The anticipation for the first game of the season for the Virginia men’s basketball team was hard to put into words.
The Virginia women’s basketball team escaped with a victory in Philadelphia Monday evening, using a strong second half to down Penn, 68-65. The Quakers (0-2, 0-0 ACC) dominated much of the first half, leading by as much as 15 points.
By the time Delaware was putting the finishing touches on a 59-53 victory in front of 8,490 appalled John Paul Jones arena patrons Tuesday evening, the “formality” of Virginia advancing to the NIT Season Tip-Off Finals at Madison Square Garden had turned into a lost opportunity.
The Virginia men’s cross-country team Friday brought home the NCAA Southeast Regional Championship for the first time in program history.
Each November, 32 of the finest singles players in men’s college tennis fight for the ITA Indoor Intercollegiate Championship title.
After suffering a tightly contested loss to Maryland Friday, the Virginia volleyball team rebounded the next day to defeat Boston College on Senior Night. Virginia (9-19, 3-14 ACC) knocked off a formidable Georgia Tech team last weekend, and the newly confident Cavaliers expected Maryland and Boston College to be tough but winnable matches.
The No. 16 Virginia wrestling team swept aside its competition for the second consecutive weekend. The Cavaliers competed in the Movember Duals in Boiling Springs, N.C.
I know I might be a little biased about this topic. I’m from New Orleans and grew up on a steady diet of LSU football with a side dish of the other Southeastern Conference competitors.
The Virginia men’s soccer team earned an at-large bid to the 2012 NCAA Tournament and will host Lafayette, the Patriot League Champions, at 1:30 p.m.
Junior guard Joe Harris scored 11 of his game-high 15 points in the second half, and Virginia relied on a suffocating defensive effort in the second period to preserve a 54-45 win against Fairfield in the first round of the NIT Season Tip-Off Monday night.
Coach Steve Swanson was the first to admit that his team did not play up to full potential in their opening game of the NCAA tournament Friday night.
After defeating No. 14 Iowa 3-2 in the first round of the tournament, the No. 7 Virginia field hockey team saw a magical season come to a close with a 5-2 loss to No.
When James Madison junior guard Kirby Burkholder knocked down her seventh three-point shot of the game, Virginia women’s basketball coach Joanne Boyle called for time.
When Virginia junior quarterback Michael Rocco committed an intentional grounding penalty in what the referees loosely deemed the “end zone” with 4:19 remaining in Saturday’s home tilt against Miami, you could almost hear 45,870 exasperated fans thinking to themselves, “Not again!” After the Cavaliers pilfered a win from Penn State Sept.
The Virginia men’s soccer team lost 4-3 in a penalty shootout to No. 3 North Carolina Friday evening in the semifinals of the ACC Men’s Soccer Championship in Germantown, Md.
When Virginia junior quarterback Michael Rocco committed an intentional grounding penalty in what the referees loosely deemed the “endzone” with 4:19 remaining in Saturday’s home tilt against Miami, you could almost hear 45,870 brooding, exasperated fans thinking to themselves, “not again!”
Junior quarterback Michael Rocco turned to sophomore tight end Jake McGee in Virginia’s final huddle of a back-and-forth affair against Miami Saturday and gave his best friend on the team a simple message. “Jake, this one in coming to you.
George Mason’s Byron Allen hit an improbable off-balance three-pointer to beat the shot clock to put his team ahead for good with 1:02 remaining and serve the Virginia men’s basketball team a 63-59 loss in the season opener.
At times last year, Mike Scott became synonymous with the 2011-12 Virginia men’s basketball team. After missing the bulk of the previous season with injury, Scott transformed Virginia from a 16-15 ACC also-ran into a 22-10 March Madness participant. With his return, Scott provided more than just the depth Virginia desperately lacked in the post.
When Virginia hired Tony Bennett to revitalize a flailing men’s basketball program in March 2009, the coach understood his rebuilding project would require time.
