There’s Still More Out There

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Malcolm Brogdon and the Hoos open NCAA Tournament play on Friday. They advanced to the Sweet Sixteen in 2014. ~ Mike Ingalls

“There’s still more out there.”

That phrase stuck with me. When I sat down with Coach Tony Bennett last fall for an annual Question & Answer session, we covered a lot of ground. We talked about fan reaction to the ACC Championships, how Joe Harris and Akil Mitchell ultimately jump-started the program, Malcolm Brogdon, and much more. But among the answers, Bennett used that line.

“There’s still more out there.”

Virginia, of course, had a program-lifting run from January through March of 2014. The Cavaliers swept the ACC titles in the regular season and the tournament, the latter being only the second ACC Tournament crown in school history. They rose in the polls and into the top 10 nationally. They roared past Memphis and into the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament.

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