CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – The turnaround is complete, and now the seasons goes on.

Virginia men’s lacrosse, which stumbled out to a 3-4 start to the season, put together perhaps its most complete game of the year Sunday, dominating North Carolina 16-6 to win the ACC championship in Charlotte, N.C.

The Cavaliers (10-6) will now be the fifth-seed in the NCAA tournament, hosting Georgetown (10-4) on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. They are 6-0 all-time against the Hoyas, including four NCAA wins. The teams last met in the 2023 quarterfinals in Albany, N.Y., a 17-14 Virginia victory.

UVA has won four straight NCAA tournament games at home in Charlottesville.

Virginia is 7-2 in its last nine games, with a pair of wins over No. 1 Notre Dame, including one in Friday’s ACC semifinals. Three of the team’s regular season losses – to Johns Hopkins, Maryland and North Carolina – came by a single goal.

It was the No. 4 seed in Charlotte, but Sunday’s rematch against the second-seeded Tar Heels, who downed UVA 16-15 in overtime on April 18 in Charlottesville, was never in doubt.

McCabe Millon scored four goals and had two assists and Truitt Sunderland had four scores and one assist. After UNC scored the game’s first two goals, Virginia ripped off 11 in a row.

That was plenty for ACC tournament Most Outstanding Player Jake Marek who followed up his 12-save effort in the win over Notre Dame on Friday, by a posting a season-high 16 saves Sunday against the Tar Heels, giving UVA its 20th all-time ACC title and first since 2019.

The Cavaliers missed last year’s NCAA tournament after making the Final Four in 2024, their

Virginia has been in the NCAA tournament in seven of coach Lars Tiffany’s 10 years leading the program. Tiffany coached UVA to national championships in 2019 and 2021. (There was no tournament in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.)

The Cavaliers have played on the sport’s final weekend in four of the last six years. This year, the final four will be held in Charlottesville, at Scott Stadium, Virginia’s football venue.

No team has won a national title in its home city – or even state – since Johns Hopkins edged Duke 12-11 in 2007 in Baltimore.

Princeton got the No. 1 overall seed in the 18-team NCAA bracket on Sunday.

With a win Sunday night, UVA would face the winner of 4-seed Richmond and Duke in the quarterfinals on May 17 in Newark, Del. The Spiders contributed to the Cavaliers’ slow start, downing them 18-12 on Feb. 14.

Virginia beat Duke 14-10 on April 4 in Durham, N.C., ending a 20-game regular season losing streak against the Blue Devils.