Cavalier Daily Sports podcast — Hoos On First
By CD Sports Staff | December 14, 2017Episode eight: Goodbye to 2017, hello basketball season
Episode eight: Goodbye to 2017, hello basketball season
Heading into a break for student athletes to take their final exams, Virginia women’s basketball stands at 4-6 — its worst start in four seasons.
The Cavaliers were unable to overcome their own turnovers and West Virginia's hot shooting, as the Mountaineers handed them a 68-61 loss.
The Virginia women’s basketball team took on Rutgers in Piscataway, N.J. for the last game before a short break for final exams.
Virginia accepted a bid to the Military Bowl Sunday to face off against the Navy Midshipmen in Annapolis, Md. Dec. 28.
After another dominant performance Saturday afternoon against Lehigh, the No. 18 Virginia men’s basketball team is sitting at a stellar 8-0 three weeks into the season.
Looking back at a timeline of notable Cavalier sports events
The red-hot Cavaliers put on a show for the home crowd as they cruised past Lehigh, 75-54.
The Cavaliers are looking to string together victories to gain momentum following tough losses at the start of the season, and found success with a 68-50 victory over the Spartans.
'The Skinny' on weekend action for wrestling, men's and women's squash and men's and women's swim and dive.
A last-second missed layup by Virginia’s sophomore guard Jocelyn Willoughby prevented Virginia from completing an upset, as the Cavaliers fell to No. 15 Maryland 60-59.
The Virginia men's and women's squash teams both traveled to the Matthew J. Grossman Squash Courts in Washington, D.C. to start the week off with matches against the George Washington Colonials.
The Cavaliers took down the Badgers in a low-scoring 49-37 game to move to 7-0 on the season.
A bowl game this season is a wildly successful accomplishment, but Virginia will look to continue to ascend so that they can set their eyes on even greater goals.
The Cavaliers used big runs and stifling defense from many contributors to capture the NIT Tip-Off Tournament title, taking down Vanderbilt and Rhode Island.
It was in that moment that Jackson Matteo’s mindset, and his path, completely changed.
Both the men’s and women’s Virginia squash teams had busy weekends at the McArthur Squash Center in Charlottesville.
For the second year in a row, the Cavaliers were eliminated from the NCAA Tournament in the Round of 16.
After a hard fought victory against VCU Friday, the Virginia men’s basketball team returned home to take on Monmouth in the season’s second game of the NIT Season Tip-Off.
No. 8 Virginia hosted Fordham on a chilly Sunday evening at Klöckner Stadium for the second-round of the NCAA Tournament.