The Skinny on weekend competition for the Virginia indoor track and field, men’s and women’s tennis, women’s basketball and wrestling teams. A full preview for men’s basketball is available online and in Thursday’s issue of The Cavalier Daily.
Junior guard Malcolm Brogdon was taking names at the Nike Peach Jam in North Augusta, South Carolina back in the summer of 2010, when Virginia men’s basketball coach Tony Bennett watched the well-spoken Atlantan hoop for the first time.
The collective eyes of the men’s college basketball world will focus on Charlottesville this Saturday when No. 2 Virginia welcomes fourth-ranked Duke to John Paul Jones Arena.
Looking to snap a three-game losing streak and improve on a struggling offense, the Virginia women’s basketball team will return to the court Thursday night at John Paul Jones Arena to face conference rival NC State.
There are lies, damned lies, and then there are statistics. And when it comes to Virginia basketball, traditional statistics horribly misrepresent the team’s actual performance. Just turn to the Cavaliers’ home page on ESPN. Prominently featured are a selection of four commonly cited stats: points per game, rebounds per game, assists per game, and field goal percentage.
It’s in every news story with each addiot Virginia men’s basketball team win: “The unbeaten Cavaliers are off to their best start since the 1980-81 season when they started 23-0.” Let me do the math for you: 1981 was 34 years ago.
With several players out battling the flu, the Virginia women’s tennis team incurred its first loss of the season to Baylor in a 6-1 match Saturday.
Arriving in Lexington, Kentucky last Friday, the Cavalier track and field team understood the Rod McCravy Memorial Meet would be a test.
Cavalier Daily Video interviews Makenzy Doniak, UVA Women's Soccer Junior Forward from Chino Hills, CA.
To the surprise of many, the Virginia women’s swimming and diving team provided the same heart-pounding action against North Carolina as they did a year ago. Only this time around, the Cavaliers found themselves on the wrong side of the outcome.
The Virginia men’s basketball team survived a major scare against in-state and conference rival Virginia Tech Sunday afternoon at Cassell Coliseum in Blacksburg. Trailing 43-33 with less than 11 minutes to play, the No. 2 Cavaliers reeled off a game-ending 17-4 run to deal the Hokies their seventh straight defeat by a final score of 50-47.
Unable to recover from a lengthy scoring drought in the second half, the Virginia women’s basketball team lost its third straight game Sunday afternoon, a 68-62 bout with Georgia Tech at home.
Fourteenth-ranked Virginia wrestling defeated No. 10 Pittsburgh, 17-16, in a thrilling and closely contested battle Sunday at Memorial Gymnasium.
With a loss to Miami Wednesday night, Virginia fell to 0-3 on the road against ACC opponents, but the team hopes to bounce back against Georgia Tech at home, where the Cavaliers are 10-1 this season.
Despite having to forfeit a singles point and a doubles court due to multiple players coming down with the flu, the No. 5 Virginia women’s tennis team improved to 2-0 on the season Thursday night with a 4-3 win against No. 42 Utah.
The Virginia men’s basketball team stung Georgia Tech, 57-28, Thursday night at John Paul Jones Arena. The No. 2 Cavaliers (18-0, 6-0 ACC) kept the Yellow Jackets (9-9, 0-6 ACC) to 12 second-half points while holding an opponent to less than 30 overall for the third time this year.
It was Feb. 2013. Senior forward Darion Atkins was sidelined with a shin injury. Junior center Mike Tobey came down with mononucleosis. Junior guard Justin Anderson, the team's 6-foot-6 shooting guard, was forced to play power forward down the stretch in ACC play.
No. 14 Virginia wrestling hosts its second top-10 team of the season this Sunday as No. 10 ranked Pittsburgh comes to town for a showdown between two premier ACC programs.
The Virginia men’s basketball team looks to continue its torrid start to the season Thursday night against Georgia Tech in Charlottesville. With more than half the regular season complete, the Cavaliers are 17-0, their best start since the 1980-81 team won its first 23 games.
After jumping out to a 10-0 lead, the Virginia women’s basketball team faltered in the second half to lose 58-67 against Miami Wednesday night in Coral Gables, Fla..
