{"id":573547,"date":"2026-01-31T19:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/573547\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T19:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:43:25","slug":"uva-basketball-faces-boston-college-in-chestnut-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/573547\/","title":{"rendered":"UVA Basketball faces Boston College in Chestnut Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"general-link\" href=\"https:\/\/virginiasports.com\/sports\/mbball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Virginia<\/a> needed two OTs on Tuesday to win at Notre Dame. Saturday, the \u2018Hoos make the trek to Chestnut Hill for another ACC road test, at Boston College.<\/p>\n<p>Game Details<\/p>\n<p>Virginia\u00a0(17-3, 6-2 ACC, NET: 14) at\u00a0Boston College\u00a0(9-11, 2-5 ACC, NET: 156)<br \/>Time:\u00a01:30 p.m. ET<br \/>TV:\u00a0The CW (Thom Brennaman\/Eddie House)<\/p>\n<p>Forecast<\/p>\n<p>KenPom: Virginia 74-61<br \/>BartTorvik: Virginia 72-60<br \/>ESPN BPI: Virginia +13.0<\/p>\n<p>First half<\/p>\n<p>Media timeout: Boston College 10-9, 15:22\/1st<\/p>\n<p>The defense is lacking in intensity: blowby dunk with no help behind from Thijs de Ridder, foul on a light closeout on a made three.<\/p>\n<p>Media timeout: Boston College 16-15, 11:46\/1st<\/p>\n<p>Porous interior defense: BC is 6-of-9 in the paint.<\/p>\n<p>Media timeout: Boston College 23-19, 7:28\/1st<\/p>\n<p>Playing with the food continues.<\/p>\n<p>On offense: 8-of-21 FG, 2-of-9 3FG, 6-of-12 in the paint.<br \/>\nOn defense: 10-of-18 FG, 2-of-5 3FG, 8-of-13 in the paint.<br \/>\nOffensive rebounds: 42.9 percent, but just four second-chance points on the six boards.<\/p>\n<p>Media timeout: Boston College 30-25, 1:58\/1st<\/p>\n<p>Our guys are 2-of-15 from three; 9-of-15 in the paint.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m surprised that the paint shots are that high.<\/p>\n<p>This is just atrocious.<\/p>\n<p>Halftime: Boston College 32, Virginia 27<\/p>\n<p>There should be paint coming off the walls in the locker room after that monstrosity.<\/p>\n<p>BC shot 50 percent (14-of-28) and was 3-of-7 from three, and had 11 makes in the paint.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia shot 36.4 percent (12-of-33), was 2-of-16 from three, and 10-of-16 in the paint.<\/p>\n<p>It feels not like an effort thing, but an attention-to-detail thing.<\/p>\n<p>Settling for contested threes on offense, in particular.<\/p>\n<p>The paint defense got better: BC started 6-of-9, was 5-of-12 after.<\/p>\n<p>This one is about the offensive efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lp.constantcontactpages.com\/sl\/uxb5pub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/newsletter-constant-contact.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virginia needed two OTs on Tuesday to win at Notre Dame. Saturday, the \u2018Hoos make the trek to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,5476,77711],"class_list":{"0":"post-573547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-uva-basketball","10":"tag-uva-vs-boston-college"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115991426161871772","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}