The 2020–21 Virginia Cavaliers women's basketball team represented the University of Virginia during the 2020–21 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Cavaliers were led by third year head coach Tina Thompson, and played their home games at John Paul Jones Arena as members the Atlantic Coast Conference.

On January 14, 2021, it was announced that the team would end their season due to COVID-19 concerns. Virginia was the second team in the Atlantic Coast Conference to suspend their season, after Duke did so on December 25, 2020.

The Cavaliers finished the season 0–5, and 0–2 in ACC play. Due to their season cancellation they did not participate in the ACC tournament, NCAA tournament or WNIT.

Previous season The 2019–20 Cavaliers finished the season 13–17 and 8–10 in ACC play to finish in ninth place. As the ninth seed in the ACC tournament, they lost to Syracuse in Second Round. The NCAA tournament and WNIT were cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Offseason

Departures Name Number Pos. Height Year Hometown Reason for departure Dominique Toussaint 4 G 5'9" Senior Staten Island, NY Graduated Shemera Williams 10 G 5'8" Freshman Milwaukee, WI Transferred to USC Jocelyn Willoughby 13 G/F 6'0" Senior East Orange, NJ Graduated Lisa Jablonowski 14 F 6'3" Senior Ernster, Luxembourg Graduated Kylie Kornegay-Lucas 15 G 5'10" Freshman Camden, DE Transferred Felicia Aiyeotan 30 C 6'9" Senior Lagos, Nigeria Graduated

Incoming transfers Name Number Pos. Height Year Hometown Previous school London Clarkson 34 F 6'2" Sophomore Pflugerville, TX Florida State Emily Maupin 35 F 6'3" Graduate Student Charlottesville, VA Liberty

Recruiting class

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Roster

Schedule

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!colspan=9 style="background:#00214E; color:#F56D22;"|Non-conference regular season

!colspan=9 style="background:#00214E; color:#F56D22;"|ACC regular season

Rankings

+ Regular season pollsPoll Pre-Season Week2 Week3 Week4 Week5 Week6 Week7 Week8 Week9 Week10 Week11 Week12 Week13 Week14 Week15 Week16 Final AP Coaches + Legend   Increase in ranking   Decrease in ranking   Not ranked previous week (RV)   Received Votes

See also 2020–21 Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball team

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