UVA :: DUKE ACC TOURNAMENT FOLLOW

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- After leaving Virginia in February with a sour taste in its mouth, the Duke men's basketball team could say it had payback Saturday night if that was a consideration.

The Blue Devils did not trail at any point in a 59-49 victory in the ACC championship game at the Greensboro Coliseum.

Freshman guard Isaac McKneely gave the Cavaliers a spark with two late 3-pointers, but by then a victory was out of reach. McNeely and Reece Beekman were a combined 8-for-16 and the rest of the team was 8-for-32.

Senior guard Kihei Clark, who was shooting 41.2 percent from the field for the season, was one for nine Saturday night and missed all four of his 3-point attempts.

In a regular-season meeting between the teams, Virginia had beaten Duke 69-62 in overtime in Charlottesville in a game that had a disputed finish.

The Blue Devils thought that freshman Kyle Filopowski was fouled and should have had two free throws at the end of regulation.

"I'm angry still," first-year Duke head coach Jon Scheyer said at the time.

Duke had won eight straight games going into Saturday night's affair, including a Friday win over Miami, 85-78.

"They're [the Blue Devils] playing at a high clip,"; said Bennett after the Cavaliers' semifinal victory over Clemson. "Our game was a battle with them at our place."

Bennett said his team's performance Saturday night was "uncharacteristic"; although UVa kept the Blue Devils'; well under their 72.5 points-per-game; average.

UVA :: NOTRE DAME WRAP UP

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- On an afternoon when Virginia's Kihei Clark was almost certain to break a school record for career assists, the Cavaliers had to wait till the final horn to celebrate Saturday.

Clark broke the record but it had to be scary for UVa fans, who watched Notre Dame's Dane Goodman miss an uncontested 3-point shot as time expired.

The Cavaliers (21-4, 13-3 ACC) led 57-55, when Notre Dame's missed two free throws and the ball was tipped outside.

And that was the final score.

"We knew they were going to miss [intentionally] in the final second," UVa coach Tony Bennett said. "It was the perfect miss."

Mike Brey, who earlier announced that he was retiring as Notre Dame coach after the season, said the Irish "couldn't ask for a better look."

The Irish dropped to 10-17 overall and 2-14 in the ACC.

"I loved how we played; we gave ourselves a chance," said Brey, whose Irish lost to Virginia Tech earlier in the week, 93-87. "Both of our games this week were in tough environments."

There were eight lead changes in the game Saturday and the score was tied on five occasions.

Notre Dame's Nate Laszewski had 18 points and led all scorers. Clark had 15 points to lead the Cavaliers.

"I told Clark that hopefully this was the last time I'll see him," Brey said after the game. "He's the ultimate player. I said, 'You're a big-time winner, man.'

“I'm so impressed with his career."

Clark's four assists Saturday gave him 685 for his career, breaking the UVa record of 683 held by John Crotty, who lives in Florida but made it a point to get to John Paul Jones Arena.

"It was my first game back since the first game at JPJ," said Crotty, who lives in Florida. "It was crazy timing that he broke the record. I made an effort to see him afterwards and shake his hand.

"He is a good kid and very humble and said it took him an extra year. He has been a consistent winner for them."

Clark was able to spend a fifth year with the Cavaliers because of the COVID-19 issue that caused the NCAA to permit an extra year.

"It means a lot, being a point guard," Clark said of the record. "I think assists has a lot to do with being at my position. It's a team award that [teammates] make a lot of shots and I give them credit for that."

Saturday's game was closer than expected, given that UVA was a 12 1/2-point favorite.

"We missed a lot of bunnies, some that were point-blank," Bennett said.

The Cavaliers shot 36.6 percent for the game. They were 19 of 52 from the field and, fortunately for them, the Irish were no better than 20 of-51.

"Our defense held us in there in stretches," Bennett said, "but I've got to watch the film because I also thought they got a lot of open looks."

Clark led the Cavaliers with 15 points, followed by Armaan Franklin with 12 and Reese Beekman with 11.

"Notre Dame has played almost everyone really close," Bennett said, "and they're a dangerous team. Credit to them, but we did not play our best basketball start to finish."

UVA :: DUKE FOLLOW

When Duke's Jon Scheyer took the microphone to start a round of ACC men's basketball coaches Monday, there was little question what the topic would be.

Two days earlier, the Blue Devils had dropped a 69-62 decision to Virginia in overtime. As far as Scheyer was concerned, the game could have ended in regulation.

The Blue Devils felt that Kyle Filipowski was fouled on a dunk attempt and should have gone to the free-throw line with the score tied at 62.

After the officials huddled, they settled on an overtime period.

Scheyer, who is in his first year as Duke head coach after succeeding Mike Krzyzewski, did not feel any better two days later.

"Obviously, that hurts to lose that game," he said Monday."Our guys … battled their asses off for 40 minutes and did some really good things. To put ourself in position to win, it was disappointing."

Virginia (19-4, 11-3) was ranked No. 7 by the Associated Press on Monday while Duke (17-8, 8-6) was dropped out of the rankings for the second straight week.

"I respect the hell out of Tony [Bennett] and what he's done for his program," Scheyer said on an ACC conference call Monday. "Ever since I've been back here on the [Duke] staff, we've had some incredible battles.

"I do wish that 'Flip' got that opportunity at the end. I still would like an explanation of exactly what had happened."

The ACC put out a response Sunday in which it referred to the end of regulation as "an incorrect adjudication of the playing rules."

"I'm angry still," Scheyer said Monday on the ACC's weekly conference call. "I'd be lying if I said I wasn't. All of us have seen the ACC release and I respect them for putting it out.

"Obviously, it doesn't change the outcome that our guys didn't have the opportunity to get a win. You can't get a rule wrong like that."

Duke stands seventh in the ACC rankings, so it wasn't as if the Blue Devils were at peak form prior to Saturday.

The finish to Saturday's game is likely to stick with Scheyer for a while.

"I feel for our guys and not getting verification or transparency after the game of why the rule was called or how you could overturn that. So, for me, it's not OK, so I respect the ACC for pointing that out, but I hurt for our guys because they played their hearts out.

"Their effort was incredible to put ourself in position to win that game."

To Virginia's credit, the Cavaliers had beaten Duke three times in the previous 10 meetings, including a triumph last year in Durham, N.C., when they beat the Blue Devils in the last time they would face Mike Krzyzewski at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

NO PLACE LIKE HOME FOR HOOS AND HOKIES

No matter what oddsmakers might say, there's nothing more revealing than the home-court advantage.

At least when Virginia and Virginia Tech play in men's basketball.

That was the case Saturday at Cassell Coliseum in Blacksburg, where the Hokies prevailed 74-68.

Prior to that, the Cavaliers had defeated the Hokies 78-68 on Jan. 18 in Charlottesville.

In the game at UVa, the Hokies had the ball on five occasions in the final two minutes and didn't get anywhere. On Saturday in Blacksburg, the Cavaliers attempted nine shots from the field in the final 1:44 and it didn't matter.

Not surprisingly, the home team has won the last six games in the series -- three by the Hokies and three by the Cavaliers.

Virginia's last win at Cassell Coliseum came in Mike Young's first year as head coach, when UVa won 64-58 in 2019.

The Cavaliers entered Saturday's game at No. 6 in the polls, only to drop to eighth with the loss. Virginia Tech, the reigning ACC champion, spent two weeks in the AP poll in December, getting as high as 21st.

"What they did a very good job of today was, whenever we had a lapse or a breakdown, they made us pay," UVa coach Tony Bennett said after Saturday's game.

"It was a great college atmosphere. It's fun to compete in that but it's not fun to lose. The heart was there. You've got to be heart and smart. You can't be all heart."

The Hokies were led by point guard Sean Pedulla, who finished with 22 points and forward Justin Mutts, who was 7-of-11 from the field and finished with 17 points and a game-high eight assists.

Justyn Mutts, a 6-foot-7 senior, had 17 points and a game-high eight assists from his forward position.

Mutts, incidentally, comes from the same high school in Millville, N.J. that produced star baseball player Mike Trout, a three-time American League Player of the Year for the Los Angeles Angels.

Jayden Gardner had a team-high 20 points for Virginia on Saturday but two of the Cavaliers' starters, Armann Franklin and Ben Vander Plas, had six points and zero points, respectfully.

Van der Plas, a starter for the sixth straight game, was 0-for-4 from the field. He had gone 0-for-7 from the field in an early season home loss to Houston.

While Franklin was on the floor, the Hokies had a 12-point edge on the Cavaliers.

"They just spread out and worked and made us shoot some contested shots," Bennett said. "Coach [Young] did a good job with them. It was a lively environment, which I knew it would be."

Cory Alexander, a former Virginia standout who was doing commentary on the game, said it appeared that the Hokies were "hungrier" than their guests, generally the case when UVa plays at Cassell.

"John Paul Jones isn't an easy one either," Young said afterward. "That's a loud building and that's part of what makes college basketball great.

' It's hard. It's unnerving but the Hokie fans and the Cassell guard down there. … I think they may have let in a few more students than they were supposed to.

" I think the fire marshall might have been a little upset if they knew the exact numbers. They're (students) here every night and we're so appreciative of them. The Saturday home games … they're coming from Richmond and Portsmouth and Williamsburg.

"It's an awesome college environment."

UVA:: VT ADVANCE

In a series that typically favors the home team, Virginia Tech men's basketball coach Mike Young takes his team to Charlottesville for a 7 p.m. tip-off tonight at John Paul Jones Arena.

