For much of Wednesday night’s game against South Florida, very little of what Calvin Baker did on the court was very pretty or seemed to come easy.

The Virginia player whom VMI coach Duggar Baucom was talking about first in the wake of his team’s 107-97 loss on Sunday was Sammy Zeglinski.

Well, maybe this year’s strain of injury virus won’t be as vicious as some Virginia basketball fans feared.

“We’re OK. We’re not 100 percent,“ Virginia coach Dave Leitao said.

Tristan Spurlock, a small forward from Montrose Christian, is set to become a Cavalier.

Will Harris’ days at Virginia could be over.

“He’s definitely an NBA player,” said Jared Dudley, who was in Charlottesville last week for the NBA Top 100 Camp. “He just needs to work on some things — like getting people more involved. He has the time to do it. If he has to go overseas for a couple of years — you do that — but I’m hoping the best for him.”

Bulls guard Ben Gordon, who was in Charlottesville on Monday afternoon to speak at Virginia’s annual Elite Camp, doesn’t have a feel for who Bulls general manager John Paxson plans to select with the No. 1 overall pick.

Beginning this afternoon, the Virginia coaching staff will have another chance to reel in some talent when the Elite Camp reconvenes at John Paul Jones Arena. An estimated 75 percent of the campers in attendance will go on to play Division I basketball.

When Virginia basketball coach Dave Leitao visits U.S. military troops in Iraq this week, he hopes to bring them a little piece of home.

The former star Cavalier basketball player, who left school a year early in 1974 to play in the ABA and eventually the NBA, will deliver his talk, “The Long Way Home: Gus Gerard’s Path to Recovery,” at 7 p.m.  in the Newcomb Hall Ballroom.

That was the backdrop for a story that began to circulate in San Antonio over the weekend that said Virginia coach Dave Leitao might have interest in taking over the job at Providence.
Leitao, who is in San Antonio with his staff at the Final Four, seemed taken aback by the rumor.

When Dave Leitao walked out of Virginia’s locker room the night that the Cavaliers’ basketball season came to an uneventful close last week, he chose his last words carefully.