Cavs face quick ACC turnaround

Monica Wright said she was just along for the ride.
Taking a backseat to Senior Night festivities on Sunday, Wright quietly scored 27 points. Well, as quiet as a 27-point performance from one of the nation’s most athletic players can be.
For 40 minutes against Boston College, Wright wanted the focus to be on Lyndra Littles, Kristen London, Britnee Millner and Aisha Mohammed, the four seniors that she started along aside.
“The start of the first half, the start of the second half, I didn’t have to do anything but just play my role,” Wright said. “We had so much energy from Kris, from Lyndra, from Britnee, from Aisha … it was unbelievable.
“I was just sitting back watching like, ‘I don’t have to do anything.’ We slacked off a little but towards the end of the first half but as soon as the second half started we re-collected it. It was done from there.”
It was “done” as Virginia erupted for 55 points in the second half to cruise past the Eagles for a 90-70 victory.
The enjoyment that surrounded that win was short and sweet — the 22nd-ranked Cavaliers (21-7, 7-5 ACC) boarded a plane Monday en route for tonight’s game at No. 11 Florida State (23-5, 11-1 ACC). The contest, which will be televised in Florida and on some satellite providers elsewhere, will tip off at 6:30 p.m.
Thanks to the win against Boston College, the Cavaliers can relax to a degree. Regardless of tonight’s result, a victory on Sunday at Georgia Tech will guarantee the program the No. 5 seed in the ACC Tournament and a first-round contest with a sub-.500 program (Clemson, Miami or Virginia Tech). With two losses to close the regular season the Cavaliers could drop as low as the No. 7 seed.
That is not to say Virginia will take the Seminoles lightly. The Cavaliers lost to Florida State 80-75 in JPJ on Jan. 23 and the Seminoles enter in first place in the league.
“That is one of those games that you wish you could go back and do some things differently,” Littles said. “We have to make sure that we go out there and do all the things that we did in the game that we played them that were right and eliminate some of the mistakes that we made.”
The Seminoles, the second-best 3-point shooting team in the ACC, enter riding a five-game winning streak.
“They are a good basketball team,” Littles added. “They’re playing together and when you win games you also get a lot of confidence. I think they are playing with a lot of confidence.
“They are in a good flow and they have great chemistry going.”