The game will be televised on ESPNU

Tenth-ranked UVa enters the game as a 6 1/2-point favorite over a Hokies team that has lost its last five games.

Tech (11-6, 1-5 ACC) was competitive on each occasion. The slump started with a 70-65 overtime loss at Boston College, followed by a 77-75 loss at Wake Forest, a 68-65 home loss to Clemson, a 73-69 home loss to N.C. State and an 82-72 loss at Syracuse.

Virginia (13-3, 5-2) enters the game on a three-game winning streak and is 8-1 at home, with the lone loss occurring Dec. 17, when the Cavaliers fell to then-No. 5 Houston, 69-61 in Charlottesville.

In the most recent meeting between the 'Hoos and Hokies, Tech defeated UVa 62-53 last year at Cassell Coliseum in Blacksburg.

That Hokie team went on to win the ACC championship at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., knocking off North Carolina and Duke before advancing to the NCAA Tournament, where the Hokies were first-round losers to Texas.

Virginia settled for the NIT, where it won two games before falling to St. Bonaventure.

Neither in-state team finished in the Top 25 rankings, with the Hokies ranking 26th in the final poll. UVa was 18th in the preseason poll this year, while the Hokies had one vote.

Mike Young is in his fourth year as the head coach at Tech and has not won at Virginia, although his Hokie teams have played there only once. Another game at John Paul Jones Arena was called off due to coronavirus concerns.

Remarkably, Young had coached against Virginia twice previously, when he was the head coach at Wofford, where he served from 2002-2019, facing former UVa coach Pete Gillen in that first outing.

UVA:: HOUSTON FOLLOW

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- Even though Virginia was a slight underdog Saturday afternoon in its men's

basketball game with Houston, the Cavaliers had a higher ranking and, seemingly, the home court

advantage.

Before a crowd listed at 14,629, Houston prevailed 69-61.

At 8-0, Virginia was ranked second in the country behind fellow unbeaten Purdue while Houston was

fifth at 8-1.

The Cougars; lone setback had come one week earlier in a 71-65 home loss to Alabama.

Virginia got off to a 9-0 start Saturday before a partisan crowd listed at 14,629, but Houston countered

with a 7-0 run. After that, the Cavaliers led only briefly, the last time at 17-16.

There was a glimmer of hope for UVa after a steal by Kihei Clark that cut Houston's lead to 54-48 with

4:06 left and a Kaden Shedrick dunk made it 56-50 with 2:54 on the clock.

The Cavaliers got no closer.

The concern before the game was that junior point guard Reece Beekman would be unavailable after

suffering a strained hamstring Dec. 6 in a 55-50 victory over visiting James Madison.

Beekman started Saturday's game and played more than 33 minutes on an afternoon when only

backcourt mate Kihei Clark saw more time.

He wasn't "100 perfect" UVa coach Tony Bennett said of Beekman, who was 1-for-5 from the field and

finished with four points, five assists and one steal in 33 minutes. "He was pretty good defensively."

All five starters scored in double figures for Houston, which got five points off its bench. The Cougars

shot just under 50 percent from the field, compared to UVa, which was 20-of-48 (41.7 percent) from the

field.

If there was a bright spot for the Cavaliers, it was freshman guard Isaac McNeely , who was 3-for-6 from

3-point range on an afternoon when his teammates were 3-for-16 from beyond arc.

Ben Vander Plas, a graduate transfer from Ohio University who had been a contributor previously, was

0-for-7 from the field, including misses on six 3-point tries.

Virginia could have guessed it would have trouble with Houston, which defeated the Cavaliers last year,

67-47, when UVa had 17 turnovers.

"I think they're [the Cougars] mentally tough and physically tough" Bennett said. "The separater is mentally."

Houston's drop in the polls before Saturday resulted in a 71-65 home loss to Alabama, which put up 44

points on the Cougars in the second half.

"We were 720 percent removed [Saturday] from the way we played against Alabama" Sampson said.

"You're not going to play November basketball much better than we did today.

"We had 17 assists today. I'm not sure we had 17 passes in the last game."

Sampson, 68, previously was a head coach at Washington State, Oklahoma and Indiana and entered this

season with a 709-342 record. UVa coach Tony Bennett coached at Washington State, as did his father,

Dick Bennett.

UVA:: FLORIDA STATE GAME STORY

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- While Virginia had the lead most of the time Saturday against Florida State, a late run by the Seminoles had to bring back scary memories of their most recent meeting to John Paul Jones Arena.

Earlier in the 2022 calendar year, Florida State had beaten Virginia 64-63 last winter on a 55-foot buzzer beater by Matthew Cleveland, a 6-foot-7 freshman.

When the Seminoles arrived at JPJ again Saturday, Cleveland was in the starting lineup and his layup with 16 seconds on the clock made it a four-point game before UVa held on for a 62-57 victory.

"In the handshake line, I said to Matthew Cleveland, 'You're the guy that made the shot against us last year, right?' " UVa coach Tony Bennett said. "And he smiled. I said I felt it might come down to something like that again."

Third-ranked Virginia improved its record to 7-0 while Florida State fell to 1-9. Fifth-ranked Purdue had beaten Florida State 79-69 earlier in the week.

"Forget about the record and we had to move past our last good win, against Michigan," Bennett added. "The way [the Seminoles] guard, that's what makes it very interesting."

UVa led 49-37 with under five minutes remaining but Florida State got as close as 60-57 before the Cavaliers' Reese Beekman hit two free throws with seven seconds left.

He had gone 1-for-7 from the field before that but had contributed five of UVa's seven assists.

"He's now in his third year of playing … a lot," Bennett said. "In the Michigan game -- the first half -- he was terrific. He kept us in it. There's only a handful of guys that can control a game and dominate and that experience doesn't matter.

"Experience matters … certainly. Reese's experience in many games and the work he has put in has certainly shown."

Virginia improved its record against Florida State to 27-28, including 16-11 at John Paul Jones Arena.

Hamilton has been the Seminoles' head coach since 2002 and was the head coach at Miami from 1990-2020.

"I've been a fan of Virginia basketball for many years," Hamilton said. "When coach [Terry] Holland was here, he was a guy that I got to know and respect."

Hamilton singled out two Virginia players from Louisville, Jeff Lamp and Lee Raker.

"I've always had a tremendous amount of respect for what Virginia Cavalier basketball stands for," Hamilton added. Tony has done a tremendous job of developing a system offensively and defensively. It works for them."

Without complaining, Hamilton said the Cavaliers did a good job of getting to the free-throw line, where they were 21-for-26. Florida State was 9-for-9.

"In the second half, we showed signs of fatigue," Hamilton said. "We didn't have the same level of rotation that we're accustomed to having. It's the first time we've had a team without any third- or fourth-year players.

"Our oldest players have been here for two years. With the experience Tony's team has, they exploited our inexperience."

Virginia has four seniors who played 20 minutes or more Saturday -- Jayden Gardner, Kihei Clark, Armaan Franklin and Ben Vander Plas. Junior Reece Beekman played more than 31 minutes.

Vander Plas is in his sixth year of college, including a freshman year at Ohio University, where he sat out the 2017-18 season with a knee injury.

"This is an exciting place to play," Hamilton said after Saturday's game. "The fans are all involved and I love having the band down by my bench. It's really nice. I enjoy the drums. That's my favorite part of it."

Before leaving, what he really could have used was another 50-foot shot.

"We needed about three or four of those," Hamilton said. "We practiced those shots the other day and I would have loved to have the opportunity to use it, but I can't say how impressed I am with Virginia's team and the job Tony is doing."

UVA:: ST. BONAVENTURE GAME STORY

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- As one Virginia men's basketball player was ending his season with a flourish, Tuesday, two veteran teammates had the kind of finish they were unlikely to remember fondly.

Seniors Kihei Clark and Kody Stattman each went 0-for-7 from the field as the Cavaliers were unable to hold off St. Bonaventure, a 52-51 winner in the NIT quarterfinals at John Paul Jones Arena.

The Cavaliers, who finished 21-14, could not make the most of a 17-point performance by Armaan Fletcher, a transfer from Indiana who was 5-of-11 on 3-point attempts. The rest of his teammates were a combined 0-for-8 on 3's.

Franklin finished with a team-high 17 points on a night when UVa's only other double-figure scorer was Jayden Gardner, who had transferred to UVa from East Carolina.

Virginia had led 51-47 following a Franklin free throw with 30 seconds remaining but the Bonnies countered with a 3-pointer by Dominic Welsh with 21 seconds left.

Welch had gone 3-for-11 from the field up to that point, including 1-for-6 on 3-pointers.

The killer for Virginia was free-throw shooting, with Gardner missing the front end of a 1-and-1 free-throw opportunity with 18 seconds left.

Another crusher was a fifth foul that sent UVa point guard Reece Beekman to the bench with 1:38 remaining and UVa leading 50-47.

"When you get into these kind of games, every little thing matters," UVa coach Tony Bennett was quick to point out."

Beekman had six points, six rebounds and six assists but also had a team-high four turnovers.

"Credit to Saint Bonaventure," Bennett said to media following the game. "They have five seniors and played like experienced seniors. They made all their big free throws [9 for 9] and they made two tough threes."

The Bonnies were 3 of 15 on 3-pointers for the night, including an 0-for-7 performance from beyond the arc in the first half.

