The first game of the commonwealth rivalry takes place on Wednesday night, as Virginia Tech visits #9 Virginia. The Wahoos are hitting their stride as we hit the halfway point of the conference schedule. Last week, they beat Notre Dame handily in South Bend and literally took #1 Villanova to the final buzzer in Philadelphia. As Buzz Williams put it after the Boston College game, going to Charlottesville is like “going to the dentist” – this may end of being one of the Hokies’ toughest games of the year.
Despite the rivalry, there should be a tremendous amount of respect for how Virginia plays the game, and a lot of that credit goes to Tony Bennett.