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Initial thoughts from the Dance

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- It's Thursday afternoon and I'm back in my hotel room. Virginia and Albany just met with the media and then held hour-long open practices inside Nationwide Arena (the site of Friday's first-round NCAA matchup between the Cavaliers and the Great Danes). With the game less than 24 hours away, here are a few initial impressions of the teams, the arena and the tournament:


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Men's Lacrosse:Winning streak on the line again

The Virginia men's lacrosse team looks to earn its sixth straight victory tomorrow at Klöckner Stadium against Towson University. After a first-week upset to Drexel, the Cavaliers (5-1) have tallied wins against perennial powers Princeton and Syracuse.


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Cavs return home to welcome Hokies

women's tennis team will play at the Sheridan Snyder Tennis Center today for its first outdoor match against conference rival Virginia Tech. After two hard-fought losses on the road last weekend to No.


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Ramblin' men: the Cavs' life of travel

Top-of-the-line hotels. Free food. Open air and the excitement of new cities, new schools and new challenges each weekend. This is the life of your run-of-the-mill, everyday NCAA athlete at the University of Virginia ­-- a little nicer than the week-old pizza and lumpy mattresses most college students are used to. Some teams, such as the basketball and field hockey squads, are lucky to travel once or twice a week to play a game at another school before hurrying back to Charlottesville and repeating the same schedule. The football team, on the other hand, travels days before its game begins, with all its focus on one day and one game to prove its worth. But the pinnacle of sports travel -- the road trip -- is reserved for baseball and softball. Each weekend, the Cavalier baseball team plays three games against an ACC school. That means three different starting pitchers have to be ready to go -- sophomore Jacob Thompson, freshman Matt Packer and junior Sean Doolittle are expected to play this weekend against North Carolina -- and the lineup has to have enough energy to hit the base paths running all weekend. This schedule involves three times as much work and the potential for three times as much glory -- or three times as much sorrow.


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Adding a couple holidays to March

If you are anything like me, then there is no chance that you are reading this column (unless you're reading online, for which I thank you for your dedication, dear reader). That's because you haven't left your bed and couldn't get a Cav Daily because you are skipping all of your classes (I'm actually going to one, Mom and Dad) in honor of the beginning of the NCAA Tournament.


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Men's Lacrosse:Back on winning streak

The Virginia men's lacrosse team will look to extend its four-game winning streak tonight against Mount Saint Mary's. "This game's another day in which we have the opportunity to get a little bit better," Virginia coach Dom Starsia said.

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