Less travel, less games, greater odds.
“We need to perform as if we’re playing a national championship every single game,” Neal said. "That way we’ll be at our best when our best is required.”
“Disappointing end to the season but Miami deserved it, especially on a day that we didn’t play our best,” Coach Ole Keusgen said.
“The way we reacted in the second half is not easy at this stage,” graduate midfielder Jesus de Vicente said.
The Cavaliers will have that chance to rebound soon, but Thursday night belonged to UMBC, another chapter in a historical matchup Virginia desperately wishes it didn’t recognize so well.
“It all worked out in a serendipitous way,” Kwiatkowski said.
“We try to do everything we can to honor those guys,” Jackson said.
“It’s a monumental day for Virginia and Virginia football.”
Despite limited high-caliber competition in their regular season schedule, Virginia has established itself as the way-too-early favorite to hoist a historic sixth national championship trophy come March.
“I’m telling you, that’s a good team,” Hampton Coach Ivan Thomas said.
“We played with fire, right? And we got burned,” Coach Tony Elliott said.
“We salute you."
Next up, Virginia will continue its time on the road Friday to face No. 15 North Carolina.
“That Lehigh match was a war,” Garland said. “It was a pretty intense match back and forth the whole way.”
The divers were told that the diving team was going to be put on “pause” for the foreseeable future.
“I guess when you're feeling good, things go your way.”
"I think the team did a good job but, in the end, it wasn’t enough," Coach Ole Keusgen said.
“Competitive, together, and relentless,” Agugua-Hamilton said
Whether it was the long travel day or the change in time zones, it was a rough one for Virginia from the start.
But as he hit the ground, Morris took head-level hits from two Wake Forest defenders. The quarterback did not immediately get up.
