Virginia Men’s Basketball | Virginia Hosts Marshall on Saturday at Noon

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Virginia (3-0) hosts Marshall (3-0) in non-conference motion on Saturday, Nov. 15. Tipoff is slated for Noon on ACC Network Extra and Virginia Sports Radio Network.

Tickets
• Single-game, group and mini-plan tickets are on sale at uvatix.com. The four-game mini-plan options the selection of Maryland or North Carolina, one in every of Syracuse, Miami, or Virginia Tech, and two further video games of the fan’s selection. The six-game mini-plan options the selection of Maryland or North Carolina, one in every of Syracuse, Miami, or Virginia Tech, and 4 further video games of the fan’s selection.
• The Landing, UVA’s premium group house in JPJ Arena, is obtainable to order for house video games in the course of the 2025-26 season. Please contact the ticket gross sales group at (434) 924-8821 for extra data.

For Openers
• UVA meets Marshall for the primary time since 2018.
• UVA is 107-11 at JPJ in non-conference play since 2009-10.
• UVA has scored 80+ factors in its first three video games for the primary time since 2006 (Arizona, Morgan St., UNC Asheville and UMES).
• Ryan Odom is the third UVA coach to start out his tenure 3-0, becoming a member of Henry Lannigan (4-0) and Ron Sanchez (3-0).
• UVA ranks twelfth in nationally in area aim proportion protection (32%), fifteenth in scoring protection (56.0) and 18th in rebound margin (18.3).

Broadcast Information
• The Virginia-Marshall recreation will streamed by way of ACC Network Extra on WatchESPN.com.
• The recreation will even be broadcast on Virginia Sports Radio Network, VirginiaSports.com and Virginia Sports app.
• Live statistics might be situated on VirginiaSports.com and the Virginia Sports app.

The New Head Coach
• Ryan Odom was named the University of Virginia’s Dean and Markel Families Men’s Head Basketball Coach on March 22.
• He spent the final two seasons at VCU, main the Rams to a 52-21 document and 2025 NCAA Tournament berth.
• VCU gained the 2025 Atlantic-10 Tournament and shared the A-10 regular-season championship.
• UVA is Odom’s fifth stint as a collegiate head coach. Over the previous 12 seasons, he has compiled a profession document of 225-127, together with stops at Utah State (2021-23), UMBC (2017-2021), Lenoir-Rhyne (2016), Charlotte (2015, interim head coach) and UVA (2025-present).
• Odom led UMBC, Utah State and VCU to the NCAA Tournament throughout his second season at these faculties.
• Odom coached UMBC to a shocking upset in opposition to Virginia within the first spherical of the 2018 NCAA Tournament, marking the primary time a No. 16 seed defeated a No. 1 seed within the occasion’s historical past.

Last Time Out
• Ugonna Onyenso scored a career-high 18 factors and added 10 rebounds for his second profession double-double as Virginia routed Hampton 91-53 on Tuesday, Nov. 11 at John Paul Jones Arena.
• Chance Mallory added 16 factors, whereas Sam Lewis (13), Malik Thomas (11) and Jacari White (10) added 10 or extra.
Onyenso and Johann Grünloh every blocked 4 pictures and UVA out-rebounded Hampton 49-25.

The Virginia Standard
• The Virginia Standard is to pursue excellence and is constructed on the six pillars of humility, ardour, unity, servanthood, thankfulness and accountability,
• We play with tempo, share the basketball and our defensive fashion is to dictate and disrupt.

Hoo Are These Cavaliers?
• The 2025-26 roster is highlighted by 12 newcomers, together with Dallin Hall (BYU), Malik Thomas (San Francisco), Devin Tillis (UC Irvine), Jacari White (North Dakota State), Ugonna Onyenso (Kansas State), Sam Lewis (Toledo) and Martin Carrere (VCU).
• UVA added European imports Thijs De Ridder (Bilbao Basket), Johann Grünloh (RASTA Vechta) and true freshmen Silas Barksdale (Woodside High School), Chance Mallory (St. Anne’s Belfield) and Owen Odom (Collegiate School).
• Redshirt sophomores Elijah Gertrude, Carter Lang and Desmond Roberts are the lone returners from final 12 months’s group.
• UVA returned 4 factors (all from Roberts) from 2024-25.
• De Ridder leads six participant averaging double figures at 15.3 ppg, adopted by Mallory (12 ppg), Lewis (11.3 ppg), Onyenso (11 ppg), Thomas (10 ppg) and White (10 ppg).
• Grünloh leads the group in rebounding at 7.7 rpg, whereas Hall has a team-best 6.3 assists per recreation.
• UVA is averaging 86.3 factors per recreation and limiting its opponents to 56 ppg.

All-Time vs. Marshall
• Virginia holds a 7-2 benefit in opposition to Marshall in a collection that dates again to 1928-29.
• The Cavaliers are 5-0 in opposition to the Thundering Herd in Charlottesville and have a four-game win streak within the collection.
• Marshall posted a impartial web site win vs. UVA in 1954 (103-98) and a house victory in 1967 (97-89).

Last Time vs. the Thundering Herd
• Kyle Guy scored a career-high 30 factors to guide then-No. 4 Virginia to a 100-64 win over Marshall on Dec. 31, 2018.
• Guy added profession highs in 3-pointers (7) and rebounds (8) because the Cavaliers hit the century mark for the lone time in the course of the Tony Bennett period.
• Ty Jerome chipped in 14 factors and Jay Huff added 14 factors and eight rebounds.
• Manager Grant Kersey sank a 3-pointer on the buzzer to present Virginia its a centesimal level in opposition to Marshall.
• UVA shot 53.2 p.c from the sector to enhance to 12-0.

Let it Fly
• Virginia is averaging 29.3 3-point makes an attempt per recreation.
• UVA tried 30 or extra 3-pointers in back-to-back video games (Rider and NCCU) for the primary time since March of 2021 (Syracuse and Ohio).
• UVA’s 36 3-point makes an attempt vs. NC Central had been its most since 38 in opposition to Virginia Tech on Feb. 10, 2018.
• UVA is taking pictures 37.5 p.c (33 of 88) from 3-point vary.
• Sam Lewis and Jacari White lead the group in 3-pointers with seven every.

There’s No Place Like Home
• Virginia is 259-63 (.804), together with a 3-0 mark in 2025-26, in 20 seasons at John Paul Jones Arena.
• UVA is 43-10 in its final 53 house contests.
• UVA is 107-11 in non-league motion at JPJ since 2009-10.
• UVA has gained 10+ house video games for 16 straight seasons.

On The Horizon
• Virginia battles Northwestern within the Skechers Greenbrier Tip-Off on Friday, Nov. 21. Tipoff is ready for five p.m. on CBS Sports Network.