Tulsa, Okla. — Virginia had a noticeably larger and considerably louder contingent here at the Case Tennis Center on Monday night. They even had a "Caped Crusader" fan in orange tights and face paint that, as it turns out, was the brother of a Cavaliers player and a London lawyer.

But the most noticeable aspect of that group was how silent it was toward the end of Virginia's NCAA Tournament semifinal against Georgia.

The Bulldogs outlasted the No. 1-ranked and previously undefeated Cavaliers 4-3 and muzzled them in the process.

With the victory, defending national champion Georgia (26-3), which came in as the No. 4 seed, will face No. 7 Texas (25-5) for a second consecutive outdoor title and first outside its home state. Virginia's season ends at 32-1.

"I knew the effort was going to be there tonight," said Georgia coach Manuel Diaz. "Even after we lost the doubles point, I thought it was going to be a special night."

Special but quiet.

Georgia sophomore Jamie Hunt clinched the match 6-0 in the third set of his No. 4 singles against Virginia's Sanam Singh. But the outcome was a foregone conclusion by the time it ended.

Singh, who had already taken two injury timeouts because of cramping, chose to finish the match even though he could barely move. His serves were delivered at grade-school speed, and Hunt simply had to deliver them back.

"I told my guys, 'we're not going to celebrate,' " Diaz said. "We were in that situation once in the early '90s when Eddie Jacques cramped up. It's tough to go down like that."

Said Hunt, who is unbeaten in his past 21 matches: "It takes away from it a little bit. I wanted him to be 100 percent. It would have been fun to battle it out 3-3 with him playing his best. But I'm just so proud of the guys for picking it up and putting me in that position."

The Texas-Georgia final could be a contentious one. The Bulldogs' No. 1 player, Travis Helgeson, played the No. 1 position for two seasons with the Longhorns before transferring to Georgia last season "to have a chance to win a national championship," he said then. Texas coach Michael Center accused Diaz of some unethical conduct in luring Helgeson to Athens.

"It's going to be exciting to play them," Helgeson said Monday. "I know a lot of guys on their team. But, in the end, we're both looking for the same thing."

Hunt, a native of San Antonio, also is jacked to draw the Longhorns. He said one of his best buddies is Kellen Damico, who plays No. 2 singles and No. 1 doubles for UT.

"When we first got the draw he texted me and said, 'how about a Texas-Georgia final,' Hunt recalled. "I said 'sounds good to me.' "

Few teams have ever been better in doubles than Virginia is this year. The Cavaliers feature the nation's No. 1-ranked team in Somdev Devvarman and Treat Huey, and the team had won the doubles point 27 times coming into Monday's match. The Bulldogs also failed to beat them but served a message in losing.

The Dogs that drew first blood in the match by winning at the No. 3 position and they fought hard at Nos. 1 and 2. Hunt and Nate Schnugg at No. 1 fought off five match points before finally succumbing 8-4, and Luis Flores and Javier Garrapiz were poised to pull off a comeback for the ages before going down 9-7 at No. 3.

The most important thing for Georgia was it took an hour-and-a-half in the hot sun to settle the issue, and that would come into play in singles. The Cavaliers would need injury timeouts to address cramping issues at their Nos. 2, 5 and 4 positions.