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.

Listen up as Jerry has a power-packed show with UVA guard Kyle Guy, ESPN College Basketball Analyst Dick Vitale, and world renown author and Wahoo fan John Grisham.

The anticipation continues to build as we are now just hours away from the 6 p.m. tipoff between No. 3 Virginia and No. 2 Duke inside John Paul Jones Arena.

The key in the rematch may be whether or not Virginia’s “Pack-Line” defense can keep the Blue Devils out of the lane.

When Virginia men’s basketball coach Tony Bennett’s wife is asking around, you know it’s a tough ticket.

Kyle Guy and De’Andre Hunter have made the John R. Wooden Award presented by Wendy’s Men’s Late Season Top 20 Watch List, the Los Angeles Athletic Club announced on Tuesday.