After faltering in its final indoor games, the No.
When coach Joanne Boyle gathered her team for its first practice of a new era, she delivered a simple message: Do the little things every night and the rest will follow. The Virginia women's basketball team looks to wrap up the regular season with a weekend pair as Wake Forest comes to Charlottesville today for the Cavaliers' home finale before the Cavaliers travel to Tallahassee to take on Florida State Sunday. "What the coaches have harped on down to the wire is do the little things - rebound, tips and steals, play solid defense - if we can just hold onto those things, it fuels us," senior forward Chelsea Shine said. Virginia's season began as a quest to prove the pundits wrong, then a mission to sustain early-season success, and finally reversed course after a devastating injury to junior guard China Crosby.
For the first seven innings of its home opener yesterday, the No.
In a game chock-full of turnovers and sloppy play from both squads, the No.
Coming off a down-to-the-wire win in Blacksburg and heading into the final stretch of the regular season, the No.
Take your pick: Kobe Bryant or Michael Jordan? Unless you're an unabashed Lakers apologist, a Hollywood actor who only goes to the STAPLES Center when you have a movie in theaters, an obsequious Steve Blake trying to win brownie points, or Kobe Bryant himself, chances are you're taking Jordan, no questions asked.
After failing to notch a single point in a season-opening win against Drexel, heralded senior attacker Steele Stanwick exploded for two goals and a career-high-tying five assists to propel the No.
The Virginia softball team finished an even 2-2 this weekend at the East Carolina Pirate Clash. The Cavaliers (6-2) suffered a pair of losses in their two games Friday against Fordham and No.
Though the Virginia men's and women's swimming and diving teams race at the same regular season meets, share the same coaches and divvy up the pool to hold practices at the same time, their similarities end when championship season arrives.
After shutting out No. 16 Auburn 4-0 and defeating No. 9 Stanford 4-1 in the first two rounds of the 2012 ITA National Team Indoor Championships, the No.
To all those Cavalier fans falling off the Virginia men's basketball bandwagon during the team's recent slide, senior forward Mike Scott and the rest of the squad delivered an emphatic second-half message against Maryland Saturday: Don't jump ship just yet. Tied at 31 going into halftime, the No.
After succumbing to Loyola in back-to-back season openers the past two years, the No.
Senior guard Ariana Moorer continued her inspired play, leading the Virginia women's basketball team to a 66-40 win against Virginia Tech yesterday in Blacksburg, the Cavaliers' 11th straight win against their in-state rivals. Moorer paced Virginia (19-9, 7-7 ACC) with 17 points, eight rebounds and seven assists for her seventh straight game with double-digit points.
The No. 11 Virginia women's swimming and diving team Saturday in Blacksburg captured the first ACC crown won by any Virginia athletic program since last spring.
