CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – No. 10 seed Virginia (23-10) will play No. 10 seed Colorado State (24-10) in an NCAA Event First 4 recreation on Tuesday, March 19. Tipoff at UD Area in Dayton, Ohio, is ready for 9:10 p.m. on truTV.
For Openers
• UVA and Colorado State every earned at-large bids into the NCAA Event.
• Virginia earned its twelfth straight postseason bid and second No. 10 seed at school historical past.
• UVA has 23 or extra wins for the tenth time underneath four-time ACC Coach of the Yr Tony Bennett.
• Virginia is 8-8 away from John Paul Jones Area, together with a 3-2 file on impartial courts.
• Bennett will coach in his five hundredth profession recreation at Virginia.
Broadcast Info
• The Virginia-Colorado State contest will likely be televised on truTV and streamed on-line by way of NCAA March Insanity Stay.
• The sport will likely be broadcast on the Virginia Sports activities Radio Community and Westwood One/NCAA Radio Community on SiriusXM (84), ncaa.com/marchmadnesslive.com and WestwoodOneSports.com/Dayton.
The Head Coach
• Dean and Markel Households Head Males’s Basketball Coach Tony Bennett has a 364-135 mark in 15 seasons at UVA and 433-168 profession mark in 18 seasons as a head coach.
• Bennett handed the late Terry Holland (326-173, 16 seasons) as UVA’s winningest coach with the win over Syracuse (1/7/23) and recorded his four-hundredth win at Wake Forest (1/21/23).
• Bennett has guided the Cavaliers to 6 ACC regular-season titles (2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023), two ACC Event titles (2014 and 2018) and one NCAA nationwide championship (2019).
• The three-time Nationwide (2007, 2015 and 2018) and four-time ACC Coach of the Yr (2014, 2015, 2018 and 2019) guided UVA to its eleventh consecutive postseason berth in 2022-23.
• In 2018-19, Bennett led the Cavaliers to their first NCAA nationwide championship, a share of their ninth ACC regular-season title and a school-record 35 wins.
UVA All-Time within the NCAA Event
• The Cavaliers are 35-24 all-time within the NCAA Event.
• UVA is making its tenth NCAA Event look underneath Tony Bennett and twenty sixth total.
• UVA is 0-1 as a No. 10 seed within the NCAA Event, dropping a primary spherical contest to No. 7 seed Florida, 71-45, in Omaha, Neb.
• UVA gained the NCAA championship in 2019 and likewise made Closing 4 appearances in 1981 and 1984, respectively.
• Virginia head coach Tony Bennett is 16-10 in 11 NCAA tournaments, together with a 13-8 file in 9 NCAA berths at UVA.
Bennett within the NCAA Event
• Virginia head coach Tony Bennett is 16-10 all-time in 11 NCAA match appearances.
• Bennett owns a 13-8 file in 9 appearances at UVA (2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023), highlighted by the 6-0 mark en path to the 2019 NCAA title.
• He went 3-2 throughout two journeys to the NCAA Event at Washington State and led the Cougars to the NCAA Candy 16 in 2008.
Hoo Are These Cavaliers?
• We play protection, take high quality photographs, go the basketball, restrict turnovers and transition factors, rebound and play extra protection.
• UVA returns one starter – Reece Beekman (14.3 ppg, 6.3 apg, 3.7 rpg & 2.1 spg) – from final season’s ACC regular-season champion and NCAA match staff that completed 25-8.
• Beekman recorded three steals at Duke to go Othell Wilson (222 steals from 1981-84) for first all-time at UVA.
• Ryan Dunn (8.2 ppg) leads UVA in rebounding (7.0 rpg), blocked photographs (2.3 bpg) and double-doubles (5).
• Isaac McKneely (12.5 ppg) leads the staff in 3-pointers (79) and 3-point proportion (44.9%).
• McKneely averaged 6.7 factors and shot a team-best 39.2 % from 3-point vary final 12 months, whereas Dunn tallied 2.6 factors and a pair of.9 rebounds in 12.9 minutes per recreation.
• Jordan Minor (4.2 ppg, 3.2 rpg), Jake Groves (7.5 ppg, 46.7% 3FG), Andrew Rohde (4.4 ppg & 2.8 apg), Blake Buchanan (3.4 ppg, 3.2 rpg), Dante Harris (2.5 ppg), Taine Murray (3.4 ppg, 46.2% 3FG), Leon Bond III (4.3 ppg, 3.0 rpg) and Elijah Gertrude (3.5 ppg), are foremost contributors.
• Harris missed 10 video games with an ankle harm, and Gertrude had his redshirt lifted towards Texas A&M.
• UVA is averaging 63.6 factors and capturing 43.4 % from the sphere, 36.3 % from 3-point vary and 63.7 % from the free throw line.
Hoos within the Nationwide Rankings
• UVA ranks second nationally in turnovers per recreation (8.2), third in scoring protection (59.5 ppg) and help/turnover ratio (1.86), seventh in fouls per recreation (13.5), twelfth in turnover margin (3.8), 14th in subject purpose proportion protection (40.2), 18th in blocks per recreation (5.1) and twenty fifth in 3-point subject purpose proportion protection (30.4).
All-Time vs. Colorado State and the Mountain West
• Virginia meets Colorado State for the primary time.
• UVA is 7-3 all-time vs. the Mountain West and meets its first MWC foe since defeating UNLV 75-65 on Feb. 12, 1995 at College Corridor.
• UVA is 1-1 vs. the Mountain West within the NCAA Event, defeating New Mexico (57-54) in 1994 and shedding to Wyoming (64-60 in 1987).
Final Time Out
• NC State topped Virginia 73-65 in extra time in ACC semifinal motion on Friday, March 15 at Capital One Area in Washington, D.C.
• Michael O’Connell banked in a game-tying 3-pointer on the finish of regulation and the Wolfpack outscored the Cavaliers 15-7 within the further session to win its fourth straight recreation to advance to the ACC closing.
• UVA led 57-52 with 70 seconds remaining in regulation, however went 1 of 5 from the charity stripe to arrange O’Connell’s heroics.
• Isaac McKneely scored 23 factors and Reece Beekman added 17 factors and career-high tying 11 assists for his sixth profession double-double.
• D.J. Burns, Jr. led NC State with 19 factors and O’Connell and reserve Ben Middlebrooks every added 12 factors.
Uneven Highway
• UVA is 8-8 away from house and 5-6 in true street video games.
• Eight of Virginia’s 10 losses have been away from house and 7 losses have been by 16 or extra factors.
• Foes have averaged 72.6 factors, shot 48 % and +21.3 common margin of victory in UVA’s eight losses away from house.
• UVA has averaged 51.3 factors, whereas capturing 35.5 % together with 27.3 % from 3-point vary within the eight away losses.
• The Cavaliers have averaged 69.3 factors, whereas capturing 45.4 % together with 39.4 % from 3-point vary of their eight wins away from house.
• UVA has restricted its foes to 63.9 factors per recreation, 40.1 % capturing and 28.7 % from 3-point vary in its eight wins away from house.
• UVA has yielded a +9.2 rebound margin to its foes within the eight losses away from house (38-28.8).
• UVA has averaged 72.4 factors and shot 44 from 3-point vary throughout its 5 true street wins.
On The Horizon
• The winner of the Virginia/Colorado State NCAA First 4 recreation performs No. 7 seed Texas on Thursday, March 21 in Charlotte, N.C. Tipoff and tv designation is to be decided.