As I, Virginia fan No. 655,321, sat on my couch and watched the Cavalier men's basketball team struggle to catch up to Florida State Saturday afternoon, a knot began forming in the pit of my stomach.
In years gone by, Roger Mason's three-point dagger to seal a precious, if unspectacular, road triumph at Florida State likely would have spawned one of the following bow-tied, beer-swilling Cavalier responses: "Hooray for us ... So, does Chi Phi have something tonight?" Or, "Yay, we won ... Did Clemons extend its hours of operation to accommodate students who wished to partake of a little Saturday afternoon basketball over cell biology?" Or perhaps, "Is Roger Mason that cute red-headed Hullabahoo you were giving the eye at our semi-formal last weekend?" Now Virginia zealots sing a different tune - one with a melody that was distinctly audible the second Mason's bomb detonated in the bottom of the net: "Let's go tenting." Tenting?
Roger Mason Jr., Virginia's sophomore shooting guard, garnered ACC Player of the Week honors for his outstanding play last week.
It was perfectly fitting for the Virginia women's basketball team that sophomore center Schuye LaRue had one of her best games of the season and carried the Cavaliers on the same night that she scored the 1,000th point of her career. LaRue scored a career-high 33 points on 15-for-21 shooting and grabbed 18 rebounds as Virginia escaped with a victory against Hampton last night at University Hall. "Schuye had a great game, and if it weren't for her in the first half, I don't know where we would have been," Virginia coach Debbie Ryan said. LaRue, who now has 1,005 career points, became the 18th Cavalier to surpass the 1,000-point barrier.
You could call last night's game exciting. You could call it nerve-wracking. The Virginia women's basketball team would call it too close for comfort. The Cavaliers (17-11, 7-7 ACC) eked out a 75-72 victory against a surprisingly tough Hampton squad last night at University Hall.
Virginia wrestling battled back from a 16-0 deficit, but fell just one point short, 19-18, to Clarion in the Cavaliers' final home dual match of the season Saturday.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.-The Virginia men's basketball team's trouble on the road almost continued Saturday at Florida State in a close game in which the Seminoles outplayed the Cavaliers in almost every aspect offensively. But thanks partly to the heroics of Cavaliers Adam Hall and Roger Mason Jr.
Thanks to the arm of pitcher Dan Street, who pitched a two-hit shutout through seven innings, the Virginia baseball team (3-0) completed a three-game sweep of Navy (0-3) yesterday. Virginia scored four runs in the first inning off of Navy pitcher Brian Pennell, including RBI singles by shortstop Hunter Wyant, catcher Mark Rueffert, and right fielder Chris Sweet, to put them ahead early. The Cavaliers won both games of Saturday's doubleheader with Navy as well.
In a season of infrequent highs and emotional lows, the Virginia women's basketball team will face Hampton in a non-conference matchup at 7:30 tonight in University Hall. The Cavalier women (16-11) are coming off a tough 78-71 loss at Clemson on Thursday.
The Virginia women's basketball team lost at Clemson last night, 78-71. After trailing at halftime, 38-29, the Cavaliers (16-11, 7-7 ACC) opened the second half with a 14-4 run to take their only lead of the game, 43-42.
The 2001 ACC Women's Swimming and Diving Championships began yesterday at Virginia's Aquatics & Fitness Center.
The Virginia men's basketball team, fresh from its epic win over Duke on Wednesday night, will leave the friendly confines of University Hall behind and take to the road again this weekend.
Virginia wrestling hopes to carry enough momentum from its Wednesday victory over Maryland to beat Clarion in its final dual match of the season.
You can count five players on the court per team in a game of men's basketball, but in last night's contest between Duke and Virginia, the Cavaliers' had a sixth man: the fans. In Virginia's thrilling 91-89 victory over No.
Every good literary character has a crucial moment of moral conflict in which they must question themselves and their intentions. Raskolnikov, in "Crime and Punishment": Do I go against all notions of humanity and brutally murder this Russian pawnbroker? Pontius Pilate, in the Bible: Do I go against the heavens and crucify the Son of God? Me, in this column: Do I go against everything which is good and just and pull for the UNC men's basketball team? Those of you who think that my dilemma is any less serious obviously weren't raised in ACC country.
As the host of the 2001 ACC Women's Swimming and Diving Championships, Virginia hopes history will repeat itself. Virginia (7-1, 4-1 ACC) and North Carolina (8-1, 5-0), both swimming and diving powerhouses, have won the championship the past two years with the home team swimming to victory each year.
In the end, the Virginia men's basketball team turned out to be the little engine that could. Last night at University Hall, an underdog No.
Inconsistency has plagued the Virginia men's basketball team all season. The Cavaliers will get a chance to continue their unpredictable streak of highs and lows when they host perennial powerhouse Duke at University Hall in a nationally-televised game on ESPN at 7 p.m. No.
Something changes when she steps on the court. Whether she's putting back rebounds for a score, muscling her way under the basket or directing her teammates in a huddle, Dean'na Mitchelson is a commanding but calming presence for the Virginia women's basketball team. The 6-foot-2 senior captain has earned a starting position for 12 of the Cavaliers' games this year.
Of the 23 football freshmen who entered N.C. State in 1995, merely seven received degrees. This 30 percent graduation rate was the third-worst for an N.C.
