Virginia got out to a rough start this season, with two Quad 3 losses and a Quad 4 loss. In the span of a week, the Cavaliers now have a pair of borderline Quad 1 road wins.
UVA (11-7, 3-3 ACC) outscored Virginia Tech (12-5, 3-3 ACC) 24-12 in the third quarter to break the game open, and went on to a 73-65 win in Blacksburg on Thursday night.
I call this one, and the win at Clemson on Jan. 9, borderline Quad 1 wins because the NET treats a road win as a Quad 1 if it comes over a team ranked in the 1-45 range.
With this loss, Virginia Tech fell 10 spots, from 46th to 56th in the NET.
Clemson was 45th before its 67-60 loss to Virginia last week, and is now 55th.
UVA, meanwhile, has fought back all the way from a season-low 126th three weeks ago all the way to 85th today after the win at Tech.
The key stats in the win:
- Virginia had 14 offensive rebounds and a 42-32 edge in paint points.
- UVA was 12-of-18 from the floor in the third; Tech was 4-of-13 from the floor and had eight turnovers.
- Latasha Lattimore had a game-high 24 points (11-of-23 FG, 1-of-4 3FG, 1-of-1 FT) and 15 rebounds.
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