Jayden Gardner’s baseline jumper dropped in for the game winner with just nine-tenths of a second on the clock, sending JPJ into a frenzy.

The Cavaliers were sluggish as they plodded their way through an unimpressive first half and dug themselves into a 21-point deficit.

After trailing by as many as 21 points in the first half, the Cavaliers (5-3) grabbed a one-point edge with less than a minute to play, their first lead since the game’s opening minute, but the Hawkeyes (7-0) scored in the closing seconds to snap Virginia’s four-game winning streak.

Virginia (5-2) hosts Iowa (6-0) in a Big Ten/ACC Challenge contest on Monday. Tipoff at John Paul Jones Arena is set for 7 p.m. on ESPN2.

Tony Bennett has always admired Terry Holland, Virginia’s all-time winningest men’s basketball coach who retired in 1990. So when Bennett was told Friday night that he joined Holland as the only two coaches in program history to win 300 games, he was blown away.

Virginia won its fourth game in a row Friday, as the Cavaliers kept the improved defensive effort rolling in a 61-43 beatdown of visiting Lehigh at John Paul Jones Arena.

The Virginia women’s basketball team (1-5) suffered an 80-70 loss to Rhode Island (7-0) in the opening game of the Cavalier Classic tournament on Friday at John Paul Jones Arena.

Virginia (4-2) hosts Lehigh (1-4) in men’s basketball nonconference action on Friday, Nov. 26. Tipoff at John Paul Jones Arena is set for 7 p.m. on ACC Network.

The Virginia women’s basketball team (1-4, 0-0 ACC) hosts its annual Cavalier Classic tournament this weekend, with games taking place on Friday, Nov. 26 and Sunday, Nov. 28 at John Paul Jones Arena.

The Virginia women’s basketball team (1-4) picked up its first victory of the season with a 60-48 win against Cal State Fullerton (2-3) on Tuesday at Titan Gym in Fullerton, Calif.

The only thing better than two more wins tucked in his hip pocket as Tony Bennett walked out of Newark’s Prudential Center on Tuesday night, was knowing that his Virginia basketball team had returned to locking down opponents with suffocating defense.

Virginia got a ton of production from its two transfers early and often, handing Providence its first loss of the season, 58-40, Tuesday in the championship game of the Roman Legends Classic in Newark, N.J.

If anyone in Newark’s Prudential Center feared the capabilities of Virginia’s Armaan Franklin on Monday night, it was Georgia coach Tom Crean.

Virginia held on late in a tightly contested, back-and-forth affair to defeat Georgia, 65-55, in the semifinals of the Roman Legends Classic in Newark, N.J., on Monday, in a contest that featured six ties and 11 lead changes.

It didn’t take long into this new season for newcomer Igor Milicic Jr. to have his coming out party as a Virginia Cavalier.