Despite Blake Buchanan’s 11-point, 15-rebound double-double, SMU hits three threes in the game’s last 25 seconds to steal the win, 54-52.

Isaac McKneely is a feast-or-famine guy for UVA Basketball – capable of shooting the lights out one night, hoisting up airballs the next.

Southern Methodist junior guard Boopie Miller rose. He stopped his dribble, picked up the ball and rose, falling to his right behind the three-point line, the eyes of a standing stadium on him. And then, with the final seconds flashing away in a game his team trailed by two points, Miller shot.

Virginia (8-9, 1-5 ACC) suffered a heartbreaking 54-52 loss to SMU (13-4, 4-2 ACC) on a buzzer-beating three-pointer by Boopie Miller on Wednesday night at John Paul Jones Arena. Here are our five takeaways from UVA's fourth-consecutive loss,

UVA Basketball (8-8, 1-4 ACC) hosts SMU (12-4, 3-2 ACC) in a 9 p.m. tip at JPJ. Virginia has lost three straight, all by double-digits, and lost at SMU, 63-51, earlier this season, back on Dec. 7, down in Dallas.