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Cavaliers hope to continue late season push at Wake

With only four games remaining until the conference tournament, the Virginia women's basketball team travels to Winston-Salem, NC, to play ACC rival Wake Forest (10-13, 4-9 ACC) tonight at 7 p.m. Sitting on a 13-10 overall record and 6-6 conference mark, the Cavaliers desperately need a win to keep alive hopes of making a 19th consecutive NCAA tournament. "We want to finish off the ACC strongly," sophomore guard Anna Prillaman said.


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Canada leaves itself open

I love the Winter Olympics. No, that was not a typo. I really love the Winter Olympics. The Summer Games are great, but Salt Lake City is the place to be if you want to see sports at its finest.


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Record-breaker Moses balances athletics, academics

Former Virginia swimmer Ed Moses is pretty pleased with his life right now. With a solid GPA at one the country's most prestigious universities, an assistant coaching position on the up-and-coming Cavalier swim squad and a solid sense of stability with friends and family, Moses appears to have succeeded at finding the balance between academics, extracurriculars and fun for which most undergraduates strive. But Moses' undergraduate life has been anything but typical.


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Cavaliers hang on to earn season sweep of Heels

The No. 15 Virginia men's basketball team narrowly escaped North Carolina at University Hall last night. "We played with fire and almost got burned," Virginia coach Pete Gillen said. Luckily for Virginia, freshman point guard Keith Jenifer was able to douse the flames. With little over a minute left Virginia was up by only two.


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Sophomore Luke Anderson was named ACC men's swimmer of the week for the third time this season for his performance against Maryland on Saturday.


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Virginia comes back to beat Georgia Tech

Behind the strong support of its University Hall crowd of 3,078, the Virginia women's basketball team overcame a 13-point deficit in the second half to defeat conference foe Georgia Tech last night, 85-79. The win moved Virginia (13-10,6-6 ACC) into a fourth-place conference tie with Clemson and within a half-game of the third-place Yellow Jackets (14-9,7-6). The story of the game was the second-half offensive turnaround for the Cavaliers, who shot only 35.3 percent in the first half and were held to 32 points.


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Cavaliers avenge earlier loss, rally past Clemson, 85-71

If the Virginia men's basketball team is successful in the second half of upcoming ACC and tournament play, it just might look back on the last 15 minutes of last night's 85-71 victory over the struggling Clemson team (11-13, 2-9 ACC) as a turning point in this season. After Clemson freshman Jamar McKnight hit a three-pointer to tie the game at 50 with 15 minutes, 11 seconds remaining, the Cavaliers (14-6, 5-5) rode their full-court press to a 15-0 run. Related LinksVirginia Men's BasketballClemson Men's Basketball "When we were tied at 50, we all felt flat out on the floor," junior guard Roger Mason Jr.


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Ailing Cavaliers pinned by pair of close losses

Despite winning six of 10 matches, the Virginia wrestling team lost its second close meet of the weekend to Virginia Tech on Sunday. The Cavaliers dropped a 22-19 decision to James Madison University on Saturday, and looked to improve their 1-6 dual match season against the Hokies. In a match marred by several ugly incidents, the Cavaliers could not overcome Virginia Tech and fell to 1-7 in dual meets on the season. One of Virginia's victorious matches came in the 125-pound weight class, but initiated a series of unsportsmanlike altercations. Virginia Tech's Geoff Head (15-8 on the season) shoved Cavalier wrestler Byron Dunlap (10-13) into the mat and onto the hardwood floor, after a whistle to stop play.


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Cavs seek to rebound versus pesky Jackets

Third-place Georgia Tech is the women's basketball team to beat as Virginia tries to regroup from Thursday's 73-65 loss at Clemson. Against the Tigers, the Cavaliers (12-10, 5-6 ACC) led by four with 10 minutes remaining but could not hold on.


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