1. Virginia is going to be a pain for a lot of teams in the ACC. They're probably not talented enough to get the 13 or 14 wins it'll likely take to win the conference regular season title, but nobody is going to blow them out. The Cavaliers' defense is good enough to keep it in any game, and they showed they can do just enough offensively to keep the defense from double-teaming star forward Mike Scott.

Joe Harris and Sammy Zeglinski are good shooters, and Virginia's pick-heavy offense makes the defense hustle on every possession. Not every player on every team wants to hustle. The 'Hoos will win a few games on discipline alone.

2. Yes, Virginia coach Tony Bennett did have a timeout after the Cavaliers rebounded the ball with 15 seconds remaining. And no, he didn't call it. Bennett made the right move, though. Austin Rivers admitted after the game that the Blue Devils had a defensive breakdown on the game's final possession – they even gave up an offensive rebound to boot – a result of the fast break that occurred after the Devils' miss. Virginia ran a play that had Scott, its best player, with an open look. There's nothing more they could have asked for. Scott just missed.

3. The problem with jump shots is that they're fickle. Even the best-shooting teams will have nights where they shoot 35 percent or worse. The good news for the Blue Devils: They didn't bail themselves out with threes (5-for-20) and they were horrendous from the free throw line (42 percent), and they still beat the No. 16 team in the country.