#19 Orange Travel to Charlottesville Sunday

No. 19 Syracuse basketball (21-4, 11-3 ACC) heads to Charlottesville, Va., to face Virginia (12-12, 4-9 ACC) on Sunday, Feb. 18, inside John Paul Jones Arena. Tip-off is set for 2 p.m. on ACC Network with Jay Alter '16 and Kelly Gramlich on the call.

The Orange are coming off a 71-60 victory at Miami Thursday night. Junior guard Georgia Woolley scored a season-high 24 points in the win, while graduate guard Alaina Rice scored her 1,000^th career point, joining Woolley as the second Orange player to hit 1,000 career points this season. SU led from the opening basket and never trailed. Syracuse built a 17-point lead, but the Hurricanes were able to cut it to five in the fourth quarter. Two big three-pointers by Dyaisha Fair held off three late Miami run as Syracuse earned its 11^th ACC win of the season. The Orange have won four-straight games and are seeking their sixth ACC road win on Sunday.

Virginia had its bye this Thursday and have not played since a win versus Wake Forest last Sunday. The Cavaliers won, 87-79, behind a 23-point performance from Kymora Johnson and a 22-point showing from Olivia McGhee. Johnson, a freshman guard from Charlottesville, Va., leads the team in scoring, averaging 15.1 points per game. She's a strong defensive player for the Hoos with 40 steals on the season.

Sunday marks the 16^th matchup for the Orange and the Cavaliers, last competing against each other on Jan. 26, 2023. 'Cuse was victorious, 90-72, inside the JMA Wireless Dome in a game that Dyaisha Fair tied a then-program record eight threes and had a season-high 36 points.

SU leads the all-time series, 10-5, including winning eight of the last 10 matchups. The last UVA win in the series was Feb. 2, 2020, in Charlottesville. Syracuse is 2-3 all time on the road against the Cavaliers.

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Dyaisha Fair

Alaina Rice

Georgia Woolley

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