Ninth-ranked Virginia went on a 12-0 run to break an early second-half tie, and the Cavs rolled from there to a 64-50 win at Pitt on Saturday.
UVA (19-4, 8-3 ACC) has now won six straight, including three in a row on the road.
Pitt (17-5, 6-4 ACC) tied the game at 31-31 on a 10-2 run over a five-minute span, but the ‘Hoos responded with threes by Malcolm Brogdon, Devon Hall and London Perrantes on back-to-back-to-back possessions.
Hall converted an old-fashioned three-point play at the 15:52 mark, and the lead was 12.
Pitt would hang around for a while, but an 8-0 run over a four-minute stretch helped the Cavs push their lead to 19, at 57-38, on a London Perrantes layup with 6:30 to go, and the closest the Panthers would get the rest of the way would be 13.
Brogdon had 21 points on 6-of-9 shooting from the field to lead Virginia. Perrantes had 14 points, going 5-of-9 from the field and 4-of-5 from three-point range.
UVA shot 48.0 percent (24-of-50) from the field and 56.3 percent (9-of-16) from three.
Pitt got 17 points from Jamel Artis and 12 points and 10 rebounds from Michael Young.
The Panthers shot 39.1 percent (18-of-46) from the field and was just 2-of-13 (15.4 percent) from three-point range.
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