The No. 10 Virginia wrestling team welcomed No. 23 North Dakota State and Gardner-Webb to Memorial Gymnasium for a pair of Saturday afternoon duels. The short-handed Cavaliers beat the Bison, 20-15, before cruising to a 33-3 victory against the Runnin’ Bulldogs.
Five and a half minutes into the Virginia men’s basketball team’s home opener Sunday night at John Paul Jones Arena, Norfolk State held a 6-5 lead.
The last time the Virginia basketball team played in Harrisonburg, legend Ralph Sampson was in the building following a program-record 30 win season that propelled the Cavaliers to a top-10 ranking entering the season.
The Virginia women’s rowing team wraps up the fall season Sunday with its annual home regatta, the Rivanna Romp. Teams from Louisville, Penn, Old Dominion, Columbia, Oklahoma, Duke and Clemson will travel to Charlottesville to compete in the event. The Cavaliers won both the Varsity Eight and Varsity Four races last year and will field several boats in both races again this year.
On Friday the Virginia women’s volleyball team will look to snap a two-game losing streak and make a final push for the NCAA tournament in a home rivalry matchup against Virginia Tech. Virginia (15-11, 8-5 ACC) has five regular season games left on its schedule – games it can’t afford to lose.
A skinny on weekend competition for the cross country, wrestling, and swim and dive teams. Full previews for the men's basketball, women's basketball, volleyball and women's soccer weekend matchups are also available online.
Ever since the Virginia women’s soccer team arrived at spring camp more than seven months ago, the focus has been on getting back to the NCAA tournament and avenging last season’s heartbreaking College Cup loss to UCLA in penalty kicks. Throughout the regular season, the team spoke of ambitious postseason goals, while reiterating that the next game on the schedule would be the most important.
Virginia men’s basketball coach Tony Bennett announced Wednesday afternoon that the team had signed the bulky Brewster Academy senior forward Jarred Reuter to a National Letter of Intent. Earlier in the day, Virginia women’s basketball coach Joanne Boyle also announced that high school senior post players Debra Ferguson, Moné Jones and Shakyna Payne would all head to Charlottesville for the 2015-16 season.
The Virginia men’s basketball team will tip off its 2014-15 regular season this Friday night at James Madison in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Junior forward Evan Nolte and sophomore guard London Perrantes have been suspended for the game due to violations of team rules over the summer.
This summer, Virginia junior guard Justin Anderson collaborated with strength and conditioning coach Mike Curtis to lose a little weight and strike the proper ratio between body fat and muscle. Now a sleeker 225 pounds, Anderson said Curtis — dubbed the “best strength coach in the country” by coach Tony Bennett at the No. 9 Cavaliers’ Oct. 22 media day — helped him fine-tune his diet.
The No. 9 Virginia men’s basketball team returns to the hardwood Friday for the first time since falling to Michigan State in the NCAA tournament. Despite reigning as ACC regular season and tournament champions, the Cavaliers enter the 2014-15 campaign as just the fourth-highest ranked team in the ACC.
The Virginia women’s basketball team opens its 2014-15 campaign this Friday night at John Paul Jones Arena against Ohio State, looking to improve on last season's 14-17 overall and 6-10 ACC record. The season was the first-ever losing effort in coach Joanne Boyle's 12 years at the collegiate level — none of her teams had ever finished fewer than two games above .500.
America loves to hate winners. The teams who make you scowl just to think about with their sickeningly sweet appearances, fair-weather fans, and ubiquitous worldwide pomp.
It has been more than two years since Bayside High rising senior Taquan “Smoke” Mizzell committed to Virginia over North Carolina and West Virginia, affirming the Cavaliers’ considerable influence in Southeastern Virginia’s Hampton Roads region.
In nearly every circumstance, the early-recruiting process that exists in basketball hurts recruits such as Boatright, Peebles and Kelly by removing them from the nationwide recruiting process.
In a stellar performance by Virginia wrestling (3-0), 11 Cavaliers placed at Sunday’s Hokie Open at Rector Field House in Blacksburg, Virginia.
The Virginia swimming and diving teams competed against two of the nation’s finest programs this weekend in Michigan and Penn State.
The Virginia volleyball team dropped a pair of road ACC matches this past weekend against Florida State and Miami to fall to 15-11 (8-5 ACC).
The top-seeded Virginia field hockey team concluded their season Friday, falling 2-1 to No. 4 seed Wake Forest in the ACC Tournament semifinals in Durham, North Carolina.
Simply shoring up perceived deficiencies won’t put Virginia in position to really compete with teams like Florida State. To do that, the Cavaliers must take a lengthy step forward.
