Virginia softball will head out to Las Vegas this weekend to play in the Louisville Slugger Desert Classic.
FootballThree of the top 11 recruiting classes in the nation were fielded by ACC teams during signing day a week ago.
Basketball experts often say one mark of a good team is the ability to go into hostile, enemy territory and return home victorious.
For this sports fan, January is the cruellest month, dashing hopes against the hardwood, brooding losses beyond expectations, mixing memory and desire into one tough highball that brushes me back from the metaphorical plate.Driving home mid-December on Interstate-64 East, the trees without leaves like rows upon rows of silenced spectators, Virginia football?s four straight losses to end the season tasted sour in the mouth ? like shocking yourself as a kid, that metallic smoothness coating something not quite right.The fall semester had not gone as expected ? in part because of the football team?s off-field sideshow last January ? and after our last tailgate, cleaning the heap of beer cans and plastic cups and plates into a deep, black trash bag, I told myself, ?You?re not just a football fan anymore; now, there?s basketball season.? Pulling down last season?s football calendar, the tides of each churning season ? what team except the Cavaliers would win their fourth-straight game on the road at Georgia Tech in October as a prelude to collapse ? all dropped together suddenly into the din of pins collecting on the floor.
The Virginia women?s basketball team found itself in a bit of a pickle Sunday, falling into a 15-point deficit against the Hokies before halftime while seeming unable to stop any of Virginia Tech?s drives to the basket.Virginia coach Debbie Ryan, though, known as being somewhat of a man-to-man traditionalist in her strategic planning of the Cavaliers? defense during her 31 years at the University, decided to go against her habits and switched to a 2-3 zone.?I just noticed we were doing some things [wrong] we don?t normally do,? Ryan said.
The Cavalier mat men fell to Old Dominion Sunday 21-18, losing their last nonconference matchup of the season.Virginia (9-10, 0-2 ACC) got off to a strong start against Old Dominion (14-6) ? ranked No.
The Virginia?s men?s basketball team hasn?t exactly put on a great show at John Paul Jones Arena this year ? the team has posted a mediocre 6-6 record at home including three conference losses ? but that doesn?t mean great basketball is nowhere to be found in Charlottesville.
Basic Information:Year: FreshmanSport: BasketballPosition: ForwardStats:24 games, 5 starts6.3 points per game4.0 rebounds per game19 blocks, leads teamWhat are you studying?I wanted to do communications; unfortunately that?s not a major here.
Chapel Hill, N.C. ? It still wasn?t pretty, but perhaps for Wahoos it was slightly more bearable.Though the Virginia men?s basketball team got off to a less auspicious first half than it did during the previous four games, the Cavaliers trailed by as many as 20 points in the second half, falling to the No.
In the first half of the Virginia men?s basketball team?s all-too-predictable 76-61 loss against North Carolina Saturday, Roy Williams was grimacing on the sidelines.?The first half was like pulling teeth,? Williams said.And yet, the Tar Heels never trailed in the opening period, and led at halftime by eight.Therein is a telltale sign you?re a bad team: when you?re not getting blown out, the coach on the other sideline says his team is not playing up to snuff.
The Virginia women?s basketball team bounced back from Thursday?s loss to Duke by defeating in-state rival Virginia Tech 69-61 Sunday.
?First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they?ll eventually conquer you.??Dr. Rob Gilbert, success authorIt seems for every Virginia women?s basketball victory, the story goes something like this: Lyndra Littles puts up about 25 points, Monica Wright scores 20 and grabs about seven rebounds and Aisha Mohammed totals about 15 and 10.
The Virginia women?s tennis team had a busy weekend of ups and downs as it traveled to Ohio State Friday and Tennessee Sunday.The Cavaliers defeated the lady Buckeyes 4-3
In its final tune-up before the ITA National Indoor Championships, the no.
Last night?s women?s basketball game between Virginia and Duke probably could be characterized as a slugfest.
A streaking North Carolina team is not what a slumping Virginia men?s basketball squad wants to play right now, but it is what the brutal ACC schedule next presents the Cavaliers.Virginia (7-10, 1-6 ACC) travels to Chapel Hill tomorrow at 4 p.m.
The Virginia softball team will begin its 2009 campaign this weekend, and judging by the Cavaliers? 15-39 (6-15 ACC) record last spring, the team will need to play very differently if it is going to see more success on the diamond this year.The team will face Middle Tennessee and East Carolina back to back Saturday and Sunday at Greenville, N.C.
?It?s disturbing.?That?s how Virginia women?s tennis coach Mark Guilbeau described his young squad?s 2-5 loss to Tennessee Saturday at the ITA National Indoors Qualifier, which cost the team a trip to the National Indoors tournament next weekend.This weekend, however, the No.
It seemed like yet another ACC defeat for the Virginia men?s basketball team was inevitable last night, as the Cavaliers went into the locker room at halftime down 42-22 to visiting Boston College.
