ESPN: The best NCAA basketball team this month is Virginia

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-"The best college basketball team this month isn't Arizona or Michigan or Syracuse or Florida or Kansas. It's the Virginia Cavaliers. Virginia leads all teams in BPI in January."

-UVA is 7-1 in the ACC, their best start since the '82-'83 season. The only loss was a 4-point loss @Duke

-Next up for Virginia: @Pitt

-Sports Illustrated: "It will take a serious collapse over the final six weeks of the regular season for Virginia to miss the NCAA tournament."

-Virginia only has five losses this season (three by 4 points or fewer) and all five came against teams ranked in the BPI top 55

-Virginia is #1 in the NCAA in scoring defense (56 points per game) and #4 in the country in scoring defense when adjusting for pace (88.0 PPP)

-UVA is #1 in the ACC in defensive turnover percentage, forcing a turnover on 23.3% of their opponents possessions.

 

[jonvi]

yep, yep, yep! VA is looking good. Cuse is gonna punk em so bad you won't hear em fart.

 

[jeffro151]

I don't know how to act about all the media gushing over UVa. It definitely feels good, that's for sure!

 

[BearDownUA]

Michigan would be a good pick here as well. 7 straight wins this month in what almost everyone agrees to be one of the top 2 conferences, 3 straight vs top 10 teams.

But VA has been playing lights out.

 

[SEC Official]

Virginia... ? Virginia...? Rings a bell... someone help me here.

j/k congrats on all the hype... better you guys than us, because we seem to collapse the more hype we get.

 

[jonvi]

Virginia... ? Virginia...? Rings a bell... someone help me here.

j/k congrats on all the hype... better you guys than us, because we seem to collapse the more hype we get.

Is that the bronco speaking?

 

[SEC Official]

Is that the bronco speaking?

Probably the Northwestern Wildcat in me... :P Always love the underdog. Unless they are playing my team of course.

 

[SEC Official]

Florida will do well from here on out, but we won't get any real respect (and I don't blame anyone) because the SEC is a much weaker overall conference at the top. LSU did in UK last night... so every time I think UK is getting their act together, they blow it. That has to be the WORST shooting team of superstars I have every seen in the back court.

Florida gets Chris Walker for the 1st time next week against Mizz... if this kid is as good as people think he will be, it could bring Florida up to the next level come March....

 

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Pitt was 12-0 at home before losing its last home game to Duke. UVA is 3-3 on the road

UVA currently up by 1 with 7:43 to play

 

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Washington Post:

Virginia basketball looks to score attention-grabbing win at Pittsburgh in front of the “Oakland Zoo,” Pittsburgh’s rowdy student section

“We’re excited,” Virginia center Mike Tobey said.

Virginia has caught plenty of people off guard over the past month, storming out to the program’s best start in ACC play (16-5, 7-1) in more than 30 years.

“Whenever the teams from the Big East play the charter members of the ACC, it seems like they’re trying to make a statement, so we’ll have to be ready,” Virginia Coach Tony Bennett said.
This is the first time Virginia visits the unfriendly confines of Pitt's Petersen Events Center

Currently tied with 3:45 to play

 

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Fox Sports:

Pittsburgh had been thoroughly dominant at home during its inaugural season in the Atlantic Coast Conference - until an ACC powerhouse paid the Panthers a visit.
Following their loss against Duke, the No. 18 Panthers will look to bounce back when they host Virginia on Sunday in a game that will determine second place in the conference.

currently tied with 2:35 left

 

[jeffro151]

God I loathe ACC refs.

 

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tied with 1:40 left

 

[jeffro151]

Pitt timekeeper trying to pull some bullshit.

 

[jeffro151]

Nailbiter......

 

[hokiehi21]

 

[jeffro151]

Oh my God!!!

 

[jeffro151]

HOOS!!!!!!!!

 

[douggie]

Huge win for the Hoos.

 

[jeffro151]

No way the Super Bowl tops this or last nights ACC games.