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.

Photos of the 57-49 Virginia win over VCU from John Markon.

All VCU coach Mike Rhoades said he wants is a “snowball’s chance” when he brings his 7-2 Rams to Charlottesville on Sunday for a battle with No. 4-ranked Virginia.

Virginia hits the floor one last time before exam break Sunday against VCU, and the Cavaliers (8-0) will try to make it 7 of the last 8 against the in-state foe Rams.

Jerry Ratcliffe joins Best Seat in the House with Ralph Sampson, plus a preview of the UVA-VCU game on Sunday.

Virginia has bolted out of the blocks just like most everyone projected the No. 4 team in the country would.

You know it’s your night win every player that checks into the game scores at least one point. That was the case for No. 4 Virginia Monday, as the Cavaliers remained unbeaten on the season with an easy 83-45 win over Morgan State at John Paul Jones Arena.

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.