St. Bonaventure improved its record to 23-9 as Virginia fell to 21-14.

St. Bonaventure had knocked off the top rated team in the NIT field, Oklahoma, before coming to Charlottesville. Virginia and the Bonnies had never met in men's basketball, although coach Mark Schmidt had faced UVa at the Cavaliers' old home, University Hall when he was at Robert Morris.

"We had a disappointment against St. Louis in the Atlantic-10 Tournament," Schmidt said. "I sat the seniors down after we got back and asked if they wanted to play in the NIT.

"And, I gave them 12 hours to decide and give me a call back and let me know because I didn't want to go into the NIT if our five seniors didn't want to play. They said they were all in.

" Then, we got that bracket and they sent us to Colorado and, if we won, we'd be going to Colorado and, if we won again, we'd be going to Virginia. If you'd told that we'd be here and we'd be going to Madison Square Garden, I would have thought you were a fool."

They were up to the challenge.

"It was a rock fight," Schmidt said. "We got down 50-45 with under two minutes left and usually when you play Virginia and you're down by five, it's like you're down by 15. It was tough. We travelled 1,400 miles and played in altitude [at Colorado] but never wavered."

UVA:: ST. BONAVENTURE PREVIEW

For the second time in three days, Virginia will be facing a men's basketball opponent tonight that it has never met.

This time, it's St. Bonaventure, which comes to John Paul Jones Arena for a 7 p.m. tipoff in the quarterfinals of the National Invitation Tournament.

The Bonnies (22-9) are coming off a 70-68 road victory over NIT No. 1 seed Oklahoma after winning at Colorado five days earlier, 76-68.

Virginia will have its eyes out for Bonnies senior Jaren Holmes, who had 23 points against Oklahoma, his fourth game with 20 points or more. He enters tonight's game with 995 points in his career.

UVa's Jayden Gardner, who began his college career at East Carolina, needs 15 points for 2,000.

The Bonnies are making their 17th NIT appearance and were in the NCAA Tournament as recently as last year. St. Bonaventure, sometimes referred to as Bona, has traveled 5,559 in its three NIT games this year.

The Bonnies' roster includes 6-10 Osun Osunniyi from New Jersey, , 6-9 Oluwsegun Durosinmim from Nigeria, 6-8 Pedro Rossi from Argentina, 6-9 Justin Ndjock-Tadjore from Quebec, Abdoul Karim Coulibal from Mali, as well as 6-8 Anouar Mellouk and 6-3 Joryam Saizonou from the Netherlands..

Mellouk played at Fork Union Military Academy, not far from the UVa grounds.

Mark Schmidt is in his 14th season as the Bonnies' coach after six seasons at Robert Morris, which lost the 2004-5 opener to a UVa team coached by Pete Gillen.

"He's a great coach," Gillen said early Wednesday, adding in typical Gillen fashion. "He's got more plays than Shakespeare."

The Cavaliers (21-13) were favorites in their first two NIT appearances this year, slipping past Mississippi State 60-57 in Charlottesville before holding off North Texas State 71-69 in overtime in Denton, Texas.

The winner of tonight's game will advance to the NIT semifinals next Tuesday at Madison Square Garden against either second-seeded Colorado or fourth-seeded Vanderbilt.

Virginia won NIT championships in 1980 and 1992, the second one with current UVa assistant Jason Williford as a player.

UVA:: MISSISSIPPI STATE RECAP

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- No excuses were required when Virginia began postseason play Wednesday in the National Invitation Tournament.

The Cavaliers played host to a Southeastern Conference team, Mississippi State, with victories over Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina, as well as NCAA Tournament-bound Richmond.

Virginia, a three-point favorite Wednesday night, held on for a 60-57 victory over the Bulldogs at John Paul Jones Arena.

UVa will meet North Texas, nicknamed the Mean Green, at 6 p.m. Sunday in the Dallas suburb of Denton Texas.

North Texas (25-6) advanced with a 67-63 overtime victory over Texas State.

Remarkably, UVa and North Texas have played before, when the Cavaliers won 80-64 at John Paul Jones Arena in 2012.

Virginia (20-13) held the lead for more than 36 minutes Tuesday night against Mississippi State, which pulled as close as 54-53 on a Garrison Brooks 3-pointer with 2:44 remaining.

It was one of three 3's by Brooks, who previously had played at John Paul Jones Arena before transferring to Mississippi State from North Carolina.

Virginia ranks 342nd out of 350 Division I teams in made 3-pointers game (4.9) and 268th in 3-point accuracy (31.8) The Cavaliers got a huge lift when a struggling Armann Franklin connected from the wing to give the Cavaliers a 57-53 lead with 1:51 left.

Never mind that it was the NIT. A crowd listed at 5,278 roared as the Cavaliers improved their record to 20-12 as Mississippi State fell to 19-16.

It was not lost on Bennett that the Cavaliers had reached the 20-win level. After winning 20 games or more in nine straight seasons, including four seasons of 30 wins or more, the Cavaliers dropped to 18-7 during a Covid-plagued 2019-20 season.

"It's hard," Bennett said of the 20-win level. "It's hard to get wins . This year, it's a newer group. I know we've had some 30-win seasons and what we've done. What this group accomplished with the way we started [and] up to this point, it's nothing to scoff at and I don't take that for granted."

After Bennett spoke to the media, Mississippi State coach Ben Howland, whose future had been in question, was quick to praise Bennett and his father, Dick Bennett, who was the head coach at Washington State when Howland was the coach at UCLA.

It was announced Thursday that he would not be retained.

UVA:: AHEAD OF MISSISSIPPI STATE

Despite a 34-year lapse, memories of the last Virginia-Mississippi State men's basketball game persist.

The Bulldogs (18-15) are headed to Charlottesville to face Virginia (19-13) on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in a first-round National Invitational Tournament game.

It will be the first meeting between the teams since Dec. 29, 1988, when Mississippi State defeated Virginia 86-84 in an event tied to the USF&G Sugar Bowl.

That was the second of five straight losses for the Cavaliers, who had gone 7-1 to start the year.

Virginia's head coach was Terry Holland, whose starting lineup included the likes of Bryant Stith, whose number was later retired, as well as the guard tandem of John Crotty and Richard Morgan.

"That game got us ready for the spring run we made in the 1989 NCAA Tourney," Crotty said in a text-exchange earlier this week. "I think Bourbon Street wore me out a little as well."

The Cavaliers were coming off a 13-18 season in 1987-88, their first losing season since 1976-77, one year after winning their first ACC Tournament.

Virginia had lost to 13th-ranked Seton Hall, 84-67 in the first round of the USF&G tournament.

Mississippi State's head coach at the time was Richard Williams, who would be there for 12 years before he was replaced by Rick Stansbury.

The current Mississippi State coach is Ben Howland, whose return for the 2022-2023 season is uncertain, although he will remain at the helm as long as Mississippi State is alive in the NIT.

Howland previously has served as head coach at Northern Arizona, UCLA and Pittsburgh. He took UCLA to the Final Four on three occasions, 2006-2008.

Mississippi State, which is playing in Charlottesville for the first time, is 2-1 against the Cavaliers. UVa's only win against the Bulldogs, 81-68, was in Owensboro, Ky., in 1963, against first-year Cavaliers' coach Bill Gibson.

UVA:: UNC AT THE ACC TOURNAMENT

BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- By the time North Carolina had polished off Virginia on Thursday night, it was easy to forget that the Cavaliers had won a game in the ACC Tournament.

One night after holding off Louisville in a first-round game, the Cavaliers had few answers for UNC, which led by as many as 24 points in a 63-43 victory at Barclays Center.

Even before the game, Virginia's chances for an NCAA Tournament berth were seen as iffy. The Cavaliers were 19-12 after a 51-50 victory over Louisville on Wednesday night.

Against North Carolina, Virginia led 7-6 following a Reece Beekman 3-pointer in the opening minutes but UVa was 3-for-11 on 3-pointers for the night and shot 34.6 percent overall.

"I was frustrated with myself," UVa coach Tony Bennett said. "I didn't do a great job trying to find different ways for our team to maybe get some more space or get better shots.

"Probably this was one of the newest teams that I've coached. The guys rallied and had some big wins [but] we were always on that fine line. I think they did a pretty good job most of the year, but it stings right now. We got humbled against a team that played really good basketball."

Brady Manek, a bearded transfer from Oklahoma, had three early 3-pointers for UNC

and finished with 21 points to lead all scorers.

On top of everything else, Justin McKoy, who had transferred from UVa following the 2020-21 season, came off the bench and contributed five points and five rebounds in 16 1/2 minutes.

Jayden Gardner, a transfer from East Carolina, was 8 of 16 from the field and finished with 17 points on a night when UVa had no other double-figure scorers.

It was the lowest point total of the season for the Cavaliers, who had lost at Houston 67-47 on Nov. 16.

North Carolina had beaten Virginia by a much more reasonable margin, 74-58, on Jan. 8 in Chapel Hill N.C., but the Cavaliers weren't the only team that an improving Carolina team had feasted upon.

On March 5, with Duke honoring coach Mike Krzyzewski on his final home game at Cameron Indoor Stadium, North Carolina won going away, 94-81.

Virginia had beaten then-No. 7 Duke, 69-68, in Durham, N.C.

"The guys rallied and had some big wins and had some right there," Bennett said. "We were always on that fine line. Even the good teams are but the margin of error for this team was probably a little smaller than most."

