The Virginia diehards who keep asking me when their favorite basketball team will get back into the AP Top 25 have their answer: today.
UVA (19-5, 10-3 ACC) re-entered the rankings this week at #21, so, there.
The coaches’ Top 25 also has Virginia in this week, at #23.
The ‘Hoos had most recently been ranked the week of Dec. 18, before a 77-54 loss a day later at Memphis that started a stretch of three losses in their next five games, all of the losses by double-digits.
A 65-57 win over Virginia Tech on Jan. 17 started the current eight-game winning streak that has taken UVA from tied for eighth in the ACC standings to being alone in second place, a game back of UNC (19-5, 11-2 ACC), which is fifth this week in the coaches’ poll and seventh in the AP poll.
One other ACC team is ranked this week, Duke (18-5, 9-3 ACC), which is eighth in the coaches’ poll and ninth in the AP poll.
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