Today at 12:00 p.m. ET, No. 9 Florida State and No. 6 Virginia go head-to-head as part of the ACC tournament live from Greensboro, N.C. The game can be live streamed here.
Virginia enters the ACC tournament as the top seed but hasn't won the ACC tournament in 38 years. Virginia is coming off of seeing their 13-game winning streak snapped thanks to Maryland in the regular-season finale.
"I hate calling losses good losses, but if there's ever a time to have a good loss, this might have been the best one," forward Akil Mitchell told Fox Sports.
Guard Malcolm Brogdon believes that the loss will serve as a wake-up call for his team.
"We were living on a high a little bit," said Brogdon, according to Fox Sports. "We hadn't lost in a while and it's good when you're humbled right before do-or-die time."
Brogdon is Virginia's scoring leader with a 12.6 average and is their second-best rebounder by averaging 5.6 per game and added that despite the team winning 16 games this season, he doesn't feel as though this team is "the favorite at all."
Virginia will hope to keep its defense going strong after holding opponents to 55.4 points per game and winning 12 league games by at least 10 points.
Tony Bennett, who was named Coach of the Year on Tuesday, will hope to end the skid of losing four-straight tournament games.
"You're not going to change who you are, but you really want to play well in this and advance," Bennett told Fox Sports. "That's kind of the challenge that's in front of us, that we haven't gone on in this."
Florida State lost two games to Virginia in January, but Ian Miller believes the team will be prepared for the Cavaliers this time around.
"I think Virginia is a great team and I've got a lot of respect for them," Miller said per Fox Sports. "But in the beginning of the season, I think we were very young minded and didn't understand how to be patient against them. You can't really play how we just want to go."
Virginia and Florida State tip off this afternoon live from North Carolina.
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