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This is looking very good right now. Elite eight bound!

Random take: I love college basketball coaches who still wear suits. But I also loved the fact that when all coaches still wore suits. Bob Huggins wore a giant windbreaker that looked like it was purchased from a Morgantown gas station.

The Los Angeles Lakers have hired former University of Virginia coach Tony Bennett as an NBA Draft advisor under president Rob Pelinka.

These unranked Iowa Hawkeyes will be finishing the year top 4 in the Big Ten. Ben McCollum is a proven winner and this team has continuity that most teams can’t say they have.

Andrew Vaughn. Build the statue

I got a feeling the Lombardi trophy is coming home this year

The Drake Bulldogs play some gritty fundamental basketball and I’m all here for it!

One last time: Virginia Basketball. A thing of beauty.

Watching Tony Bennett’s news conference and he is honest and genuine on why he wasn’t the right fit for the current state of the game. He’s old school. He embraces players getting compensation but worried about the overall health of college sports going forward. He elevated @UVAMensHoops. His character never changed. Bennett leaves UVA knowing he did it the right way. Bennett said he thought about this decision in the spring but was energized by the new class of Cavaliers. But a fall break trip with his wife Laurel last weekend allowed him to re-evaluate his life’s priorities. And that’s when he knew it was time.

I asked Tony Bennett literally last week why so many people thought he could be the next Jay Wright and suddenly retire out of nowhere. His response, verbatim: "I gotta call Jay Wright and see what he says, right? I always have said, when you're doing this, you're in this profession, whether you agree how it's going or not, you have to be true to yourself and really look at it and say, who am I? Can I operate how I want and can it be successful enough? And you get to choose if you wanna be a part of it or not. And when you feel it's time, like Jay did, like Coach K, maybe Saban, it's their choice. And you can sit here and complain and gripe. Or you have a decision to make. Either you try to do it in your way or you get to make that decision. So I think Jay Wright probably foresaw the where this is going ... It'll be better whenever there's regulations. Is that three to five years away? Who knows? But if it's not -- those are decisions that every man has to make when it's his time."

.@SethOnHoops says Tony Bennett's legacy goes far beyond the game of basketball.

If the news is true, college basketball just lost a man with incredible class, humility, and dignity. Tony Bennett is an awesome teacher of our game. You will be deeply missed!

Tony Bennett is all class and College Basketball will sorely miss him

Heartbreaking news to hear. Tony Bennett is the sole reason I am a UVA basketball fan. Have always loved his coaching style and philosophy. Can only think that this retirement is attributed to the changing college basketball landscape with NIL and the transfer portal.

What a career it’s been for Tony Bennett 👏 433 career wins 2x Naismith Coach of the Year 4x ACC Coach of the Year 2019 National Champion Virginia legend 🙌

Tony Bennett's resume: • 2019 National Champion • 4-time ACC COTY • 3-time USBWA COTY • 2007 PAC-10 COTY • Four 1-seeds • 2 NCAAT apps. in 3 years at WAZZU • 433-169 career record Legend of the game. 🐐

Throwback to the @UVAMensHoops faithful chanting Tony Bennett’s name after their first National Championship 🥹

Why not us #Undaunted

Sam Darnold 🤷🏼‍♂️ Some of my predictions just take a few years to be brilliant.

NFL starts today!!!