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Virginia Basketball Picked to Finish 5th in ACC Preseason Poll

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October 15, 2024

Virginia Basketball Picked to Finish 5th in ACC Preseason Poll

The 2024-2025 ACC Men’s Basketball Preseason Poll was unveiled on Tuesday evening and Virginia was picked to finish 5th, as selected by the media during last week’s ACC Tipoff event.

Duke was voted the preseason favorite for the ninth time in the last 12 seasons, receiving 42 of a possible 54 first-place votes. North Carolina was picked to finish second and received 11 first-place votes, while Wake Forest picked up the last first-place vote and was picked to finish third. Clemson and Virginia rounded out the top five.

The new ACC members were each picked to finish in the bottom third of the conference, with SMU placing 13th, California 16th, and Stanford 17th.

UVA was picked to finish fourth in the 2023-2024 ACC Preseason Poll and wound up finishing third in the standings with a 13-7 conference record. The Cavaliers have finished the same or better than their predicted order of finish in the ACC preseason poll in 14 of the last 16 seasons.

See the results of the 2024 ACC Men’s Basketball Preseason Poll below:

School, Points
1. Duke (42), 956
2. North Carolina (11), 924
3. Wake Forest (1), 800
4. Clemson, 765
5. Virginia, 743
6. Miami, 659
7. Pitt, 636
8. NC State, 550
9. Louisville, 518
10. Notre Dame, 462
11. Syracuse, 454
12. Georgia Tech, 433
13. SMU, 344
14. Virginia Tech, 252
15. Florida State, 251
16. California, 206
17. Stanford, 165
18. Boston College, 116

North Carolina guard RJ Davis, who enters the season as the reigning ACC Player of the Year, was voted the Preseason ACC Player of the Year, garnering 40 of the 54 votes. Davis is the first ACC Player of the Year to return to school the following year since Tyler Hansbrough in 2008-2009. Duke freshman Cooper Flagg picked up 10 votes for Preseason ACC Player of the Year and ran away with the Preseason Rookie of the Year, receiving all but one of the votes for that accolade.

Davis, Flagg, Hunter Sallis (Wake Forest), Markus Burton (Notre Dame), and Nijel Pack (Miami) were selected to the Preseason All-ACC First Team. Clemson’s Ian Schieffelin and Chase Hunter, Florida State’s Jamir Watkins, Georgia Tech’s Baye Ndongo, and Pitt’s Ishmael Leggett were named to the Preseason All-ACC Second Team.

No Virginia player was named to either the First or Second Preseason All-ACC teams.

Preseason ACC Player of the Year
RJ Davis, North Carolina, 40 votes
Cooper Flagg, Duke, 10
Hunter Sallis, Wake Forest, 3
Maxime Raynaud, Stanford, 1

Preseason ACC Rookie of the Year
Cooper Flagg, Duke, 53 votes
Jeremiah Wilkinson, California, 1

Preseason All-ACC Team
First Team
RJ Davis*, North Carolina, 54
Hunter Sallis, Wake Forest, 52
Cooper Flagg, Duke, 52
Markus Burton, Notre Dame, 41
Nijel Pack, Miami, 37

Second Team
Ian Schieffelin, Clemson, 36
Chase Hunter, Clemson, 31
Jamir Watkins, Florida State, 26
Baye Ndongo, Georgia Tech, 21
Ishmael Leggett, Pitt, 20

Virginia is set to open the 2024-2025 season at home against Campbell on Wednesday, November 6th at 7pm at John Paul Jones Arena.

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Spanberger names longtime National Guard leader as next veterans secretary

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December 22, 2025

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Spanberger names longtime National Guard leader as next veterans secretary

Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger on Monday announced she has selected retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Timothy Williams to serve as Virginia’s next secretary of veterans and defense affairs, tapping a longtime military leader who spent nearly four decades in uniform and led the Virginia National Guard through some of its most demanding recent missions.Williams, who retired in 2023 after 38 years in the armed forces, served for nine years as Virginia’s adjutant general under three governors. In that role, he oversaw the Virginia Department of Military Affairs, which provides leadership and administrative support to the Virginia Army National Guard, Virginia Air National Guard and Virginia Defense Force.

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Virginia Union’s Curtis Allen makes HBCU history winning Harlan Hill trophy: ‘Kind of crazy’

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December 22, 2025

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Virginia Union’s Curtis Allen makes HBCU history winning Harlan Hill trophy: ‘Kind of crazy’

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Union running back Curtis Allen made history by becoming the first player from a Historically Black College or University to win the Harlan Hill Trophy as Division II college football’s player of the year.

Allen, in his only season as the Panthers’ starting running back, rewrote the program’s record books and captured the 39th annual award after a dominant campaign.

The senior finished 82 votes ahead of the second-place finisher and broke a 10-year streak of quarterbacks winning the honor, which is Division II’s equivalent to the Heisman Trophy.

Allen set a new Division II single-season rushing record with 2,409 yards in just 12 games, along with a nation-leading 30 rushing touchdowns. He also broke the CIAA single-season rushing mark.

“It really sounds crazy because, you know, I really thought Jada (Byers) won last year, but I thought he was a finalist, but I thought he won,” Allen said. “So for me to actually win it, that’s actually kind of crazy. Because I feel like Jada could have possibly been a better running back than me. I just took what he did and did a little bit, you know better than him.”

Allen also recently won the 2025 Willie Laneir Award for his outstanding performance on the field.

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Virginia lottery tickets win $400K in Saturday’s Powerball drawing

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December 21, 2025

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VIRGINIA (WAVY) – Saturday’s Powerball drawing treated Virginia players well as there were six winners which totaled $400,000, including a ticket bought in Richmond that won $150,000.

Virginia Lottery saw an additional five players win $50,000 each, including one winner in Norfolk. The ticket that won $150,000 was bought at:

Publix, 4591 South Laburnum Avenue in Richmond.

The five tickets that each won $50,000 were bought at:

7-Eleven. 14533 Lee Road in Chantilly,
Food Lion, 1859 East Little Creek Road in Norfolk,
BJ’s, 6607 Wilson Blvd. in Falls Church,
Murphy USA, 1860 Stavemill Crossing Lane in Powhatan,
Online, using the Virginia Lottery mobile app.

Powerball drawings are held Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m., with the odds of matching all six numbers sitting at 1 in 292,201,338. No tickets purchased matched all six numbers, raising the jackpot for Dec. 22 drawing to $1.6 billion.

All Virginia Lottery profits, including those from the sale of Powerball tickets, go to K-12 education in Virginia. For more information, visit the link here.

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