By Jerry Ratcliffe

Virginia opens its 122nd basketball season tonight (7:30 p.m., ACC Network Extra) against visiting Drexel, the first of three games in six days, capped by a neutral court battle with nationally-ranked Arkansas on Sunday in Washington, D.C.

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