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Littles hits game winner to give Cavs two-point win

By Ben Gibson | March 20, 2007

Sophomore forward Lyndra Littles may have been suffering from a stomach virus, but it was the Charlotte 49ers who were left feeling sick last night as Littles connected on a jumper right under the basket with four seconds left to give the Virginia women's basketball team a dramatic 74-72 victory in the second round of the WNIT tournament. With the game's fate hanging in the balance, it was not Virginia coach Debbie Ryan but junior guard Sharneé Zoll who picked the play that would give Virginia it's 18th victory of the season. "I'm not going to brag," Zoll said.

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The end of the blue era?

By Jeremy Root | March 20, 2007

I don't know where you were Thursday night, but at my rambunctious house of 16 testosterone-filled men, you would have thought the Cavaliers were playing their opening round game Thursday evening instead of Friday midday. The loud claps and screaming at the television -- I have yet to accept that the players can't hear us -- were not for the Virginia Cavaliers but for the Virginia Commonwealth Rams. My intuition tells me it was not so much an expression of love for our fellow Commonwealth brethren, but rather our hope that the No.

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Rubeor leads Cavaliers to victory over Towson

By Megan McDonald | March 19, 2007

As the Virginia men's lacrosse team defeated Towson University 13-9 Saturday afternoon, junior attackman Ben Rubeor scored a career-high seven goals and the Cavaliers extended their winning streak to six games, the longest in the nation. "I am just glad we were able to get the win," Rubeor said.

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Honor we can all agree on

By Clayton O'Toole | March 19, 2007

COLUMBUS, OHIO -- I sat down in front of my computer to analyze the game that just ended between Virginia and Tennessee in the second round of the NCAA Tournament here at Nationwide Arena in Columbus.

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Cavaliers prep for late season run in WNIT

By Ben Gibson | March 19, 2007

The Virginia women's basketball team will begin its quest for a postseason title when it takes on Charlotte in the second round of the WNIT tonight at John Paul Jones Arena. The Cavaliers received a first-round bye after going 17-14 in the regular season.

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Initial thoughts from the Dance

By Clayton O'Toole | March 16, 2007

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

By Nick Taylor | March 16, 2007

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

By Ryan Franklin | March 15, 2007

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

By Eric Kolenich | March 15, 2007

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

By Kevin Zdancewicz | March 15, 2007

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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