Sport: | basketball |
Year: | 2023–24 |
Prev Year: | 2022–23 |
Next Year: | 2024–25 |
Team: | Virginia Cavaliers |
Conference: | Atlantic Coast Conference |
Short Conf: | ACC |
Record: | 23–11 |
Conf Record: | 13–7 |
Head Coach: | Tony Bennett |
Hc Year: | 15th |
Assoc Coach: | Jason Williford |
Ahc Year: | 15th |
Asst Coach1: | Ron Sanchez |
Ac1 Year: | 10th |
Asst Coach2: | Orlando Vandross |
Ac2 Year: | 6th |
Arena: | John Paul Jones Arena |
Tourney: | NCAA tournament |
Tourney Result: | First Four |
Off Scheme: | Blocker-Mover |
The 2023–24 Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball team represented the University of Virginia during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was led by head coach Tony Bennett in his 15th year, and played their home games at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, Virginia, as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The Cavaliers started the season with four straight wins and earned themselves the twenty-fourth spot in the AP Rankings to start the season. They lost the opening game of the Fort Myers Tip-Off to Wisconsin and rebounded to defeat West Virginia in the third place game. The win wasn't enough to keep them in the rankings, as they fell out ahead of their ACC–SEC Challenge matchup with fourteenth ranked Texas A&M. They won that match and two more matches to return to the rankings at number twenty-two. They went 1–1 as the 22nd ranked team, losing to twenty-third ranked Memphis before falling out again. The Cavaliers then lost three of their next four ACC games, with the lone win coming against struggling Louisville. A rivalry win over Virginia Tech sparked an eight game winning streak for the Cavaliers as they also defeated NC State in overtime and Clemson during the stretch. They again returned to the rankings at number twenty-one. They lost to Pittsburgh and won a low scoring game against Wake Forest before falling out of the rankings again. The Cavaliers finished out the season 2–3 losing a rivalry rematch to Virginia Tech and to North Carolina and Duke, who were both ranked tenth at the time of the matchup.
The Cavaliers finished the season 23–11 and 13–7 in ACC play to finish in third place. As the third seed in the ACC tournament, they earned a bye to the Quarterfinals where defeated third seed Boston College in overtime before losing to eventual champions NC State in overtime in the Semifinals. They earned a controversial at-large bid to the NCAA tournament and were placed as a tenth seed in the First Four in the Midwest region. They lost their matchup with Colorado State 42–67 to end their season. After the game, Virginia was widely criticized for its offensive performance, which included a stretch of nearly 14 minutes of game time and nearly an hour of real time during which they did not score.
The 2022–23 Cavaliers finished the season with a 25–8 record, 15–5 in ACC play, to finish in a tie for first place and clinch a share of their sixth regular season title in ten seasons, and their eleventh ACC regular season title in school history. They defeated North Carolina and Clemson to reach the championship game of the ACC tournament, where they lost to Duke. They received a bid to NCAA tournament as the No. 4 seed in the East region, where they were upset in the First Round by Furman.
167 | Graduated | |||||||
233 | Graduated | |||||||
200 | Graduated/undrafted in 2023 NBA draft; signed with the Denver Nuggets[1] | |||||||
236 | Graduated | |||||||
Chase Coleman | 165 | Walk-on; became UVA graduate assistant coach | ||||||
Kadin Shedrick | 231 | Transferred to Texas[2] | ||||||
254 | Graduate transferred to Santa Clara[3] | |||||||
Isaac Traudt | 229 | Transferred to Creighton[4] |
Andrew Rohde | 202 | 3 | October 1, 2023[5] | |||||||
242 | 1 | October 1, 2023[6] | ||||||||
Jake Groves | 211 | 1 | October 1, 2023[7] |
Dean and Markel Families Head Coach | 15 | 15 | ||||
Jason Williford | Associate head coach | 6 | 15 | |||
Assistant Coach | 1 | 10 | ||||
Orlando Vandross | Assistant Coach | 6 | 9 | |||
Director of Scouting | 3 | 9 | ||||
Larry Mangino | Director of player development | 3 | 8 | |||
Johnny Carpenter | Director of player personnel | 6 | 9 | Virginia | ||
Graduate assistant | 3 | 3 | Virginia | |||
Mike Curtis | Strength and conditioning coach | 15 | 15 | Virginia | Richmond, VA | |
Ethan Saliba | Head Athletic Trainer | 26 | 41 | |||
Ronnie Wideman | Associate AD for Basketball Administration/Operations | 14 | 15 |
|-!colspan=12 style=""| Regular season|-!colspan=12 style=""| ACC tournament|-!colspan=12 style=""| NCAA tournament[8]
See also: 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings. *AP does not release post-NCAA Tournament rankings