The timestamp on the email from the UVA Basketball SID announcing that the school was cutting ties with Ron Sanchez was 5:00 p.m. ET on the dot.

#TeamAFP’s Scott German noted that the FlightAware flight-tracking app had the team in the air over the Virginia-North Carolina border as the email was going out.

Sanchez didn’t learn his fate by email in the air or when the plane landed in Charlottesville, in case you were wondering.

Our contacts down in Charlotte described the scene after Virginia’s 66-60 loss to Georgia Tech that bounced the ‘Hoos from the ACC Tournament and ended the 2024-2025 season.

From what we were told, Sanchez was ushered into a room ahead of his postgame presser for a quick meeting.

We don’t know who else was in the room, but we can presume it was the athletics director, Carla Williams.

Sanchez was later than usual to the presser, and from a look at the video on YouTube, and a read of the transcript, he knew what was up.