During that amazing 39-8 getaway, Brogdon and his teammates weren’t aware that Harvard had made only one field goal in the first half, 1-for-20 (5.0 percent) to be exact. They didn’t have time to stop and smell the roses.

“On the bench there was just sort of a shock that we were winning by that much against a very good team,” Brogdon said. “A lot of people are happy, but we’re not a team that gets too high on ourselves. We continue to talk about what we have to do to keep imposing our will.”

The fact that Virginia has held two respectable opponents to less than 30 points this season might be mindblowing in some corners of the country, but not in this one. Anyone familiar with Bennett’s “Pack Line” system and his passion for smothering defense, almost expects those results.

When a scribe approached Brogdon afterward and asked him how this team can get better after its Christmas break, the Cavalier star had to pause and actually give it some thought.