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From the moment the buzzer sounded on last year's NIT year, the 2013-2014 Virginia Cavaliers season received sky-high expectations. After all, Coach Bennett returned two all-ACC players in Joe Harris and Akil Mitchell, brought in two talented freshman, London Perrantes and Devon Hall, and also got access to Malcolm Brogdon and Anthony Gill, who had taken redshirt years. The only losses were Jontel Evans, a leader and an elite-defender who posed no threat on offense, as well as transfers Paul Jesperson and Taylor Barnette. Fans believed this was a team that should be ranked all season, compete at the top of the conference (not win it, that would be ridiculous), and receive a high NCAA seed. Even the media was on board, picking UVA to finish 4th in the ACC and ranking them 24th in the AP preseason poll.

"WE GOT OUT-TOUGHED, OUT-PLAYED, OUT-WORKED. OUT-EVERYTHINGED," -JOE HARRIS AFTER UVA'S 35 POINT LOSS AT TENNESSEE However, as the season tipped off and the calendar turned toward winter, things weren't going according to plan. The season didn't qualify as a disaster - after all, the Hoos had a solid win over SMU and had avoided the bad losses that had plagued them in the prior year. But it wasn't the start that Wahoo fans had expected. After starting off the year with a win over JMU, the Hoos fell at home to VCU, blowing a late lead and allowing a Treveon Graham buzzer-beater. Wisconsin came to JPJ and held the team to just 38 points. Things took a turn for the worse when Wisconsin-Green Bay gave Coach Bennett a rude welcome to his old stomping grounds, handing the team a 75-72 defeat.

The Tennesse Turnaround was the dramatic reversal of fortunes of the Virginia Cavaliers of the University of Virginia, following a blowout loss to the Tennessee Volunteers of the University of Tennessee. The contest was held on December 30th, 2013 at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, Tennessee,