Virginia faces first foe
The Virginia women's basketball team opens its season at home tonight against Appalachian State in a game which will offer both a snapshot of where it is and a glimpse of what it wants to become.
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The Virginia women's basketball team opens its season at home tonight against Appalachian State in a game which will offer both a snapshot of where it is and a glimpse of what it wants to become.
A single stabilizing presence has marked the last 34 seasons of Virginia women's basketball. Recruiting classes have come and gone and the roster has been built and rebuilt, but students who once filed into University Hall in 1977 to watch a fresh-faced 25-year-old returned to John Paul Jones Arena in 2011 to see the same coach resign as one of college basketball's winningest leaders. After guiding the Cavaliers for more than a third of a century, Women's Basketball Hall of Famer Debbie Ryan announced her retirement at the end of last season, leaving the Cavaliers with an unprecedented void to fill.
The Virginia field hockey team will host No. 5 Duke during its regular season finale Saturday night on a Senior Night game the Cavaliers hope will provide as much practical significance as it does symbolic.
The No. 18 Virginia men's soccer team has displayed both flashes of brilliance and long stretches of poor play during an uneven first two months of the season. With a win tonight in Winston-Salem, N.C. against unranked Wake Forest and a little help, however, the Cavaliers could find themselves in an unlikely spot: first place in the ACC.
The Virginia field hockey team gets another shot at knocking off an ACC powerhouse when it travels to College Park to play No. 3 Maryland tonight at 5 p.m.
Looking to rebound from its worst start in more than a decade, the Virginia field hockey team faces Boston College tonight and Richmond Sunday. The team returns home for the first time in three weeks desperately searching for a spark.
If the No. 10 Virginia men's soccer team thought it could cruise its through its four-game homestand, which continues tonight against Charlotte, Liberty provided a reality check for the streaking Cavaliers.