After extending their home winning streak to a John Paul Jones Arena-record 22 straight games Sunday, No. 7 Virginia looks to extend that mark against Grambling State on Tuesday night in the second round of the Emerald Coast Classic.The Cavaliers have held their last two opponents to under 40 points, which brings the total to 16 games that a Tony Bennett-coached Virginia team has held an opponent to fewer than 40 points.Grambling State enters the matchup 347th in the country in scoring offense, averaging just under 57 points per game -- a stat that doesnt bode well against Virginia. The Cavaliers (3-0) enter the matchup allowing just 40 points per game.Guard Ervin Mitchell will have to do the bulk of the scoring for the Tigers, as he enters the game averaging 13.3 points.Virginia has received balance throughout its lineup this season on a team that can play 10 or 11 guys on any given night. Guard Marial Shayok has been Bennetts sixth man off of the bench and leads the Cavaliers in scoring. Shayok is coming off of a 15-point effort in Virginias 62-38 win over Yale on Sunday.Marial obviously brings a scoring punch for us, Bennett said of the 6-foot-5 junior. Hes a hard-playing defender and offensively, hes aggressive. I like that.The Cavaliers depth in the frontcourt and the backcourt will be a tough test for a Grambling State team that averages just 31 rebounds and seven assists per game. Virginia senior guard London Perrantes recorded seven assists himself in the win over Yale.I dont have to do much talking in front of these guys, Perrantes said of his team. I just try to lead by example and come out here every day and just go hard.Big scoring runs and holding opponents to long droughts without scoring have been a catalyst to Virginias 3-0 start. 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He was so efficient that even one extremely costly lost fumble deep in his own territory couldnt derail his performance, as he finished with an 89.4 total QBR, his second-best effort of the season behind an 89.9 against the Carolina Panthers in Week 6.Even at age 37, Brees continues to play at an exceptionally high level and is poised for one of the best seasons for a quarterback of his age or older since 2006, the first season we have QBR data for:It should be noted that while Tom Brady has been fantastic since his return from a four-game suspension, Brees has over 200 more plays this year than Brady (515 to 311). Maintaining a QBR as high as Bradys gets increasingly difficult the more plays he accumulates. Think of it like a hitter in baseball batting .400. Over a 10-at-bat stretch, its not so hard, but get to 100 ABs, and it becomes more difficult. And once you get to a seasons worth of at-bats, the task gets extremely difficult. This isnt to say Brady cant keep playing as efficiently as he currently is, just that there is a sizable difference in their number of plays.So how has Brees been able to consistently play so well, even as he gets past what are typically a QBs peak years?The biggest reason is that he is great at avoiding negative plays. Over 62 percent of Brees plays this season end up in poositive expected points?for him, highest in the league.dddddddddddd Remember, when we calculate a players QBR,?we divide credit?on the play. So it is possible for the QB to have a positive play for himself while the team overall is a negative -- think a receiver fumbling downfield after a completion. These plays dont occur often, but this analysis would still show such a play as a positive for the QB, rather than a negative.This trend isnt isolated to just this season. Brees is almost always near the top of the leaderboard among qualified quarterbacks, and if he maintains his ratio so far in 2016, hell end up with three of the five best seasons in this measure since 2006.Brees finished Week 12 with 66 percent of positive plays (league average so far this season is 55 percent), extending his streak of games with at least a 63 percent rate to seven games, during which time the Saints have gone 4-3, crawling to near playoff contention. ESPNs Football Power Index?currently gives the Saints a 19.1 percent chance to make the playoffs, but if they can defeat the Detroit Lions this week, FPI would give them a 23.5 percent chance. A loss, however, would drop them down to just a 4.5 percent chance to make the playoffs. To stay in the hunt, Brees will need to continue to be his ever-efficient self.For more from ESPN Analytics, visit the ESPN Analytics Index.? ' ' '