Roundtable: What is UVA Basketball’s biggest issue right now?

As the Virginia Cavaliers have lost three of their last five games, we thought it’d be appropriate to do another staff roundtable to debate what’s the team’s biggest problem right now. So, with that question posed, here’s the (slightly edited down) conversation from our Slack channel yesterday.

Dan Siegel

It’s fairly simple in my mind, the defense has not been up to its standard, not only this year but the previous two seasons as well. From 2014 to 2020, UVA’s average defensive efficiency rank was 3.8. From 2021 to 2023 it’s been 39.7. That’s just not sustainable for this program.

Pierce

I think they’re still looking for consistency across the board - what do the best players on the team do the…