With the hiring of Richard Pitino, Xavier is abandoning its long-held Pack Line principles in favor of an aggressive, high-pressure defensive system built on disruption, deflections, and relentless ...

UVA Basketball, which hangs its hat on its Pack Line defense, is giving up 4.7 more points per game this season than it did last. You can easily argue that the main reason Virginia is sitting at 9-11 ...

Visitors to Virginia's basketball practices will notice an arc taped to the floor, about 4 feet closer than the 3-point line. Like almost everything Cavaliers coach Tony Bennett does, the line is not ...

The Pack Line was born. How do they work? The Pack Line is what experts call a gap defense. Defenders pack in close to the paint, cutting off driving lines and relying heavily on help defense and ...

Citing a lack of length, the Virginia women’s basketball team only resembled its men’s program for just over a month last season. It was around mid-December when Joanne Boyle’s Cavaliers stopped with ...