COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Remember when the knock against Virginia was that the Cavs couldn't win on the road?

UVa moved into sole possession of first place in the ACC on Tuesday with its third straight road win, 69-65, at Maryland.

Before winning at North Carolina State on Jan. 24, the Cavs had gone more than a year without a road win.

Now, they're in the midst of a seven-game ACC winning streak, their longest since 1982. Virginia (16-6, 8-2) also won for the sixth time as an underdog this season.

Maryland (17-7, 3-6) cut a 15-point deficit to 66-65 on a pair of James Gist free throws with 12.6 seconds left, but senior J.R. Reynolds from Roanoke converted a one-and-one to give the Cavs breathing room.

Tunji Soroye made the front end of another one-and-one with 3.3 seconds left to make it a two-possession game.

Reynolds missed a free throw when put in a similar situation against Stanford in a game the Cavs lost. That never entered his mind Tuesday.

"I love to hear the silence of the crowd," said Reynolds, who finished with a game-high 23 points. "That's why I like to play on the road so much."

The Cavaliers led by 15 on four occasions, with multiple chances to go ahead by 17 or more, before Maryland went on a 9-0 run to cut the deficit to 59-53 on a 3-pointer by Mike Jones with 7:48 remaining. Virginia, a 5¹₂-point underdog, had four turnovers in five possessions before Reynolds grabbed a rebound and went baseline-to-baseline for the lay-in that made it 61-53.

The Terrapins' half-court pressure clearly was wearing on the Cavs, as evidenced by a Sean Singletary pass directly to Mike Jones, whose breakaway dunk pulled the Terps to 61-57 with 5:44 left.

Moments later, Virginia got a crucial stop when post man Jason Cain raced down the court and blocked a Greivis Vazquez breakaway try with 4:50 remaining. Cain earlier had blocked a Terps breakway in the first half.

"A terrific effort all the way around," UVa coach Dave Leitao said.

Virginia has had a history of pulling out to convincing first-half leads at Comcast Center and Tuesday was no exception. The Cavs led by as many as 14 points and were up 41-31 at the half.

In addition to the customary scoring and floor leadership Virginia has come to expect from veteran guards Singletary and Reynolds, it got some uncharacteristic contributions from Soroye, a seldom-used 6-foot-11 junior.

Soroye, playing just over 9 minutes per game, was on the floor for 14 minutes in the first half and had five rebounds and two blocked shots. Soroye's inside presence helped limit the Terps to 36.1-percent shooting.

Soroye, who had played a total of 12 minutes in the previous two games, went to high school at Montrose Christian in nearby Kensington. He played 25 minutes overall, finishing with three points, 11 rebounds, four blocks and a steal.

As the UVa players left the arena, they could be heard shouting, "Tunji, Tunji."

"It was a big-time effort by Tunji," Leitao said. "I could see when he went in the game in the first 5 minutes that he had a spring to his step. He hadn't been playing a lot. He'd been a little bit down. He'd been through a lot. I was happy to see him get this reward."

Virginia had a 45-32 rebounding margin and Maryland was just 8-of-15 from the free-throw line.

"In a close game like that, you look at rebounding and free-throw shooting," Terps coach Gary Williams said. "Everything else was close."

VIRGINIA (16-6)

Mikalauskas 2-4 0-0 4, Diane 3-10 2-3 8, Cain 3-5 0-0 6, Reynolds 8-21 5-5 23, Singletary 4-10 1-1 10, Harris 1-2 0-0 2, Soroye 0-1 3-4 3, Joseph 5-7 0-0 13, Pettinella 0-0 0-0 0, Tat 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 26-61 11-13 69.

MARYLAND (17-7)

Gist 4-12 2-4 10, Ibekwe 2-8 1-2 5, Strawberry 5-11 0-3 11, Vasquez 5-10 3-4 13, Jones 7-12 2-2 18, Hayes 1-5 0-0 3, Brown 0-0 0-0 0, Bowers 1-1 0-0 2, Neal 1-1 0-0 3, Osby 0-4 0-0 0. Totals 26-64 8-15 65.

Halftime--Virginia 41-31. 3-Point Goals--Virginia 6-24 (Joseph 3-5, Reynolds 2-8, Singletary 1-4, Harris 0-1, Diane 0-6), Maryland 5-12 (Jones 2-4, Strawberry 1-1, Neal 1-1, Hayes 1-4, Gist 0-1, Vasquez 0-1). Fouled Out--None. Rebounds--Virginia 45 (Soroye 11), Maryland 32 (Gist 9). Assists--Virginia 10 (Reynolds 3), Maryland 16 (Strawberry 5). Total Fouls--Virginia 17, Maryland 15. A--17,950.