The Virginia males’s basketball group will embark on a ten-day tour to Italy in early August that may double as a possibility to observe and play in exhibition video games in addition to an opportunity for the group to bond and construct chemistry, particularly for the brand new members of the roster.
UVA will play in 4 exhibition video games over the course of the tour, which can happen from August tenth by August twentieth and consists of stops in Rome, Florence, Rapallo, and Portofino. The four-match exhibition schedule is as follows:
- August thirteenth – Rome
- August fifteenth – Florence
- August 18th & nineteenth – Rapallo
Details concerning the precise venues and viewing alternatives for the person video games have but to be launched.
Two of Virginia’s video games within the journey shall be in opposition to KK Mega Mozzart, also referred to as Mega Basket, knowledgeable basketball membership primarily based out of Belgrade, Serbia. The membership received the 2016 Serbian Cup and place runner-up in 2014, 2015, and 2021. Mega Basket has produced a number of important NBA gamers resembling Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot, Boban Marjanović, and Nikola Jokić, who was simply named the Most Valuable Player of the NBA for the second-consecutive season.
Virginia’s eight returning gamers Kihei Clark, Reece Beekman, Armaan Franklin, Jayden Gardner, Francisco Caffaro, Kadin Shedrick, Taine Murray, and Chase Coleman, in addition to Ohio switch Ben Vander Plas and incoming first years Isaac McKneely, Isaac Traudt, Leon Bond, and Ryan Dunn will take part within the tour.
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“We are very excited to take our team to Italy,” Virginia males’s basketball head coach Tony Bennett mentioned. “We are adding four freshmen and a graduate transfer to an experienced group which showed improvement last season. The additional practices and quality competition during this tour allows us to improve and prepare for the 2022-23 season. We are looking forward to bonding and growing as a team in a beautiful country.”
The UVA males’s basketball program is taking a visit to Europe for the fifth time since 1996 and that is the group’s first tour because the Cavaliers visited Spain in 2016. Virginia turned in a 5-0 document in that journey and, extra importantly, it allowed the incoming first 12 months class of Kyle Guy, Ty Jerome, De’Andre Hunter, and Jay Huff to get acclimated to the group and get some essential early expertise in Tony Bennett’s defensive system. Many in this system have attributed among the group’s success within the following years, which in fact included the 2019 National Championship, to the early improvement of the 2016 recruiting class that occurred on that journey to Italy.
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The Cavaliers are actually hopeful for the same story to unfold with the 2022 recruiting class as they expertise their first reside motion with the Virginia males’s basketball program.
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