201718 Virginia Cavaliers men 's basketball team represented the University of Virginia during the 2017 – 18 NCAA Division I men 's basketball season . The team was led by head coach Tony Bennett in his ninth year , and played their home games at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville , Virginia as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference . In a year with low expectations from the press , the Cavaliers began unranked but ascended all the way to the No. 1 ranking in the AP Poll for the first time since December 1982 . The team then held on to that ranking through the end of the regular season and became the first ACC team to win 17 conference games . The Cavaliers won the ACC Tournament by handily defeating Louisville 75 – 58 , Clemson 64 – 58 , and North Carolina 71 – 63 in the championship game . In the process the team broke the school 's single-season win record , which had twice been tied by Bennett-led teams in the past five years
ACC Tournament
2018 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament
2017–18 Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball team