The program’s best recently was a 35-5 record in 2013, two years prior to being added to the ACC to fill the gap left by Maryland’s departure. That ’13 team won the NCAA title (as did Denny Crum’s 1980 squad), only to become the first squad stripped of its title due to rules violations ...
The program’s best recently was a 35-5 record in 2013, two years prior to being added to the ACC to fill the gap left by Maryland’s departure. That ’13 team won the NCAA title (as did Denny Crum’s 1980 squad), only to become the first squad stripped of its title due to rules violations under Rick Pitino, now at St.Winning 30 games in a season is unusual, but in the ACC, Duke has done it 17 times and UNC 12.But, with more games played during the regular season and the widespread addition of multi-game, in-season tournaments, not to mention universal adoption of league postseason tournaments, getting at least 20 shots at victory is easier than ever. Given the number of opportunities, winning 20, around two-thirds of a team’s games, as seven ACC teams did last season (.388 percent), is not the clear measure of superior play it once was.Virginia had five 30-win finishes, one under Terry Holland in 1982 at the height of the Ralph Sampson-Jeff Lamp era, and four under Tony Bennett in 2014, 2015, 2018 and 2019. The ’19 squad won a national championship, though UVa’s other 30-win teams under Bennett went 3-3 in NCAA play.