UVA::LOUISVILLE STORY

BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- Having lost one recent game to a last-second heave, the last thing Virginia needed Wednesday night was a repeat.

Louisville's El Ellis hit a 3-pointer with less than one second remaining but the Cavaliers had just enough room to spare in a 51-50 victory in the ACC Tournament at Barclay's Center.

This time, it was Louisville's Noah Locke who hit a game-tying 3-pointer to make it 45-45 with under two minutes remaining.

"Reece [Beekman] made a heck off a drive to put us up four [with 40.3 seconds left]," UVa coach Tony Bennett said. "We made enough plays down the stretch and came up with some key shots."

The Cavaliers improved their record to 14-5 all-time against the Cardinals, coached by former assistant Mike Pegues following the Jan. 26 dismissal of Chris Mack after a six-game suspension.

"All I ever wanted when the transition happened was for our guys to run through the tape, to finish strong, to give it everything they had," said Pegues after Wednesday's game. "And that's exactly what they did, evidenced by our performance tonight."

Louisville ended the season at 13-9 while Virginia improved to 19-12 heading into Thursday's meeting with third-seeded North Carolina, a 74-58 victory over the Cavaliers in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Jan. 8.

"Credit to Louisville," said UVa coach Tony Bennett, whose Cavaliers had won in Louisville only four days earlier, 71-61. "It's hard to beat a team three times. They came ready to play and we knew that."

"They had the momentum; they had the rhythm from having played the night before. We had to match that."

The Cardinals had beaten Georgia Tech 84-74 on Tuesday night at Barclay's Center. Virginia wasn't going to get in that kind of game and found itself trailing 24-20 at the half.

"We struggled to shoot this year at times," Bennett said. "When we played them last time, we knocked down some shots and boy does that do some things as far as opening up the floor. But, you've got to play true to who you are."

"That's where our defense hangs us in there. We made enough plays and made enough free throws [nine of 13] down the stretch. We needed every point, obviously. We call it a knuckle-buster game.

"To me, it's beautiful when a team finds a way. We're going to rely on stops and squeeze out a few points here or there. I'd take that win over d 85-82 loss."

In Carolina, Virginia will be facing a team that defeated Duke 94-81 in Durham, N.C., in the final home game for Blue Devils' coach Mike Krzyzewski.

"It seems like they're [the Tar Heels] peaking at the right time," Bennett said. "It's a great opportunity for us. You want to be healthy and playing good basketball at this time and I think these guys are doing that."

LEADING UP TO BROOKLYN

So much for the impression that Virginia would have the "distinction" of handing Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski his last loss at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

That was before Saturday night, when visiting North Carolina knocked off the Blue Devils 94-81.

Four weeks earlier, Virginia had slipped past Duke 69-68 on a deep 3-pointer by Reece Beekman with 1.1 seconds left.

It was the third of four straight victories for Virginia, but that was hardly a turning point.

UVa subsequently was to lose to Duke at Charlottesville in what was a stretch of three losses in four games.

Next up was a visit to Louisville, where Mike Pegues had taken over as coach following a 64-52 loss at Charlottesville in late January, two days before former coach Chris Mack was suspended for violations and subsequently fired.

The Cardinals, who were 11-9 at the time of their loss at UVa, went 1-8 in their next nine games and were a five-point underdog in their next game against the Cavaliers.

After the first four minutes of the game, the Cardinals led by eight points. With six minutes remaining in the second half, it was still a six-point game.

For the Cavaliers, it came one week after a 64-63 loss to visiting Florida State, when the Seminoles scored on a 30-footer as time expired. The Cavaliers had led by nine points with just over two minutes remaining.

An Achilles heel for the Cavaliers all season has been their 3-point shooting, which has been among the worst, percentage wise, in the country. Against Louisville, the Cavaliers were 7of-12 from behind the arc, led by sophomore Reece Beekman, who was 3-for-3 and finished with 15 points, 12 rebounds, five assists, five steals and a blocked shot

"That's quite a stat line," Bennett said. ."For us, when we can knock down threes, that takes the pressure off."

Beekman, hardly a 3-point threat until the trip to Louisville, acknowledged that he had been working on his outside shooting.

"I feel like I've worked on it more and more as the season's gone on," said Beekman, who is 20 of 58 (34.5 percent) on 3-pointers after 30 games.

Teammates Armaan Franklin and Kihei Clark have 152 and 139 attempts, respectively.

Post player Kadin Shedrick was 8-for-9 from the field and had a team-high 20 points off the bench on a day when UVa used only seven players. A second reserve, senior Kody Stattmann had 11 points in 27 minutes off the bench.

"I couldn't be happier for Kody and the way he played," Bennett said, "and we're going to have to need that."

It was the first time that Stattman, who is from Australia, had played in front of his parents on U.S. soil.

"My time is kind of running out here," Stattmann said, "so I'm jusy trying to to lay it all on the line for my team and my family."

With the win, the Cavaliers (18-12, 12-8) moved into sixth place in the ACC standings and will face the winner of Tuesday's ACC Tournament game in Brooklyn between 11th seeded Louisville and 14-seeded Georgia Tech.

FSU FOLLOW

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- Seldom had Virginia seen the likes of Kihei Clark's opening salvo Wednesday night when he nailed six 3-pointers in the first half against Duke.

The Cavaliers could have used that kind of marksmanship Saturday afternoon.

Clark finished 3-for-16 from the field, missing all four of his 3-point attempts, although Clark and Co. were in position to celebrate Senior Day until, literally, the last second.

After the Cavaliers had taken a two-point lead on an Armaan Franklin jump shot with one second remaining, the Seminoles called a timeout and set up a play that resulted in Matthew Cleveland nailing a game-ending 30-footer as time expired and the Seminoles prevailed 64-63.

Florida State (15-13, 8-10 ACC) had the lead for a total of 3:02. Virginia (17-12, 11-8) led for 35:06.

"Obviously, that was an exceptional shot that Matt made at the end," FSU coach Leonard Hamilton said. "Now, I know you guys [in the media] may find this interesting but we work on that every day.”

"We'll warm up and shoot free throws, then we go into our shooting drills and every day, at the end, we make half-court shots. And that was just one of those shots for us that went in.”

"I told Matt in the locker room [after the game] that we're going to run that play for him about every three times a half."

Cleveland, a 6-foot-7 freshman, had 20 points. Harrison Prieto, a 6-8 redshirt senior, had 14 points and was Florida State's only other double-figure scorer.

Jayden Gardner led the Cavaliers with 21 points and Armann Franklin, who had been struggling with his shooting, had 13 off the bench,

Franklin was 3-for-6 on 3-point attempts and the rest of the team was 1-for-11.

"I think that we kind of broke down on the defensive end [over] the last three or so minutes of the game," Franklin said. "They hit, I think, their last eight shots."

A driving layup by Gardner had given UVa a 56-46 lead with 3:26 remaining.

"I thought we were on the edge all night with our defense and then they started scoring quickly," said UVa coach Tony Bennett, whose Cavaliers end the regular season Saturday at Louisville.

"We've been close on the edge in a lot of games. We've won some close ones. And you can't play with fire like that."

The Cavaliers led 60-56 going into the final minute but were without one of their top defensive players, guard Reece Beekman after he fouled out with 45 seconds left.

It wasn't the first cliffhanger that Florida State had pulled out at John Paul Jonjes Arena. Early in the 2016-17 season, when Dwayne Bacon hit a 3-point shot with four seconds as the Seminoles won 60-58 on New Year's Eve.

Saturday's game was then finale for UVa seniors Cody Stattmann, Clark and Jaiden Nixon, a walk-on. Clark is a four-year starter

"This one will sting for [Clark] but it's just a part of the game, there's nothing guaranteed and it'll hopefully be a lesson and hopefully we'll grow from it," Bennett said. "There's not a whole lot of season left."

MIAMI FOLLOW

Five days after he was heckled by Virginia Tech basketball fans from start to finish, Virginia veteran Kihei Clark showed no signs of abuse Saturday at the Watsco Center in Miami.

With its postseason hopes in the balance, Miami led for almost 20 minutes but was unable to hold off a late Virginia surge as the Cavaliers prevailed 74-71.

Jayden Gardner had a team-high 23 for the Cavaliers and was aided by Clark, who had 17 points, and postman Kadin Shedrick, who had 13 points and 13 rebounds off the bench.

It was UVa's second victory of the season over Miami, a 71-58 victim on Feb. 5 in Charlottesville, where Virginia led by 21 points during one stretch and for a total of 33 minutes and 52 seconds.

"We played a terrific first half, Larranaga was quoted in the Miami Herald after Saturday's game, "but the start of the second half [was when] Virginia really took over. Kihei Clark, in particular, just took over the game.”

"I called the earliest timeout of the season -- and maybe ever -- when I called it with 17 minutes left in the game, but I saw the signs and certainly hoped we could correct it but nothing went well for us for a while."

At the game's conclusion, the teams were in a similar position as both try to work their way into the NCAA Tournament.

The Cavaliers are 17-10 overall and 11-6 in ACC play, with the Hurricanes sitting at 19-8 and 11-5

Clearly, Virginian will face a big obstacle Wednesday night, when ninth-ranked Duke (23-4, 15-2) goes to John Paul Jones Arena.

It's unlikely the Blue Devils have forgotten their first meeting with the Cavaliers, who won 69-68 on Feb. 7 on a 3-pointer by Reece Beekman with 1.1 seconds left.

