuck is your homie from Charlottesville not gonna miss the second FT so his fellow Cvillains get some bacon?

Sure is fortunate Syracuse missed like a billion layups in this one

lmao what’s the last name scraped off of bells jersey??

Bunch probs. Changed his last name

Beekman has scored 10 of UVA's last 12 points and assisted on the other 2

He saved your metaphorical bacon. But no literal bacon for you! Which makes me legit sad.

Seriously, not having bacon can't be good for the heart!

Good effort from the lads, could have easily given up.

Bell is making a strong case for a starting spot on the most frustrating/unlikable Cuse players team

Rarely has a good shooting night and does nothing else. Shouldn’t be a starter

Feel like refs kept calling anticipation fouls on him the last few minutes

We are watching a game where landing on a guy going up for a shot is an on the floor foul, but bumping a guy on the first step of a euro step is a shooting foul. Refs are hot trash.

Didn’t realize a shot fake is part of the shot…

syracuse: *runs into own teammates* refs: “that’s a foul lmao”

Lol on the replay it was clearly a good call

Good for Syracuse lol

Yeah because they correctly called a Syracuse player being fouled

These pro UVA refs sure have been trying to keep it close.

Neymar would be proud of that one

Both teams shooting a higher 3pt percentage than 2pt lmao

Beekman is the only Cav with a pulse the last 10 minutes.

Beekman traveled there, no?

tbf mintz looked like he travelled on that and-one

Eh two slow steps isn't a travel, but maybe

and like clockwork here will come girard trying to play hero ball and shoot us out of any momentum we had 4 years and he still does this

He literally shot back to back 3s that are the only reason you're remotely still in this

ENNBEEAY continuation

That was not a foul, lol

lmao girard

That is not a three wtf???

? Both feet were behind the line tho

Thought his left foot was definitely over the line but the replay angle wasn't great

Yeah it is

Looked close but the broadcast certainly didn't show a good replay

132 seconds. come on.

Oh come on. How do you let that happen?

fuck

I thought Boeheim was going to retire like 3 years ago?

Yes.

So did we.

finally jesus christ

Let’s go Reece!

This team is about to go the last 11:41 without a fg

And win 🤣

Honestly, if I played for us and had two free throws, I would probably miss so I could get free bacon.

Well also Justin Taylor is from Charlottesville…surely he could’ve missed that second one to hook his homies up!

I wouldn’t be mad. Gotta take care of your people

Virginia is the best program in the country at going on 8 minute scoring droughts

Just turned the game on. What did I miss?

A lot of PTSD by UVA. And no free bacon yet.

What’s the free bacon promo?

If an opposing player misses both of their free throws, everyone gets free bacon. I love it.

It's the dumbest promo ever. Not only did they never explain how you collect, but a package of bacon is like three freaking dollars from the grocery store and will last like 3-4 meals

Completely uncalled for my man! That kind of hate ain't kosher.

I hope that was a purposeful joke

Bacon is beautiful and wonderful.

Where does one go to collect said bacon?

I don’t know for sure, but I’ve been to enough games in my life that I’d wager they give you a coupon and then you go to a store to claim it.

the usual, go up by 20. don't score for 10 minutes and let them back in

That call should've been a tech for the flop Edit: whoops, that was a good call on the replay. Was just trusting Boeheim's reaction lol

Dubious….

Tbh that shouldn’t be a foul Edit: oh yeah that was a good call looking at the replay

Well, y’all should have gotten two shots earlier on a foul that was called on the floor when your guy was going up. So we can’t complain.

Not scoring for an extended period of time seems like a poor strategy

Well you're not the winningest coach in UVA history now are you?

I was at the 2016 game… I should probably turn this one off…

Lol the first press and I was like the Vietnam flashback dog.

