Mike Scott

Virginia men's basketball coach Tony Bennett likes the chances that Mike Scott will stick in the pros for one key reason -- a translatable skill, that midrange jumper of his, that should carry over to the NBA. On Thursday Scott will find out what the...

Getting to the NCAA tournament seemed to be a reasonable goal for Virginia coach Tony Bennett's third season in Charlottesville, so last week's trip to Omaha, Neb., for the West Region second round proved his plans for the program at least have it...

Virginia’s defense this basketball season was stingier than ever. The Cavaliers allowed 54.2 points per game, lowest of any ACC team in the shot-clock era, second-lowest in conference history to North Carolina State’s 49.1 in 1981-82. If you&...

Norfolk State senior center Kyle O'Quinn has accepted an invitation to play in next month's Portsmouth Invitational Tournament. The annual showcase for college seniors, attended and scouted by numerous NBA personnel, will be held April 11-14 at Churchland...

ACC basketball’s talent drain continues at a record pace. With the expected news that Duke’s Austin Rivers and North Carolina’s Harrison Barnes and John Henson are entering the NBA draft, the conference next season will return no first-...

UVa head basketball coach Tony Bennett was the guest of honor at Monday's meeting of the Roanoke Valley Sports Club.     Fresh off the program's first NCAA tournament berth in 5 years, Bennett has kept busy this offseason.     He was in the area just last...

Logic says Virginia will lose to Florida in the NCAA basketball tournament Friday. The Gators’ offense is too good and balanced, the Cavaliers’ roster too depleted and spent. That said, a Virginia victory would not surprise me, and the reason...

Sitting between fifth-year seniors Mike Scott and Sammy Zeglinski, Virginia coach Tony Bennett wanted to will his team's name to appear on the screen Sunday night as he watched the NCAA men's basketball tournament selection show with his players and...

In Mike Scott's first four years at Virginia, the closest he could get to the NCAA tournament by mid-March was via a remote control. With so much time to observe the tournament, while not actually participating in it, he began to understand how the...

OMAHA, NEB. – The last time Virginia's Jontel Evans was this excited about an athletic trip he had images of Mickey Mouse ears and palm tree-adorned hotels interspersed with bouncing basketballs. He was getting ready for a journey to Orlando for an...

OMAHA, NEB. – Virginia coach Tony Bennett laid out what seemed to be a straightforward formula for success in his team's NCAA men's basketball tournament game against Florida — handle Florida's full-court press, keep the Gators from going...

ATLANTA — To his Virginia teammates, fifth-year senior Sammy Zeglinski is known as "The Godfather." It's a term of endearment, but also a constant reminder of just how long he's been around Charlottesville. As a player that's relied upon to make...