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John Swofford, the longest-tenured commissioner in the 67-year history of the Atlantic Coast Conference, announced Thursday that the 2020-21 athletic year will be the last of his 24 years of service.

On this week’s podcast version of The Jerry Ratcliffe Show, Hootie talks at length with Virginia basketball incoming 4-star freshman Reece Beekman about his fabulous high school career and guiding his team to four straight state championships.

Scattershooting around the ACC, while fighting through this terrible pandemic shutdown …

The pandemic shutdown has been a boring time for all of us. We’ve come up with lists of just about everything imaginable, comparisons between players and teams from different eras, and now this.

Virginia basketball has made the cut for one of the nation’s top prospects in the Class of 2021. Jalen Warley, a 6-foot-5, 180-pound, 5-star combination guard from Westtown School in Norristown, Pa. narrowed his list to 10 schools on Friday, after receiving more than 25 offers.

Brad Soderberg will apparently return to Virginia basketball’s coaching staff for a sixth season as an assistant to Tony Bennett.

Virginia coach Tony Bennett and the Cavaliers’ basketball team sent out a video message to the nation on Friday in hopes to set an example of unity.

When 247sports.com asked Charles Barkley what was the toughest loss of his entire basketball career, Sir Charles didn’t blink.

It was destined from birth that Ty Jerome was going to be a basketball player. His father, Mark, and mother, Melanie, both played college basketball. Mark was a high school and AAU coach. While that doesn’t necessarily mean their child would become a hoopster, the way he was raised perhaps did.

The Virginia athletics department announced Monday the opportunity for fans to come together, enjoy and participate in a number of digital events during the initial Wahoowa Saturday.

Chris Graham of Augusta Free Press joins us as we break down the UVA basketball Class of 2020 and incoming transfer Trey Murphy, and look ahead to what can be added in 2021.

One of the top 15 players in the country has included Virginia on his cut to 10 schools. Kendall Brown, a 6-foot-7, 205-pound, 5-star small forward, made UVA the only ACC school on his final 10 list.

When Ralph Sampson was trying to decide where to play college basketball in 1979, he narrowed his long list of suitors down to six, then a final four: Virginia, Virginia Tech, North Carolina and Kentucky.

Virginia, which is projected to be one of the top teams in the nation next season, is set to meet Big East powerhouse Villanova in Madison Square Garden. A date for the game has not been announced.

Scattershooting around Wahoo Nation in hopes of a coronavirus-free world in the not-too-distant future …

Some hoops notes to soothe your basketball hunger …

Washington State football player Bryce Beekman suffered an accidental death from acute intoxication of two drugs according to the Whitman County Coroner’s Office in Pullman, Wash.

Basketball has always been easy for Justin Anderson. His newest challenge, though … not so much.

Trey Murphy III has never been to John Paul Jones Arena, but that didn’t matter to him when he became the newest member of Tony Bennett’s Virginia basketball program on Monday.