The Virginia softball team opened play in the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in Palm Springs, Ca. Thursday night by splitting games against No. 22 Washington and San Diego State. Up next for the Cavaliers is a Friday night game against No. 9 Oregon followed by Saturday matchups against Colorado State and No. 20 Stanford.
Fighting through injury and a depleted bench, the Virginia women’s basketball team suffered another heartbreak Thursday night, letting a late lead slip away against Clemson in 64-62 defeat in South Carolina.
The Virginia track and field team will be competing this weekend at the ACC Indoor Track and Field Championships in Blacksburg.
The No. 16 Virginia women’s tennis team has a busy weekend ahead of itself.
Late last May, as the Virginia women’s lacrosse team mourned its season’s early termination in the NCAA Tournament’s first round, Syracuse was rehearsing for one final act.
The tale of Virginia basketball this season has been one of two separate teams. One is a frantic defensive unit that shows up at John Paul Jones wearing white, feeding off the energy of the home crowd to score blowout victories.
The No. 6 Virginia men’s lacrosse team travels to Long Island, N.Y. to face Stony Brook Saturday as it seeks its third consecutive victory to remain undefeated on the season . After their recent success at home against Drexel in the season opener and Virginia Military Institute Tuesday, the Cavaliers look to continue their winning streak in their first game away from Klöckner Stadium.
Suffering a blowout loss against a conference rival at home would have been enough disappointment for one night, but for the Virginia women’s basketball team, the 29-point defeat to Maryland Sunday was only the beginning.
In its first four games this season, the No. 25 Virginia baseball team’s offense has been nothing short of unstoppable, and with a three-game homestand with Toledo this weekend, it will look to see just how long it can keep that power surge going.
Before Wednesday afternoon’s showdown against winless in-state rival Richmond, the No. 8 Virginia women’s lacrosse team insisted the game would be a battle.
The No. 6 Virginia men’s lacrosse team dismantled Virginia Military Institute Tuesday night at Klöckner Stadium, dominating throughout an 18-4 triumph, while also playing its entire active roster. “Part of the opportunity here with a game like this is for guys to get out there,” Virginia coach Dom Starsia said.
Virginia’s pitching staff came into the season surrounded by questions. Already, many of those questions have been answered in the affirmative. In their first action at Davenport Field after a weekend road trip to open the season, the Cavaliers continued to impress, topping St.
Freshman forward Evan Nolte rattled home a 3-pointer from the right wing with 14 seconds left to even the score at 50 apiece against No.
Let’s talk about the Dunk Contest — an event that I’d bet inhabits a soft spot in the vast majority of your hearts.
Greatness has come to be expected of the Virginia swimming and diving program during the last decade.
The No. 8 Virginia women’s lacrosse team will face Richmond on the road Wednesday in a game that would be easy to look past.
When coach Tony Bennett and the Virginia men’s basketball team examined the schedule before this 2012-13 season, the chances are slim that they regarded last Saturday’s visit to North Carolina as the more manageable part of their current two-game road trip.
Allegedly, the “hot hand” in basketball is merely a myth. Researchers from Cornell and Stanford University studied NBA shooting records and conducted a controlled experiment with college athletes to conclude, “the outcomes of previous shots influenced [players’] predictions but not their performance.” Essentially, making one shot does nothing to increase the odds of sinking the next.
The No. 1 Virginia men’s tennis team defeated second-ranked Southern California 4-2 in the finals of the ITA National Team Indoor Championship in Seattle Monday afternoon.
The No. 7 Virginia men’s lacrosse team seeks its second win to open the year when it takes on visiting Virginia Military Institute Tuesday evening in a battle between the Commonwealth’s only two Division I teams.