Beekman, who is more of a ball-handler, had a game-high seven assists for Virginia on Saturday. The Hurricanes had 14 assists for the game.

"Their offense and their defense work very well and that's why we've struggled against them throughout the years."

The Cavaliers improved their all-time record against Miami to 15-12, including six wins in a row.

VIRGINIA TECH FOLLOW

BLACKSBURG -- With its 0-for-9 shooting from 3-point range, Virginia was practically doomed to drop a 62-53 decision Tuesday night at Virginia Tech.

The Hokies were only 5-of-20 from behind the arc, but that was still a 15-point differential.

Virginia currently stands 339th out of 350 FCS programs in made 3-pointers with 5.1 per game.

The Cavaliers are 314th in attempted 3-pointers.

So, they're not particularly comfortable either taking or making 3-pointers and kept hearing "airball" chants, particularly when UVa guard Kihei Clark had the ball.

"Don't shoot an airball, then, I guess, if you don't want them to chant that," UVa coach Tony Bennett said. "That's the moral of the story."

He added, "They had a great homecourt advantage tonight."

Clark was 1-for-9 from the field, including 0-for-5 on 3-pointers and the Cavaliers had a minus-17 factor when Clark was on the floor.

"For him, that was not one of his better games," Bennett said.

Two days earlier, Clark had scored 15 points, including three 3-pointers, in the Cavaliers' 63-53 victory over visiting Georgia Tech.

Preceding that, Clark's backcourt mate, Reece Beekman, had the biggest play of the Cavaliers' season when he hit a 3-pointer with 1.1 seconds remaining in the Cavaliers' 69-68 victory over No. 2 Duke.

In two subsequent games, including a 63-53 Cavaliers' victory over Georgia Tech, Beekman has attempted and missed a total of three 3-pointers.

"We need him to look to score," Bennett said, "but, with all the guys, it's about finding that sweet spot."

When Virginia won the NCAA championship in 2019, the Cavaliers made 321 field goals in 38 games, an average of 8.4 made 3-pointers per game. Through 16 games, UVa is averaging 5.1 made 3-pointers this year.

Freshmen Taine Murray and Igor Milicic have demonstrated 3-point potential but both have played sparingly.

"The guys have played hard to be in this spot where games are important and matter," said Bennett, whose Cavaliers visit Miami on Saturday before a Wednesday home game with Duke, which was ranked No. 2 on the night of a 69-8 loss to visiting UVa in Durham, N.C.

"We had a nice stretch here," said Bennett of the four-game winning streak UVa brought to Blacksburg. UVa led 29-25 at the half Monday and had the lead on several occasions. With 6:47 left in the game, it was still a 44-44 game.

"It was a hard-playing game. We got a little separation on screen and then they bang a '3' and, again, they made some more threes and we couldn’t answer. In other games, we've answered when that's happened.

"Certainly, the crowd had them aroused and playing hard on both ends. They have the ability to shoot but, again, they have [Keve] Aluma who can slash. Scoring-wise, I thought we held [the Hokies] enough to win but we weren't quite right that way."

CHALLENGES FACING TECH AND UVA

For most of Tony Bennett's tenure as Virginia men's basketball coach, the Cavaliers' status was easy to judge by their position in the Associated Press poll.

The Sagarin rankings showed up regularly in USA Today and, of course, there were standings that were made available by the conferences and were easy to find on the Internet.

As a result, I pretty much ignored the so-called NET rankings until I understood their significance.

They stand for NCAA Evaluation Tool. Clearly, they're worth following.

As of Sunday morning, Virginia (16-9, 10-5 ACC) was ranked 77th, up from 80th after its 63-53 victory Saturday over visiting Georgia Tech.

The Cavaliers will travel to Blacksburg for a 7:30 p.m. game Monday with Virginia Tech (15-10, 5-5).m The Hokies jumped from 44th to 39th in the NET Rankings with a 71-59 victory over Syracuse on Saturday.

UVa defeated Tech 54-52 in Charlottesville on Jan. 12, with the Hokies having won their most recent meeting before that, 65-51, on Jan. 30 of last year. Keve Aluma had 29 points against the Cavaliers in that game and scored a game-high 20 Saturday against Syracuse.

Virginia is coming off a 63-53 victory Saturday over visiting Georgia Tech (10-14, 3-10). The two teams had been scheduled to play in the 2021 ACC Tournament before UVa was forced to cancel because of Covid issues.

The Cavaliers' leading scorer Saturday was Jayden Gardner, who had 26 points, seven rebounds and three blocks. Gardner, a transfer from East Carolina, had a game-high 17 points and a team-high eight rebounds earlier in the week in UVa's 69-68 road upset of No. 2 -ranked Duke.

Kihei Clark, a point guard who has become more of a shooter with the development of sophomore Reece Beekman as a point guard, finished with 15 points Saturday and is a share under double figures for the season with 249 points in 25 games.

"Clark hit some big shots late," Georgia Tech coach Josh Pastner said. "Obviously, Gardner hit some big shots [totaling 15 points] in the first half. You've got to give them credit.

"Virginia's a blue blood and [with] the success that they've had, I think they're in the same league as the Carolinas and the Dukes and the Kentuckys."

The Cavaliers shot 38.8 percent from the field and 22.2 percent on 3-pointers.

Virginia had 19 points off 15 Georgia Tech turnovers and 12 points on second-chance opportunities.

"We didn't shoot it great from the '3, obviously," UVa coach Tony Bennett said, "but Kihei hit just enough. You need a play to be made, making a shot, making a defensive play … all of that stuff was on display. All that experience for that young man and I'm glad he's here."

UVA :: MIAMI FOLLOW

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- On an afternoon when Virginia ended its ban on food and beverages at John Paul Jones Arena, the UVa men's basketball team devoured visiting Miami.

The Cavaliers led by 21 points before coach Tony Bennett went to his bench with 1:36 remaining and UVa coasted to a 71-58 victory.

Virginia's starters combined for 62 points, led by Armaan Franklin, a transfer from Indiana who finished with a game-high 22 points, four assists and four steals.

The Cavaliers (14-9, 8-5 ACC) trailed 10-9 before Franklin connected on a Franklin 3-pointer with 13:35 left in the first half and never trailed again.

“Well, when you play Virginia, one of the key statistics is—because they pack the lane—that you’ve got to make threes,” Miami head coach Jim Larrañaga, a past UVa assistant, said.

“We were 2-of-12 in the first half and we only made two more in the second half. That kind of was the difference in the game. We needed to shoot the ball better.”

The Hurricanes (16-7, 8-4) were 27-of-50 for the game but connected on only four of 17 3-point attempts.

Virginia, which entered the game as a four-point favorite, shot 60 percent from the field and 53.3 percent (8 of 15) on 3-pointers.

Remarkably, neither team attempted a free throw until Franklin hit a pair with 3:10 remaining.

"Are you serious?" Bennett responded when asked about the foul avoidance. "Wow! In a way, it was a clean game when you see [UVa's] 23 assists. Coach Larrañaga might disagree and say maybe they got bumped at times but we try to play really good position defense.”

"They [the Hurricanes] took 17 threes and we were trying to really protect the lane, bother shots and try to use a little more player movement. I don't know if I've been in a game like that."

The 15-point spread was the largest for UVa in its eight conference wins this season.

"We were all on the same page today and that's why we were clicking," said sophomore guard Reese Beekman, who barely missed a double-double with nine points and 10 assists.

Beekman also had four steals, which fell short of the seven steals registered by Miami guard Jordan Miller, who only had four points.

The Hurricanes were led by Kameron McGusty, one of four starters that Miami lists as guards. McGusty had 21 points and Charlie Moore had 17 points, but nobody else had more than four.

"When you play in the ACC, every team is a very good team -- and especially at home -- and teams play very, very well," Larrañaga said. "Virginia shot the ball very, very well, not only from two- but from 3-point range, and we didn't.

"We shot 54 percent from the field because we made our two-point shots, but we just didn't make our 3's. We were unable to defend [UVa] the way we would have needed to and force more turnovers."

Larrañaga noted the Cavaliers' size of 7-foot-1, 242-pound Francisco Caffaro; 6-11, 231-pound Kadin Shedrick, and 6-6, 246-pound Jayden Gardner, although Beekman was the only UVa player who blocked a shot.

"They were 13-of-16 from the field and that's very productive," Larrañaga said of Caffaro, Shedrick and Gardner. "We did not play a great game against a team that played very at home. I expect that they’ll keep playing very well at home.

"They're really finding their rhythm right now."

UVA :: BC FOLLOW

CHARLOTTESVILLE --At a listed 5-foot-10, fifth-year Virginia men's basketball player Kihei Clark would seem best suited for the point guard position.

On the flip side, 6-3 sophomore Reece Beekman has the appearance of a shooting guard.

So, there they were Tuesday night for the Cavaliers' game with Boston College.

Clark had a game-high 19 points for the Cavaliers, who defeated the Eagles 67-55 in the John Paul Jones Arena debut of BC head coach Earl Grant, who most recently had been the head coach at College of Charleston.

Beekman, remarkably, did not score in just over 37 minutes. He attempted three shots, both from inside the 3-point circle.

However; Coach Tony Bennett, long a defensive devotee, had to be pleased that Beekman had seven assists and two steals.

Nobody saw more playing time for either team Tuesday night than Beekman.

