COLUMBUS, OHIO -- With 5.7 seconds left, Virginia junior Sean Singletary sprinted down the court, the game in his hands.
As the Virginia men's lacrosse team defeated Towson University 13-9 Saturday afternoon, junior attackman Ben Rubeor scored a career-high seven goals and the Cavaliers extended their winning streak to six games, the longest in the nation. "I am just glad we were able to get the win," Rubeor said.
Three weeks, 65 teams, 64 games, over 950 players. At its heart, March Madness is all about the numbers.
COLUMBUS, OHIO -- I sat down in front of my computer to analyze the game that just ended between Virginia and Tennessee in the second round of the NCAA Tournament here at Nationwide Arena in Columbus.
The Virginia women's basketball team will begin its quest for a postseason title when it takes on Charlotte in the second round of the WNIT tonight at John Paul Jones Arena. The Cavaliers received a first-round bye after going 17-14 in the regular season.
With just under five minutes left in the first half, Virginia senior J.R. Reynolds found himself flat on his back after being tripped and fouled by an Albany defender.
As the members of the No. 2-ranked Virginia women's lacrosse team walked off the field after demolishing No.
Spring has just about sprung as the Virginia men's and women's track and field teams lace up their running shoes and prepare to enter a promising outdoor season.
The Virginia women's rowing team will host a scrimmage against the Canadian National Team tomorrow.
The Cavaliers have not yet begun to fight. The real battle begins today in Chapel Hill as the Virginia baseball team (17-3, 1-2 ACC) takes on No.
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- It's Thursday afternoon and I'm back in my hotel room. Virginia and Albany just met with the media and then held hour-long open practices inside Nationwide Arena (the site of Friday's first-round NCAA matchup between the Cavaliers and the Great Danes). With the game less than 24 hours away, here are a few initial impressions of the teams, the arena and the tournament:
The Virginia men's lacrosse team looks to earn its sixth straight victory tomorrow at Klöckner Stadium against Towson University. After a first-week upset to Drexel, the Cavaliers (5-1) have tallied wins against perennial powers Princeton and Syracuse.
The Virginia softball team played in four early season tournaments this year, traveling to Tampa, Fla.; Tucson, Ariz.; Palm Springs, Calif.
women's tennis team will play at the Sheridan Snyder Tennis Center today for its first outdoor match against conference rival Virginia Tech. After two hard-fought losses on the road last weekend to No.
For the first time in six years, the Virginia men's basketball team finds itself in uncharted waters, the NCAA Tournament.
Top-of-the-line hotels. Free food. Open air and the excitement of new cities, new schools and new challenges each weekend. This is the life of your run-of-the-mill, everyday NCAA athlete at the University of Virginia -- a little nicer than the week-old pizza and lumpy mattresses most college students are used to. Some teams, such as the basketball and field hockey squads, are lucky to travel once or twice a week to play a game at another school before hurrying back to Charlottesville and repeating the same schedule. The football team, on the other hand, travels days before its game begins, with all its focus on one day and one game to prove its worth. But the pinnacle of sports travel -- the road trip -- is reserved for baseball and softball. Each weekend, the Cavalier baseball team plays three games against an ACC school. That means three different starting pitchers have to be ready to go -- sophomore Jacob Thompson, freshman Matt Packer and junior Sean Doolittle are expected to play this weekend against North Carolina -- and the lineup has to have enough energy to hit the base paths running all weekend. This schedule involves three times as much work and the potential for three times as much glory -- or three times as much sorrow.
If you are anything like me, then there is no chance that you are reading this column (unless you're reading online, for which I thank you for your dedication, dear reader). That's because you haven't left your bed and couldn't get a Cav Daily because you are skipping all of your classes (I'm actually going to one, Mom and Dad) in honor of the beginning of the NCAA Tournament.
Let's make one thing very clear right now. Tomorrow's men's NCAA Tournament game against Albany is the biggest sports event in the last four years for Virginia.
On a picture perfect day for baseball at Davenport field, the Virginia Cavaliers recorded the most lopsided victory in team history.
Remember Virginia's losses in Puerto Rico? Nope, not me. For the most part since December, fans have wiped those games clean from collective memory.
