That became a lot easier after the senior scored Virginia’s first 12 points of the second half en route a rather easy 82-68 win over Maryland on Monday.

After making his first five shots and notching 10 points in the first half, Mike Scott missed his final 10 shots and failed to score again the rest of the game.

It is also a chance for Monica Wright to register her first win in College Park, Md., a place that the Cavaliers (16-6, 5-3 ACC) have not won since 2003.

Virginia looked sharper than it had in its loss to Wake Forest on Jan. 23, but came up just short, falling in overtime to the Demon Deacons, 64-61, in front of a brave crowd of 5,998.

Virginia AD Craig Littlepage just gave a pre-game pep talk to the crowd here at JPJ.

In odd fashion during a season with peaks and valleys, Virginia’s youthful roster prepared in near-perfect fashion.

UVa (14-6, 5-2) was thoroughly outplayed when the teams met two weeks ago in Winston-Salem, N.C. The game wasn’t nearly as competitive as the final score of 69-57 would indicate.

Saturday’s game still a go.

Baker, whose college career seemed in jeopardy just two games ago after he was suspended against Wake Forest for disciplinary reasons, played all the key minutes down the stretch for Virginia coach Tony Bennett.

In the wake of a rough loss at Wake Forest that kicked Virginia out of the national polls, the Cavaliers responded with their easiest ACC victory of the season by whipping Clemson 82-60 in front of a crowd of 2,920.

The 6-foot-4 guard soared over N.C. State’s Javier Gonzalez for a vicious right-handed stuff that got the crowd juiced and propelled the Cavaliers to a workmanlike 59-47 victory.

Virginia’s basketball team, a group of guys that were no strangers to getting screamed at in recent years, received a bit of a shock during halftime of Wednesday night’s home game against N.C. State.

The UVa men’s basketball team defeated NC State 59-47 at home in Charlottesville.

Virginia Men’s Basketball Head Coach Tony Bennett talks to the press about their 59-47 win over NCSU.

UVa is walking on air — the college basketball version of Taylor Swift, if you will — after beating North Carolina in the Dean Dome on Sunday.

Virginia’s 75-60 win over the Tar Heels was easily the biggest, and most impressive, of the Tony Bennett era, regardless of the state of UNC basketball.

Sylven Landesberg scored 29 points and Virginia ran off 18 unanswered points early in the second half to beat struggling North Carolina 75-60 on Sunday night.

In stunning fashion, the 21st-ranked Cavaliers fell 64-57 on the road at Wake Forest.

The Dean E. Smith Center, aka “The Dean Dome,” has pretty much been a house of horrors for the Virginia men’s basketball team.

“The rule, for us, is that you immediately come out,” Ryan admitted. “Unfortunately, [McCall’s] sub went in and played better than she did.”

But there was a less blatant factor that led to the meltdown — the Cavaliers’ failure to keep forward Mike Scott involved in the offense.

Virginia Tech, behind 27 points from Malcolm Delaney and 18 points from Dorenzo Hudson, came back from 10 points down with under four minutes to play to shock UVa in overtime, 76-71, in front of a crowd of 13,449 at John Paul Jones Arena.

Virginia Men’s Basketball Head Coach Tony Bennett talks to the press about their 71-76 loss to the Hokies.

Virginia lost to Virginia Tech 71-76 at home.

Monica Wright scored 26 points and registered six steals as 21st-ranked Virginia dispatched N.C. State 73-60.

Two seasons ago in Blacksburg, a frustrated Mike Scott sat at his locker stall and essentially told a reporter that he wished his coach was more like Virginia Tech’s Seth Greenberg.

Scattershooting around the ACC returns after a six-week hiatus as conference basketball hits full gear ...

At 7 p.m. tonight for the first time, the Virginia women’s basketball coach will do so without Kay Yow pacing on the sidelines.

Calvin Baker — who is averaging a career-low 3.8 points, but has a team-high 3-1 assist-to-turnover ratio — has seemingly worked his way back into Bennett’s good graces. He practiced with the team on Monday.

Whitey and Hootie break down the Wake Forest loss, the “Calvin Baker situation” and for the first time, answer your emails, voicemails, and tweets.