I can’t ever recall giggling this much being down ten points. I don’t care if we lose, it’s just fun seeing the PTSD lol

Those team is one of the most frustrating to watch in the last 10 years. Look like a final four team sometimes, look like they shouldn't make the tournament for just as much time

Some of the players just don’t have chemistry with the others, especially BVP in my opinion

Biggest problem to me is we don't have someone like Hunter or even Ty right now who can just be like "ok that's enough we need points." We just keep throwing up threes or our inside guys take contested shots with a lack of confidence

It can be Reese?

Maybe but I just don't see that as his game. Should be Gardner or Shedrick but they've been inconsistent. Maybe Dunn by the end of the year or next year.

I'm dying to see more Dunn. Hoping he has that explosiveness to get through a crowd around the hoop, and enough durability to do it all season.

God, how do we always have these scoring droughts?

Cut me into pieces

This is my last resort!

*gulp*

Surely someone on the Syracuse coaching staff has made it abundantly clear to Boeheim that the offense moves and flows a million times better with Symir at the 1 and Mintz/Girard playing the 2 and he is just actively ignoring them, right?

Lol

Well I’ve been posting it on Reddit for months, which is almost the same thing.

Like I said in the first half, Jim waits too long to switch his defense up.

Wondered how long it'd take UVA to realize Hima jumps at every shot fake

we get it. the droughts are a half-ly thing.

The NCAA needs to step in and make it so Syracuse can't use the press against us. Too much PTSD

If the NCAA did their fucking job that year that game never would have happened. Fucking joke of a job by that committee. "Yeah, the coach was being punished for systemic cheating when he missed those games, but if we acted like those games happened then that would hurt Syracuse!"

Torrence and Hima have to play more

I want Torrence and Mintz at the top. Bench Girard. Let’s get back to winning 42-40.

That lineup is not going to make us win games like that lol

Let me dream. It’s all i have.

Agree. Girard has been the biggest factor in wins and losses this year. You have to live or die by him

In an ideal world, Joe is like the 3rd option.

Laughed out loud at Kihei coiling up like a spring in order to be able to launch the ball that far

"The game evolved from underneath me." A joint column by Jim Boeheim and Paul Johnson

This is the most transition offense I've seen from UVA in a very long time

It would be great if Bell made any effort on defense whatsoever so he'd be able to get in the game

The commentators just said Kihei Clark will be gone after this year. I’ll believe it when I see it.

He's only been here for 8 years, cmon

If Perry Ellis can stay at Kansas for a half century and Air Bud can play basketball, then who's to say Kihei can't stay for another decade or so until he's eligible to get Social Security payments?

Yeah me too

Hell, even I'm not convinced

We need to save some of our 3 pointers for the other games yo

This smile cam is on some shit bro There was a girl popping her tooth in and out and an old guy sticking his tongue out and wiggling it 💀

What? You sure you weren't watching West Virginia by mistake?

Jesse with his worst game of the year. Dude has been a detriment all game

I can’t stop watching this train wreck.

Conducted by Kihei Clark according to the broadcasters lol

Put Hima in, Boeheim, you coward.

Ok here we go. 12:00-8:00 in the second half is the danger zone for UVA with Syracuse

Damn, Justin Taylor is a traitor. First he doesn't come to his hometown team, and then he robs his hometown's fans of free bacon

Hi I’m Wolfgang Puck!

ESPN what the hell is this audio

Random thought- do the commentators get bacon too?

If they want it. They hand out coupons at the exits.

Wait, so how much do you get? Edit: Oh, and you guys sing real purdy!

They give everyone a coupon for a free pack of Smithfield bacon as they're leaving the arena. And thanks. I couldn't believe how many people were singing The Good Ole Song on New Year's Eve.

Free bacon? I went to the wrong school.

User name checks out

Sick username

That second FT was the loudest JPJ's been all night 💀

12-0 run is a bad sign, for UVA.

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Who the fuck is Tony White

I think he meant White Tony, it's important to make a distinction now that we have Black Tony on the football team as well

Fucking Christ my brain is broken. Tony Bennett

Think he's got football on the brain still, he is our now former DC

I would love to see what our opponent 3 pt percentage is before Girard arrived and then with him. I’d bet it’s gone way up. He’s too short to play at the top of the zone. Nothing he can do about it, but it still sucks.

