Weekend Previews: Jan. 22-24
(01/22/16 2:46am)
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Men’s Basketball
Although No. 5 Virginia’s final non-conference game against Oakland Dec. 30 will be no cakewalk – the Golden Grizzlies took No. 1 Michigan State to overtime Dec. 22, as ESPN made Cavalier fans well aware – coach Tony Bennett now has a good idea of his team after surviving the gauntlet of NCAA tournament-caliber opponents.
Virginia football coach Bronco Mendenhall announced Saturday the addition of eight assistant coaches to his staff. Six assistants from Mendenhall’s staff at BYU will join former East Carolina head coach Ruffin McNeill and Virginia wide receivers coach Marques Hagans.
After years of pleading, the “Fire Mike London” campaign finally fulfilled its mission last Sunday. The movement started quietly after a 4-8 2012 season and steadily garnered a larger and larger following — myself included — after the three losing seasons that followed. It culminated last weekend in London’s sixth loss to archrival Virginia Tech in as many attempts.
Swimming & Diving
It was a somber scene Sunday morning when Mike London addressed the Cavalier football team for the final time as head coach. Both he and his players reportedly were brought to tears.
Head football coach Mike London will resign effective immediately, Virginia director of athletics Craig Littlepage announced Sunday.
The Virginia men’s soccer team’s 2015 campaign began with much promise — the Cavaliers welcomed one of the top recruiting classes in the country — but ended prematurely as weaknesses doomed them at the least opportune time when they needed just one win to renew their postseason rivalry with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the NCAA Quarterfinals.
Full previews for football, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s soccer and volleyball can be found online and in Thursday’s Cavalier Daily.
Asked how well-rested his team is for its NCAA tournament opener, Virginia coach George Gelnovatch compared his team’s energy to that of last year’s NCAA championship-winning squad, saying it was “reminiscent of last year.” Cavalier fans certainly hope so, as their team plays Rider at home on Thursday to kick off its title defense.
Despite fielding the top seed in both the men’s and women’s singles brackets, both Virginia women’s and men’s tennis came up empty-handed in the ITA/USTA National Indoors this past weekend in Flushing, New York, as none of the six Cavalier qualifiers of the prestigious tournament made it past their quarterfinal matches in the men’s or women’s draws against the stacked field of national opponents.
The Virginia women’s and men’s cross country teams raced to first and second place, respectively, Friday afternoon at the NCAA Southeast Regional Championship, advancing to next weekend’s national championships.
Previews for men's basketball, women's basketball, women's soccer, football and men's and women's tennis can be found online and in Thursday's Cavalier Daily.
A pair of players from the Virginia men’s tennis team and four from the women’s side head to Flushing Meadows, New York, for the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship beginning Thursday. The Cavaliers boast the top seed in both the men’s and women’s singles draws, as well as the top-seeded tandem in the men’s doubles draw. The USTA/ITA National Indoors will wrap up the fall season for both teams.
Senior Danielle Collins holds the top seed in the invitational's women's singles draw. She has already won two national titles this fall, at the Oracle/ITA Masters Tournament and the Riviera ITA All-American Championships.
After falling to Florida State 1-0 in the 2014 national title game, the Virginia women’s soccer team had one goal to begin 2015: win the NCAA championship. Come Friday at 6 p.m., the Cavaliers will start the road to redemption by hosting Howard in the first round of the 2015 NCAA tournament.
1. The Diehard:
At U.Va., we consider men’s basketball as its own holiday season. After the long period of mourning often associated with the football months of defeat, students transition to John Paul Jones Arena and see coach Tony Bennett and his Top 10 team — currently ranked 5th/6th in the preseason national polls — hit the court. Although the list is almost limitless, here are five key reasons why any ‘Hoo in ‘Hooville ought to get excited about the return of basketball season:
Previews for football and field hockey can be found online and in Thursday's Cavalier Daily.
During the 2015 regular season, the Virginia field hockey team took on five opponents currently ranked in the top 10 of the NFHCA Coaches poll. Now, the No. 5 Cavaliers (13-4, 3-3 ACC) — who punched up a 3-2 record in those marquee matchups — enter the postseason, where the going will hardly get easier.