No. 14 Virginia Takes Aim at Georgia Tech Late Wednesday Night

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – No. 14 Virginia (22-3, 10-2 ACC) returns to ACC motion at Georgia Tech (11-15, 2-11 ACC) on Wednesday, Feb. 18. Tipoff at McCamish Pavilion is about for 9 pm on the ACC Network and Virginia Sports Radio Network.

For Openers

• No. 14 Virginia (22-3, 10-2 ACC) is second within the ACC, whereas Georgia Tech (11-15, 2-11 ACC) is tied for seventeenth.
• The Cavaliers are 10-2 away from residence, together with a 7-1 mark in true highway contests.
• UVA has a six-game win streak and seven-game highway win streak.
• UVA has scored 80 or extra factors in 15 video games (most since 21 in 2000-01) however 73 or much less in its final 5 contests.
• The Cavaliers are averaging 81.4 factors, most since 85 ppg in 2000-01.
• UVA ranks nineteenth within the NET rankings and twentieth within the kenpom.com rankings.

Broadcast Information

• The Virginia-Georgia Tech recreation will likely be televised on the ACC Network, streamed on-line at ESPN.com/watch and broadcast on the Virginia Sports Radio Network, VirginiaSports.com and Virginia Sports app.
• Live statistics can be found on VirginiaSports.com and the Virginia Sports app.

The New Head Coach

• Ryan Odom was named the University of Virginia’s Dean and Markel Families Men’s Head Basketball Coach on March 22.
• He spent the final two seasons at VCU, main the Rams to a 52-21 file and 2025 NCAA Tournament berth.
• VCU gained the 2025 Atlantic-10 Tournament and shared the A-10 regular-season championship.
• UVA is Odom’s fifth stint as a collegiate head coach. In 12 seasons, he has compiled a file of 224-127, together with stops at Utah State (2021-23), UMBC (2017-2021), Lenoir-Rhyne (2016), Charlotte (2015, interim).
• Odom led UMBC, Utah State and VCU to the NCAA Tournament throughout his second season at these faculties.
• Odom coached UMBC to an upset in opposition to Virginia in 2018 NCAA Tournament, marking the primary time a No. 16 seed defeated a No. 1 seed within the occasion’s historical past.
• Odom is the primary UVA coach to start out his tenure 5-0, surpassing the Cavaliers’ first coach Henry Lannigan who began 4-0 in 1905-06.
• Odom’s 22 wins are essentially the most wins for a UVA first-year head coach, surpassing Jeff Jones’ 21 wins in 1990-91.

All-Time vs. Georgia Tech

• Virginia is 50-41 all-time vs. Georgia Tech, together with a 17-24 mark in Atlanta, in a sequence that dates to 1947-48.
• Georgia Tech ended UVA’s 13-game win streak within the sequence with its 66-60 win over the Cavaliers within the second spherical of the 2025 ACC Tournament.
• UVA has a five-game win streak in opposition to the Yellow Jackets in Atlanta.
• Georgia Tech’s final win vs. the Cavaliers in Atlanta was a 68-64 victory on Jan. 9, 2016.
• Virginia is 20-3 in its final 23 video games in opposition to Georgia Tech.

Last Time vs. The Yellow Jackets

• Duncan Powell scored 21 factors to guide No. 8 seed Georgia Tech to a 66-60 win over No. 9 seed Virginia within the second spherical of the 2025 ACC Tournament at Spectrum Center in Charlotte, NC
• Isaac McKneely scored a season-high 27 factors as UVA completed its season with a 17-19 file.
• Baye Ndongo added 16 factors for Geogia Tech and Naithan George chipped in 11 factors.
• Georgia Tech outbounded Virginia 44-26.

Last Time Out

• Then-No. 15 Virginia rallied for a 70-66 win over Ohio State on Feb. 14 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn.
• Malik Thomas scored 13 factors and Sam Lewis and Chance Mallory every added 12 factors within the nonconference win.
• Ugonna Onyenso led the Bench Mob with eight factors, 10 rebounds and 4 blocked pictures.
• Bruce Thornton led the Buckeyes (16-9) with 28 factors.

Virginia Standard

• The Virginia Standard is to pursue excellence and is constructed on the six pillars of humility, ardour, unity, servanthood, thankfulness and accountability,
  • We play with tempo, share the basketball and our defensive model is to dictate and disrupt.

Hoo Are These Cavaliers?

• The 2025-26 roster is highlighted by 12 newcomers, together with Dallin Hall (BYU), Malik Thomas (San Francisco), Devin Tillis (UC Irvine), Jacari White (North Dakota State), Ugonna Onyenso (Kansas State), Sam Lewis (Toledo) and Martin Carrere (VCU).
• UVA added European imports Thijs De Ridder (Bilbao Basket), Johann Grünloh (RASTA Vechta) and true freshmen Silas Barksdale, Chance Mallory and Owen Odom.
• Redshirt sophomores Elijah Gertrude, Carter Lang and Desmond Roberts are the lone returners from final yr’s staff.
• De Ridder leads UVA in scoring (15.7 ppg) and rebounding (6.6 rpg), whereas Thomas (12.2 ppg), Lewis (10.6 ppg) and Mallory (10.2 ppg) are UVA’s different main scorers.
• Onyenso leads the staff in blocks (2.5 bpg) and Hall leads in assists (4.2 apg).
• UVA is averaging 81.9 factors and holding foes to 67.5 ppg.
• Seven totally different Cavaliers have led the staff in scoring (Thijs De Ridder, Dallin Hall, Sam Lewis, Chance Mallory, Ugonna Onyenso, Malik Thomas, Jacari White).
• UVA is netting 76.6 ppg and holding foes to 68.4 ppg in ACC play.

Hoos Among ACC Leaders

• Virginia ranks first within the ACC in rebounds (41.6), offensive rebounds (14.1) and 3-point discipline aim share protection (.298), second in discipline aim share protection (.395), rebound margin (+9.2) and blocks (5.8 bpg), third in scoring protection (67.4 ppg) and scoring margin (+14.0) and fourth in 3-pointers (10.0), defensive rebounds (27.5 rpg) and help/turnover ratio (1.54).
• Thijs De Ridder ranks thirteenth in scoring (15.7 ppg), seventh in discipline aim share (51.5%) and fifteenth in rebounds (6.6 rpg).
• Dallin Hall ranks first in help/turnover ratio (3.1) and twelfth in assists (4.0 apg).
• Ugonna Onyenso ranks second in blocks at 2.6 bpg, whereas Johann Grünloh ranks third in blocks at 2.0 bpg.
• Chance Mallory ranks second in help/turnover ratio (2.9), fourth in steals (1.8 spg), 14th in assists (3.5 apg) and twentieth in free throw share (75.8%).
• Jacari White ranks 14th in 3-pointers made per recreation (2.1).

On The Horizon

• No. 14 Virginia hosts Miami in ACC motion on Saturday, Feb. 21. Tipoff at John Paul Jones Arena is about for two pm on ESPN2 and Virginia Sports Radio Network.