By Paul Montana Cavalier Daily Senior Associate Editor COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- When the Virginia men's basketball team cut a double-digit, second-half deficit to 5 with less than two minutes remaining, it appeared that the Cavaliers would avenge their blown leads of late by robbing Maryland in College Park.
Is it frustrating to watch Virginia flush its NCAA Tournament dreams down the toilet with its 1-5 ACC start?
In case you hadn't heard, there is a rather significant football game this Sunday. Maybe you've forgotten about the NFL in its unnecessary absence this past weekend, though it's likely the barrage of tired media hype for the event no doubt pervaded even the most sheltered sports fan's thoughts during the bye week.
As the weather has grown colder, the Virginia women's basketball team has been heating up. The Cavaliers have won nine of their past 10 games and seem to have hit their stride coming into tomorrow night's showdown with ACC rival N.C.
We've all seen Virginia men's basketball coach Dave Leitao yell, stomp and stare at his players to get the most out of them.
The Virginia women's tennis team faces No. 15 William & Mary today at the Boyd Tinsley Courts of the Boar's Head Sports Club.
Less than a week from today, this year's football season will come to an end. Kids will cry, men will eject themselves from their recliners for the first time since Halloween, and beer vendors will enter their own version of Prohibition. But the most devastated person in the country will not be wearing a cheese-head or a foam finger -- that person will be the editor of People magazine. It seems like this season the NFL has been one part ESPN and one part TMZ.
The Virginia men's basketball team travels to College Park, Md. tonight, hoping to improve upon a 1-5 record in its previous six games.
The Virginia wrestling team split its dual meets this past weekend, defeating North Carolina Friday in Charlottesville and losing to Virginia Tech Sunday in Richmond. The Cavaliers took their dual-meet win streak to four Friday when they beat North Carolina 18-13.
The No. 1 Virginia men's tennis team earned two road victories against top-12 opponents during the weekend, defeating No.
Attention, depressed Cavalier fans: If fall and winter sports have got you down, I have some news that I hope will cheer up any Virginia supporter.
Celebrating senior day last Sunday, the graduating seniors of the Virginia swimming and diving teams came one step closer to leaving their collegiate swimming careers behind.
As Hall of Fame basketball coach Al McGuire said, "The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores." The same can be said for Virginia sophomore guard Monica Wright, who has followed up her dazzling freshman campaign with an even better encore performance. The Cavaliers (15-5, 4-1 ACC) have won nine of their last 10 and look poised to get back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since the 2004-05 season.
The Virginia women's tennis team opened the 2008 dual match season splitting last weekend's doubleheader. In the first game of the day, the Cavaliers were unable to overcome No.
Despite losing its first ACC dual meet since 1998, the Virginia men's swimming and diving team is poised to take on Pittsburgh Sunday. Indeed, the Panthers are likely to bear the brunt of the Cavaliers' lingering anger over their 2-point loss at the hands of the Tar Heels. "Last weekend's result won't change a thing about how we approach Pittsburgh," Virginia coach Mark Bernardino said.
The Virginia men's and women's tennis teams will take the court again this weekend for non-conference matches.
After dropping its fourth game in its last five on the road against Florida State Wednesday, the Virginia men's basketball team returns to Charlottesville Sunday afternoon for a matchup with Georgia Tech. For the second time in three games, Virginia (11-6, 1-3 ACC) was unable to close after it opened up a double-digit lead in the second half against the Seminoles.
After three strong victories on the road this past weekend, the Virginia wrestling team now begins its ACC regular season against North Carolina and Virginia Tech. Those three victories seem to mark a turning point in the Cavaliers' season of which past years have fallen short.
The Virginia women's basketball team continues its tour of Florida as it takes on Florida State Saturday at 7 p.m.
The teams go back and forth on runs in the first half, battling to an essential stalemate at halftime.
