Predicting which five Cavaliers will start for the 2024-2025 UVA men's basketball team.
season, Tony Bennett and his staff have regrouped to assemble a new-look Cavalier roster. Unlike past years, in which graduate transfers and elder statesmen such as Kihei Clark and Reece Beekman led Virginia’s veteran teams, the script has flipped. Of the 12 scholarship players on UVA's roster, only five are upperclassmen.
UVA's roster currently has 7 players that were in the top #100 of ESPN's recruiting rankings coming out of high school.— Danny Neckel Questions lingered after this past season as to whether the Cavaliers possessed the talent and the recruiting chops to overcome recent offensive woes and poor performances in the NCAA Tournament following the 2019 National Championship.
Warley isn’t the sexiest pick to be a starter, but Virginia will benefit from his defensive services. The only senior on the squad outside of returning guard Taine Murray, the 6’7 guard has played valuable minutes in the ACC and may be a “glue guy” for a roster largely bereft of upperclassmen for the first time in years.
The frontcourt should be ripe with options next season. Virginia graduated center Jordan Minor and forward Ryan Dunn — the 28th pick in the 2024 NBA Draft — and will feature five new bigs on the roster. Sophomore TJ Power — a former five-star heavily recruited out of high school by the Cavaliers — spent a year in Durham before transferring to Virginia this offseason. The aforementioned Saunders took a sophomore leap and averaged 6.
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