When Virginia won the 2019 NCAA championship, it presumably put to bed all the carping about the limitations imposed by its contained style of play under Tony Bennett.
Fallen along the way were knocks about his teams’ inability to advance in the NCAAs with any kind of regularity. In Bennett’s first nine years the Cavaliers only twice won a pair of games in the same tournament – in 2014 (2-1) and 2016 (3-1).
Most ignonimously, in 2018 the Cavs became the first No. 1 seed to lose in the NCAA’s first round; never mind they were missing their most gifted player in injured wing De’Andre Hunter.