If the final score of top-ranked Gonzaga's double-digit rout failed to get attention Saturday, the opponent should have.
The Virginia Cavaliers, a widely recognized college basketball power and still-defending national champion whose brand has been suffocating opposing offenses throughout Tony Bennett's 12 seasons in Charlottesville, fell by a margin of 98-75.
It was an unthinkably lopsided result to befall a Virginia team. And it wasn't really that close. Gonzaga became the first team to make 60% of its shots and score at a rate of 149 points per 100 possessions against Virginia in the Bennett era, per ESPN Stats & Information.