The team was led by head coach Tony Bennett in his tenth year, and played their home games at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, Virginia as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.

UVA opened the season with consecutive wins over ranked Big Ten teams, No.

An unheralded two-star recruit, 5'9" Kihei Clark from Los Angeles, California, started both games as a true freshman.

On April 6, 2019, they defeated Auburn in their Final Four matchup by a score of 63–62 on 3 last-second free throws by Kyle Guy, cementing the program's first ever trip to the national championship game.

[3] On April 8, 2019, Virginia beat Texas Tech 85–77 in overtime, winning its first national championship.