Preview: Virginia Cavaliers
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Last Season: 16-16 and 7 –11 in league play
Feb 23 Update:
Virginia is 13-14 overall and 5-10 in conference play. This fairly young team is better than their record. They lost their last home game to Cal 70-76. Cal video game highlights are shown below.
Their best losses have been at home against 3 strong teams: 55-60 to #11 Duke, 68-73 to #13 NC State and 65-69 to a very tough Louisville team.
Their best player is Kimora Johnson, a 5'7" sophomore guard averaging 27.8 ppg hitting 37.9% on threes. She leads the team in assists and steals. 6'4" senior Latasha Lattimore will be tough to handle inside - she averages 14.2 ppg and 8.4 rpm.
Virginia is a deep team with 7 players averaging 24 minutes per game or more.
It will take our best effort to win this one on the road.
Virginia Season Stats
The Coaches:
Amaka Agugua-Hamilton is the Head Coach and in her 3rd year after Head Coach at Missouri State for 3 years and before that Assistant at Michigan State.
CJ Jones is in his 3rd year.
Tori Jankoska is in her 3rd year.
Alysiah Bond is in her 3rd year.
Losses:
Camryn Taylor averaged 15 points and 6 rebounds.
London Clarkson averaged 6 points and 4 rebounds.
Sam Brunelle averaged 6 points.
Kaydan Lawson, 6′, G, Sr. (2.1 ppg) → Seton Hall
Cady Pauley, 5’11, G, Soph. (2.9 ppg) → Missouri State
Alexia Smith, 5’8, G, Sr. (4.1 ppg, 3.8 rpg) → Oklahoma State
Mir McLean, 5’11, G, Sr. (12.2 ppg, 9.6 rpg) → Maryland
Additions:
Rylee Grays, 6-4 Soph Post transfer from North Carolina where she played just 5 games.
Hawa Doumbouya, 6-7 Soph Post who transferred from Maryland where she played little.
Casey Valenti-Paea, 5-9 Grad Student Guard transfer from Long Beach State and before that 3 years at Buffalo. Last season at LBS she averaged 9 ppg.
Kamryn Kitchen, 5-9 Frosh Guard
Payton Dunbar, 5-11 Frosh Guard
Breona Hurd, 6-2 Frosh Forward. Hurd had averaged 13 ppg after the first 5 games.
Latasha Lattimore, 6-4 SR Post who transferred from Miami where she averaged 5 points and 4 rebounds. Lattimore played at Texas prior to Miami.
Schedule: Oklahoma who they lost to 95-51. They also play Auburn and Washington State.
Team:
Paris Clark 5-8 JR Guard who transferred from Arizona a year ago. Last season at Virginia Clark averaged 10 points and 4 rebounds.
Jillian Brown, 5-10 SR guard who is out for the year after averaging 5 ppg last season.
Yonya Vaughn, 5-8 JR Guard who averaged 3 ppg.
Edessa Noyan, 6-3 Soph Forward from Sweden. Last season Noyan averaged 3 points and 3 rebounds.
Kymora Johnson, 5-7 Soph Guard who averaged 15 points and 5 assists and was 2nd team All ACC. Johnson has averaged 18 ppg after the first 5 games.
Taylor Lauterbach, 6-7 Grad Student Post who averaged 1 point and 2 rebounds.
Prediction:
They lost 48 points from last season players so a rebuilding year for Virginia
2025 Recruiting:
Gabby White, 5-10 Guard from NC.
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