Virginia women's basketball Coach Debbie Ryan must be a genius.
Her squad now holds sole possession of first place in the ACC after a disparaging 4-4 start to the season. This turnaround was not a chance occurrence divined by a higher power, but a calculated maneuver by a coach in tune with her team.
Coach Ryan had a plan when she scheduled her team to face the toughest competition in the country right from the start. The Cavs opened against St. Joseph's, the defending Atlantic 10 champion, and were handed a discouraging 73-61 loss that dropped Virginia out of the AP Top 25 for the first time in 183 weeks, a streak which began in fall of 1990.
Just two weeks later, the Cavalier women traveled down to Chapel Hill, N.C. to face perennial powerhouse Duke, who dealt them another defeat, 83-62.
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