I've been saying this all year. This is a fairly nice UVA team but not a special UVA team. Or as my UVA friend who I go to the games with said last night - this is what happens when a team with college kids plays a team with future NBA kids. The last few years UVA has had talented guards and wings like Harris, Brogdon and Anderson who were NBA talents. Add to that athletic bigs like Scott, Mitchell, Atkins and Gill. That combination provided for a suffocating defense and a solid halfcourt O that could routinely get off high quality shots late in the shot clock. None of their current guards or wings are going to sniff the NBA, and the only athletic bigs they have are Wilkins and Diakite. I love Wilkins, but Diakite doesn't yet possess a high basketball IQ. Salt is a bit of a stiff but is athletic enough and has made himself serviceable. Reuter is a complete stiff whose vertical leap is less than Phil Mickelson's. WhyTF did Bennett offer him a ship? Bennett has 2 freshmen bigs he redshirted. They better have some athleticism, or UVA is going to suck in 2 years. They'll get through next year because they have enough decent juniors, and both Guy and Jerome have some talent, at least on the offensive end. This team is disciplined enough on D to take care of business on a regular basis against the ACC also rans like us, Clemson, GT.... But they have a serious problem when they're facing more talented teams.
All of that said, Duke is playing much better as a team than they were a month or 2 ago, especially on D. To the point where I could see them, along with FSU, Lville and UNC, making a deep tourney run.