Other than the fact it was home, Virginia's 75-69 victory over Georgia Tech on Saturday was eerily similar to a 64-63 UVa win at Clemson on Jan. 28.
In that game, the Cavaliers outscored the Tigers 15-0 over the final 3:59. On Saturday, Virginia outscored Georgia Tech 13-0 over the final 3:41.
Four days after winning at Clemson, Virginia outscored Duke 10-2 over the final 3:21, setting up overtime in a game the Cavaliers would win 68-66 in overtime.
"I'll just have to look at it all over again," Dave Leitao said after Saturday's game. "It just happened in a blur."
Leitao improved his record to 17-13 in his two seasons as UVa head coach and has now beaten every team in the league at least once.
Virginia, which is 15-1 in its first season at John Paul Jones Arena, has won more home games than any other team in the history of UVa men's basketball.
A statistic that went unnoticed Saturday was Virginia's free-throw shooting. The Cavaliers went 18-of-19 from the line, going 10-for-10 before a Tunji Soroye miss with 4:20 left
. However, Soroye finished 2-for-3 from the line after going 1-for-7 in UVa's previous two games. The Cavaliers were only 17-for-25 on free throws Wednesday in a 68-60 loss at Miami.
In that game, the Hurricanes outscored UVa 7-0 over the final 25 seconds.
When J.R. Reynolds and Sean Singletary had 25 points and 24 points Saturday, respectively, it marked the third time this season in which they have gone over the 20-point mark in the same game.
Singletary had 33 points and Reynolds 26 against American, then Reynolds had 29 and Singletary 27 at N.C. State.
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