There are reasons why Duke and Cuse are both likely (excepting an end-of-season collapse) to get higher tourney seeds than UVA, even if UVA wins the ACC regular season outright.
And I'm not terribly afraid of playing UVA in the ACC Tourney. 6-1 against Bennett, sole loss coming at UVA, where Bennett's squads have played everybody extremely well.
UVA has come a long way the last five years. And they got the right schedule at the right time to give themselves the opportunity to win the ACC regular season outright, which for UVA is worthy of a banner in the rafters. No one would be upset by a UVA ACC title. Except for, I don't know, whoever UVA's rival is-- VT, I guess?
And I'm familiar with Bennett's style-- that grind it out, keep the game close, wear them down stuff. I get it. I just don't put a lot of stock in that style being an odds-on favorite to beat a team with NBA talent. And outside of a UNC team that was still in full-blown free fall, you haven't beaten a team like that yet this year.
I'm willing to re-evaluate if y'all can beat Cuse. Which I'm obviously rooting for.