Sam Lewis scored 15 points, Thijs De Ridder had a double-double and No. 18 Virginia eased to a 67-47 win over Pitt on Tuesday night in Charlottesville, Va.

The Cavaliers (19-3, 8-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) have won eight of their last nine games. They improved to 11-1 at home and 17-1 when outrebounding the opposition, posting a 38-31 advantage over the smaller Panthers (9-14, 2-8).

De Ridder, the reigning ACC Player of the Week and Rookie of the Week, had 10 points and 12 rebounds, and Lewis sank 4 of 8 3-pointers. Chance Mallory had 11 points and four steals, Malik Thomas added 10 points and the Virginia defense racked up 12 steals and six blocks.

Pitt has lost five of its last six games and fell to 1-6 on the road and 0-3 against Top 25 opponents. Cameron Corhen and Nojus Indrusaitis led the Panthers with 11 points each.

Virginia grabbed the lead for good at 10-7, led by 13 at halftime and was never threatened in the second half.

The Cavaliers led 49-32 with 11:07 left in the game on a dunk by Ugonna Onyenso, who had five points, six boards and four blocks.

Consecutive 3-pointers by Lewis stretched the lead to 55-37 with 7:32 to play.

The Cavaliers shot 35.5% from beyond the arc (11 of 31), with eight players making at least one triple.

Virginia scored 23 points off 17 Pitt turnovers and limited the Panthers to 37.0% shooting (17 of 46).

None of the Cavaliers’ opponents has shot 50% from the field this season and 12 have shot worse than 40%.

After a sluggish start following a 9 p.m. ET tip-off, Virginia used a 12-0 run to open a 15-7 lead.

The Cavaliers’ lead reached double figures at 24-14 on a layup by Thomas with 5:48 remaining.

Virginia led by as many as 14 points in the first half and held a 33-20 advantage at intermission.

–Field Level Media

Matias Maccelli scored twice as the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs upended the Edmonton Oilers 5-2 on Tuesday night.

Matthew Knies added a goal and an assist, and John Tavares and Bobby McMann also scored for the Maple Leafs, who have won three straight and improved to 11-12-3 on the road this season.

Toronto, 4-6-2 over its last 12, has won three straight for the first time since a four-game stretch Jan. 6-12.

Anthony Stolarz made 34 saves for his second career win over the Oilers (2-2-0).

Jake Walman and Kasperi Kapanen responded for the Oilers, who have lost back-to-back after having their season-high three-game winning streak snapped in a loss to the Minnesota Wild on Saturday.

Edmonton wrapped up its eight-game homestand with a 4-4-0 record and dropped to 15-10-4 on home ice this season.

Connor Ingram stopped 22 shots in the loss.

Toronto used a 5-on-3 power play to open a two-goal cushion in the third period.

Tavares gave Toronto a 3-2 lead on the two-man advantage, tapping in William Nylander’s cross-ice feed at 7:42 of the third. It was Tavares’ 20th goal of the year.

Thirty-one seconds later, on a power play, Maccelli one-timed a cross-ice pass from Max Domi for his second of the night and his 10th of the season.

Maccelli, who went 11 games without a goal, has three over his last two games.

McMann added an empty-netter at 17:22 of the third.

Kapanen tied it 2-2 4:27 into the third, deking around Domi and beating Stolarz glove side.

Toronto opened the scoring at 7:12 of the middle frame as Maccelli redirected Jake McCabe’s point shot up and over the blocker of Ingram.

Walman tied it 1-1, blowing a slap shot up and over the pad of Stolarz at 11:09 of the second.

The Maple Leafs responded nine seconds later as Knies took a pass from Nicolas Roy and beat Ingram to the backhand.

Tuesday was the second and final meeting between Toronto and Edmonton. The Oilers doubled up the Maple Leafs 6-3 on Dec. 13.

–Field Level Media

Xavier Booker scored 15 of his career-high 24 points in the second half, Tyler Bilodeau added 19 points and UCLA recovered from a heartbreaking defeat to earn a 98-66 victory over Rutgers on Tuesday at Los Angeles.

Eric Dailey Jr. scored 17 points, Donovan Dent had 13 points with 11 assists and Trent Perry added 10 points as the Bruins (16-7, 8-4 Big Ten) improved to 6-2 since Jan. 10 by moving forward following a double-overtime home loss to Indiana on Saturday.

UCLA, which was without Skyy Clark (hamstring) for the ninth consecutive game, opened with its highest scoring first half of the season at 52 points, shot 55.6% from the floor (35 of 63) in the game and had a season-low two turnovers.

Freshman Kaden Powers scored a career-high 18 points, all in the first half, and Tariq Francis added 12 points for Rutgers (9-14, 2-10), which saw its losing streak extend to seven games.

Darren Buchanan Jr. had nine points for the Scarlet Knights, who have lost all seven of their true road games. Rutgers shot 43.6% from the floor (24 of 55) and gave up 17 points off nine turnovers.

UCLA used a 15-5 first-half run to turn a tied game into a 34-24 lead with 8:10 remaining before the break. The Bruins went into the half with a 52-40 advantage by closing on an 8-2 run.

Rutgers’ opening-half deficit came even as Powers surpassed his previous career high of 13 points with 5:39 remaining before halftime. Bilodeau had 17 at the break for UCLA.

The Bruins took their first 20-point lead at 62-41 with 17:13 remaining and were never threatened in the second half during their largest margin of victory ever in a Big Ten game. Booker went 10 of 11 from the floor and 4 of 4 from 3-point range.

UCLA had 25 assists to 13 for Rutgers and went 16 of 18 from the free-throw line while the Scarlet Knights went 11 of 20. The Bruins scored 98 points for the second consecutive game.

–Field Level Media