If the month of December is anything like November for the Virginia men’s basketball team, the Cavaliers will be sitting pretty heading into ACC competition in 2019.

There was a lot of Salt on the rims of the Xfinity Center on Wednesday night when fourth-ranked Virginia outlasted No. 24 Maryland, 76-71, in the ACC/Big 10 Challenge.

The fourth-ranked Virginia men’s basketball team had five players in double figures as the Cavaliers aced their first true road test and moved to 7-0 on the season with a 76-71 ACC/Big Ten Challenge win at No. 24 Maryland Wednesday.

Fresh off its sixth straight in-season tournament victory, the Virginia men’s basketball team will be gunning for a nation-best 25th consecutive win in the month of November Wednesday when the Wahoos travel to the Xfinity Center to face Maryland.

Kihei Clark is a warrior, a term that Tony Bennett doesn’t just fling around loosely.

For the sixth year in a row, Virginia’s men’s basketball team hoisted a holiday tournament championship trophy, as the fourth-ranked Cavaliers (6-0) held off No. 25 Wisconsin, 53-46, in the Battle 4 Atlantis title in Nassau, Bahamas.

Virginia heads into Friday’s Battle 4 Atlantis championship game riding a nation-best 23-game winning streak in the month of November, and will be looking for its sixth in-season tournament title in a row dating back to 2013.

Virginia second-year forward De’Andre Hunter tied a career-high with 23 points — including a dagger 3-pointer in the waning moments — to lead the 4th-ranked Cavaliers to a 66-59 win over Dayton Thursday in the semifinal round of the Battle 4 Atlantis.

Virginia takes on Dayton in the semifinals of the Battle 4 Atlantis today at 4 p.m. on ESPN, with a chance to play for a sixth straight holiday tournament title Friday on the line.

The No. 4 Virginia basketball team nearly got its first triple-double since Ralph Sampson in 1979 as the Cavaliers knocked off Middle Tennessee, 74-52, in the opening round of the Battle 4 Atlantis in Nassau, Bahamas.

Fourth-ranked Virginia (3-0) tips off at 9:30 p.m. ET Wednesday night on ESPN2 against Middle Tennessee (3-1) in the opening round of the 2018 Bad Boy Mowers Battle 4 Atlantis in the Bahamas.

Virginia sophomore forward De’Andre Hunter’s skill set was on full display as the Cavaliers moved to 3-0 on the season with an easy 97-40 win over Coppin State Friday night at John Paul Jones Arena.

The Coppin State Eagles (0-3) come to John Paul Jones Arena Friday night looking for their first win of the 2018-19 season after finishing 5-27 last year.

Virginia men’s basketball coach Tony Bennett said on the team’s media day two weeks ago that forward Mamadi Diakite has shown signs of improvement in the offseason, and added that he believes Wahoo fans will see those improvements on the court.

Sunday was one of those early season, Rent-A-Victim games, that coaches like Tony Bennett love for a couple of reasons.

The backcourt duo of Kyle Guy and Ty Jerome was too much for George Washington to handle at John Paul Jones Arena Sunday against No. 5 Virginia. The pair combined for 40 points, 12 rebounds, 11 assists and eight 3-pointers as the Cavaliers (2-0) never trailed in a 76-57 romp of the visiting Colonials.

Scott Ratcliffe breaks down Sunday’s hoops game pitting #5 Virginia and George Washington.

Tony Bennett opened his 10th season at Virginia in style on Tuesday night as the fifth-ranked Cavaliers blew out visiting Towson, 73-42.

Virginia’s 73-42 win over Towson on Tuesday. Photos by John Markon.

Virginia’s season opener against Towson got off to a slow start Tuesday night at John Paul Jones Arena, but junior guard Ty Jerome caught fire and sparked his teammates offensively as the Cavaliers cruised to a 73-42 win.