Maybe you thought the Virginia men's basketball team doesn't deserve its No. 21 national ranking or that the Cavaliers' impressive 3-0 start with wins over mediocre teams was just a fluke. And I admit, I too was skeptical.
The expression on Gene Keady's face told the whole story. Late in the second half of last night's men's basketball game between Virginia and Purdue, Cavalier point guard Donald Hand missed the first free throw of a one-and-one, but, Purdue's players stood motionless, and Hand came off the line undeterred to put in his own miss.
As a junior at Sherwood High School in Olney, Md., Jamie Grimes did not think he would swim in college. Nor did he ever think he would make such an impact at a Division I school such as Virginia.
Maryland filled its head coaching vacancy yesterday by announcing Georgia Tech offensive coordinator Ralph Friedgen as its new head coach. Friedgen played his collegiate football at Maryland, graduating in 1969.
While most University students spend Christmas curled up next to the fire, Cavalier football players will be frolicking in sunny Hawaii, enjoying their third straight bowl game. Virginia accepted an invitation yesterday to play in either the Oahu Bowl on Christmas Eve or the Aloha Bowl on Christmas Day.
I remember sitting in my best friend's living room three and a half years ago, watching Arizona beat Kentucky in 1997's all-Wildcat NCAA final.
Heading into this season, two questions loomed over the Virginia women's basketball team: Who will play point guard?
You might have laughed after hearing that Purdue, the Cavaliers' opponent tonight, lost its season opener to upstart Central Michigan, but your jaw probably dropped if you saw the headlines of the Boilermakers' upset win over then-No.
Before the season started, Virginia women's basketball coach Debbie Ryan identified the point guard position as her biggest concern.
BLACKSBURG-For a while, it looked like the improbable was going to happen. The battered and bruised Virginia football team faced its archrival, a top 10 team, on the road, without its starting quarterback.
The Virginia men's soccer team advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament by holding on to a 2-1 victory over St.
BLACKSBURG-It was rough, rowdy and more than a little ugly. But the Virginia men's basketball team made it work nonetheless Friday night against Virginia Tech. The Cavaliers (3-0), who rang up 96 and 117 points in their first two games, barely broke a sweat in their 64-48 victory over the Hokies (1-2). "It wasn't a Picasso or a Monet or a Van Gogh or a Cezanne," Virginia coach Pete Gillen said.
First a presidential election and a nation's future hinging on a dimpled chad. Then Alabama, North Carolina and every other collegiate institution in the western hemisphere engage in a heated check-writing contest for the services of Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer, whose personality is often confused for that of a dimpled chad.
The holiday season is always a wonderful time for reflection, especially for the 2000 football season. It's a time to look back and analyze what went right with the year and what went wrong. The good: For the third straight year, Virginia produced the Atlantic Coast Conference's leading rusher.
Sometimes the stars settle in perfect alignment and everything goes your way. Last night's 116-63 victory over St.
After losing to Louisiana Tech in the semifinal of the Preseason NIT yesterday in West Lafayette, Ind., things didn't get any better for the Virginia women's basketball team yesterday in the consolation game.
Sophomore guard Roger Mason Jr. decided to put on a show for an old recruiter with the best game of his young career. "It's hard having a guy you recruited beat you," Coastal Carolina coach Pete Strickland said. Strickland saw a more versatile Mason yesterday in Virginia's 117-78 rout over the Chanticleers.
If you're looking to place a bet on Virginia's starting quarterback for this Saturday's game against No.
If it weren't for the white jerseys, you wouldn't have recognized Virginia in the final two minutes of last night's men's basketball game against Coastal Carolina. Five players who didn't play the first half - Maurice Young, Josh Hare, Jason Rogers, Jason Dowling and Greg Lyons - ended the game on the court, as the Cavaliers routed the Chanticleers, 117-78.
The football gods certainly have a twisted sense of humor. In the last home game of his career, quarterback Dan Ellis was forced to sit out an entire game for the second time this year because of a strained hamstring.
