The stage directions would have read “Enter stage left” and then, immediately thereafter, “Exit stage right.”

“I have no idea,” Debbie Ryan said after Virginia dispatched East Carolina 80-67 in its last contest on Dec. 6. “I haven’t even thought about it because you can’t.“

Common sense would indicate that Colorado coach Kathy McConnell-Miller, a 1989 graduate of Virginia, would steal a page from Old Dominion’s cheat sheet in her return trip to Charlottesville tonight.

In the wee hours of the morning Tuesday, former Virginia point guard Sharnee Zoll rolled out of bed and turned on her computer.

No. 15 Virginia used an impressive debut performance from its freshmen and a solid second half from Wooden Award candidate Monica Wright, rolling past High Point 78-48 in the season opener at John Paul Jones Arena on Friday night.

Monica Wright could not help but laugh.

In the blink of an eye, Debbie Ryan watched as 10 players raced from one end of the practice court to the other and back.

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

Lyndra Littles awoke Monday around 7 a.m. — far earlier than she expected or preferred — to a chipper voice in her hotel room.