Virginia Cavaliers NCAA Basketball Betting
There was a reason why Tony Bennett shockingly retired as head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers right before the start of the season. Bennett could read the writing on the wall. Bennett had a roster that was not able to compete for a serious run at the national championship. Also, he did not like what the sport turned into with the transfer portal and NIL payments. College basketball has become a player’s sport, and Bennett began his career when coaches had the upper hand. The lost season that gamblers expected of Virginia was indeed the result.
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2025 Virginia Cavaliers Season Recap
Overall, the Virginia Cavaliers are 15-17 straight up, 13-18 against the spread, and 19-11-1 over/under the total. Virginia has national metrics of 354th for scoring offense, 169th for field goal percentage, 31st for 3-point field goal percentage, 72nd for free throw percentage, and 357th for offensive rebounding. While defensively, Virginia is 44th for scoring defense, 203rd for field goal percentage permitted, 234th for 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 93rd for defensive rebounding.
Late on, Virginia has covered one of its previous seven games and has gone under the total in two of its last ten outings. First among Virginia scorers is Issac McKneely, with 14.4 points per game.
Duncan Powell scored 21 points in his first Atlantic Coast Conference tournament game as Georgia Tech defeated Virginia 66-60 in a second-round contest on Wednesday.
Baye Ndongo provided 16 points and 10 rebounds, and Nathan George added 13 points, 10 rebounds, and eight assists as the Yellow Jackets avenged a regular-season loss. Isaac McKneely led ninth-seeded Virginia with 27 points, shooting 7-for-11 on 3-pointers. Playing under interim coach Ron Sanchez, the Cavaliers completed their first losing season in 15 years. He was elevated to the position a few weeks before the start of the season after coach Tony Bennett's sudden retirement.
Virginia, which had a 44-26 rebounding deficit, shot 36.2 percent from the field. Tied at 35 in the second half, the Yellow Jackets scored eight straight points for a 43-35 lead. Powell scored on back-to-back drives to stretch Georgia Tech’s lead to 49-39 with less than nine minutes remaining. But the Cavaliers used an 8-0 run in the final minute to make it interesting.
Virginia was within 62-55 on McKneely’s 3-pointer with 47 seconds to play and edged closer on Jacob Cofie’s dunk at the 35-second mark after a pair of missed foul shots by George. A Georgia Tech turnover led to McKneely’s 3 with 25 seconds left, putting the score at 62-60.
George sank a total of four foul shots on Georgia Tech’s next two possessions to put the game out of reach. The Yellow Jackets won despite being outscored 27-6 from beyond the 3-point arc. Georgia Tech made up for some of that with 18-for-23 shooting on free throws. Virginia was 9-for-11 on foul shots.
Both teams received first-round byes, and the offenses were sluggish in the first half.
Subsequently, the Virginia men’s basketball program has launched a national coaching search following its first losing season since 2009-10.
The Cavaliers parted ways with interim coach Ron Sanchez on Wednesday, just hours after losing to Georgia Tech in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.
Sanchez, 52, took over when national championship-winning coach Tony Bennett announced his retirement just three weeks before the start of the season.
Sanchez was an assistant coach under Bennett at Virginia from 2009-18 and again in 2023-24 after serving as the head coach at Charlotte from 2018-23, where his teams were 72-78.
Sanchez guided Virginia to a 15-17 record, including an 8-12 mark in the ACC following a 1-6 start to conference play. The Cavaliers finished 0-6 against teams ranked in the Top 25.
Sanchez had big shoes to fill in Charlottesville, as Bennett left as the winningest coach in school history (364-136) and led the Cavaliers to a national championship in 2018-19.
Latest NCAA Tournament Results
| YEAR |
RESULT |
| 2024 |
Lost First Four vs. (10) Colorado State, 42–67 |
| 2023 |
Lost First Round vs. (13) Furman, 67–68 |
| 2021 |
Lost First Round vs. (13) Ohio, 58–62 |
| 2019 |
Won National Championship vs. (3) Texas Tech, 85–77 (OT) |
| 2018 |
Lost First Round vs. (16) UMBC, 54–74 |
| 2017 |
Lost Second Round vs. (4) Florida, 39–65 |
| 2016 |
Lost Elite Eight vs. (10) Syracuse, 62–68 |
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