On the men’s basketball board, IkimHoo (and maybe others) asked about the upcoming contest with Stanford in the Cancun Challenge. Here’s what Oral Roberts coach Scott Sutton and UVa coach Tony Bennett said about the match-up:

“Well, I think Virginia has a lot more weapons on offense, a lot more athletic, got a little bit more size. That’s one thing. I thought their size hurt us tonight – [Mike ] Scott and then the big fella [Assane Sene] came in and I thought played pretty well for the first time out [this season],” Sutton said.

“All we are worried about right now is Stanford. I’m pretty familiar with Landry Fields. He is terrific. I watched the Stanford game and they were a bit off in that game that I watched but they’re capable. They’ll be solid. They’re used to playing against good teams and hopefully we’ll play a solid brand of basketball,” Bennett said. “It is our fourth, fifth game in as much time so I almost feel like we’re an NBA team with our schedule so we won’t have had a lot rest. We still need to be energized when we come out though and I hope we continue to establish the right kinds of things – some soundness on both sides of the floor. At one point we were moving a little quick so that is when I took those timeouts just to tell the guys ‘Hey, let’s calm down.’ We also took a couple of quick 3’s that hurt us so when we play against bigger teams, we are going to have to bring it from the start. We can’t afford to be soft on the glass. We can’t be sluggish at the start. We’re going to need to play closer to 40 minutes than maybe we have.”

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