Contests with 15 postseason participants, including the defending champions of the NCAA Tournament and the WNIT, highlight a 30-game schedule that opens at John Paul Jones Arena on Nov. 14 with High Point.

Whether she likes it or not, Wright suddenly finds herself learning how to be a team leader.

Val Ackerman, a former women’s basketball player at Virginia, will receive the 2008 John W. Bunn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in September.

According to a release from the University of Tennessee, the Lady Vols and coach Pat Summit will host Virginia on Nov. 17 in Thompson-Boling Arena at 7 p.m.

Debbie Ryan has been in our Hall of Fame for years.

Sharnee Zoll, a former Virginia women’s basketball star, was invited to the WNBA Draft in Palm Harbor, Fla., at 1 p.m. on Wednesday. Zoll was one of 20 players invited to attend the festivities, a direct sign of interest in the point guard following the professional league’s two-day pre-draft camp, which was held Friday and Saturday in Tampa.

For Virginia women’s basketball coach Debbie Ryan, it was a season of returns.

It hit Sharnee Zoll on Senior Day.
It pulls at coach Debbie Ryan’s heart almost daily.
The thoughts of a pair of would-be seniors that are not along for the NCAA Tournament ride were rekindled throughout the program Sunday night once it was official that the next opponent would be Old Dominion.