Last Saturday night, Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton walked into the press room at John Paul Jones Arena and looked like he had been blindsided by one of those locomotives that appear out of nowhere and flatten Wile E. Coyote in the Road Runner cartoons.

When Boston College forward Nik Popovic got past Jack Salt and cut Virginia’s lead to 48-41 with just over 15 minutes to play, it looked as if the fourth-ranked Cavaliers might be in for another dogfight against the Eagles.

With three of its next four games away from home, the Virginia men’s basketball team looks to extend the nation’s longest road winning streak and keep the momentum rolling at Boston College tonight. Tip time is scheduled for 9 p.m. and the game will be broadcast on ESPNU.

Jerry Ratcliffe and Scott Ratcliffe from JerryRatcliffe.com and Chris Graham and Scott German from Augusta Free Press debut the ACC Basketball Power Poll. Who sits atop the standings after the opening week of ACC play?

Kyle Guy has officially surged beyond Red Hot. Physicists tell us that heat progresses from red, orange, yellow, blue, violet, and then ultraviolet, which will burn our retinas. While it doesn’t exactly fit into the sports lingo in describing how on fire a player might be, Guy is now ultraviolet.

On a night when No. 4 Virginia needed a scoring lift going up against a tough Florida State team in the ACC opener Saturday, Braxton Key delivered his best performance so far wearing a Wahoo uniform.

Photo gallery from Virginia’s 65-52 win over Florida State on Saturday. Photos by John Markon.

Phase One of the Virginia men’s basketball schedule was a complete success. Now the real fun begins — welcome to the 2018 version of the Atlantic Coast Conference gauntlet.

On the eve of conference play for most of its teams, the basketball rich ACC finds itself housing one-third of the AP’s top 18 ranked squads.

In honor of Virginia head coach Tony Bennett recording his 300th career win over the weekend, we take a trip down Memory Lane with our 25 most memorable Bennett victories since arriving in Charlottesville in 2009.

On a day that was supposed to be all about Tony Bennett, the Virginia coach turned the attention elsewhere. That’s just Tony Bennett.

The Virginia men’s basketball team closes out the 2018 calendar year Monday with a New Year’s Eve matinee against Marshall, the final non-conference tuneup prior to ACC play.

Tony Bennett couldn’t have asked for a much easier 299th career win that Saturday’s 72-40 landslide over visiting William & Mary.

A couple of key scoring runs, one in each half, propelled No. 5 Virginia to what turned out to be an easy 72-40 win over William & Mary Saturday before a holiday crowd of 14,623 at John Paul Jones Arena.

Virginia welcomes in-state opponent William & Mary Saturday afternoon, the first of three straight home games for the Cavaliers to close out 2018 and ring in the new year.

Virginia might have been a little rusty and a little wounded going on the road Wednesday night, but the Cavaliers flexed their No. 5 muscles at just the right times to dispose of South Carolina, 69-52.

Junior guards Ty Jerome and Kyle Guy combined for 43 points Wednesday as fifth-ranked Virginia won its 11th straight true road game and moved to 10-0 with a 69-52 win at South Carolina after a 10-day exam break.

After a 10-day layoff due to Winter exams, Tony Bennett and the Virginia men’s basketball team resumes non-conference play Wednesday night in Columbia against former conference foe South Carolina.

Tony Bennett is not the most excitable guy in the world. When the Virginia coach does show emotion, it is usually triggered by great defense.

When the shots aren’t falling, you’ve just gotta keep shooting. Despite only making five shots from the field in the second half, No. 4 Virginia got three clutch buckets from junior guard Ty Jerome — part of a decisive 15-2 run in crunch time — and made the most of its trips to the charity stripe to pull away with a 57-49 win against visiting VCU on a snowy Sunday afternoon in Charlottesville.