{"id":68226,"date":"2025-08-08T18:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/68226\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:45:06","slug":"uva-womens-basketball-non-conference-schedule-cupcake-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/68226\/","title":{"rendered":"UVA Women&#8217;s Basketball non-conference schedule: Cupcake City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/coach-mox.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"uva basketball coach mox\" width=\"555\" height=\"312\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/coach-mox.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a>UVA Basketball coach Amaka Agugua-Hamilton. Photo: UVA Athletics<\/p>\n<p>Amaka Agugua-Hamilton ought to be embarrassed. That schedule she put together for her <a class=\"general-link\" href=\"https:\/\/virginiasports.com\/sports\/wbball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">UVA Women\u2019s Basketball team<\/a> in November and December is Cupcake City, it\u2019s so light and fluffy, with butter cream on top.<\/p>\n<p>The best opponent among the eight home games on the schedule, per last season\u2019s RPI, is Bucknell, which finished 17-14, and ranked 176th in the final RPI of the 2024-2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>The other team in the home-schedule mix that was in the Top 200 is Howard, which had a nice-looking record, at 22-12, but ranked 177th in the final RPI.<\/p>\n<p>From there, it\u2019s down to #209 Northwestern State (13-16 in 2024-2025), #227 Maryland Eastern Shore (10-17), #245 Longwood (19-12), #296 UMBC (12-15), #305 Radford (12-17), #320 Morgan State (10-17) and #321 Winthrop (14-15).<\/p>\n<p>Presumably, Little Sisters of the Poor didn\u2019t have an open date.<\/p>\n<p>There are two games against Top 100 teams \u2013 the Northwestern State game is the opener in the Emerald Coast Classic in Destin, Fla., on Nov. 24; the Cavaliers get either Nebraska (21-12, RPI: 40) or Purdue Fort Wayne (25-9, RPI: 82) the next night.<\/p>\n<p>The other is a game at Vanderbilt (22-11, RPI: 22) on Dec. 3 in Nashville in the ACC\/SEC Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t give Coach Mox credit for scheduling that one; the ACC and ESPN had the responsibility there.<\/p>\n<p>Holy crap, this is a bad schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, if Mox\u2019s team isn\u2019t at least 9-2 in its non-conference slate, something is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Mox is 48-46 through three seasons, and a lot of that damage has come in the non-conference \u2013 her teams are just 19-35 in ACC games.<\/p>\n<p>She can\u2019t keep beating up cream puffs and flubbing in the ACC and keep her job going forward, can she?<\/p>\n<p>2025-2026 Non-Conference Schedule<\/p>\n<p>Date<br \/>\nOpponent<br \/>\nLocation<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, Oct. 30<br \/>\nFrostburg St. (Exh.)<br \/>\nJPJ Arena<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, Nov. 4<br \/>\nMorgan State<br \/>\nJPJ Arena<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, Nov. 9<br \/>\nBucknell<br \/>\nJPJ Arena<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, Nov. 13<br \/>\nUMBC<br \/>\nJPJ Arena<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, Nov. 16<br \/>\nRadford<br \/>\nJPJ Arena<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, Nov. 20<br \/>\nLongwood<br \/>\nJPJ Arena<\/p>\n<p>Monday, Nov. 24<br \/>\nNorthwestern State<br \/>\nDestin, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, Nov. 25<br \/>\nNebraska\/Purdue Fort Wayne<br \/>\nDestin, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, Nov. 30<br \/>\nMaryland Eastern Shore<br \/>\nJPJ Arena<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, Dec. 3<br \/>\nVanderbilt<br \/>\nNashville, Tenn.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday,\u00a0Dec. 10<br \/>\nHoward<br \/>\nJPJ Arena<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, Dec. 20<br \/>\nWinthrop<br \/>\nJPJ Arena<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UVA Basketball coach Amaka Agugua-Hamilton. 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