The Virginia men’s basketball team Sunday evening received a No. 2 seed in the 2015 NCAA Tournament. Competing in the East Region, the No. 3 Cavaliers (29-3, 16-2 ACC) will play Ohio Valley champion Belmont (22-10, 11-5 OVC) this Friday at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Big East champion Villanova earned the No. 1 seed in the East Region, while Big Ten champion Wisconsin, Duke and overall No. 1 seed SEC champion Kentucky garnered the top seeds in the West, South and Midwest, respectively. West Coast champion Gonzaga, Pac-12 champion Arizona and Kansas received the remaining No. 2 seeds.
Should Virginia advance, two-time ACC Coach of the Year Tony Bennett’s team will play either No. 7 seed Michigan State (23-11, 12-6 Big Ten) or No. 10 seed Georgia (21-11, 11-7 SEC) in Sunday’s third round. The winner of that game will travel to Syracuse to play in the Sweet 16.
Virginia — which fell to Michigan State as a No. 1 seed in last year’s Sweet 16 — will appear in back-to-back NCAA Tournaments for the first time since the mid-90s. The Cavaliers have now qualified for March Madness three times in Bennett’s six seasons in Charlottesville. Virginia has never before received a No. 2 seed in the Tournament.
Also competing in the East Region are No. 3 seed Oklahoma (22-10, 12-6 Big 12), No. 4 seed Louisville (24-8, 12-6 ACC), No. 5 seed Northern Iowa (30-3, 16-2 MVC) and No. 6 seed Providence (22-11, 11-7 Big East).
Virginia won its second consecutive ACC regular-season title and retained a top-five ranking in both the AP Top 25 and the USA Today Coaches Poll for much of the season. The Cavaliers fell to North Carolina — the No. 4 seed in the West — in the ACC Tournament semifinals.
Tipoff against Belmont is slated for 3:10 p.m.
—compiled by Matthew Morris
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