The Plus/Minus: Virginia Thrashes Arkansas

Plus

Arkansas’ John Calipari remains the most successful, and entertaining, coach in college basketball. He brought his team, with eight freshman (and just one senior) to take on a Virginia team that retained every player from last year and has a trio of 24 year-olds in Thijs De Ridder, Johan Grunloh and Nolan Adekunle. Virginia’s players have multiple thousands of minutes of experience, while for those eight freshman, this was their second game.

Plus

Thijs De Ridder played maybe eight minutes in the first half and yet just about had a first half double-double with nine points and seven rebounds. Sitting early because of early foul trouble, coach Ryan Odom inserted De Ridder back into the game…