Heading into the fourth final day of the ACC Championships, the Virginia women’s swimming and diving team had a narrow 90.5 point first-place lead over North Carolina State University.
“The Skinny” on weekend action for softball, track and field, men’s and women’s lacrosse, women’s tennis and wrestling.
Senior leader Faith Randolph is back, and the Virginia women’s basketball team enters Thursday’s contest at No. 11 Louisville riding a one-game winning streak.
Of the 29 Cavaliers who were part of the first national championship program in Virginia baseball history, only 18 are returning for the 2016 season. Joining them will be 17 rookie players.
With less than 48 hours between the final buzzer and Monday’s opening tip, No. 7 Virginia did not have long to process the controversial ending to Saturday’s loss to Duke. The Cavaliers (21-5, 10-4 ACC) took an early body blow from NC State but regrouped and suffocated the life out of the Wolfpack (13-13, 3-10 ACC) in the second half en route to a 73-53 victory inside John Paul Jones Arena.
As we packed up our schoolbooks each afternoon, a fourth-grade classmate of mine used to say, “Another day, another dollar.”
At the Fastrack National Qualifier Invite this past weekend in Staten Island, N.Y., familiar names brought success to the Virginia men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams.
The top-ranked Cavalier men’s tennis team fell to North Carolina in the ITA National Men’s Indoor final Monday. As the tournament’s top seed, Virginia was favored over the third-seeded Tar Heels, but ultimately suffered a hard-fought loss by a final score of 4-2.
Women’s golf kicked off its spring season on a somewhat inconsistent note, posting a ninth-place team finish at the FSU Matchup over the weekend.
Welcome to heartbreak. You ran the gamut of emotions Saturday afternoon. Malcolm Brogdon hit the reverse layup with 10 seconds remaining, and you were riding an ecstatic high.
It was quite the upsetting Valentine’s Day for the No. 19 Virginia wrestling team. The Cavaliers (6-6, 1-3 ACC) never trailed Chattanooga (11-4, 5-1 SoCon) throughout the match, but the Mocs put together an impressive surge to pull out of the competition victorious.
The No. 8 Virginia men’s lacrosse team did not start of its season quite like it wanted to as No. 14 Loyola dominated the Cavaliers Saturday at Klöckner Stadium.
The Virginia softball team had a busy weekend, traveling to Tempe, Ariz. to face off against Utah State, Boise State, Northwestern, East Carolina and San Jose State.
The No. 10 Virginia women’s lacrosse team enters the 2016 season with some uncertainty, having graduated six of last season’s 12 starters.
The Virginia women’s basketball team ended a six-game skid with a 61-50 win at Boston College Sunday.
The top-ranked Virginia men’s tennis team had a busy weekend competing in the ITA National Team Indoors Championship.
For as much success as Virginia has had over the past two-and-a-half seasons, it has had a good number of heartbreakers too.
In a microcosm of 40 dismal minutes Thursday, the Virginia women’s basketball team (13-12, 3-8 ACC) cracked twice in a row under Syracuse’s full-court pressure and let the Orange jump out to a 7-0 lead less than one minute into the first quarter.
With the Virginia lacrosse team’s definition of success, their 0-4 record in the ACC fell short of their standards.
Virginia will have its work cut out for itself on the defensive end. Any offense that shares the basketball and can operate around multiples scorers like Syracuse’s is difficult to stop.
