ATLANTA -- For Virginia, Saturday's game at Georgia Tech represented an opportunity to break a pair of streaks.
With the ACC basketball season just getting into full swing and temperatures finally hovering around 40, last year's highest-ranked Virginia sports team, the men's lacrosse squad, took the field Saturday to battle Navy in the first of four preseason scrimmages. No official score was kept for the scrimmage, but unofficially the Cavaliers defeated the Midshipmen 10-4 at U-Hall Turf Field in the earliest scrimmage in team history -- a full three weeks before the season's first contest. "This is about as early as it gets," Virginia coach Dom Starsa said.
The Virginia women's tennis team can look forward to a strong season after their home win against Old Dominion on Friday night at the Boar's Head Sports Club.
The Cavaliers return to home action tonight in hopes of claiming their third conference win and exacting revenge for a one-point loss to Clemson earlier this season.
The Virginia men's and women's swimming and diving teams will need to pack their parkas along with their speed and strength as they head to Pittsburgh this weekend.
Chapel Hill, N.C. -- No. 7 North Carolina is known for its defense, but it was Nikita Bell's early second-half offensive burst that put Virginia in a hole they were unable to climb out of. The six-foot forward scored six straight points to open second half play, helping ignite the struggling Tar Heel offense into shooting 50 percent from the field and nearly doubling its first half tally on the way to a 74-54 romp over the Cavaliers.
The Virginia wrestling team takes a hot streak on the road this weekend to Blacksburg to face in-state foe, Virginia Tech.
Chapel Hill, N.C. -- The Tar Heels were the better team tonight. While North Carolina was calm, collected and businesslike, Virginia was sloppy, frantic and in shambles. It's not that the Cavaliers couldn't have won this game; it's not even that North Carolina was too deep, too strong or too athletic for Virginia to keep up.
Riding the wave of a two-game winning streak, Virginia looks to remain in fifth place of the ACC standings with a win Saturday afternoon against Georgia Tech.
As the result of a total team effort, Virginia (12-6, 3-3 ACC) cruised to an 85-72 victory over Florida State last night.
Virginia baseball picked to finish seventh in the ACC The 2003 ACC Preseason Baseball Coaches Poll was announced yesterday with Virginia slated to finish seventh in the ACC.
As one looks at the box score of tonight's game, several things jump out. Sophomore forward Jason Clark tied a career-high with 12 points and sophomore guard Keith Jenifer also tied a career-high with eight assists.
Unable to find any success away from University Hall this season, the Virginia women's basketball team brings their 1-8 road record to tonight's matchup with No.
At first glance, it doesn't seem like Virginia senior wrestlers Josh Etu and Bob Seidel have much in common.
Well, it's finally happened. My time as sports editor of The Cavalier Daily has come to a close, and I'm slowly being put out to pasture as a columnist.
Virginia football players, sophomore Elton Brown and junior Almondo Curry, were arrested early morning Jan.
Virginia Trio named ACC athletes of the week Freshman swimmer Fran Crippen, senior wrestler Bob Seidel and senior women's tennis player Jennifer Tuchband all received the nod as the top athletes in the ACC last week. Crippen won four events over the weekend in dual meets against UNC and Clemson.
Coming off an 85-75 upset of then-17th ranked Wake Forest, Virginia will look to stay undefeated at University Hall when Florida State comes to town tonight at 7. The Cavaliers (11-6, 2-3 ACC) should be well rested, having six days off since beating the Demon Deacons last Thursday.
Despite 168 hours of constant scrutiny, dissection, and predictions from nearly every sports network, program and analyst last week, Sunday's Super Bowl between the Buccaneers and Raiders left many onlookers surprised not only by Tampa Bay's victory but by the convincing fashion in which it was achieved.
