Simply put, this game belonged to freshman forward Justin Anderson. And Anderson, though far from the perfect player, harbors a passion for basketball which epitomizes everything sports could and should be.
Led by another assertive effort by budding star freshman guard Justin Anderson, the Cavaliers (23-11, 11-7 ACC) coasted past St. Johns (17-16, 8-10 Big East) 68-50 for their 19th straight home victory, the fourth longest active streak in Division I men’s basketball.
Virginia looks to extend its dominance to conference play as it hosts No. 8 Duke and No. 70 North Carolina this weekend.
After an exhausting stretch that spanned six matches in nine days, the No. 32 Virginia women’s tennis team returns home to host a pair of matches against No. 72 Boston College and No. 55 Virginia Tech this Friday and Saturday.
The Virginia Track and Field team opens up its outdoor season with a home meet at Lannigan Field at this Saturday’s Virginia Cup.
Four months after losing to Delaware in the NIT Season Tip-off, Virginia finds itself two wins away from making amends for that disappointment by advancing to New York in the postseason NIT Tournament.
The Virginia softball team defeated George Washington 2-1 in ten innings on Wednesday evening, outlasting the visiting Colonials. It was the third win in a row for the Cavaliers, a streak they hope to continue this weekend at Maryland.
This Saturday at Klöckner Stadium, Virginia gets another shot at toppling an elite opponent, this time No. 6 Duke. The Blue Devils (8-1, 1-1 ACC) have qualified for 15 straight NCAA Tournaments under coach Kerstin Kimel.
The Virginia baseball team continued its dominant mid-week play Wednesday night with yet another blowout victory against lowly Yale (1-9, 0-0 Ivy), improving to 6-0 in midweek games this season by a combined score of 62-8 with a 10-0 rout to sweep the two game set.
The most talented wrestlers in the nation have assembled at the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa for the start of the NCAA Championship.
After a disappointing three-week stretch which saw the No. 14 Virginia men’s lacrosse team drop three of its four games by a combined three goals, the Cavaliers travel to M&T Bank Stadium Saturday for the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic, where they will meet No. 10 Johns Hopkins.
After winning the program’s sixth consecutive ACC Championship and finishing the season with a perfect dual meet record, the No. 10 Virginia women’s swimming and diving team will face one final challenge — the NCAA Championship meet in Indianapolis.
If the motto for March is “Survive and Advance,” the Virginia basketball team should have left John Paul Jones Tuesday night pleased with the result. But after beating overmatched Norfolk State in the first round of the NIT Tournament 67-56 in an all-around eyesore, the Cavaliers could hardly mask their disappointment.
The Virginia women’s rowing team opened its 2013 spring campaign in dominant style this past weekend, winning 17 races at the Oak Ridge Cardinal Invite in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Tuesday’s game was certainly another impressive offensive performance for the No. 13 Virginia baseball team, but the biggest factor hindering Yale may have been something entirely different: Mother Nature. On a blustery day at Davenport Field, strong winds played tricks with both teams, pushing and pulling fly balls in the air.
The No. 17 James Madison women’s lacrosse team has a bizarre, but effective method of disrupting the opposition that makes the Duke dog seem like an especially apt choice of mascot.
The Virginia softball team hosts George Washington in a midweek matchup Wednesday evening, hoping to push its winning percentage back up to .500 on the year. The game was originally scheduled for Feb. 9, but was postponed due to freezing temperatures.
It’s hard to believe the seismic shift in the fortunes of Virginia basketball from just more than two weeks ago.
Virginia returns to John Paul Jones Arena Tuesday night to battle Norfolk State in NIT First Round action.
After dominant regular seasons, Miami and Duke earned No. 2 seeds for this week’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship and join eighth-seeded North Carolina and N.C.
