Author: Cuts from The Corner

Alright! Back to my favorite part of all of this which is combing through tape. Unlike last season where there was just one transfer coming in (Ben Vander Plas), we have four coming in this year so I’m going to have a lot of writing ahead of me! I’ll do one of these for each…

Welcome to Part 3 and the final installment of this offseason series reviewing opportunities for improvement. Part 1 about our redshirting strategy and Part 2 about our use of the transfer portal can be found in those respective links. Today I’m going to focus on a fairly loaded topic: playing time. The topic is loaded…

This is Part 2 in my post-season series of opportunities for improvement moving forward. If you’d like to read Part 1, which was about our redshirting process (and some of that content will be referenced in this article), it can be found here. It’s a tough topic to discuss comprehensively because, as of this moment,…

Phew! What a whirlwind of an offseason so far. Hopefully you’ve now read my self-assessment/lessons learned from 2022-2023 here. Building off of that, and what we’ve seen across the college basketball landscape both last year and seasons prior, we’re going to have some more “Commentary From The Corner” where I just discuss the areas in…

We’re almost exactly a year away from the birth of this site (officially), March 23rd, 2022, where I did a deep dive on the Virginia bench players “The Three Ms” to make sense of their respective playing time. One full year, an entire offseason, and reviews of almost every game in the 2022-2023 season, we’ve…

This game felt bad as a fan. Scoring 49 points felt bad as a fan. Well I’m here to, hopefully, give a little perspective on what went wrong, how Duke is a uniquely bad matchup for us, how we might combat similar personnel in other teams, and to digest what is and isn’t something we’ll…

It’s interesting writing a review of a game after we have updated information from a different game, but it does also help to provide some context to the most recent outcome. Fans were, rightly, thrilled after this game only to see that enthusiasm take a hit after watching us play against Duke the following night.…

Gentle readers, this was my favorite victory since the National Championship! It wasn’t the most dramatic (@Duke in 2022 or Vs. Syracuse in the ACC Tournament in 2021), and it wasn’t the most eye-opening (vs. Baylor and Illinois in Vegas this season), but it was the most cathartic for me. The whole breaking the streak…

Well. This game against the Cardinals looked much better than the last, primarily as a result of increased Dunn (and Caffaro??) minutes, along with the shift back to the Sides offense. Many of the same trends over the last few games were on display, including the perplexing decision to keep Kadin Shedrick on the bench,…

Well, I was on the road and unable to devote the time needed to clip the game, but I did watch it in full to accompany my preliminary watch. So, this review is going to be in a different format with no clips. Is this really a “Cut” from The Corner, then? To be debated.…