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Damned lies and statistics

There are lies, damned lies, and then there are statistics. And when it comes to Virginia basketball, traditional statistics horribly misrepresent the team’s actual performance. Just turn to the Cavaliers’ home page on ESPN. Prominently featured are a selection of four commonly cited stats: points per game, rebounds per game, assists per game, and field goal percentage.


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Bennett revives national title hopes

It’s in every news story with each addiot Virginia men’s basketball team win: “The unbeaten Cavaliers are off to their best start since the 1980-81 season when they started 23-0.” Let me do the math for you: 1981 was 34 years ago.


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Swim and Dive teams fall at home against UNC

To the surprise of many, the Virginia women’s swimming and diving team provided the same heart-pounding action against North Carolina as they did a year ago. Only this time around, the Cavaliers found themselves on the wrong side of the outcome.


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Cavaliers top upset-minded Hokies in Blacksburg, 50-47

The Virginia men’s basketball team survived a major scare against in-state and conference rival Virginia Tech Sunday afternoon at Cassell Coliseum in Blacksburg. Trailing 43-33 with less than 11 minutes to play, the No. 2 Cavaliers reeled off a game-ending 17-4 run to deal the Hokies their seventh straight defeat by a final score of 50-47.


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Weekend Previews, Jan. 23-25

With a loss to Miami Wednesday night, Virginia fell to 0-3 on the road against ACC opponents, but the team hopes to bounce back against Georgia Tech at home, where the Cavaliers are 10-1 this season.


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​Men’s basketball slams Georgia Tech, 57-28

The Virginia men’s basketball team stung Georgia Tech, 57-28, Thursday night at John Paul Jones Arena. The No. 2 Cavaliers (18-0, 6-0 ACC) kept the Yellow Jackets (9-9, 0-6 ACC) to 12 second-half points while holding an opponent to less than 30 overall for the third time this year.


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Moving forward

It was Feb. 2013. Senior forward Darion Atkins was sidelined with a shin injury. Junior center Mike Tobey came down with mononucleosis. Junior guard Justin Anderson, the team's 6-foot-6 shooting guard, was forced to play power forward down the stretch in ACC play.


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Virginia squares off against slumping Yellow Jackets

The Virginia men’s basketball team looks to continue its torrid start to the season Thursday night against Georgia Tech in Charlottesville. With more than half the regular season complete, the Cavaliers are 17-0, their best start since the 1980-81 team won its first 23 games.


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A gross oversight

Over the past decade, the NCAA has brought sanctions against many historic programs such as University of Southern California, University of Miami and Penn State under the pretense of a “lack of institutional control.”

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