Atkins provided a critical boost for Virginia, racking up eight points, eight rebounds and three blocks after the break. After the game, Bennett praised his most experienced Cavalier.
With fans at John Paul Jones Arena screaming for the team to step on the gas in the second half, Bennett implored his team to slow down. Virginia responded with its most impressive 20 minute stretch of the season, using a more deliberate offensive approach to outscore George Washington by 21 points in the second half of its 59-42 victory.
If you had showed up 2 hours late for the Virginia basketball game against South Carolina State on Tuesday, waked past the scoreboard without looking and went straight to the team's postgame press conference, you would have been hard pressed to figure out that the Cavaliers had won.
With 11:29 to go in the first half Tuesday night at John Paul Jones Arena, South Carolina State sophomore guard Greg Mortimer swooped into the lane for a layup off the inbound to bring his Bulldogs within three points of Virginia at 14-11. Coming out of the under-8 timeout a few minutes later, the No.
The No. 9 Cavaliers will host South Caroline State Tuesday night at John Paul Jones Arena. Virginia (2-0) dispatched Norfolk State and James Madison during the weekend, and will attempt to improve to 3-0 for the first time since 2010-11.
His senior year at Greater Atlanta Christian High School, Virginia freshman forward Isaiah Wilkins averaged a cool 18.2 points, 10.3 rebounds, 3.4 blocks, 2.6 assists and 2.2 steals per game. The stepson of NBA Hall of Famer Dominique Wilkins, the Cavaliers’ Wilkins once blocked eight shots in a single high school game.
In nearly every circumstance, the early-recruiting process that exists in basketball hurts recruits such as Boatright, Peebles and Kelly by removing them from the nationwide recruiting process.
Coach Tony Bennett and his players touched on last season's success, discovering a new identity for 2014, injury concerns, the development of freshmen, offseason conditioning and more. Here are seven key takeaways based on what they had to say.
The problem with the proposed system is that compensation would most likely have to be reported as income for the athletes on either the W-2 or Form 1099 as misc. income.
Virginia men’s basketball player Evan Nolte was arrested on a charge of public intoxication and swearing by the Charlottesville Police Department early Sunday morning.
The Cleveland Cavaliers Thursday night chose Joe Harris with the 33rd pick of the 2014 NBA Draft. League commissioner Adam Silver announced the selection on-stage at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. The standout guard becomes the Virginia’s highest-picked player since Roger Mason, Jr., who went 31st overall to the Chicago Bulls in 2001.
Tuesday morning, the ACC revealed the Virginia men’s basketball team’s conference opponents for each of the next two seasons. The Cavaliers, fresh off their first Sweet 16 appearance since 1995, will play an 18-game conference slate with an even split of home and away contests in both 2014-15 and 2015-16.
“Ladies and gentlemen, you’re looking at the Hungry Huskies. This is what happens when you ban us!” When Shabazz Napier barked those words at the world after his Connecticut team won the men’s basketball national championship against Kentucky Monday night, he triggered a deluge of reactions. More than that, he reminded everyone of the polemic debate engulfing the NCAA.
Over 59 games at UVa, fan favorite Teven Jones averaged 1.7 points. The meager stat lines hardly do justice to his impact off the court.
I will argue until I’m blue in the face with Super Bowl supporters, World Series apologists and BCS nutjobs alike that March Madness is the best show we put on all year. But what people tend to forget is that the frequency of upsets is exactly what makes it so.
Four minutes remained in a lopsided game. After recording his second block of the game and prolonging a night that rendered Memphis an ant underneath a giant Virginia defensive magnifying glass, Mike Tobey gathered the ball at the top of the 3-point arc with oodles of time remaining on the shot clock and his defender hanging back in the lane.
On Monday, Virginia alumnus Ian Cohen wrote a story for Grantland entitled “In Praise of Virginia: The Mediocre, Miraculous No. 1 Seed.” With respect to Mr. Cohen, I disliked the article.
On Sunday, the Virginia Cavaliers and the hated Duke Blue Devils were locked in a battle for the ages, and I was reduced to a rabid, shaking wreck on the couch. And for what?
February 28, 2013. Virginia has just ousted No. 3 Duke, 73-68, but something other than the game’s outcome is grinding Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski’s gears.
The No. 12 Virginia Cavaliers will look to extend their winning streak to 12 games when they take on the Miami Hurricanes Wednesday night in Charlottesville. A win against Miami would mark coach Tony Bennett’s 100th career win with Virginia.
