Last night in Blacksburg might have been the Virginia basketball fan's equivalent of watching their son or daughter graduate from, well, college.
"Our baby's growing up," might have been a fair reaction to what we had just witnessed.
But, instead of it taking 21 or 22 years, it took 27 games.
And, just as a college degree doesn't make it, "Presto! Instant adult!" (and parents reading this are thinking, "Nooo, THAT would be a J-O-B) one game does not certify these Virginia Cavaliers as a legitimate, absolutely-for-real basketball team.