CHARLOTTESVILLE -- Tony Bennett began his post-game remarks Saturday by thanking the 5,998 fans, mostly students, who braved a 10-inch snowstorm to attend the Virginia men's basketball game with Wake Forest.

"It was a home-court advantage because of them," Bennett, the Cavaliers' first-year coach, said. "Sorry, we didn't do our part."

Virginia sophomore Sylven Landesberg scored a game-high 28 points but got little support in a 64-61 overtime loss to Wake Forest.

It was the second loss in the last three home games for the Cavaliers, both in overtime. Virginia squandered a 10-point lead late in a Jan. 28 game with visiting Virginia Tech and lost to the Hokies 76-71 in OT.

This time, the Cavaliers (14-7, 5-3 ACC) led by as many as eight points on three occasions in the first half but trailed for much of the second half after Wake Forest took its first lead at 36-35 with 14:36 remaining in the game.

After shooting 48.1 percent from the field in the first half, Virginia missed its first 10 shots of the second half and was 2-for-20 at one point.

However, UVa twice erased five-point Wake leads, the last time after the Deacons had gone ahead 53-48 with 3:43 left, but the Cavaliers were unable to grab the lead.

Virginia was able to force an overtime when Wake was called for goaltending on a Landesberg runner with 15 seconds left in regulation, but the Deacons jumped ahead 58-55 to start the overtime on a 3-pointer by freshman Ari Stewart.

Stewart got a wide-open look after teammate Al-Farouq Amini controlled a rebound of a shot by Wake's C.J. Harris.

That was the story of the game for Wake, which outrebounded Virginia 46-43 and scored 18 second-chance points, compared to seven for the Cavaliers.

UVa did get the offensive rebound following a 3-point miss by Landesberg that would have tied the game with 10 seconds remaining in overtime, but Will Sherrill's off-balance try from the wing didn't come close with six seconds left.

There was a 6.9-second differential between the shot clock and the game clock, but Landesberg's miss hit the rim, at which point the shot clock was turned off.

"Will made a great hustle play and lost track of the time," Bennett said. "We didn't have any timeouts left. I was trying to use our timeouts to get Jontel [Evans] in on defense."

Evans, a freshman, had the assignment of guarding Wake senior point guard Ish Smith and received a thorough schooling.

After a Landesberg basket that cut the Deacons' lead to 61-59 in overtime, Smith made Evans' knees buckle on a crossover and also eluded Sherrill before dropping a floater over 6-foot-9 Jerome Meyinsse.

Smith had 15 points and led the Deacons (16-5, 6-3) in scoring. Aminu had 13 points and 10 rebounds.

"We couldn't keep Ish out of the lane late," Bennett said, "and then we couldn't get bodies on people. I've seen them do it to everybody in the league."

Mike Scott was the only UVa player to join Landesberg in double figures, but it was not an afternoon Scott will want to remember. He made his first five shots from the field and had 10 points before he picked up his second foul with 7:42 remaining in the first half.

As has been Bennett's pattern, Scott came off the floor and sat for the remainder of the half.

He was not the same player when he returned, missing all 10 of his field-goal attempts in the second half and overtime. He never picked up his third foul.

Sophomore guard Sammy Zeglinski, who missed practice Friday with flu-like symptoms, made only one of six shots from the floor. Zeglinski is 1-of-11 in two games this year against Wake, his father's alma mater, where he was booed incessantly in an earlier meeting.

Oddly, Virginia was coming off a 59-47 victory over North Carolina State on Wednesday, when Landesberg scored a season-low seven points and most reviews focused on his supporting cast.

On Saturday, Landesberg was 8-for-19 from the field and the rest of the team was 14-of-46.

"Sylven certainly was terrific," Bennett said, "but they're really loading or stacking the deck on Sylven."

The loss was Virginia's fifth by five points or fewer, all of which the Cavaliers led at the half.

"In order to win, you have to eliminate losing," Bennett said.

"And, what will get you beat? Second-chance points. Silly turnovers. Giving up transition baskets, which we didn't do, but you look at all those second-chance points and that hurts."

WAKE FOREST (16-5)

Aminu 4-9 5-7 13, McFarland 2-2 1-3 5, Smith 7-18 1-4 15, Harris 3-8 3-5 10, Williams 4-5 0-2 8, Clark 0-2 0-0 0, Stewart 2-8 1-2 7, Weaver 0-0 0-0 0, Woods 3-5 0-0 6. Totals 25-57 11-23 64.

VIRGINIA (14-7)

Scott 5-15 0-1 10, Meyinsse 1-2 1-2 3, Evans 1-6 1-2 3, Zeglinski 1-6 0-0 3, Landesberg 8-19 10-11 28, Farrakhan 3-7 0-0 7, Baker 0-3 0-0 0, Sene 0-0 0-0 0, Sherrill 3-7 0-0 7, Jones 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 22-65 12-16 61.

Halftime--Virginia 34-29. End Of Regulation--Tied 55. 3-Point Goals--Wake Forest 3-12 (Stewart 2-4, Harris 1-3, Aminu 0-2, Smith 0-3), Virginia 5-19 (Landesberg 2-5, Sherrill 1-3, Farrakhan 1-4, Zeglinski 1-5, Baker 0-2). Fouled Out--McFarland, Woods. Rebounds--Wake Forest 46 (Aminu 10), Virginia 34 (Scott 10). Assists--Wake Forest 6 (Smith 5), Virginia 15 (Baker, Landesberg, Zeglinski 3). Total Fouls--Wake Forest 18, Virginia 20. Technical--McFarland. A--11,972.