By all accounts, Saturday wasn’t prototypical Virginia basketball. The Tar Heels, after all, dropped 74 points on coach Tony Bennett’s vaunted pack-line defense, which holds teams to 59.7 points per game.
With her final game at John Paul Jones Arena in jeopardy of ending in a loss Thursday, senior guard Faith Randolph made two plays down the stretch that willed her Virginia women’s basketball team to victory over North Carolina, 72-68.
"The Skinny" on weekend action for baseball, softball, men's and women's tennis
For lots of kids, sports is a place to meet your best friend. This wasn’t the case for Kelly and Brooke. They had been best friends for around five years by the time they picked up their first lacrosse sticks in kindergarten.
The ACC has not seen a regular season three-peat since North Carolina did so between 2007 and 2009. For No. 3 Virginia, the hope of becoming just the ninth program to claim at least a share of the conference title in three straight seasons remains alive, but there is still serious work to do.
Despite having played in just three games so far, No. 10 Virginia women’s lacrosse has already had an eventful season.
Heading into Boston, Mass Feb. 25-27, the Cavaliers are looking to do exactly what they did last year — climb up in the ranks at the ACC Championships.
With the hardest portion of the Virginia men’s basketball season ahead of them, the team will have to put together a string of near-perfect performances to finish the year as a great team rather than just a good one.
The No. 10 Virginia men’s lacrosse team came just short of completing an impressive comeback against High Point in what was a damp and breezy Tuesday night contest.
It was a raw, drizzly day for No. 11 Virginia baseball’s home opener, as one spectator wrapped in his orange and blue jacket so aptly put it, “What’s the matter with that groundhog?”
At the ACC Championship, Virginia will face five teams that are currently ranked in the Top 25 – NC State, Louisville, North Carolina, Virginia Tech and Duke.
The women’s golf team continued its early struggles at the Allstate Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate in the team’s second tournament of the spring season which took place from Sunday to Tuesday in New Orleans, La.
Last Wednesday, I sat down with a couple of friends to watch Duke and Carolina hoop it up at the Dean Dome. My friends are from Greensboro and Charlotte, N.C., respectively, and “Duke hatred” has been a fact of their lives.
The No. 20 Virginia wrestling team came short of ending their regular season on a high note as No. 24 Pittsburgh Friday defeated them by a score of 19-17.
The Cavaliers (3-7, 0-0 ACC) had a rough weekend at the UTSA Tournament, going 1-4.
After jumping off to a 2-0 start following victories against Kent State and Appalachian State in Myrtle Beach, Virginia (2-1) hit a bump in the road Sunday following a 5-4 nail biting loss to No. 23 Coastal Carolina.
Junior guard Davon Reed scored 21 points and made five three-pointers, as No. 12 Miami defeated No. 3 Virginia 64-61 at the BankUnited Center in Coral Gables, Fla.
With the ACC Indoor Championships looming this week, the Virginia men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams sent a select number of participants to compete at the UCS Invitational in Winston-Salem, N.C. on Saturday.
As the No. 10 Virginia men’s lacrosse team exited Vidas Field in Philadelphia, Pa after a sound 14-7 win against Drexel, it recognized there was still room for improvement.
Garbed in pink jerseys, headbands and shoes to raise awareness for breast cancer and to honor former North Carolina State Coach Kay Yow, who passed away in 2009 after a 22-year fight against the disease, the Virginia women’s basketball team hosted Clemson Sunday.
