1. Football: Virginia 39-Georgia Tech 38  Nov. 10, 2001
Possibly the wildest and most exciting win in Virginia history. A combined 43 points were scored during the fourth quarter — 25 of them by Virginia, which was down 20-7 at halftime. The game-winning Cavalier score came off a freakish hook-and-ladder with 22 seconds left in the game.

2. Men’s Basketball: Virginia 87-Duke 84  Feb 28, 2002
The team was amidst a season freefall, which made it all the more impressive that the Cavaliers overcame a 15-point deficit during seven minutes to top the No. 3 team in the country.

3. Men’s Basketball: Virginia 68-Duke 66 (OT)  Feb. 1, 2007
Sean Singletary made a game-tying shot with 26 seconds left in regulation and a game-winning shot with one second remaining in overtime to upset No. 8 Duke..

4. Men’s Soccer: Virginia 0-Akron 0 (2 OT, Virginia 3-Akron 2 in PK)  Dec. 13, 2009
The soccer team’s first national title game in a decade-and-a-half came against a previously undefeated team and went all the way down to the final penalty kick.

5. Women’s Lacrosse: Virginia 14-Duke 13  May 25, 2007
Down 13-4 with 18 minutes left on the clock, Virginia went on a scorching 10-0 run against the favored Blue Devils and netted the game-winner with 9 seconds remaining, earning the team a spot at the NCAA championships.

6. Men’s Lacrosse: Virginia 10-Maryland 9 (7 OT)  March 28, 2009
The longest lacrosse game in NCAA history saw both teams’ defenses performing stop after mind-boggling stop to drag the game to seven extra periods before Brian Carroll nailed a sweet game-winner.

7. Women’s Basketball: Virginia 103-Georgia Tech 101  March 2, 2008
Three times, this senior night game came down to the closing seconds. In regulation, the Yellow Jackets tied it. In overtime, the Cavaliers tied it. Finally, in the second overtime, Monica Wright scored the game-winner.

8. Men’s Lacrosse: Virginia 9-Hopkins 8 (4 OT)  March 24, 2001
Up until the seven-overtime Virginia-Maryland game in 2009, this four-overtimer in Baltimore was the premier Virginia lacrosse nail-biter of the decade.

9. Lacrosse: Virginia 17-North Carolina 16 (2 OT)  April 21, 2000
The Cavaliers bounced back from a late three-goal deficit and won the high-scoring feud with 11 seconds left in the second overtime.

10. Baseball: Virginia 8-North Carolina 7 (11 innings)  May 21, 2008
During the first round of the 2008 ACC Championship, Virginia battled the No. 1 Tar Heels until 1:26 a.m. before a wild pitch handed the Cavaliers the upset.

11. Football: Virginia 18-Maryland 17  Oct. 20, 2007
I’ve never had a sense of hopelessness more powerfully turned around than when I attended this game. Virginia was pitiful until the fourth quarter, and the game-winning drive during which running back Mikell Simpson played like Reggie Bush was nothing short of a miracle.

12. Field Hockey: Virginia 2-North Carolina 1 (2 OT, 2 PS)  Nov. 3, 2000
This battle between rivals remained a tie not only through two overtime periods, but also through a set of penalty strokes. Finally, in the second set of penalty strokes, Virginia pulled out the narrow win.

13. Women’s Basketball: Virginia 83-Tennessee 82  Nov 17, 2008
This is the definitive Monica Wright game. The Cavaliers were decimated by the graduation of Sharneé Zoll and suspension of Lyndra Littles, but Wright scored 35 to top the No. 6 reigning champions — in Knoxville, no less.

14. Men’s Soccer: Virginia 0-Wake Forest 0 (Virginia 5-Wake Forest 4 PK)  Nov. 13, 2009
It was the ACC title game, and Virginia held the Demon Deacons scoreless through regulation and overtime before escaping penalty kicks with the narrowest of victories.

15. Men’s Basketball: Virginia 80-Western Kentucky 79 (2 OT)  Jan. 5, 2005
How can you read the Associated Press release and not wish you were there? “The final sequence happened so fast, it seemed like no one got a really good look at how Virginia managed to win.”
It keeps going: ”There was the mad scramble for a loose ball when most everyone on the court got a hand on it, and then T.J. Bannister had it in the left corner, drove and laid it in with 2.6 seconds left to give Virginia a 80-79 double-overtime victory against Western Kentucky on Wednesday night.”

16. Men’s Basketball: Virginia 93-Arizona 90  Nov. 12, 2006
Could there have been a better way to open John Paul Jones Arena than a white-knuckle win against No. 10 Arizona?

17. Women’s Basketball: Virginia 76-Wake Forest 73 (2 OT)  Jan. 28, 2001
Schuye LaRue scored all seven of Virginia’s points during the second overtime in this dramatic victory.

18. Baseball: Virginia 11-Georgia Tech 10  April 11, 2009
The Cavaliers stormed back with six runs in the bottom of the ninth to topple the No. 8 Yellow Jackets.

19. Men’s Lacrosse: Virginia 16-Syracuse 15  March 1, 2003
John Christmas scored with 22 seconds left to hand Virginia a win in this clash of lacrosse titans.

20. Men’s Basketball: Virginia 82-Georgia Tech 80  Feb. 14, 2004
Todd Billet had taken three shots and missed every one before he nailed a clutch game-winner. He played like Robert Horry that year, hitting shots when they mattered.

21. Football: Virginia 26-Florida State 21  Oct. 15, 2005
Probably the biggest upset win for the Cavaliers this decade. Virginia pulled ahead 23-10 and hung on to topple the Goliath No. 4 Seminoles.

22. Women’s Basketball: Virginia 74-Charlotte 72  March 19, 2007
A Lyndra Littles buzzer-beater lifted the Cavaliers in a thrilling NIT win to keep the season alive.

23. Baseball: Virginia 12-Wake Forest 11 (10 innings)  May 23, 2003
The Cavaliers survived the second round of the 2003 ACC Tournament with a thrilling win in the 10th.

24. Men’s Tennis: Virginia 4-Illinois 3  Jan. 25, 2008
No. 1 Virginia fell behind 1-3 against No. 8 Illinois before storming back for a win to keep a perfect season alive.

25. Volleyball: Virginia 3-Georgia Tech 2  Sept. 28, 2007
The Cavaliers overcame a 0-2 set deficit to take three straight narrow sets from touted Georgia Tech. “This was one of the best wins in my tenure,” Virginia coach Melissa Aldrich Shelton said after the game.

Dan’s Salute: Football: Virginia 35-Virginia Tech 21  Nov 29, 2003
Here it is, the lone win of the decade for the Cavaliers in this so-called rivalry. If there was one game I wish I had been able to attend during the past 10 years of Virginia sports, this is it. I bet Scott Stadium was hopping. The Cavaliers never looked back after the third quarter, so it wasn’t quite dramatic enough to fit the criteria for this list, but I doubt there was a more meaningful game for fans this decade.