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Virginia Season Preview Record Last Season 10 - 18, 4 - 12 ACC Players Lost Tunji Soroye" target="_new">Tunji Soroye, Mamadi Diane" target="_new">Mamadi Diane New Players Jontel Evans, Tristan Spurlock, Thomas Kody Projected Lineup Sammy Zeglinski" target="_new">Sammy Zeglinski, Calvin Baker" target="_new">Calvin Baker, Sylven Landesberg" target="_new">Sylven Landesberg, Mike Scott" target="_new">Mike Scott, Jamil Tucker" target="_new">Jamil Tucker  Schedule Highlights 11/30 vs Penn State, 11/24 vs Stanford, 11/25 vs Kentucky (if Stanford win)   Virginia Schedule Virginia Scouting Report
Projected Statistics (Returning Players Only) Explanation of Statistic Projections

 

Name Pts Asts Rbds Stls Blks TOs % Correct  Sylven Landesberg 16.4 2.4 5.4 1.5 0.6 2.4 83  Mike Scott 11.7 1.1 6.8 0.8 1.2 1.8 71  Jamil Tucker 10.5 0.8 5.4 0.7 0.6 1.5 84  Jeff Jones 9.7 2.1 3.1 1.0 0.3 1.9 88  Sammy Zeglinski 9.5 3.0 2.7 1.2 0.2 2.2 90  Assane Sene 4.5 0.2 3.2 0.3 0.5 1.0 89  Mustapha Farrakhan 4.3 0.8 2.2 0.5 0.2 0.9 93  Solomon Tat 3.1 0.5 2.0 0.4 0.1 0.5 93  Will Sherrill 0.7 0.3 0.6 0.1 0.2 0.5 97 Things to Watch

It was a tough season for the Cavaliers, and it cost Dave Leitao his job. New coach Tony Bennett brings a defensive minded approach to a team that was the worst in the conference and one of the worst in the nation. The faces remain the same for the most part.

The ACC's top freshman, Sylven Landesberg, returns and will be the go to guy for the Cavs on offense. Landesberg averaged 16.6 points per game last season. The point guard position will be handled by a trio of players this season: senior Calvin Baker, sophomore Sammy Zeglinksi, and freshman Jontel Evans.

The frontcourt doesn't do much offensively. The main scoring threat in the frontcourt is junior Mike Scott, who did average 10 points and seven rebounds last season. Jamil Tucker is also a scoring threat, but is a very streaky shooter. One person who could contribute immediately is freshman Tristan Spurlock, who very well could start at small forward from day one.

by Will Ojanen

Fantasy Player to Watch

Sylven Landesberg is one of the few reliable scorers on the team. Virginia did not shoot the ball well as a team, but Landesberg found a way to put points on the board. Landesberg had 12 20-point games last season as a freshman. He got to the foul line a lot, and converted 80% of his free throws.

Last Year's Player Statistics Virginia Name GP Mins Pts Asts Rbds Stls Blks TOs FG% 3P% FT%  Sylven Landesberg  28  34.2  16.6  2.8  6.0  1.0  0.1  2.8  43.6  31.4  80.0  Mike Scott  28  27.6  10.3  0.8  7.4  0.9  0.3  1.8  54.4  33.3  74.1  Calvin Baker  28  24.9  8.4  2.8  2.3  1.1  0.2  2.5  39.2  29.6  87.3  Jamil Tucker  28  18.5  7.4  0.7  3.8  0.6  0.5  1.1  44.2  40.3  68.2  Sammy Zeglinski  28  23.9  7.8  3.0  2.4  1.3  0.1  2.5  38.5  31.4  57.1  Jeff Jones  26  19.0  6.5  0.9  1.9  0.5  0.1  0.6  34.5  29.0  84.6  Mamadi Diane  24  17.5  6.0  0.6  2.0  0.6  0.4  1.1  38.6  24.5  72.4  Mustapha Farrakhan  23  10.4  4.3  0.6  0.7  0.2  0.1  0.9  34.7  34.1  90.0  Assane Sene  22  17.3  2.5  0.3  4.6  0.0  1.6  0.8  38.5  0.0  28.6  Tunji Soroye  18  10.5  1.8  0.1  2.2  0.3  1.0  0.6  59.1  0.0  58.3  Jerome Meyinsee  17  8.8  1.7  0.1  1.6  0.1  0.4  0.5  40.0  0.0  59.1  Solomon Tat  17  7.0  0.6  0.3  0.9  0.2  0.0  0.6  26.7  0.0  75.0  Will Sherrill  10  1.9  0.1  0.1  0.3  0.0  0.0  0.2  0.0  0.0  50.0  John Brandenburg  8  3.3  1.0  0.0  0.8  0.3  0.4  0.1  60.0  0.0  100.0  Andy Burns 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0  Bob McCormick 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0  David Noel 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0  Damin Altizer 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
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