CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Virginia hosts Campbell (0-1) in its first game of the 2024-25 season on Wednesday, November 6. Non-conference play at John Paul Jones Arena is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. on ACC Network Extra.

For openers
• UVA begins its 120th season of men’s basketball, with an all-time record of 1,743-1,215 (.589).
• Virginia meets Campbell for the first time.
• UVA is 24-2 in its last 26 season openers.
• UVA is 13-2 in its last 15 season openers.
• The Cavaliers are 96-23 all-time in 119 season openers.
• UVA is 98-10 in non-conference JPJ since 2009-10.

Transmission information
• The Virginia-Campbell game will be streamed online at WatchESPN.com
• The game will also be broadcast on the Virginia Sports Radio Network, VirginiaSports.com and the Virginia Sports app.
• Live stats will be located on VirginiaSports.com and the Virginia Sports app.

Interim head coach
• Ron Sanchez was named Interim Head Men’s Basketball Coach of the Dean and Markel Families on Oct. 18 after three-time National Coach of the Year Tony Bennett retired.
• Sánchez, who spent 10 seasons on Bennett’s staff at UVA in two different stints (2009-19 and 2023-24), posted a 72-78 record as head coach in Charlotte from 2018-23.
• Served nine seasons on Bennett’s staff from 2009-18, the last three as associate head coach. During his time on Grounds, the Cavaliers won 212 games, three ACC regular season titles and two ACC Tournament titles, while also making six NCAA Tournament appearances and one NIT appearance. The Cavaliers earned three No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament and won 29 or more games four times. UVA won 31 games and reached the No. 1 ranking in the AP rankings for the first time since 1982-83 during Sánchez’s final season at UVA in 2017-18.
• Returned to UVA as associate head coach in 2023-24 as the Cavaliers posted a 23-11 record and 13-7 mark in the ACC.
• Under Sánchez’s leadership in Charlotte, the 49ers won 16 or more games in three seasons, including a 22-14 record in 2022-23. His final season in Charlotte was highlighted by the 49ers’ first postseason tournament title when they won four games in five days in Daytona Beach, Florida, at the 2023 Discount Tire College Basketball Invitational.
• Sanchez also served as an assistant coach on Tony Bennett’s staff for three seasons at Washington State from 2006-09, helping the Cougars to a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances and an NIT berth. Washington State reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament in 2007 and Sweet 16 in 2008. The Cougars tied the school record with 26 wins in 2006-07 and 2007-08.
• Sánchez went 2-3 in season openers as head coach in Charlotte.

Virginia’s style
• Virginia Way is built on former head coach Tony Bennett’s five pillars of humility, passion, unity, service and gratitude.
• The Virginia Way is to play defense, make quality shots, share and take care of the basketball, stop the transition, rebound and play more defensively.
• UVA has finished in the top six nationally in scoring defense in each of the last 13 seasons and led the nation in the category six times.

What are these gentlemen?
• The Cavaliers return two starters (Isaac McKneely and Andrew Rohde) from last season’s team that finished third in the ACC (13-7) and advanced to the NCAA First Four.
• The Cavaliers returned 36.2 percent of their touchdowns from last season, marking the second straight year UVA has returned 37 percent or less of its touchdowns. UVA scored 91.4 percent in 2022-23.
• McKneely (12.3 ppg, 44.5% 3 shots) and Rohde (4.3 ppg, 2.7 assists) join returnees Blake Buchanan (3.4 ppg, 3 .1 rebounds) and Taine Murray (3.3 points per game, 45% field goals).
• Virginia’s roster includes offseason transfers Dai Dai Ames (Kansas State), TJ Power (Duke) and Elijah Saunders (San Diego State), and newcomers Ishan Sharma (Ontario, Canada) and Jacob Cofie (Seattle , Washington).
• Redshirts Anthony Robinson and Christian Bliss will make their UVA debuts after redshirting last season.
• Promising sophomore Elijah Gertrude will miss the 2024-25 season after suffering a knee injury during the offseason.
• Point guard Jalen Warley (Florida State) transferred out of the program on October 29.

There’s no place like home
• UVA is 246-56 (.816), including a 15-2 mark in 2023-24, in 18 seasons at John Paul Jones Arena.
• Virginia’s recent 23-game home winning streak (Feb. 28, 2022 to Feb. 5, 2024) was the second-longest at John Paul Jones Arena.
• The Cavaliers went 10-0 at home in ACC league play last season and are 17-2 in their last 19 home league games.
• UVA is 208-40 (.838) and 98-10 (.907) in non-conference action in its last 15 seasons in JPJ.
• UVA leads the ACC with 96 wins in home league games over the last 11 seasons. Duke is in second place with 94.
• UVA has won more than 10 home games for 15 consecutive seasons.

on the horizon
• Virginia hosts Coppin State on Monday, November 11. The tip-off at John Paul Jones Arena is scheduled for 7 p.m. on ACC Network Extra.