With the hiring of Richard Pitino, Xavier is abandoning its long-held Pack Line principles in favor of an aggressive, high-pressure defensive system built on disruption, deflections, and relentless ...

Visitors to Virginia's basketball practices will notice an arc taped to the floor, about 4 feet closer than the 3-point line. Like almost everything Cavaliers coach Tony Bennett does, the line is not ...

LYNCHBURG — Watching basketball has gotten progressively less fun for Ryan Kemrite over the past three years. The senior guard is the only player on Liberty’s roster that got there before head coach ...

The Pack Line was born. How do they work? The Pack Line is what experts call a gap defense. Defenders pack in close to the paint, cutting off driving lines and relying heavily on help defense and ...

If you’re a Virginia sports fan, who does the following quotes remind you of? “We are building the foundation for an amazing program that will win consistently at the University of Virginia.” Or … ...

LINCOLN — Nebraska’s style of defense in its 70-65 men’s basketball victory at Florida State didn’t surprise FSU coach Leonard Hamilton. “We see it,” he said. “Virginia plays the same way.” The ...

For the better part of three decades, Virginia Tech has been renowned for its Lunch Pail defense, the nickname for longtime coordinator Bud Foster’s consistently suffocating unit. For the past nine ...