ASA play on 8* Virginia -5 over Syracuse, Thursday 12 PM ET - We will get on the Cavaliers here in this early day ACC game on Thursday. Tony Bennett has a fantastic zone offensive scheme which showed in the first meeting of the season between these two teams when Virginia won in a blowout by 23-points. The Cavs found the voids in the Cuse zone defense and made 45% or 14 of 31 3-point attempts. Not only did they make shots on the perimeter, but they also did it on the interior by making 29 of 59 field goal attempts. Virginia is the 13th most efficient offense in all of college basketball and have the 12th best 3-point shooting team in the nation led by Sam Hauser. UVA is also one of the best defensive teams in the country allowing .923-points per possession which showed in the first meeting with Syracuse when the Cavs held the Cuse to just .823PPP. Even though this game is on a neutral floor, Syracuse has also struggled on the road this year with a 2-7 SU record, with their best win coming at NC State. If we examine the Syracuse offensive efficiency numbers, we see 7 of their 13 worst OEFF numbers came when they were away from home. We should also point out the Cuse 7 worst defensive efficiency showing this season were on the road where they allowed more than 1.105PPP in every game. Virginia had an average margin of victory this season of +8.4PPG and we’re betting the margin here is even greater than that.