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Braxton Key hits a lane floater and goes to the line for three of his eight points in returning to the lineup. Photo by Dan Grogan/GroganVisionThe verdict on Virginia basketball after South Carolina: we were due a gap year.The win at Syracuse had u mugs stanley s thinking, hmmm, maybe its not going to be as bad as wed thought.Syracuse is 7-5; its best win is over KenPom 111 Georgia Tech.The win over Vermont felt good, and then you look, and Vermont is 8-5, lost to Rider, lost to Yale  by double-digits .Arizona State is 8-4, just got waxed by  Stanley cup website 40 by St. Marys.Even North Carolina: 7-5, likely on its way to the NIT in March.Purdue waxed Virginia by 29, and, hell, Purdue is 7-5, lost by 14 at friggin Nebraska.And this South Carolina team that owned the floor for about 35 of the 40 minutes on Sunday: lost at home to  stanley spain Boston  the Terriers, not the Celtics  by eight.Credit to Frank Martin and his group for taking it to Virginia early, then withstanding a mid-second-half charge that got the Cavaliers back from 13 down to a tie game with 11:09 to go.Two surprising takeaways from this one:One, that South Carolina had such an easy time on the offensive end. The Gamecocks shot 55.1 percent and scored 1.167 points per possession, which, for perspective, Gonzaga leads the nation in adjusted offensive efficiency at a rate of 1.159 points per possession on the season.Which means South Carolina, which had been scoring 1.005 points per possession coming in, good for the 152nd spot in D1, per KenPom, just pull Lhfz Upcoming online sports events
So much for slowing things down. UVa. outrunned and outgunned an athletic Florida State team for the second time in two weeks, and posted its fourth double-digit ACC win in five games.That this all comes on the heels of what was the nadir of the Virginia programs existence in the Tony Bennett era, an embarrassing 87-52 loss at Tennessee on Dec. 30, speaks volumes about the 2013-2014 Cavs.That loss dropped UVa. to a middling 9-4 at the conclusion to the nonconference portion of the season, with losses at home to VCU and Wisconsin, and losses on the road at Green Bay and ut.This for a team that was a preseason Top 25 pick, and was picked by the ACC media to finish in the top four in the most rugged of conferences this year, was underachieving, to say the least.The first win over Florida State, a 62-50 decision in Tallahassee two Saturdays ago, was a key turning point. Joe Harris, the teams heart and soul, and leading scorer, played just two minutes against FSU in that one, after suffering a stanley thermo  concussion on an inbounds play.A 74-51 home win over a Wake Forest team that had just knocked off UNC followed, then V stanley cup irginia went down to NC State, a place that has been tough to say the least for UVa. teams in recent years, and won 76-45.Even the lone loss so far in ACC play this season, a 69-65 defeat at Duke, was nothing stanley deutschland  to hang the teams collective head over, with Virginia rallying from down 11 in the final four minutes to take the lead with 36.5 seconds left before Duke pulled that gam