The Virginia Cavaliers are coming off the best two-year mark in school history, going 60-11—32-4 in ACC play—and winning 30 games in back-to-back seasons for the first time in school history. Yet, the Hoos met the same fate in each of those two seasons, falling to Michigan State in the NCAA tournament.
Head coach Tony Bennett has done a wonderful job rebuilding the Cavaliers back into a national power. Bennett's pack-line defense is annually among the stingiest in all of college basketball.
But something is keeping the Hoos from getting past the Sweet 16—well, besides Michigan State, of course.