Commentary
The Virginia women's basketball program said its public goodbye on Sunday to University Hall.
It would have been nice if this hadn't taken place in an apparent vacuum.
The game was not aired on regional television - which would have been understandable had the choice been made instead to showcase, let's say, Duke and North Carolina.
But given that the two Atlantic Coast Conference heavies squared off on Saturday, one has to wonder where the heads of the powers-that-be were on this.
Sure, coach Debbie Ryan's teams have struggled in recent years - with but one 20-win season in the past five, and just two NCAA tournament wins in that same span.
Even with that run of relative mediocrity - which still featured four appearances in the Big Dance in a five-year stretch - it hasn't been all that long since U Hall was one of the centers of the women's hoops universe.
Ryan's program was a Final Four fixture in the early 1990s - and won six straight regular-season conference titles from 1991 to 1996.
That the Cavs - who went 9-5 at home in 2005-2006 to finish 371-81 overall in University Hall - were closing out an era was worthy of something in the way of TV attention.
- Chris Graham


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