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Five takeaways from UVA basketball’s bounce-back rivalry win over Virginia Tech

The Virginia Cavaliers men’s basketball team grabbed a huge rivalry win at JPJ 66-57. From the under 12 timeout, the ‘Hoos were relatively in control the whole way, but seemingly every time they were about to cement their lead, the Hokies made a mini run to hang around.

Nonetheless, UVA did enough offensively while performing to the highest of their capability on defense. The Hokies were held to just 21 of 54(38.9%) from the field and turned the ball over 15 times. Here are five takeaways from a much needed victory:

From a realistic standpoint, this is the optimal outcome for tonight’s game

Needless to say, the ‘Hoos had struggled mightily coming into tonight.