After trailing by as many as 12 points in the first half, No. 3 Virginia stormed back in the second and walked out of Louisville with a 64-52 win Saturday behind a career day from De’Andre Hunter.

Third-ranked Virginia visits the KFC Yum! Center at Noon to take on No. 18 Louisville, a team the Cavaliers will see twice in a matter of two weeks. UVA will host the Cardinals in the regular-season finale on Mar. 9.

The last time Virginia’s basketball team visited this river city last March, it pulled off a miracle that sent shockwaves throughout the sporting world.

The weight on Braxton Key’s ample shoulders was heavy heading down the home stretch of Monday night’s game at rival Virginia Tech.

Kyle Guy scored 17 of his game-high 23 points in the first half, Ty Jerome added 16 points and Braxton Key sank a pair of dagger 3-pointers as No. 3 Virginia pulled the regular-season sweep of 20th-ranked Virginia Tech, 64-58.

Scott Ratcliffe from JerryRatcliffe.com and Chris Graham and Scott German from Augusta Free Press vote in this week’s ACC Basketball Power Poll.

For the second week in a row, Tony Bennett and the 3rd-ranked Virginia men’s basketball team will face a quick Saturday-Monday turnaround when the Cavaliers look for a season sweep of No. 20 Virginia Tech at 7 p.m. on ESPN.

Mike Brey kind of figured that one of Virginia’s “assassins” was going to get him before the day was over.The Notre Dame coach has seen way too much of UVA’s Kyle Guy and Ty Jerome over the last three seasons.

No. 4 Virginia saw a much different opponent Saturday afternoon at John Paul Jones Arena than three weeks prior. The Cavaliers blew Notre Dame away in South Bend, but had to sweat out a 60-54 win in this one.

Photo Gallery by John Markon from Virginia’s 60-54 win over Notre Dame.

Virginia gets back to work at 2 p.m. at John Paul Jones Arena, as the Cavaliers seek a season sweep against Notre Dame.

At last glance, Kyle Guy was leaning against the concrete wall in the jammed hallway outside of Virginia’s locker room at the Dean Dome. Guy and his teammates were basking in a rare victorious glow in a building where the Cavaliers had won only five times in 29 tries.

The Atlantic Coast Conference announced Thursday the future matchups of the league’s 20-game men’s basketball schedule, which begins with the 2019-20 season.

For a few fleeting moments in the second half Monday night, it appeared that fourth-ranked Virginia was about to get run out of town, let alone getting blown out of the jam-packed, frenzied Dean Dome.

The road in the Atlantic Coast Conference is never friendly. At times during the second half of No. 4 Virginia’s Big Monday showdown at No. 8 North Carolina, it was downright rude.

Up next for No. 3 Virginia is a quick Monday jolt down Tobacco Road to tangle with eighth-ranked ACC rival North Carolina at the Dean E. Smith Center.

Jerry Ratcliffe and Scott Ratcliffe from JerryRatcliffe.com and Chris Graham, Scott German and Zach Pereles from Augusta Free Press vote in this week’s ACC Basketball Power Poll.

Round 2 is in the books, and as much as No. 3 Virginia (20-2, 8-2) wanted to defend the lane against No. 2 Duke Saturday at John Paul Jones Arena, the Blue Devils’ hot perimeter shooting was the story in an 81-71 win.

Talking heads will analyze No. 2 Duke vs. No. 3 Virginia – The Rematch, all day long Sunday and into Monday night’s games. No need. The Blue Devils’ recipe to success in an 81-71 win over the host Cavaliers was as simple as cornbread.

The formula for beating Duke is simple in Seth Greenberg’s view: take care of the basketball, keep the Blue Devils off the glass, and set your defense.