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Message: [QUOTE="Dillon77, post: 3472864, member: 6620"] Joanne Boyle did have two good runs on separate coasts before coming back to the ACC at UVA. I thought that would work out better, given her coaching days in Richmond and playing days at Duke (where she averaged 13 ppg her senior year btw). I don't know if she "cratered" per se at Charlottesville, as much as she got stuck in neutral, going 129-99 overall, with a 53-61 ACC record. Her last year the Wahoos made the NCAA and, if memory holds, they beat California in the opening round. The, of course, she retired to tend to the matter of ensuring her daughter could stay in the U.S. That 17-18 team was led by one of her better recruiting classes that included Jocelyn Willoughby, Domique Toussaint and Lisa Jablonowski. Willoughby made the All-ACC team as a senior, but the team finished 13-17, the second straight losing season for Tina Thompson. There are some decent young guards but nothing that screams "we're making serious progress here." I wondered about the Thompson hire when it was made (no head coaching experience, primary contacts in Texas) and am still not sure about it. @uconnhusky and I have talked about the inroads UVA used to have on the I-95 corridor and that just seems to have been ceded to Maryland and others over the years. [/QUOTE]