Virginia has had a brilliant run over the last three seasons, earning a No. 1 or No. 2 seed in the NCAAs in each year. The Cavaliers lost a total of nine league games over those three seasons; this year, they’ve already lost seven. So it’s a down year by recent standards, but no doubt this is still a good team.
And also the most boring, basketball-hating, gross, disgusting basketball team ever invented. Ugh Curse you, Tony Bennett, curse your hideous grandma-on-the-highway pace of play. At least NC State only has to endure it once this year.
The Cavaliers rank 350th out of 351 teams in adjusted tempo, at 59.