Back in Charlottesville, hours after the confetti was swept off the floor of the Greensboro Coliseum, it still doesn’t feel real. The Virginia Cavaliers, 2014 ACC Tournament champions.
The No. 7 Virginia men’s lacrosse team dropped its first two games of the season over the break, falling to No. 15 Cornell and No. 11 Notre Dame. The Cavaliers now sit at 6-2 overall and an even 1-1 in conference play.
The No. 12 Virginia wrestling team competed at the ACC Championships Saturday, March 8 in Blacksburg, Va.
Saturday night, the Virginia baseball team captured the back end of a nearly eight-hour doubleheader to complete a three-game sweep of Boston College at Davenport Field.
Looking to put together its first win streak of the season, the No. 6 Virginia women’s lacrosse team (3-5, 0-2 ACC) dropped a tough game to Princeton (2-3, 0-1 Ivy), 15-13. After Princeton jumped out to a 2-0 lead, the Cavaliers responded with a 3-0 run over a 2:01 span.
The No. 5 Virginia women’s tennis team kept busy during spring break, battling four ranked opponents in matches at home and on the road.
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Tony Bennett had been asked so frequently by the media about Wally Walker that it had become a running joke. The Virginia coach was well aware that it had been nearly 40 years — 38, to be exact — since Walker’s Cavaliers had won the ACC Tournament, and his team had the first opportunity to match the 1976 team’s feat in 20 years.
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Dick Bennett, who rarely watches or attends Virginia games, promised his son Tony that he would watch the Cavaliers’ ACC Tournament opener against Florida State.
Up 51-48 with nine second left to play in their ACC semifinal game against Pittsburgh, the Virginia men’s basketball team’s lead was not looking particularly safe.
If the No. 6 Virginia men’s basketball team needed any additional motivation entering its ACC Tournament Quarterfinals matchup against Florida State, Seminole senior forward Okaro White generously provided the gasoline for its fire.
Joe Harris said going into the postseason that he wanted to be more aggressive on offense. If Friday’s debut game in the ACC Tournament was any indication, the senior guard meant it.
The Virginia baseball team rocked James Madison, 13-2, Tuesday afternoon in Charlottesville, Va. The No. 5 Cavaliers tormented the Dukes’ pitching staff with 16 hits and five walks in 47 plate appearances to finish with their second-highest run total of the season.
The No. 3 Virginia baseball team won two of three games against Duke this weekend in Durham, N.C. in the first conference series of the year for each ball club.
Maryland students stormed Gary Williams Court at the Comcast Center as the Terrapins left the ACC in dramatic fashion, winning their final conference regular season game in overtime against No. 5 Virginia, 75-69.
“The Skinny” on matchups for baseball, men’s and women’s lacrosse, women’s tennis, swim and dive, track and field, softball and women’s golf.
The Virginia women’s basketball team bowed out of the ACC Tournament Thursday night in Greensboro, N.C. The No. 10 Cavaliers battled to the end against No. 7 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets but came up just short in the end, falling 77-76.
Racing for the first time since November, the No. 5 Virginia women’s rowing team hits the water March 15 at the Oak Ridge Cardinal Invitational to open the spring season. Two years removed from a national championship, the Cavaliers will try to make a statement against a field of teams which includes three other top-20 teams.
The No. 12 Virginia wrestling team will travel to Blacksburg, Va. for the ACC Championship tournament this Saturday. At stake will be 34 stamped tickets to Oklahoma City for the NCAA Championship the following week, a great deal of pride and the illustrious ACC Championship trophy.
The past week has been nothing short of sensational for the No. 5 Virginia men’s basketball team. After earning its first outright regular season ACC championship since 1981 with a dominant win over Syracuse, Virginia claimed its first top-five ranking in over a decade. To top it off, on Monday redshirt sophomore guard Malcolm Brogdon was named co-ACC player of the week after scoring a career-high 19 points against then-No. 4 Syracuse, the first such honor for any Cavalier this season.
