Question: has uva ever been in the finals?
Answer: Virginia won the NCAA Tournament Championship in 2019, has been to the Final Four three times, and won the last third-place game ever played at the event in 1981. ... The Cavaliers have been ranked in the Top 5 of the AP Poll a total of 97 times in the past four decades, ranking the program 9th since the 1980–81 season.