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[QUOTE="wgdsr, post: 5331970, member: 7179"]
i'd noted numerous times before, during and after last year that uva lost a lot more in 2023 than 2024.  
maybe that was obfuscated by long term big contributors still being around and their WAR, to borrow from baseball.

but losing over half your lineup, double digits including at least 5 or 6 all-americans at some point, was a yuge lift.  
and it was part of what took the team from an all-time scoring group (top 5?) to pedestrian in 2024.

they lost 3.5 gpg in scoring, and even worse they averaged 12 in the back half of the year (got figured out?) and the shooting was somehow worse than that. offense was really THE problem.

that's all to say with everyone else's losses as well, 2025 doesn't have a high bar to repeat or better '24 for them on O, even with old faces gone.  i will say it would've been surprising to not cobble together a year with their stars around last year, and this year is more a crapshoot given 2 years of attrition. injuries become a problem if they fall on the wrong side of the fine line.  they've been manageable so far, but of course they haven't even played a game yet.
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