Virginia Basketball Announces Four-Game Exhibition Schedule for Italy Tour

The Virginia males’s basketball group will embark on a ten-day tour to Italy in early August that can double as a chance to follow and play in exhibition video games in addition to an opportunity for the group to bond and construct chemistry, particularly for the brand new members of the roster. 

UVA will play in 4 exhibition video games over the course of the tour, which is able to happen from August tenth by August twentieth and consists of stops in Rome, Florence, Rapallo, and Portofino. The four-match exhibition schedule is as follows: 

• August thirteenth – Rome
• August fifteenth – Florence
• August 18th & nineteenth – Rapallo

Particulars relating to the precise venues and viewing alternatives for the person video games have but to be launched. 

Two of Virginia’s video games within the journey might be towards KK Mega Mozzart, also called Mega Basket, an expert basketball membership primarily based out of Belgrade, Serbia. The membership gained the 2016 Serbian Cup and place runner-up in 2014, 2015, and 2021. Mega Basket has produced a number of vital NBA gamers corresponding to Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot, Boban Marjanović, and Nikola Jokić, who was simply named the Most Precious Participant of the NBA for the second-consecutive season. 

Virginia’s eight returning gamers Kihei Clark, Reece Beekman, Armaan Franklin, Jayden Gardner, Francisco Caffaro, Kadin Shedrick, Taine Murray, and Chase Coleman, in addition to Ohio switch Ben Vander Plas and incoming first years Isaac McKneely, Isaac Traudt, Leon Bond, and Ryan Dunn will take part within the tour. 

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“We’re very excited to take our group to Italy,” Virginia males’s basketball head coach Tony Bennett mentioned. “We’re including 4 freshmen and a graduate switch to an skilled group which confirmed enchancment final season. The extra practices and high quality competitors throughout this tour permits us to enhance and put together for the 2022-23 season. We’re trying ahead to bonding and rising as a group in a lovely nation.”

The UVA males’s basketball program is taking a visit to Europe for the fifth time since 1996 and that is the group’s first tour because the Cavaliers visited Spain in 2016. Virginia turned in a 5-0 file in that journey and, extra importantly, it allowed the incoming first 12 months class of Kyle Man, Ty Jerome, De’Andre Hunter, and Jay Huff to get acclimated to the group and get some essential early expertise in Tony Bennett’s defensive system. Many in this system have attributed a number of the group’s success within the following years, which after all included the 2019 Nationwide Championship, to the early growth of the 2016 recruiting class that occurred on that journey to Italy. 

The Cavaliers are actually hopeful for the same story to unfold with the 2022 recruiting class as they expertise their first dwell motion with the Virginia males’s basketball program. 

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