In one of his most impressive performances of the year, Beekman led the way Jan. 4, when he scored 20 points in UVa's 67-50 victory over Clemson, a team that had beaten the Cavaliers 67-50 three days before Christmas, 67-50, at John Paul Jones Arena.

Beekman had 13 points and again played a team-high 39 minutes this past Saturday in the Cavaliers' 69-65 loss at Notre Dame. He had 11 assists earlier in the week against Louisville.

"I have liked how he's played and looked to score more in the last handful of games," Bennett said Tuesday night. "This one, I just felt the way we were going un the second half, we separated [from Boston College] with some quality offense and I thought he [Beekman] was the maestro of that and I was all right with that. I like that when a guy cannot score and say he (really) played a good game.”

"Not many guys can do that. I couldn't do that when I was playing. I know that much."

The Cavaliers (12-9 overall, 6-5 ACC) are holding opponents to 59.6 points game and are ranked No. 1 in the ACC in that category, and 11th among all Division I men's basketball programs.

In its next game, Virginia will entertain Miami (16-5, 8-2) at 5 p.m. Saturday. The Hurricanes are averaging 75.9 points per game under Jim Larranaga, a UVa assistant under Terry Holland from 1979-86, an era during which UVa won an NIT championship twice reached the Final Four.

BIG MEN GROWING INTO THEIR ROLE

With a team-leading 6.7 rebounds per game, 6-foot-6 Virginia senior Jayden Gardner is tied for 216th among Division I players in that category.

The Cavaliers, as a team, are 232nd in that category, not that rebounding has been a cause for concern for UVa.

They were 312th in the same category last year.

In the Cavaliers' most recent outing, five different UVa players had between five and seven rebounds Monday in the Cavaliers' 64-52 victory over visiting Louisville.

Virginia had 37 rebounds, compared to 26 for the Cardinals.

Surprisingly, it was 6-foot-2 sophomore guard Reece Beekman, whose seven rebounds allowed him to share team honors with 7-1 Francisco Caffaro.

Caffaro had a career-high nine rebounds on a 16-point night when the Cavaliers defeated Virginia Tech 54-52 on Jan. 13.

Gone from last year's roster are the top three rebounders, led by 7-1 Jay Huff, who joined teammates Sam Hauser and Trey Murphy in heading to the NBA.

Kadin Shedrick was on Virginia's 2020-21 team but averaged only 2.5 points and 2.2 rebounds. He's averaging 6.5 points and 5.1 rebounds this year, including a double-double against Coppin State, when he had 10 points and 10 rebounds.

"We talk about Reece being in his [first[ year and a half," UVa coach Tony Bennett said. "Really, Kadin is in his first half a year. He didn't hardly play. If you look at him, you can just see youth. I felt he was one of the bright spots in the NC State game, too."

Shedrick had eight points and four rebounds off the bench Saturday in the Cavaliers' 77-63 loss at N.C. State. Listed at 6-11 and 231 pounds, he had 11 points, six rebounds and three blocked shots against Louisville with no one else from either team having more than one.

"We need all of them to be ready and not be afraid to take a shot when it's there and be assertive," Bennett said.

Next up for the Cavaliers is a 6 p.m. game Saturday against host Notre Dame (13-6 overall, 6-2 ACC). The Cavaliers (12-8, 6-4) have won the past six games in the series and are 16-1 in the past 17 games after dropping the first meeting, 57-56, in 1981.

UVA :: LOUISVILLE ADVANCE

Going into its Saturday men's basketball game at North Carolina State, Virginia had won nine of its previous 10 games in Raleigh, N.C., including seven in a row.

Given that the Wolfpack ended the streak with a 77-63 victory Saturday at Reynolds Coliseum, the Cavaliers would be well-advised to take notice.

The Louisville team that comes to John Paul Jones Arena for a 7 p.m. Monday has lost eight straight games to the Cavaliers and the Cardinals are 5-17 against Virginia in all games.

Both teams are 11-8 overall and 3-2 in conference play.

UVa hasn't lost to Louisville in Charlottesville since 1990, when the Cavaliers were still playing at University Hall.

An 18th-ranked Louisville team coached by Denny Crum defeated a Terry Holland-led UVa team 72-56.

Holland retired after that season and handed over the UVa coaching reins to assistant Jeff Jones and the Cavaliers and Cardinals did not play for 25 years.

That streak ended in 2010 as Virginia defeated Louisville 52-47 under Tony Bennett at John Paul Jones Arena.They;ve played every year since then, including three games in 2018, counting the NCAA Tournament.

In fact, UVa has won 11 of the past 12 games between the programs, neither of which has distinguished itself of late. They currently are tied for seventh in the ACC at 5-4 in league play and both afre 11-8 overall.

Neither team has distinguished itself of late, with Virginia having one of its poorest defensive efforts. N.C. State shot 54.5 percent (18 of 22) on 3-pointers and shot 60 percent overall against a UVa team that has been regarded for decades as one of the nation's top defensive programs.

Notre Dame shot 63.3 percent and nailed 15 3-pointers Saturday in an 82-70 victory over Louisville.

Virginia shot only 41.8 percent from the field at N.C. State but the Cavaliers shot 58.7 percent on 3-pointers. That should have been enough under normal UVa defensive standards, but the Cavaliers were unable to match State's 60 percent shooting (54.5 percent on 3-pointers.

State was led by Jericcole Hellams and Terquavion Smith with 21 and 20 points respectively. Hellems is in his fourth year in the program and Smith is in his first.

It's not a roster loaded with transfers, but Virginia's arrival represented a meeting between the Cavaliers and a former teammate, Casey Morsell, who started and played 29 minutes, scoring 12 points.

Morsell, a former Washington, D.C., player of the year, entered the transfer portal after playing in 23 games for UVa during the 2020-21 season. when he played in 23 games but averaged only 14.8 minutes per game and had three starts.

He shot 39.6 percent from the field and was 10-of-38 on 3-point attempts. There was another point guard, Reece Beekman, in Morsell's recruiting class and there was a veteran point guard, Kiheil Clak, who was ahead of them at the position.

Virginia's game with N.C. State showed that the Cavaliers need to play much better defensively and a lot of that may have to do with a variety of lineups that are still familiarizing themselves with coach Tony Bennett's principals.

There's been little consistency to this point. With all the transfers that have been mixed with prior one- and two-year contributors, that's obviously taking a while.

UVA :: CONTEMPLATING UVA-WAKE BASKETBALL

ROANOKE -- Consistency remained an issue for a Virginia men's basketball that dropped a 63-55 decision Saturday against visiting Wake Forest.

The Cavaliers owned a nine-game winning streak against the Deacons and had won 10 of 11 games against Wake since 2011-2012.

Wake Forest, which improved to 14-4 overall and 4-3 in the ACC, took an early 11-6 lead Saturday at John Paul Jones Arena, but the Cavaliers (10-7, 4-3) countered with a 16-2 surge and went into halftime with a 29-27 lead.

UVa would retain a slight lead until the Deacons' Isaiah Mucius gave Wake a 48-47 lead with 6:17 left. The Cavaliers never led again.

Mucius, a 6-foot-8 senior who was looking at transferring before Steve Forbes replaced Danny Manning as Wake's coach following the 2020 season, had 12 points and eight rebounds.

The Deacons finished Saturday's game with four double-figure scorers, led by Jake LaRavia, a 6-8 transfer from Indiana State.

UVa (10-7, 4-3) was led by Armann Frankin with 18 points but the only other double-figure scorer was Kody Stattmann, who scored 11 points off the bench.

The Cavaliers were coming off a 54-52 victory three days earlier against visiting Virginia Tech.

One of the stars of that game was 7-1 Francisco Caffaro, who had come off the bench three days earlier to score a career-high 16 points with nine rebounds against the Hokies.

Caffaro was rewarded with a start against the Deacons, only to go 1-for-7 from the field and finishing with three points and four rebounds in a little over 11 minutes.

Jayden Gardner, who entered the game as the only UVa player averaging in double figures for the season, was 3-for-14 from the floor and finished with nine points. He had scored only four points, going 2-for-10 from the floor, against Virginia Tech.

Sophomore guard Reece Beekman was only 3-for-8 from the field and didn't get to the free-throw line. It would help if he could become a double-figure scorer, but his numbers were pretty good otherwise.

He played just under 39 minutes, had a team-high seven assists and added a team high of five steals on an afternoon when no player for either team had more than two steals.

If Beekman is going to be a point guard primarily, a short Kihei Clark would have to serve as the two-guard, at least from a scoring aspect, but Clark finished with two points. He played just under 22 minutes, suggesting that Stattman, who played 24:22, might be getting more time.

UVA :: Caffaro helps UVA survive

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- It wasn't too long ago that 7-foot-1 Francisco Caffaro missed his only shot from the field, was unable to grab a rebound and had zero blocked shots in a 17-point Virginia home loss to Clemson.

Caffaro played a total of 6 1/2 minutes in that game and nobody could have imagined what was coming when the Cavaliers met Virginia Tech on Wednesday night at John Paul Jones Arena.

Caffaro, who hasn't started a game for the Cavaliers this season and was averaging 1.2 points and 1.2 rebounds per game, came off the bench to score a team-high 16 points and nine rebounds Monday in UVa's 54-52 victory.

Caffaro, a 7-foot-1, 242-pound Argentinian, picked up the scoring slack for Jayden Gardner, who had led the team in scoring for the season but went 2-for-10 from the field and had a game-high four turnovers.

