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just felt like I needed to step up and do something to help the team win. We were struggling a little bit. … It just came down to doing whatever the team needed from me to win and that's what we needed that night. And it worked. "I feel like that's what will happen this year," Perrantes added. "With the loss of Justin, we will definitely need some more scoring and I feel like we have a lot of guys who can do that. It's not just going to be me. It could be a mixture of anybody on any given night." The Cavaliers, though they lose Anderson, re- turn a wealth of talent at guard with Perrantes, Brogdon, Devon Hall and Marial Shayok, while also adding Tennessee transfer Darius Thompson. In short, Perrantes believes the team will be better because of the past two seasons and the number of big games the Cavaliers have been able to win. "It definitely gives us some experience," he said. "The young guys went through it their first year and now they have that under their belt. For the older guys, we've done it all before so we just need to keep preaching to the younger guys how we do things and keep them on their toes, playing as well as they should and as well as we do. … If we play the right way and play the way that we practice, the way our coaches preach to us, then I feel like we'll be able to do it again this year." This season, Virginia enters as the No. 6 team in the country according to both major preseason polls, the first time the Wahoos have been ranked in the top 10 heading into back-to-back seasons since 1981-82. As such, expectations are high in and around Charlottesville. "We don't have many tune-up games," Perran- tes said of the team's non-conference schedule. "We have some tough games and I feel like that has made us work a lot harder in the offseason, to be able to be ready from the get-go. "It's definitely going to help us in the long run, to help us find out who we are early." ◆