{"id":2076,"date":"2022-03-26T03:37:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T03:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/virginia-guard-malachi-poindexter-enters-transfer-portal-sports-illustrated\/"},"modified":"2022-03-26T03:37:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T03:37:30","slug":"virginia-guard-malachi-poindexter-enters-transfer-portal-sports-illustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/26\/virginia-guard-malachi-poindexter-enters-transfer-portal-sports-illustrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Guard Malachi Poindexter Enters Transfer Portal &#8211; Sports Illustrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"m-detail-header--image-attribution\">Photo courtesy of Matt Riley\/Virginia Athletics Communications<\/span><br \/>The sophomore guard appeared in 19 games this season<br \/>Virginia sophomore guard Malachi Poindexter has entered the transfer portal, as reported by Verbal Commits on Friday morning.&#xA0;<br \/>A native of Mineral, Virginia, who attended St. Anne&apos;s-Belfield in Charlottesville, Poindexter walked on to the UVA men&apos;s basketball team as a first year in the 2020-2021 season.&#xA0;<br \/>This season, Poindexter was a surprising key contributor off the bench, appearing in 19 games and scoring 19 points. He played double-digit minutes in five games this season, including 13 minutes in Virginia&apos;s victory at Duke on February 7th.&#xA0;<br \/>Poindexter averaged 1.0 point per game, shot 50.0% from the field on 16 attempts, and 37.5% from three on eight attempts. He scored a career-high seven points in Virginia&apos;s 82-49 win over Fairleigh Dickinson in December.&#xA0;<br \/>See more Virginia men&apos;s basketball news and content: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/virginia\/basketball\">Virginia Men&apos;s Basketball on Sports Illustrated<\/a><br \/>See more Virginia sports news and content: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/virginia\/\">Virginia Cavaliers on Sports Illustrated<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/virginia\/all-sports\/debbie-ryan-commends-hiring-of-amaka-agugua-hamilton\">Debbie Ryan: Coach Mox &quot;was an excellent choice&quot; for UVA Women&apos;s Basketball<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/virginia\/all-sports\/amaka-agugua-hamilton-introduced-as-uva-womens-basketball-head-coach\">Amaka Agugua-Hamilton Introduced as Virginia Women&apos;s Basketball Head Coach<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/virginia\/basketball\/tony-bennett-gives-final-thoughts-on-uva-basketball-season\">Tony Bennett Gives Final Thoughts on 2021-2022 Virginia Basketball Season<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/virginia\/football\/uva-football-nfl-pro-day-jelani-woods-joey-blount-impress-nfl-scouts\">Virginia Football NFL Pro Day: Jelani Woods Continues to Raise Draft Stock<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/virginia\/basketball\/virginia-falls-to-st-bonaventure-52-51\">Late Free Throw Misses Doom Virginia in 52-51 Loss to St. Bonaventure<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/virginia\/football\/virginia-football-first-spring-practice-armstrong-elliott-davis\">Watch: Tony Elliott and Brennan Armstrong Speak Following Virginia&apos;s First Spring Practice<\/a><br \/>Matt Newton is the managing editor and publisher of Cavaliers Now. Follow him on Twitter @mattynewtss<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/virginia\/basketball\/malachi-poindexter-enters-transfer-portal\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo courtesy of Matt Riley\/Virginia Athletics CommunicationsThe sophomore guard appeared in 19 games this seasonVirginia sophomore guard Malachi Poindexter has entered the transfer portal, as reported by Verbal Commits on Friday morning.&#xA0;A native of Mineral, Virginia, who attended St. Anne&apos;s-Belfield in Charlottesville, Poindexter walked on to the UVA men&apos;s basketball team as a first year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}