By Jerry Ratcliffe

Photo: UVA Athletics

Virginia’s players had heard all the stories from the illustrious past of battles with Maryland, legendary tales documented by ink-stained wretches that once recorded history in something called newspapers.

Before Ryan Odom took his UVA team to College Park on Friday, the coach shared some of that basketball lore with his players, stories of games passed down by generations when the hardwood landscape was dotted by names like Parkhill, Walker, Sampson and Stith, Lamp and Raker and “Joey Buckets,” Singletary, Brogdon, Hunter and Jerome. Names like Bias and Lucas, Elmore, Lefty and “Buck.”

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