With all the fuss surrounding the talented Cavalier newcomers -- including a scintillating pure point guard from the Bronx -- incumbent floor general Donald Hand was almost lost in the shuffle.
Florida State senior forward Damous Anderson and Maryland freshman forward Tahj Holden received recognition from the ACC after notching career bests in victories last week. Anderson, named ACC Player of the Week, scored 24 points in a Seminole loss at Georgia Tech and a career-high 25 in FSU's upset of then-21st-ranked North Carolina Saturday.
At the beginning of the season, Virginia and Florida State were picked to finish at the bottom of the Conference.
In the past, Virginia fans been criticized as some of the worst in the ACC. They don't cheer loudly enough, don't come to enough games and don't stay to the end if the Cavs are losing.
RICHMOND--All right, everyone off the bandwagon. Maybe it was the six-day layoff. Maybe it was the chill that hung over the ice hockey/basketball floor of the Richmond Coliseum.
RICHMOND--This time, when the game reached overtime, the Cavaliers got it right. The Virginia men's basketball team overcame a frenzied charge by Virginia Tech and emerged with a hard-fought 71-66 victory over a very determined squad of Hokies last night at the Richmond Coliseum.
The Virginia women's basketball team ended its 10-game win streak last night as it fell to Kent in an 85-74 defeat. The No.
Reverend Jesse Jackson wants to see greater representation of minorities in sports in both the coaching ranks and the front office.
The Virginia men's and women's swimming teams dominated Duke Friday, coasting to a pair of easy ACC wins.
A year ago, Svetlana Volnaya was just a shooter. She filled that role well in her first season with the Cavaliers, converting 26 percent of her three-point tries, but although she possessed the physical skills to be a better all-around player, Volnaya had problems finding her own shot rather than relying on others to get her involved. So how did The Shooter, the Virginia women basketball team's 6-foot-1 Belarus native, go from being a player on the outside looking in, waiting for kick-outs from the Cavs' hard-working guards, to the top scorer in the ACC?
Seconds after Tampa Bay Buccaneer quarterback Shaun King's fourth-down pass was swatted down in the end zone by a pack of St.
At the start of the 1999-2000 season, the Virginia men's basketball team was expected to do great things, largely because of the high expectations placed on the four Cavalier first years.
Once the ball gets rolling, it can't be stopped. Lisa Hosac scored 19 points and pulled down 13 rebounds to lead the Virginia women's basketball to an error-filled double overtime victory over Clemson at University Hall last night, 77-74. The Cavaliers (14-4, 6-1 ACC) have won 10 in a row-a streak that dates back to Dec.
Like most ACC basketball addicts, I've been waiting for the inevitable: Duke's downfall from the top of the ACC. After starting the season with two losses, the close games that followed with Illinois, DePaul and Michigan and the parity in the ACC this year, I was certain that some Conference team, preferably Virginia, could knock off the Blue Devils in their first run through the league. That opinion was confirmed by the fact that Duke was only favored to win the game against the Cavaliers by I was amazed that in all the ACC games this season, Duke has led by no more than five at the half and that even lowly Florida State managed to hold a halftime lead against the Blue Devils. Wednesday night, when Duke faced N.C.
April Heinrichs thought she'd have an offseason. When rumors surfaced in November that she might leave her spot coaching the Virginia women's soccer team for a chance to serve as the head coach of the U.S.
The Virginia baseball team, which finished seventh in the ACC last season, has been picked to take sixth place this year, according to the Preseason Baseball Coaches Poll.
When the final buzzer sounded in double overtime, Virginia point guard Renee Robin son could barely even lift her head to celebrate.
Having survived the longest three-tenths of a second in college basketball history and handing an 87-85 defeat to a sinking North Carolina squad Tuesday night, it was time to celebrate for the Cavalier men.
The Washington Wizards announced yesterday that Michael Jordan will become the team's president of basketball operations with an eventual option to buy a percentage of the team. Jordan, a six-time NBA champion as a player for the Chicago Bulls, will be running he Wizards before the NBA's Feb.
Tuesday's heartstopping, balloon-popping barnburner of a basketball game between upstart Virginia and down-and-out North Carolina spoke to why college hoops can be the most entertaining sport around. There was drama -- the game's conclusion was delayed twice because of a combination of fan frenzy and lackluster officiating.
