Virginia 125-pounder Steve Garland reached the finals of the NCAA wrestling championships but lost 7-3 to second-seed Jeremy Hunter of Penn State Saturday in St.
It's been a long road back to the Sweet Sixteen for the Virginia women's basketball team. But what a fun ride it's been. After losing DeMya Walker and Monick Foote to graduation, most observers were already thinking of this year as a rebuilding season.
Relentless perimeter defense and clutch three-point shooting propelled the fourth-seeded Virginia women's basketball team into the third round of the NCAA Tournament with a 74-70 win over fifth-seeded Boston College Sunday night in University Hall before a crowd of 4,890. In winning their 15th straight home game, the Cavaliers (25-8) earned a date with top seed Tennessee in the Mideast Regional in Memphis, their first Sweet Sixteen appearance in three years.
In Mark Bernardino's 22-year tenure as Virginia swimming and diving coach, he has taken the Cavalier program to an unprecedented level of national prominence.
Seventeen days ago, all seemed right with the world for the Virginia basketball team: the Cavaliers had just roared back to defeat Maryland in overtime to finish off a 9-7 ACC season and earn a crucial 19th victory.
Over the course of the just-concluded season, the Cavalier perimeter defense developed into a more than formidable unit.
As the Virginia women's basketball team awaits an NCAA Tournament seed, freshman forward Schuye LaRue can distract herself with her new ACC Rookie of the Year award. LaRue, who earned All-ACC and All-Tournament second team honors this week, is the first Cavalier to be named the Conference's top freshman since Tora Suber in 1994. The D.C.
Forget Groundhog Day. I mean, who actually believes that some filthy, narcissistic rodent waking up from his deep slumber and looking for his shadow determines the length of winter?
The Cavaliers hope to ride the wave of Saturday's overtime upset of Maryland as they prepare for a first-round ACC Tournament matchup with N.C.
(This is part three in a three-part daily series on the Virginia men's basketball program under Coach Pete Gillen.) As they kick off the ACC Tournament tomorrow night against N.C.
HARRISONBURG-Playing in the beautiful March weather at Long Field/Mauck Stadium yesterday, the Virginia baseball team fell to a scorching James Madison squad that used a strong combination of speed and pitching to down the Cavs, 14-6. The win was the Dukes' fifth straight.
It only took three minutes before the Lady Monarchs realized they were in over their heads. After holding the Virginia women's lacrosse team scoreless for the first two and a half minutes, Old Dominion gave up a pair of lightning-quick goals, the first blows in a 15-6 Cavalier victory yesterday at Klöckner Stadium. Seniors Jamie Haas and Amy Fromal led the No.
Having won seven of its last nine games, the Virginia baseball team will look to continue its recent hot streak on the road at James Madison today at 3 p.m. Beginning the season with six losses and a tie, the Cavaliers appeared to be reverting to the disappointing habits of last season, when they finished with a 21-35 record. But the Cavs (7-8-1) have not looked back since winning their first game Feb.
Virginia guard Donald Hand and forward Chris Williams were named to the All-ACC men's basketball second team yesterday, and center Travis Watson earned Honorable Mention honors. Hand won 12 first team votes from the 103 members of the Atlantic Coast Sports Writers Association and was eighth overall in the voting.
After opening the season with a pair of wins, the Virginia women's lacrosse team faces Top 25 opponent Old Dominion at 4 p.m.
(This is part two in a three-part daily series on the Virginia men's basketball program under Coach Pete Gillen.) Some things are worth the wait. When Virginia men's basketball Coach Terry Holland left Charlottesville in 1990 to become the athletic director at Davidson, Xavier head man Pete Gillen was a candidate to replace him at the helm of the Cavalier program. Gillen interviewed with Jim Copeland, Virginia's athletic director at the time, but soon withdrew his name from consideration, deciding that he wanted to keep his family in Cincinnati for the time being. "I was tremendously impressed with the Virginia job," said Gillen, who was interviewed at the Pittsburgh airport and never visited Grounds.
It's hard to believe the ACC regular season is now behind us and the 2000 ACC Tournament kicks off tomorrow night in Charlotte.
Forecasting the 64 teams that will comprise the NCAA Tournament field is always a tricky proposition.
(This is part one in a three-part daily series on the Virginia men's basketball program under Coach Pete Gillen.) This time two years ago, the Virginia men's basketball team was putting the finishing touches on an uninspired 3-13 ACC record and was about to lose its only two reliable scorers: Curtis Staples, the all-time NCAA leader in three-pointers, and Norman Nolan, the team's leading scorer and rebounder.
Ryan Kalamaya's single with two outs in the ninth inning scored Eric Christensen with the winning run as the Cavalier baseball team edged Virginia Commonwealth 8-7 in Richmond. The Cavs (7-8-1) led 4-0 after three innings, but VCU cut the lead to one in the bottom of the third.
