UVA Basketball Northeastern game at John Paul Jones Arena, Digi Mart USA News: The UVA Basketball team already has one win in CAA play, with its 89-60 victory over Drexel on Tuesday.
On Friday, the ninth-ranked ‘Hoos can get to 2-0 against the Conference Formerly Known as the Colonial with Northeastern coming to JPJ. Drexel was picked ninth in the CAA in the preseason poll of the league’s coaches, while Northeastern was picked to finish 11th.
The Huskies do have one player who made the All-CAA preseason team, grad-student guard Rashad King. King had 21 points (8-of-14 FG, 1-of-7 3FG) in 29 minutes in Northeastern’s 93-85 loss to Boston U.
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King, a 6-foot-6, 204-pound guard, has an unusual path. He was at Northeastern for three years, averaging 18.5 points per game in the 2024-2025 season, before transferring to LSU for his senior season.
He averaged 5.8 points per game there as a rotation piece in 2025-2026. He is back for a fifth year after winning a court injunction.
Dorian Grosber, a 6-foot-6 sophomore, had 18 points (6-of-14 FG, 3-of-7 3FG) in the season opener. Brayden Young, a 6-foot-10 sophomore who transferred in from Loyola-Chicago, had 13 points and four rebounds.
The rotation has size, as everybody is 6-foot-4 or taller.
Northeastern did not rebound well in the loss to Boston U., posting a 60.0% defensive rebound rate and a 22.6% offensive rebound rate. The Huskies also struggled from three, shooting 6-of-23 (26.1%), though they got the ball to the rim (8-of-10, 80.0%) and into the lane (16-of-22, 72.7%).
