#13 Virginia needed this one. Bad. And it got the win over #8 Miami Tuesday night, and it doesn’t matter that it looked bad.
The Cavs survived a late rally to beat the Hurricanes in a slugfest, 66-58.
UVA (13-3, 2-2 ACC) had come in on a two-game losing streak, and hadn’t lost three in a row in five years.
Virginia led 27-23 at the half, but Miami (13-2, 2-1 ACC) opened the second half on a 7-0 run to take a 30-27 lead with 16:46 to go.
A three by London Perrantes with 11:20 left would give Virginia a 44-43 lead, and it would turn out that the Cavaliers would never trail thereafter.
UVA led by seven at the under-four media timeout, but Miami would claw back to within 59-56 and had an open three for Ivan Cruz Uceda that rimmed out with 1:32 left.
Perrantes would hit a tough floater in the lane with 1:04 to go to extend the lead to five. Miami point guard Angel Rodriguez missed the front end of a one-and-one with 49 seconds left, and Virginia was able to close out the game at the free-throw line, hitting 5-of-6 in the final 49 seconds.
Malcolm Brodgon led UVA with 20 points on 7-of-16 shooting from the field. Anthony Gill had 15 points and eight rebounds.
Perrantes had 13, all in the second half. Mike Tobey had 12 points, 10 in the first half, and seven rebounds.
UVA shot 51.1 percent (24-of-47) from the field and won the boards, 35-27.
Miami got 17 from Rodriguez, 11 in the second half, and 13 from Sheldon McClellan, who was just 4-of-12 from the field.
The ‘Canes shot 42.0 percent from the floor (21-of-50) and were 6-of-22 (27.3 percent) from three.
Virginia was just 2-of-7 from three-point range, but made two of its three long-range attempts in the second half.
Virginia Team Notes
- Virginia is 8-10 all-time against Miami, including 6-3 in Charlottesville, and is 8-8 against the Hurricanes since UM joined the ACC in 2004-05
- UVA is 131-36 in 10 seasons at JPJ, including 93-20 under Tony Bennett
- UVA improved to 8-0 at home this year and has won 13 straight home contests
- Virginia is now 3-0 against ranked opponents (at the time of the game) this season
- Virginia is 10-0 this season when leading at the half
- The game featured five ties and 14 lead changes
- Virginia shot 51.1 percent and is now 8-0 this year when shooting better than 50 percent
- For the third straight game, Virginia used at least 10 players – each played eight minutes or more
- Virginia hit 10 straight free-throw attempts to begin the second half
Virginia Player Notes
- 60 of Virginia’s 66 points came from four players – Malcolm Brogdon, Anthony Gill, London Perrantes and Mike Tobey
- Gill scored 15 points and reached double figures in scoring for the 16th straight game this year and the 19thstraight overall
- Brogdon scored 14 of his 20 points in the second half as he recorded his seventh 20-point game of the year
- After going scoreless in the first half, Perrantes scored 13 points in the second half
- Tobey recorded 10 of his 12 points before halftime
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