Football season is about to take center stage for the Virginia Cavaliers, but it\u2019s never too early for a little basketball content. And with the new era beginning with Ryan Odom now captaining the ship, there already seems to be a more modern feel to the program with what the \u2018Hoos are doing on and off the court.<\/p>\n
For a while now, UVA\u2019s basketball social accounts have teased a new behind-the-scenes docuseries \u201cProving Grounds – Preseason with Virginia Men\u2019s Basketball.\u201d And so far, the trailers have looked spectacular.<\/p>\n
The series is set to release new episodes each month leading up to the beginning of the season in November, with the first episode already looking like a banger \u2014 from Ryan Odom speaking on the readiness of this year\u2019s team, Thjis De Ridder talking about his goal of getting to the NBA, and Malik Thomas lifting the big-boy weight of what \u2014 from my math \u2014 looks to be 445 pounds on the trap bar.<\/p>\n
With the \u2018Hoos breaking in a new coaching staff and nearly an entire new roster, it\u2019s easy for fans to feel distant from a program that has been accustomed to having the same faces for three or four years. The media team clearly understands that and looks to be building the perfect bridge between the countless new players and coaches and the rabid fanbase that is anxious to see just how good this team can be.<\/p>\n
The first episode is set to release on Thursday, August 21st, at 6:30 P.M. and can been seen on UVA\u2019s athletics website, every Virginia Sports social account, as well as the local FOX affiliate throughout the Charlottesville area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Football season is about to take center stage for the Virginia Cavaliers, but it\u2019s never too early for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99,58925],"class_list":["post-85048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-sports","tag-virginia-mens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}