Kaden Shedrick, a starter in the post for the Cavaliers, did not attempt a shot from the field and finished with zero points, four rebounds and two blocks.

In addition to Caffaro and Franklin, sophomore guard Reece Beekman had 11 points and a team-high five assists to counter one turnover.

Defensively, UVa could not stop the Hokies' Keve Aluma, who had a game-high 22 points. Tech's Hunter Cattoor had 10 points, five assists and three steals.

The Hokies were 7-of-19 on 3-pointers, compared to the Cavaliers' 3-for-13 night from beyond the arc., with Storm Murphy adding 10 points as a third double-figure scorer.

While Virginia improved its record to 10-6 overall and 4-2 in the ACC, the Hokies fell to 8-7 and 0-4.

The Cavaliers (10-6, 4-2 ACC) play host to Wake Forest (13-4, 3-3) at 4:30 p.m. Saturday with the Hokies (8-7, 0-4) entertaining Notre Dame at 6 p.m. at Cassell Coliseum. The Irish has won six straight games to get to 10-5 overall and 5-1 in the ACC.

The Cavaliers probably will need more balanced scoring after three starters -- Shedrick, Jayden Gardner (2-for-10) and Kihei Clark (2 for 9) -- were a combined 4-for-19.

"That obviously could have gone either way," Virginia coach Tony Bennett said after the game. "Though not maybe perfect or pretty, that's who we are."

UVA :: CLEMSON

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- A warm welcome to Virginia's new football coach, Clemson offensive coordinator Tony Elliott, was the last positive experience for Cavalier fans on Wednesday night at John Paul Jones Arena.

The Tigers were 67-50 winners over the Cavaliers after losing to Virginia by 35 points last year at Clemson.

Virginia had won the previous 11 games in the series and had not lost to the Tigers at home since 2008, one year before the arrival of coach Tony Bennett.

The Cavaliers, who entered the game as 4 1/2-point favorites, dropped to 7-5 overall and 1-1 in the ACC. Clemson is 9-4 and 1-1.

Sophomore guard Reece Beekman had a breakout game for UVa, finishing with a career-high 20 points, including three 3-point field goals.

The rest of the team was 3-for-17 from the floor.

Beekman and Armaan Franklin, who had 13 points, combined for 33 of the Cavalie4s' 50 points.

Adding to a miserable night for the Cavaliers statistically, Virginia was outrebounded 35-26 and had 14 turnovers, compared to seven for Clemson.

The stat sheet told the story.

Coach Brad Brownell's squad scored 24 points off turnovers. The Cavaliers had six points off turnovers and got nothing from its bench, with its five starters combining for all 50 points.

"They made some tough shots; they're [the Tigers] a solid team," Bennett said. "Their perimeters can really score and shoot it and then they can go score inside."

After taking a 10-shot lead in the first half, Clemson saw the Cavaliers get as close as 37-35 and charge up the crowd early in the second half but that spark was quickly extinguished.

"We’ve got a lot of work to do," Bennett said. "That's real. That's a very solid team we played.

"We struggled from the '3.' They did a good job of doubling [Jayden] Gardner.."

Gardner, coming off a 29-point game Saturday in an 82-49 UVa victory over Fairleigh-Dickenson, was 2-for-9 from the field Wednesday night and finished with nine points in nearly 37 minutes.

"They did a good job of doubling Gardner and we got some good looks out of it," Bennett said. "I was happy that Reece attacked a little more and was a little more aggressive defensively."

UVA :: FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- For the non-starters on the Virginia men's basketball team, Christmas presents came in the form of extended playing time Saturday at John Paul Jones Arena.

Fourteen players saw playing time in the Cavaliers' 82-49 victory over winless Fairleigh-Dickinson, including 10 players who logged 10 minutes or more.

Virginia (7-4) was led by Jayden Gardner, a transfer from East Carolina who was 14 of 18 from the floor and finished with 29 points in under 27 minutes.

At the time he came out of the game with 12:01 remaining, Gardner had outscored the visitors 29-28.

"Gardner just put his Superman cape on, and we had no answer, literally,” Fairleigh Dickinson head coach Greg Herenda said.

It was the first game in 11 days for the Cavaliers, who will play host to Clemson on Wednesday. Then, Virginia will be off till Dec. 31.

Armaan Franklin was the only UVa starter to attempt a 3-point shot and finished 1-for-3 from beyond the arc. UVa's subs were 8-for-15 on 3-pointers, with Igor Milicic Jr. and Carson McCorkle each going 3-for-4.

Aside from Gardner, Franklin was the only other UVa player to score in double figures.

"It's always good when the game gets separated to get other guys [playing time]," Bennett said.

Sophomore guard Reece Beekman, whose 27 minutes and 52 seconds were the high for either team, led the Cavaliers in assists (six, compared to one turnover), steals and minutes played. His five rebounds were topped only by Gardner with six.

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UVa's only previous meeting with Fairleigh Dickinson had taken place during the 1988-89 season, when a Cavaliers squad coached by Terry Holland defeated the Knights 88-61.

It was unclear as to how Saturday's game was scheduled, although there were some connections between the teams. Devils' assistant coach Pete Lappas is the son of former Villanova head coach and current CBS analyst Steve Lappas, with whom Bennett is familiar.

There was another connection between the programs. Fairleigh-Dickinson coach Greg Herenda worked with former UVa coach Pete Gillen during one stretch and they could have hooked up Saturday if Gillen, who lives in Charlottesville, weren't doing TV commentary elsewhere.

"I wanted him to come to the game," Herenda said.

UVA :: JMU

When James Madison moved from its Godwin Hall to the JMU Convocation Center in 1982, its opening game was against VMI, an opponent that the Dukes smothered 58-33.

Nearly 40 years later, the Dukes faced a more formidable opponent, Virginia, as they opened the Atlantic Union Bank Center.

The Dukes entered the game as a 5 1/2-point underdog and trailed 10-2 in the opening minutes but eventually held on for a 52-49 victory.

James Madison coach Mark Byington was an assistant at Virginia from 2004-2005, years before Tony Bennett took over the program in 2009.

"As somebody who's here to build a program, like we are here at JMU, you envy other programs to see what they did, to try and see what the blueprint was," said Byington said after Tuesday's game.

"What he's [Bennett] done at UVa is remarkable, that they're one of the best basketball programs in the country. He was first class. It was great to be able to go against him and be challenged in all sorts of different ways."

Virginia had won all 11 previous games between the teams, including a 53-52 game in Harrisonburg in 1980. It couldn't have been any louder than it was Tuesday night.

"Truthfully, it was so loud in there that it was hard to coach," the Salem-bred Byington said after Tuesday's game. "I was worried about that going into the game because they had [senior Kihei] Clark out there who knows Tony Bennett's thoughts out there before he's even going to say them."

"And then, I was screaming my lungs off trying to get our guys in the right spot. I had them smile at me or nod at me -- one of the two -- that they believed they could win the game.”

"There were a lot of purple people praying and I was one of them. With the noise and the craziness, it was hard to communicate. Our guys just did enough.”

"I want [fans] to keep coming back. I want this to be one of the toughest basketball environments in the country. It's definitely an attention-grabbing win, so it will help us in other areas.

"As the coach in me, while I walking off the court, I was thinking that the Radford game is going to be really hard on Saturday."

Ironically, Byington was not the major figure in scheduling Tuesday night's game.

"That was administration," he said. "I walked into the job and the game was already scheduled. The game was supposed to take place last year and when the NCAA pushed back two weeks in the season, this game was in that window.”

"Looking back, if this game was played without fans, everybody would have been missing out -- UVa, JMU and everything else. Fans make basketball fun and exciting. And give UVa a lot of credit. Some teams could try and back out of games and they came and played the game.”

"They knew it was going to be a challenging environment and they did everything they could and it came down to one play."

UVA :: PITT

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- For a Virginia men's basketball team that almost overcame a 21-point deficit Monday night against Iowa, the last thing the Cavaliers wanted was a second one-point loss in a five-day span.

That's how things looked before the Cavaliers scored five points in a 9.7 second span and overcame Pittsburgh 57-56 as time expired.

It was apparent that Virginia's chances remained dubious after Jayden Gardner converted a 3-point play to trim Pitt's lead to 56-55 with 9.7 seconds left. However, UVa was successful in forcing a five-second violation.

The Cavaliers called a timeout and freshman Taine Murray missed a shot from the wing that ended up in Gardner's hands.

Gardner, a transfer from East Carolina, finished with a game-high 15 points and had four rebounds and four assists in 34 minutes.

"Taine took a quick shot, Kadin [Shedrick] crashed the boards really hard and made me able to get the ball … stole it from a guy and had to take the shot," Gardner said. " I shoot a lot of fadeaways in practice but none of them was like that, though.

"We willed it."

UVa's only double-figure scorers were two transfers, Gardner and Armaan Franklin, who previously played for Indiana.

"Pitt lost on a last-second tip against Minnesota; we had a last-second play [in a loss] against Iowa," UVa coach Tony Bennett said. "I think Jayden used all of the rim on that shot … boing, boing, boing. You're seeing some of the growing pains but they hung in there enough and they got it done."

A John Paul Jones Arena crowd of 14,257 didn't hurt.

"To win one [ACC game] is important and there's probably going to be a lot of games that could be like that," Bennett said. "You've got to be good enough to be win 'em."

On Tuesday, the Cavaliers (6-3) will visit James Madison (7-2) a 6:30 p.m.

