Al Skinner was talking about his basketball team before the Eagles faced Virginia in the first round of the ACC tournament Thursday.

"The rewarding thing is that everybody is coming back next year," Skinner told the Boston Globe. "It doesn't end here. We've got a much better idea of what we want to do.

"Some of the things I expected to happen earlier didn't happen until later. That surprised me. But we are a better team now."

But not good enough to beat a Virginia team the Eagles had beaten just last week, and the Cavaliers had leading scorer Sylven Landesberg in that game and did not have him Thursday.

Virginia had lost nine straight games before Thursday.

Virginia hadn't won an ACC Tournament game since 2006.

A fitting way for a frustrating BC...

Sammy Zeglinski scored 16 of his season-high 21 points in the first half to help Virginia beat Boston College 68-62 on Thursday in the first round of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. Mike Scott had 11 points and 13 rebounds for the ninth-seeded Cavaliers (15-15), who won their first game in a month and their first tournament game in four years.

Corey Raji had 18 points and nine rebounds to lift Boston College to a 68-55 win over Virginia on Wednesday night, sending the Cavaliers to their eighth consecutive loss. It was just the third win in the past eight games for Boston College (15-14, 6-9 Atlantic Coast Conference). Joe Trapani added 14 points and Rakim Sanders, held scoreless in Saturday's loss at Georgia Tech, had 11 for the...