Welcome to heartbreak. You ran the gamut of emotions Saturday afternoon. Malcolm Brogdon hit the reverse layup with 10 seconds remaining, and you were riding an ecstatic high.
Cheers of “Nolte, Nolte” faintly rattled around the lower deck of John Paul Jones Arena Tuesday night after the senior forward poured in his second bucket of the game.
If you’re a fan of Virginia and #GoACC basketball, you’ve got to like where we’re at on the calendar.
At tipoff, No. 9 Virginia was just a two-point favorite against Pittsburgh. Playing on the road – in front of the Oakland Zoo, no less – against a team that received votes in last week’s AP poll, the prediction seemed about right.
Perhaps the biggest question mark headed into the 2015-16 Virginia basketball season was the role that the sophomore class would play. Were the sophomores ready to step up and help retool following the departures of Justin Anderson and Darion Atkins?
Does #GoACC basketball ever get old? Last week, Cat Barber torched Miami as NC State silenced the ’Canes, Syracuse toppled then-No. 25 Notre Dame by 15 and North Carolina fell in conference play for the first time all year, 71-65 at Louisville.
The computer algorithm on KenPom.com gave Virginia a 25 percent chance of beating Louisville Saturday.
When redshirt sophomore guard Darius Thompson debuted for Virginia basketball as starting shooting guard in the season opener against Morgan State, I was thrilled.
Back in the day — as in, winter 2014, when the mid-Atlantic wasn’t Sweden-lite — The Cavalier Daily published some formidable power rankings each week of the ACC men’s hoops season.
At first glance Sunday night’s game does not appear to be another defensive masterpiece spun by Coach Tony Bennett’s team, and in actuality it was not.
Following back-to-back conference losses against Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech, Virginia basketball coach Tony Bennett decided to shuffle things up and insert redshirt freshman center Jack Salt into the Cavalier starting line up.
Although No. 5 Virginia’s final non-conference game against Oakland Dec. 30 will be no cakewalk, coach Tony Bennett now has a good idea of his team after surviving the gauntlet of NCAA tournament-caliber opponents.
To Mendenhall, football is more than just X’s and O’s.
After years of pleading, the “Fire Mike London” campaign finally fulfilled its mission last Sunday. The movement started quietly after a 4-8 2012 season and steadily garnered a larger and larger following — myself included — after the three losing seasons that followed.
Coach. Mentor. Father-figure. These are just a few of the words some of the Virginia football players used to describe coach Mike London following the announcement of his resignation Sunday.
It was a somber scene Sunday morning when Mike London addressed the Cavalier football team for the final time as head coach. Both he and his players reportedly were brought to tears. That’s not typically how football firings go.
Let’s face it, a Virginia win Saturday wouldn’t have been right. Not for Virginia, whose fans would have stormed the field only to call for coach Mike London’s head moments later. And not for that divine coach from Blacksburg — how dare Virginia deny him a win in his final regular season game?
Cavalier Daily football writer Robert Elder recently had the chance to talk with Kendall, author of the UVa sports blog "Wahooze", regarding the potential upcoming football coaching search.