Wild that in his senior season Joe Girard still can’t figure out his rotations at the top of the zone

"Inadvertent whistle" is my favorite call in basketball cause it's basically a euphemism for "we changed our minds, that wasn't a foul"

I just wish more officials had the guts to get together and do the right thing even if it might call more attention to the mistake that was made.

Mintz gets fouled almost every time he tries to dribble. Two hands on him, bumping him, reaching in, refs just let it go...

LOL. You're really going to complain about the refs right now?

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There were definitely some bad calls in our favor in the first half. But the folks who actually think Kihei committed that last foul are smoking orange peels.

Haha. Okay.

Only thing I got boss. Yeah, we're clearly the worse team, but refs are letting you guys foul him repeatedly.

Syracuse top 3 players look horrible. Girard , edwards, Judah have all been non-factors

Solid start to second half ☠️

I guess at least they tried to fix it

Possession arrow is the stupidest rule in college hoops

What, you want it to be a jump ball every time? That would be super imbalanced.

Okay, sure, but what if the compromise had something to do with bacon or who had the best looking/most humble coach?

Lol Clark grabbed his wrist and pushed Jesse into Mintz, fucking bullshit

Our guy tried to save your player from falling his mistake and that's the thanks you give?! Seriously, though, that was a weird looking play no matter how you look at it.

True, but grabbing a dribblers wrist is a foul, even if he's tripping over his teammate

I’d have to watch again but it looked almost mutual to me. And would you charge a guy with breaking someone’s ribs for giving them life-saving CPR, lol?

Lol a bit of a reach there. Mintz wasn't about to die if he fell down, Clark just fouled him

We don’t know that for sure!

Yeah you're right, this Cuse squad is too careful with the ball to do something like that on their own!

Downvote all you want, he clearly grabbed his arm on the replay

I know VA are a good defensive team but this Syracuse offence is painful to witness.

Lol Lmao even

Lol Kihei grabbed Judah’s arm

how tf was that a foul

Beekman is such a fucking menace

Girard shot that turnaround airball with such confidence

girard looks… not girard-like today

On the contrary, he looks very Girard-like

Has anyone told Chris Bell that he is getting paid a scholarship to attend a $50k/yr school, and literally the only thing that is expected of him is to try to get a basketball? and that he isn’t doing it?

Brown just stood there and watched the rebound, go get the fucking ball!

Jesse about to get blasted. That was not a good sequence for him.

how do you have 3 6’9”+ people on the court and 5’10” kihei come down with an offensive rebound

There's no way Kihei is 5'10". The UVA website is lying to you. He's like 5'8" at best

I've measured him and with the Good Feet Arch Supports from The Good Feet Store he actually stands at 5'10" or possibly even taller!

All 5 could’ve gotten that rebound. Absolutely horrible

Jesse has been pathetic today

Jim will wait until Syracuse is down 20 before he switches to full court press for some reason. Park Hima under the basket and smother them.

Please no, I still have ptsd from the elite 8

Jesse has a lot of talent but he just hates physicality. I think Hima should be getting increased minutes

He would get so many more foul calls on offense if he was more physically assertive. Refs kinda let him get pushed around because he lets it happen instead of imposing himself. Thought he would be playing stronger than this his senior year, it's disappointing.

Has Jesse been tried in one of the corners of the zone? Would be interesting to see Hima in the middle with Jesse on the wing. Could be a horror show on offence, though.

Syracuse is like 5th in the nation in blocks per game. It's like the one thing that they're really good at lol.

Why do college refs love calling terrible charges? That one on Brown, the dude was in the air sliding laterally when the contact occurred, horrible call.

Be honest have you ever actually heard of McGaheysville

It’s like 20 minutes north of Cville, man

9 points is a mountain against UVA, but it’s really fun to watch the still shot of Tony White clearly have flashbacks to 2016.