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Virginia Is the National Champion. But It Can’t Seem to Make a Shot

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The Virginia men’s basketball team, for a decade under Coach Tony Bennett, has had a methodical offense, playing at the slowest pace in the country for the last five seasons. But despite that style, the team has always been able to score.

Last season, it scored 116 points per 100 possessions, fourth best in the country. That scoring and the team’s traditionally smothering defense led it to the national championship in April, one year after an embarrassing exit from the N.C.A.A. tournament as the first top seed to lose to a No.