We got our first look at this year’s Virginia basketball squad yesterday, as the Hoos suited up for the first time in public for the “Blue-White Scrimmage.”
While we’ll have more thoughts and analysis to come later today, here’s a look at VirginiaSportsTV’s highlights from the event:
The highlight of the highlights comes in the first 30 seconds, when the 7’1” Jay Huff drills a pair of three-pointers. (Mamadi Diakite drills one as well at the 2:50 mark.) Good luck guarding that one! We also get a heavy dose of Nigel Johnson, the dynamic transfer from Rutgers, and Kyle Guy, who looks to take a step forward from playing as a pure shooter to a more polished all-around guard.
While Virginia played a hard-nosed game of basketball (Kyle Guy had to leave to get stitches in his lip), this is what preseason #1 Duke was up to this weekend, as part of its “Countdown to Craziness”:
Our captain @GraysonJAllen chose the Crazies’ fave song for his intro and they were like ... pic.twitter.com/nzzpq8J6UH
— Duke Basketball (@DukeMBB) October 21, 2017
Yes, Grayson Allen “chose” “Everytime we Touch” for his intro, and yes that is apparently the “fave song” of Duke students, and yes, those were the faces they made. And yes, if I knew how to do things with video, I would splice together the Virginia highlights with this video of Duke dancing. In any case, the video speaks for itself; Duke will be as hateable as ever this season.
(I should note that Duke would go on to play a scrimmage too, but after this, who cares?)