CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. \u2013\u00a0No. 23 Virginia (13-2, 2-1 ACC) completes its two-game homestand against Stanford (13-3, 2-1 ACC) on Saturday, Jan. 10. Tipoff for the ACC contest is set for 2:15 p.m. on The CW and Virginia Sports Radio Network.<\/p>\n
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The Virginia-Stanford game is sold out. For Openers<\/p>\n No. 23 Virginia (13-2, 2-1 ACC) closes its two-game homestand against Stanford (13-3, 2-1 ACC) at John Paul Jones Arena. Broadcast Information<\/p>\n The Virginia-Stanford game will be televised on The CW and broadcast on Virginia Sports Radio Network, VirginiaSports.com and Virginia Sports app. The New Head Coach<\/p>\n Ryan Odom<\/a> was named the University of Virginia\u2019s Dean and Markel Families Men\u2019s Head Basketball Coach on March 22.<\/p>\n He spent the last two seasons at VCU, leading the Rams to a 52-21 record and 2025 NCAA Tournament berth. All-Time vs. Stanford<\/p>\n Virginia is 1-8 all-time (0-1 ACC) vs. Stanford in a series that dates to 1991-92. Last Time vs. The Cardinal<\/p>\n Maxime Raynaud tallied 24 points and 10 rebounds to lead Stanford to an 88-65 home win over Virginia on Jan. 11, 2025. Last Time Out<\/p>\n Malik Thomas<\/a> scored 20 points to lead No. 23 Virginia to an 84-60 home win over Cal in ACC action on Jan. 7. Virginia Standard<\/p>\n The Virginia Standard is to pursue excellence and is built on the six pillars of humility, passion, unity, servanthood, thankfulness and accountability, Hoo Are These Cavaliers?<\/p>\n The 2025-26 roster is highlighted by 12 newcomers, including Dallin Hall<\/a> (BYU), Malik Thomas<\/a> (San Francisco), Devin Tillis<\/a> (UC Irvine), Jacari White<\/a> (North Dakota State), Ugonna Onyenso<\/a> (Kansas State), Sam Lewis<\/a> (Toledo) and Martin Carrere<\/a> (VCU). Hoos Among ACC Leaders<\/p>\n UVA ranks first in the ACC in offensive rebounds (14.3) and rebounds (42.3), second in blocks (6.5 bpg), field goal percentage defense (.384) and 3-point percentage (.372), third in rebound margin (+9.5), fourth in 3-point field goal percentage defense (.296), assist\/turnover ratio (1.6), 3-pointers (10.5), scoring margin (+18.5), field goal percentage (.484) and defensive rebounds (28) and fifth in scoring (86.1 ppg) and assists (17.6). Let it Fly<\/p>\n Virginia is averaging a school-record 28.3 3-point attempts per game, surpassing 22.7 in 2007-08. Crash The Glass<\/p>\n UVA ranks 15th nationally in offensive rebounds (14.3 rpg), 17th in rebounds (42.3 rpg) and 20th in rebound margin (9.5).<\/p>\n UVA is 11-0 when out-rebounding its opponent. On The Horizon<\/p>\n No. 23 Virginia travels to No. 20 Louisville on Tuesday, Jan. 13. Tipoff at KFC Yum! Center is set for 7 p.m. on ESPN2 and Virginia Sports Radio Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. \u2013\u00a0No. 23 Virginia (13-2, 2-1 ACC) completes its two-game homestand against Stanford (13-3, 2-1 ACC) on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[75269,72282,72286,85,46,105,33770,72285,50181,110273],"class_list":["post-229548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-acc","tag-cavaliers","tag-hoos","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-university-of-virginia","tag-uva","tag-virginia","tag-wahoos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSingle-game, group and mini-plan tickets are on sale at uvatix.com<\/a>. The four-game mini-plan features North Carolina, one of Syracuse, Miami, or Virginia Tech, and two additional games of the fan\u2019s choice. The six-game mini-plan features North Carolina, one of Syracuse, Miami, or Virginia Tech, and four additional games of the fan\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n
\nUVA is 9-0 at home in 2025-26 and has a 10-game win streak at JPJ.
\nUVA has scored 80 or more points in 13 games, most since 13 in 2001-02.
\nThe Cavaliers are averaging 86.1 points, second-most in school history (89.8 ppg in 1954-55).
\nUVA is 17th in kenpom.com and 26th in NET rankings.<\/p>\n
\nLive statistics are available on VirginiaSports.com and the Virginia Sports app.<\/p>\n
\nVCU won the 2025 Atlantic-10 Tournament and shared the A-10 regular-season championship.
\nUVA is Odom\u2019s fifth stint as a collegiate head coach. In 12 seasons, he has compiled a record of 224-127, including stops at Utah State (2021-23), UMBC (2017-2021), Lenoir-Rhyne (2016), Charlotte (2015, interim).
\nOdom led UMBC, Utah State and VCU to the NCAA Tournament during his second season at those schools.
