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The Virginia women’s swimming and diving team has done it all this season. Touting a perfect 8-0 record during the season, being ranked first in the nation for the first time in program history and winning a ninth-consecutive ACC Championship, the Cavalier women have asserted dominance throughout.
A day after suffering a defeat in the ACC championship against North Carolina, Virginia is likely feeling better about itself. Not only did the loss come against an NCAA No. 1 seed, but the Cavaliers earned a No. 1 seed themselves.
As 5:30 p.m. drew near on Selection Sunday, my roommate and I had to ask, could Virginia end up in Michigan State’s region again? After two hours of banter from Charles Barkley, Ernie Johnson and Co., we have our answer — and the answer is yes.
Competing in four events at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Birmingham, Ala. — the men’s mile, distance medley relay and shot put along with the women’s mile — the Cavaliers produced a champion and a runner-up at the conclusion of the meet on March 12, leading the Virginia men to a program-best eighth place finish.
Saturday night’s ACC Tournament championship game seemed to be a matchup made in heaven — the top-two teams in the nation’s premier league slugging it out with conference dominance on the line. The dream slowly devolved into a nightmare for second-seeded Virginia.
On a Saturday filled with top-tier college matchups, the Virginia-North Carolina showdown took the cake as the most anticipated. In a battle of potential NCAA No. 1 seeds, the game pitted the ACC’s top-two teams against each together.
The ACC Tournament began on Tuesday. The Cavalier Daily Sports staff gives you their favorites to win it all and poses the biggest questions of the tournament.
Baseball
The Virginia wrestling team went into last year’s ACC Championships as the underdog. While the team was ranked No. 18 nationally, they had a losing conference record of 2-3 and were seeded fourth overall. The Cavaliers walked into the hostile Petersen Events Center in Pittsburgh, Pa. with something to prove — and they left as champions.
Virginia Athletics Director Craig Littlepage announced yesterday that women’s basketball coach Joanne Boyle would be returning for a sixth season. Boyle, who has only posted one winning record in ACC play during her tenure, has not led a team to an NCAA tournament bid since 2009, when she was still at California.
Virginia’s game against North Carolina Saturday certainly wasn’t a must-win situation, but it was an important stepping-stone for the team.
Malcolm Brogdon’s teammates left Miami deeply indebted to the fifth-year senior guard. That debt, however, was settled on Saturday night.
The No. 20 Virginia wrestling team came short of ending their regular season on a high note as No. 24 Pittsburgh Friday defeated them by a score of 19-17. The Friday night contest was the second match in a row the Cavaliers (6-7, 1-4 ACC) lost in the last bout.
Familiar names from last year’s National Championship team reappeared at the top of No. 8 Virginia’s lineup Friday against Kent State. The bottom of the order, however, listed three freshmen hitters, left fielder Jake McCarthy — whose older brother Joe left early for the 2015 Major League Baseball draft — right fielder Cameron Simmons and third baseman Andy Weber.
Heading into the fourth final day of the ACC Championships, the Virginia women’s swimming and diving team had a narrow 90.5 point first-place lead over North Carolina State University. However, there was no looking back for the No. 5 Cavaliers (8-0, 4-0 ACC) once they took the lead on the second day.
Women’s Lacrosse
Of the 29 Cavaliers who were part of the first national championship program in Virginia baseball history, only 18 are returning for the 2016 season. Joining them will be 17 rookie players. With six star players from his program departing for the major leagues following their big win in Omaha, coach Brian O’Connor said that “year in and year out, you are relying on first-year players to make an impact, because we just lose so many players after three years to professional baseball.”
When the No. 5 Virginia women’s swimming and diving teams wrapped up the season last year after the NCAA Championships, they had a lot to hang their hats on. Under the leadership of Coach Augie Busch, the team finished the regular season ranked ninth, won their eighth straight ACC championship and placed fifth at the NCAA Championships — the best finish in the school’s history.
At the Fastrack National Qualifier Invite this past weekend in Staten Island, N.Y., familiar names brought success to the Virginia men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams. In combination, the teams had 14 top-3 finishes, including six victories.
The top-ranked Virginia men’s tennis team had a busy weekend competing in the ITA National Team Indoors Championship. As favorites, the Cavaliers hope to hoist the trophy for the fifth time in the past eight years.