CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Jacari White is back. And Tuesday night in Tallahassee, Fla., he brought back the Cavaliers.

White scored 19 points, his biggest came since coming back from a wrist injury, and No. 15 Virginia erased a 9-point deficit with 8:22 to play, topping Florida State 61-58 and winning its fifth in a row.

“The ball kind of kept finding him,” said UVA coach Ryan Odom. “And he kept delivering.”

Thijs DeRidder added 9 points and 9 rebounds for UVA (21-3, 10-2 ACC).

Lajoe Jones scored 21 and Robert McCray added 20 for the Seminoles (11-13, 4-7), who saw their three-game win streak end.

Virginia went 23 for 61 from the floor and committed 14 turnovers on its way to a season-low point total. But White, in 21 minutes off the bench, went 7 for 11 shooting, including 5 for 9 from 3-point range.

“He almost single-handedly won them the game,” FSU coach Luke Loucks said.

White scored 25 points, going 7 f0r 7 from 3-point range, in a Dec. 6 win over Dayton in Charlotte, N.C. But two games later, he suffered a fractured left wrist after a dunk in a home win over Maryland on Dec. 20. White, a transfer from North Dakota State, missed the next five games.

He returned to action on Jan. 13, scoring five points in 12 minutes in a road win over Louisville. Over his first seven games back from the injury, White averaged just 3.7 points per outing.

But Tuesday night, he returned to form. He went 5 for 9 on 3-pointers and scored 16 of his points in the second half, leading the Cavaliers’ surge.

The game was tied 32-32 at halftime and 45-45 with 12:12 to play before FSU went on a 9-0 run, building a 54-45 lead with 8:22 left. From there, Virginia outscored the Seminoles 16-4 with White scoring 10 of those points, including a go-ahead dunk with 1:12 remaining.

Next up, Virginia plays Ohio State in a non-conference, neutral-site game in Nashville on Saturday.