The Big Basketball Preview: Pitt Redux

Following a somewhat demoralizing home loss to Wake Forest, Virginia Basketball heads back on the road for a game against a poor Pitt team that very nearly knocked off the Hoos at JPJ.

Here was the preview from that game. It took a miraculous final 10 seconds from Jayden Gardner for Virginia to pull out a win, at home, against KenPom’s 201st ranked team. (Pitt is all the way up to 167th now.)

Jayden Gardner gets the home bounce on the final shot to give UVA the thrilling win over Pitt. Wow. pic.twitter.com/mxHu8vbhrs

— DRF Sports (@DRF_Sports) December 4, 2021 This was the culmination of those final 10 seconds, which also included a three-point play from Gardner and a five second violation for…