The Virginia basketball team followed up a strong home performance against North Carolina on Saturday with a dud at Florida State on Monday. The Seminoles rolled to an 81-60 win and kept their 24-game winning streak going in ACC home games, the second longest streak in conference history. The Double Bonus is back to look at what happened for the Hoos.

Defense Didn’t Travel

As noted in the game recap article, Virginia usually can count on its defense to show up home or away. This season’s defense hasn’t reached that consistency level yet, however, and an inconsistent effort reared its head in Tallahassee. The Cavaliers allowed 50% shooting overall, 54.2% shooting from 3-point range, 17 assists, 13 free throw trips, and other open shots as well. The Noles ended up at 1.328 points per possession. You’re not going to win many games, on the road or otherwise, when allowing those types of numbers on defense.

That’s certainly what had coach Tony Bennett’s attention in the initial postgame media session as he talked about a lack of resistance and attention to detail defensively. Here’s part of his postgame thoughts: “We can control if our defenses set, if we’re active on the ball, if we’re in position and not committing some lapse of judgments.”

Let’s look at a couple of possessions with those things in mind.

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