STORRS, CT - After being picked to finish eighth in the ACC, the Virginia women's basketball team earned the eighth seed in the Mideast region of the NCAA tournament.
Thousands of Virginia undergraduates last week made the annual exodus from Charlottesville to warmer climates for various Spring Break celebrations.
Well, at least it's all over now. The debacle that was the Virginia men's basketball season ended last Wednesday evening with a 74-67 loss to the Gamecocks of South Carolina, the finale of a forgettable season for the Cavaliers.
A season short of expectations came to an end last Wednesday as the Virginia men's basketball team squandered a nine-point lead in the second half en route to a 74-67 loss to South Carolina in the first round of the National Invitational Tournament. Virginia was ranked as high as fourth in the nation this season, but their NCAA tournament hopes came crashing down in March as the Cavaliers lost 10 of their last 13 games. The Cavaliers were 14-2 Jan.
Juniors Eliese Mitchell and Kiamesha Otey of Virginia's track and field team made their mark in the NCAA indoor championships March 9 and 10 to close out the indoor season.
Teamer earns ACC rookie of the year award Virginia freshman forward Brandi Teamer was named the 2002 rookie of the year yesterday by the Atlantic Coast Sports Writers Association.
The Virginia wrestling team will look to build upon a dominant performance in the American Quad Meet on Feb.
Although the Radford baseball team (4-5) displayed its hunger to win, the Highlanders fell to Virginia (10-3) yesterday afternoon in an important in-state contest with a final score of 5-1. "Radford is always tough," Virginia senior Dan Street said.
While the rest of us bake in the warm beachfront sun, enjoy European vacations and relax in familiar household surroundings, the men's basketball team will be fighting to extend their season deep into March, well after our Spring Break has ended.
When the Virginia men's basketball team travels to Charlotte, N.C., this weekend, they will attempt to achieve a feat that has not been accomplished by a Cavalier squad in nearly seven years: win a post-season game.
Sprinting out of the gates with three goals in the first three minutes, the No. 8 Virginia women's lacrosse team sped its way to a 16-4 romp of No.
Last weekend, a Virginia men's sports team pulled off a monumental achievement. They did something that few Cavalier teams have ever done in the past.
The Virginia women's lacrosse team faces Old Dominion today at 4 p.m. at Kl
One of the state's smaller baseball programs will take on the much larger Virginia club today, when the Cavaliers face Radford at the U.Va.
Virginia juniors Kiamesha Otey and Eliese Mitchell will travel to Fayetteville, Ark., this weekend to compete in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field championships.
If you would have told senior third baseman/pitcher Dan Street four years ago that he would be the staff ace his senior year, he probably would have laughed at you. "I wasn't a pitcher when I came to school," a smiling Street explained.
If you build it, Ray, they will come. They'll come to see $4 million worth of improvements that should transform a mere baseball field into a state-of-the-art park.
GREENSBORO, N.C. - With six seconds left in its ACC tournament semifinal game against Duke Sunday, the Virginia women's basketball team found itself in an unlikely situation.
The Virginia golf team opened their season last weekend at the Puerto Rico Classic, which concluded last Tuesday.
The Virginia men's swimming and diving team won its fourth consecutive swimming and diving championship this weekend in College Park, Md.