\nOdom coached UMBC to an upset against Virginia in 2018 NCAA Tournament, marking the first time a No. 16 seed defeated a No. 1 seed in the event\u2019s history.
\nOdom is the first UVA coach to start his tenure 5-0, surpassing the Cavaliers\u2019 first coach Henry Lannigan who started 4-0 in 1905-06.<\/p>\n
\nStanford won the inaugural ACC meeting last season, posting a convincing 88-65 win over Virginia in Palo Alto.
\nVirginia is 1-2 vs. the Cardinal with its lone win in the series in 1992-93 (72-48 at University Hall).
\nStanford has scored 72 or more points against Virginia in six of the nine meetings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nThe Cardinal shot 50.8 percent and drilled 10 3-pointers.
\nOziyah Sellers added 15 points and Jaylen Blakes chipped in 10 points and three steals for Stanford.
\nIsaac McKneely<\/a> netted 22 points (5 3-pointers) for his second 20-point game of the season.<\/p>\n
\nThijs De Ridder<\/a>, Sam Lewis<\/a>, Ugonna Onyenso<\/a> and Johann Gr\u00fcnloh<\/a> each added 12 points as the Cavaliers improved to 13-2, 2-1 ACC.
\nOnyenso added nine rebounds and four blocks for UVA.
\nVirginia out-rebounded Stanford 45-26 and had 23 assists on 30 made field goals.
\nFormer Cavalier Dai Dai Ames<\/a> led Cal with 18 points.<\/p>\n
\u2022 We play with pace, share the basketball and our defensive style is to dictate and disrupt.<\/p>\n
\nUVA added European imports Thijs De Ridder<\/a> (Bilbao Basket), Johann Gr\u00fcnloh<\/a> (RASTA Vechta) and true freshmen Silas Barksdale<\/a>, Chance Mallory<\/a> and Owen Odom<\/a>.
\nRedshirt sophomores Elijah Gertrude<\/a>, Carter Lang<\/a> and Desmond Roberts<\/a> are the lone returners from last year\u2019s team.
\nUVA returned four points (all from Roberts) from 2024-25.
\nDe Ridder leads UVA in scoring at 16.1 ppg, followed by Thomas (12.8 ppg), White (10.9 ppg) and Mallory (10.6 ppg).
\nGr\u00fcnloh leads the team in rebounding (6.9 rpg) and blocks (2.5 bpg), while Hall has a team-best 4.1 assists per game.
\nUVA is averaging 86.1 points and holding foes to 67.6 ppg.
\nSeven different Cavaliers have led the team in scoring (Thijs De Ridder<\/a>, Dallin Hall<\/a>, Sam Lewis<\/a>, Chance Mallory<\/a>, Ugonna Onyenso<\/a>, Malik Thomas<\/a>, Jacari White<\/a>).
\nIn ACC play, the Cavaliers are averaging 81.7 points and opponents are netting 72 ppg.<\/p>\n
\nDallin Hall<\/a> ranks second in assist\/turnover ratio (2.9) and 12th in assists (4.0 apg).
\nThijs De Ridder<\/a> ranks 12th in scoring (16.1 ppg), eighth in field goal percentage (54.3%) and 19th in rebounds (6.3 rpg).
\nJohann Gr\u00fcnloh<\/a> is second in blocks (2.5 bpg) and 14th in rebounds (6.9 rpg).
\nChance Mallory<\/a> ranks third in steals (2.1 spg) and 14th in free throw percentage (81%).
\nUgonna Onyenso<\/a> is third in blocks (2.4 bpg).<\/p>\n
\nUVA ranks 25th in 3-pointers per game (10.5) and 44th in 3-point percentage (37.2%).
\nUVA has shot 30 or more 3-pointers in six contests, including a school-record 45 attempts at Virginia Tech (12\/31\/25).
\nUVA has made 11 of more 3-pointers in eight games, including a season-high 15 vs. Queens.
\nUVA had a school-record eight players make at least one 3-pointer in its win at Texas on Dec. 3.
\nIn 2025-26, Jacari White<\/a> (50%), Devin Tillis<\/a> (42.3%), Thijs DeRidder (40.4%), Chance Mallory<\/a> (39.1%), Dallin Hall<\/a> (38.6%) and Sam Lewis<\/a> (37.1%) are UVA\u2019s 3-point shooting leaders.
\nWhite set a UVA record with 12 consecutive made 3-pointers during a three-game stretch from Nov. 28-Dec. 6.
\nWhite leads the team with 30 3-pointers and Thomas has 23 and Thomas has 23.<\/p>\n
\nThe Cavaliers pulled down 54 rebounds at Virginia Tech and have 48 or more rebounds in six games (Hampton, NCCU, Rider, Marshall, Northwestern and Virginia Tech).
\nUVA has 20 or more offensive rebounds in three games, including 20 or more in back-to-back games (Rider and NCCU) for the first time since November of 2007 (25 at Penn and 20 against Seton Hall).<\/p>\n