"They're a very good team," Bennett said of the Dukes, whose head coach, Salem, Virginia's Mark Byington, was a graduate student under former UVa coach Pete Gillen and was UVa's director of basketball operations in 2004-2005.

"That will be a hostile environment so we'll have to be ready and keep improving. Sometimes, [the Cavaliers] try and be perfect out there but you can't be. Absolutely, their approach [and] prep for this was where it needed to be."

UVA :: IOWA

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- While Virginia entered play Monday night as a two-point favorite over visiting Iowa, it was the unbeaten Hawkeyes who had the more impressive early-season numbers.

One of Iowa's six previous victories had been by 48 points against Western Michigan and the Hawkeyes had scored more than 100 points on three occasions.

The Hawkeyes led by as many as 21 points in the first half Monday at Virginia and it was a 44-30 game at the half, with the Cavaliers having scored the last six points to make it that close.

UVa had opened with a starting lineup that included two premium transfers, Jayden Gardner from East Carolina and Armaan Franklin from Indiana.

Gardner finished with a team-high 18 points and eight rebounds in a floor time of 26:43. Franklin was ineffective, going 1-for-8 from the field, including four missed 3-pointers.

There was no brighter spot for the Cavaliers than Taine Murray, a 6-5 freshman guard from New Zealand who had played in only five of the Cavaliers' first seven games and was averaging slightly less than six minutes.

When Murray entered the game with 12:20 remaining in the first half, Virginia was trailing 16-10. He ended up playing just short of 21 minutes and finished with 14 points, canning a team-high four 3-pointers.

"He's tough [and] gritty, not perfect but plays hard and is not afraid of the moment," Bennett said. "He's sat on the bench. He's got the right stuff. I'm giving different guys a chance but you can't play this game, as we used to say, in a tuxedo."

"He's a tough kiwi. [Ex-Cavalier] Jack Salt would have been proud of him tonight."

It was Murray who missed the front end of a one-and-one with UVa leading 74-73 with 25 seconds left. Iowa proceeded to take the lead on a jumper with eight seconds left but the Cavaliers had two chances after that on a floater by Kihei Clark and tap-in attempt by Kadin Shedrick.

"Kihei was a warrier and Taine gave us a great lift," Bennett said. "We had some defensive breakdowns, even in the second half, and we had to get some guys off the floor and go with what was working.”

"I hope we'll grow from it but how we start a game -- being unalert or lukewam in my opinion -- is not going to get it done for us."

Virginia shot 63 percent in the second half, compared to 43.3 percent in the first half.

Bennett had to be pleased with his starting backcourt of Clark and Reece Beekman, with Beekman finishing with 11 points and logging five assists, compared to one turnover, in 35 minutes.

Clark had 15 points and five assists, compared to two turnovers in 35 minutes.

"We dug ourselves a hole," Clark said. "We have a tendency to come out slow. Obviously, we can all see the difference, so we've just got to come out the next time and work on being more alert and ready to play.

"Hats off to [Iowa]. They really shot the ball well and I think they got a lot of second-chance points (11). If we don't give those up, who knows?"

UVA :: NAVY

UVA-NAVY HOOPS FOLLOW

By Doug Doughty

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- Lost in the hubbub of Virginia's appearance in the 2019 Orange Bowl, there was an event back in Charlottesville that brought back memories Tuesday night.

Two years earlier, Navy had taken the Cavaliers to the wire in John Paul Jones Arena before the Cavaliers prevailed 65-56.

The score was close to identical Tuesday, only this time the Middies defeated No. 25 Virginia 66-58.

"This team is an older group in fairness to everybody," Middies coach Ed DeChellis said. "Some of the [Navy guys] played in the game two years ago. This [Navy] team is an older group We’ve won some games. Our team plays with a little confidence.”

"We talked about mental toughness and physical toughness coming into this environment, you make a mistake, you've got to let it roll off and move onto the next thing."

Virginia might have an older player, such as fourth-year point guard Kihei Clark but the Cavaliers' stating lineup included a pair of transfers, Jayden Gardner and Armaan Franklin.

Franklin, a transfer from Indiana, was 1-for-6 from the field. Jayden Gardner, a transfer from East Carolina, was the Cavalier’s leading scorer, finishing with 18 points and 10 rebounds.

Senior point guard Kihei Clark was only 3-of-9 from the field, finishing with 12 points.

Sophomore Reece Beekman had eight points on 4-of-8 shooting from the field and led the team with six assists and six steals, compared to one turnover.

"We challenged him at halftime and I thought he got better as time went on," UVa coach Tony Bennett said, "Reece is obviously going to be an important player for us this year."

Virginia used nine players, but freshman Taine Murray from New Zealand and sophomore Carson McCorkle only played a total of 3 1/2 minutes.

Igor Milicic, a 6-10, 224-pound Croatian, did not play for the Cavaliers and his status was unclear.

Veteran front-court players Kadin Shedrick and Francisco Caffaro logged a combined 36 minutes and had a combined 10 point and 11 rebounds.

"It's hard to beat a solid team when you turn the ball over 14 times and you give up 10 offensive rebounds," Bennett said. "We've got to become a little tougher physically and a little more gritty mentally to last longer in these games,

Three-point shooting was in the Middies' favor. Navy was 11-of-21 from beyond the arc and UVa was 4-of-16, a 33-12 difference.

"I'm really, really proud of our kids," said DeChellis, who takes the Middies to Virginia Tech later in the week

"Great atmosphere in here," DeChellis said of JPJ. "Great atmosphere. We haven't played in front of fans in a year, like everybody else. I thank Tony for the opportunity to come in here and play. I really, really respect the heck out of him."

Next for Virginia is Radford on Friday night at John Paul Jones Arena.

If nothing else, the Cavaliers need to do a better job of closing after failing to score on 12 possessions before a Franklin 3-pointer near the buzzer.

UVA :: MEN'S BASKETBALL ADVANCE

On a stage more commonly reserved for veteran performers, Virginia men's basketball coach Tony Bennett was accompanied by a pair of sophomores -- Reece Beekman and Kadin Shedrick -- at the ACC's preseason media day.

That was by design.

Although senior point guard Kihei Clark is a holdover from the Cavaliers' 2019 national championship team, his eligibility will expire at the end of the season.

Ideally, Beekman and Shedrick will be available for two seasons.

It was Beekman who was involved in one of the most memorable moments of the 2019-20 season, a 3-pointer as time expired that lifted Virginia to a 72-69 victory in the ACC Tournament in Greensboro, N.C.

A second-round ACC Tournament game was canceled due to covid-19, and the Cavaliers subsequently dropped a 62-58 second-round NCAA Tournament game to Ohio University.

The Cavaliers finished the season at 18-7 overall and lost three starters -- Sam Hauser, Jay Huff and Trey Murphy III to the pro ranks. Clark, with an average of 9.5 points game, is the top returning scorer, followed by Beekman at 4.7.

When Bennett brought Beekman and Shedrick to Charlotte, N.C., for the ACC's preseason media day, it was done so with a purpose -- leadership.

Of the returning players, Clark started 23 of 25 games and logged a team-high 853 minutes. Beekman was next with 20 starts and 732 minutes.

No other returnee had more than Francisco Caffaro's 117 minutes and Shedrick had 88.

In comparison, a total of 17 players logged playing time during the Cavaliers' 18-7 season in 2019-20, when the Cavaliers were defending NCAA champions.

They'll be opening the 2021-22 season at 9 p.m. Tuesday at John Paul Jones Arena against a Navy team that went 15-3 last season. Ed DeChellis is in his 11th season as Navy coach after stints at East Tennessee State and Penn State.

In the last meeting between the teams, Virginia beat Navy 65-56 on Dec. 29, 2019. The Middies had the lead with under 10 minutes remaining and it was a five-point game with 3:30 left. Navy continues its tour of the state Friday, when it faces Virginia Tech.

Of the returning players on Virginia's roster, none averaged double points in 2020-21.

The Cavaliers have added two transfers who averaged in double figures for their previous team.

Jayden Gardner, listed at 6-foot-6 and 246 pound, averaged 18.3 points and 8.3 rebounds as a junior last year at East Carolina. As a sophomore last year at Indiana, 6-4 Armaan Gardner averaged 11.4 points and connected on 36 3-pointers.

They'll be joined by a pair of newcomers. Taine Murray, a 6-5 guard from New Zealand, is coming in with Igor Milicic, a 6-10, 224-pound post player who was a member of the Croatian national team.

Scoring will be an issue for the Cavaliers, whose top three scorers from last year -- Sam Hauser, Jay Huff and Trey Murphy -- moved up to the NCAA. Those three accounted for more than 59 percent of UVa's points (1,006 of 1705).

They also had 144 of the Cavaliers' 212 made 3-pointers.

There are 13 players on the roster in the UVa men's basketball media guide. Three of them at least began their career as walk-ons

"Obviously, Kihei has the most experience [in terms of] multiple years," Bennett said at the ACC media day in Charlotte, "and Reece, as a first-year [player] started and played a bunch.

"But, after that, everyone is pretty much new to playing at least Virginia basketball. You don't know until you start playing, but we'll have to figure out ways to fit our team.”

"Our best teams have been [with] guys that have had opportunities and have grown through their playing experiences and years in the program."

If that's not sufficient, the Cavaliers do have the nation's 12th-rated recruiting class lined up for 2021-2022.

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