Virginia second-year guard Kymora Johnson has been named an All-ACC First Team selection following a vote by the league’s head coaches and Blue Ribbon Panel.

Virginia and visiting Florida State will be slugging it out to break a tie for 10th place in the ACC standings tonight in UVA’s final regular-season home game.

The Cavaliers overcame an 18-point deficit to upset No. 8 North Carolina, 78-75, on Sunday at Carmichael Arena. The win marked Virginia’s first in Chapel Hill since the 2001 season.

For the first 22 1⁄2 minutes of Saturday’s game, Virginia went jaw-to-jaw with visiting heavyweight Clemson and looked the part of a team about to score another knockout.

Coming off arguably their most impressive win of the season, Virginia returns home Saturday for Senior Day, hosting 13th-ranked Clemson.

Behind a highly-efficient night from Breona Hurd, the Virginia women’s basketball team topped SMU by a score of 63-51 on Thursday night in Dallas.

Embrace The Pace, the Virginia alumni team, will be led by 2019 national champions Kyle Guy and Kihei Clark.

Out of all the field goals Isaac McKneely made Wednesday night in Winston-Salem, his favorite was his last 3-pointer of the evening with six minutes remaining.

While Wake Forest played without inspiration in its last outing and Virginia appeared to be intimidated in its trip to Chapel Hill, both teams are expected to raise the intensity level in tonight’s “late” tipoff in Winston-Salem.

Kymora Johnson became the 37th member of the 1,000-point club for Virginia, netting a season-high 33 points in an emphatic win to close out UVA’s home slate.

The Cavaliers got off to a horrendous start, falling behind 21-2 before eventually losing 81-66 and dropping to 13-14, 6-10 ACC.

With five games remaining in the regular season, Virginia has a difficult, but not impossible stretch coming up beginning Saturday afternoon at the Dean Dome.

Virginia rallied from a 12-point second-half deficit to regain the lead in the fourth quarter. However, the Cavaliers fell to California by a score of 76-70 on Thursday night.

For the Cavaliers, the best thing is to put this one in the rearview and focus on the remaining five games.

No. 3 Duke used its overall combination of size, talent and defense in a lopsided, 80-62 victory over Virginia Monday night in front of a nationally televised audience at John Paul Jones Arena.

Virginia, riding a three-game winning streak, will face its biggest challenge of the season tonight when the Cavaliers host No. 3 Duke.

Kymora Johnson put herself in elite company recording just the third triple-double in Virginia history, joining Dawn Staley as the only Cavaliers to accomplish the feat.