MBB vs No. 14 Virginia - Wed, Feb 18, 2026

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iceeater1969 said:
I watched the game to the end.
Backups at uva bstter than our starters
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Oh yeah. Me too, bro....

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Was there and stayed until the final buzzer. That was one of the worst home games I've attended in 26 years at McCamish/Alexander, perhaps the worst. Fellow longtime season ticket holders around me agreed. Our own fans booed our performance.

Postgame pressers are up. Damon:



Jaeden Mustaf:

 
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tdb said:
Was there and stayed until the final buzzer. That was one of the worst home games I've attended in 26 years at McCamish/Alexander, perhaps the worst. Fellow longtime season ticket holders around me agreed. Our own fans booed our performance.

Postgame pressers are up. Damon:



Jaeden Mustaf:

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Interesting comments from Mustaf showing support for CDS. He said "we love coach", and "we know that he has our back no matter what"

Doesn't sound like he has lost the locker room.
 
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tdb said:
Was there and stayed until the final buzzer. That was one of the worst home games I've attended in 26 years at McCamish/Alexander, perhaps the worst. Fellow longtime season ticket holders around me agreed. Our own fans booed our performance.

Postgame pressers are up. Damon:



Jaeden Mustaf:

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Team played like they were sick, and I do mean ill, tonight, even with the coach having sniffles. They appeared fatigued for no good athletic reason, and lethargic as if they had the flu or something. No sustained energy, both physically and mentally.

I don't know how to take the press conference talks of coach or player. I did not hear much regarding the game that explained what or why of we witnessed. Coach said players played without effort in the games and worked harder in practice, maybe to get more playing time, he said. He mentioned something about scouting opponents and players not responding and working in practice on UVA capabilities and players not taking that to the game. Sounded to me like he was blaming the players and throwing them under the bus in public. A mirror might help him better understand the faults. When a coach mentions it is not about winning or losing, he may be in the wrong business.

The player was asked about morale and how losing affected morale. That is not a good thing to be asked at this time of year. He said that they were playing for their pride. When asked about the crowd booing, which I did not hear, thank goodness, and he said they heard it. When asked if it affected the team, he said he liked the coach and the coach had their backs.

I am not sure these press conferences do any good for anybody, unless the Q&A is about basketball and the game played and not not like a psychiatrist with the patient on the couch asking how do you feel. You have to prepare to and play the game the way it is supposed to and expected be played. It's how you play the game, not how you feel about the game. It is assumed that coaches and players prepare and coach and play to win. Otherwise, your fans will not get what they pay for and they might even boo.

I don't get personal about the coach nor the player, but I do get personal about the attitude and the play of the game. I have been on both one of the winingest and the losingest teams at Tech my junior and senior years, The coaches, players, and fans all did their part in the goal of winning the game at hand. We were consistent in high effort, the difference usually made in the skills of the opposition versus ours. I never hear a fan boo. I am just not familiar with the psychological content of what I heard in this presser. I want to hear explanations about the game of basketball just played, not how someone feels about each other. Save that for the psychologist in private.

Attitude and feelings are not the same, one before the game and the other after. A winning attitude wins games. Feelings are what you have after the fact, more so when you do not win. You have to understand why you lose in order to get better, and it is simply about the execution of the fundamentals of basketball, the skill level of the players, and the game preparation of the coach. Considering those things, we should have lost by no more that 14 points, not a generous 26 that could have been 40.

Sorry to be so verbose, just looking for reasons why.
 
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tdb said:
Was there and stayed until the final buzzer. That was one of the worst home games I've attended in 26 years at McCamish/Alexander, perhaps the worst. Fellow longtime season ticket holders around me agreed. Our own fans booed our performance.
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CDS and all the players need to chip in 1% of their pay / nil/ compensation, including the bench coaches, and split the pool with the season ticket holders that attended the game last night.
Hats off to @tdb and others that toughed it out last night.
 

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CDS should try the opposite of what he's doing. Maybe take a couple of days off. Have one easy practice before the next game to prep for the next opponent. The players will have a lot more energy for the next game if they're not wearing themselves out in practice.
 
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Interesting comments from Mustaf showing support for CDS. He said "we love coach", and "we know that he has our back no matter what"

Doesn't sound like he has lost the locker room.
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Doesn't mean much to me. Guys were standing up for TFG before he was fired
 
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