The Louisville Cardinals officially joined the ACC in the summer of 2014, replacing Maryland. In doing so, the ACC named Louisville as the Virginia Cavaliers’ official cross-division “rivals,” meaning that the two teams would play annually in football and biannually in basketball.
In football, the series is fairly even (3-2 in Louisville’s advantage). But in basketball, the Cavaliers have had the edge in a big way. In eight games, Virginia has won seven of them. The one win for Louisville came on the final day of the ACC season in 2015, in a game that meant exactly nothing to a Virginia team that had already clinched the ACC regular season title.