If you listened really carefully when the final horn sounded in Minneapolis as confetti and streamers fell to the court as the Virginia Cavaliers celebrated its first ever National Championship in men’s basketball, you could hear the last gasps of air escaping the media’s favorite hot take. With the dramatic 85-77 win over Texas Tech in the title game, Virginia’s style could no longer be the punching bag for writers and personalities too lazy to make any effort in understanding the Cavaliers.
Takes about Virginia’s “inability to blow teams out”, “lack of stars”, and other cliches have run rampant since the 2014 squad bust onto the scene, won the ACC tournament, and nabbed a No.