Previewing UVA basketball’s road clash with Stanford

The Virginia Cavaliers will finish their west coast trip on Saturday, looking to shake off a demoralizing 75-61 loss to California. Stanford will host the ‘Hoos for the first time since 2010 at Maples Pavilion, a building where the Cardinal have had vast success in this series.

UVA is now 8-7 overall and 1-3 in ACC play. The Cavaliers sit at -2.1 in Torvik’s Wins Above Bubble, meaning that the average bubble team will have won about two more games against their schedule. It doesn’t take an advanced metric to know that this is rapidly trending towards a lost season, though. If Ron Sanchez and company want to salvage something, they will have to start winning road games, and this is as good an…