The No. 3 Virginia men’s basketball team’s quest for a second straight ACC Tournament title came to an end Friday evening in a 71-67 loss against No. 19 North Carolina in Greensboro.
With under 10 minutes remaining, the top-seeded Virginia clung to a single-digit lead against ninth-seeded Florida State. The Cavaliers put the ball in the hands of their lone All-ACC first team selection.
The Virginia men’s basketball team suffered its second loss of the season Saturday night at KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky.
The Skinny on weekend competition for Virginia’s baseball, wrestling, swimming and diving, women’s lacrosse, women’s golf, softball, and men’s and women’s tennis teams.
For the Virginia women’s basketball team, the ACC Tournament came to an end on Thursday with a 62-52 loss to Miami.
The Virginia women’s basketball team enters postseason play this week, competing in the annual ACC Tournament after upsetting nationally ranked Louisville Sunday.
Through a combination of graduations, transfers and injuries, the Virginia men’s lacrosse team lost virtually every regular from 2014’s defense. The lone holdover is sophomore goalie Matt Barrett, who had his share of struggles a year ago.
As the game clock wound down at the Carrier Dome this past Monday, a much-anticipated sense of déjà vu started to sink in for Virginia fans, players and coaches alike.
The No. 1 Virginia baseball team hosts Virginia Military Institute Wednesday afternoon in the much-anticipated home opener.
The Virginia softball team (4-14, 1-2 ACC) will travel to Harrisonburg to compete against James Madison (7-5) on Wednesday as it look to stay on track this season.
The No.8 Virginia women’s lacrosse team opened its home schedule on Tuesday afternoon with a 13-9 victory against Harvard. Down one goal with 14:27 remaining in the game, the Cavaliers (3-2, 0-1 ACC) went on a 5-0 run to secure its second straight win of the season.
While former coach Mark Bernardino’s management of the swim program during his tenure would seem to have set the team up for a bright future, any continued success the men’s program was poised for was quickly dismantled by Augie Busch’s leadership.
Dating back to 1984, Virginia has had a player selected in the NFL draft for 31 consecutive seasons. And in 2015 — with the likes of Eli Harold, Max Valles and Anthony Harris headlining a list of 18 draft eligible alumni — the streak is sure to continue to 32 years.
Eighteen alumni of Virginia football participated in the team’s Pro Timing Day on Monday morning. There, 34 scouts representing all 32 NFL teams made evaluations that will ultimately factor into the professional aspirations of those assembled.
The No. 2 Virginia men’s basketball team clinched the ACC regular season title for the second consecutive year with a dominating 59-47 victory over Syracuse at the Carrier Dome Monday night. The Cavaliers (28-1, 16-1 ACC) defeated Syracuse at home a year ago to clinch the same honor.
Sophomore Jordan Young set the tone Thursday. Young’s weight throw of 22.92 meters — 1.56 meters farther than any of his opponents’ — shattered his own school record and secured a first-place finish.
With four seconds remaining in the game, Virginia senior attacker Casey Bocklett scored a goal to seal the 16-15 victory for the eighth-ranked Cavaliers over No.9 Penn State Saturday afternoon, closing out their season-opening road trip. Virginia had previously lost to No. 3 Syracuse and No. 5 Northwestern by one goal apiece.
The Virginia women’s tennis team downed Notre Dame by a 6-1 final score Sunday afternoon at Eck Tennis Pavilion in Notre Dame, Indiana. The No. 5 Cavaliers (9-2, 3-0 ACC) swept the singles after dropping the doubles point, extending their winning streak to four matches.
For the 11th-ranked Virginia (7-2) men’s tennis team, the beginning of the spring 2015 season has been an increasingly complicated puzzle. Although it boasts the top two singles players in the nation in sophomore Thai-Son Kwiatkoski and junior Ryan Shane, the Cavaliers have now dropped two matches in 15 days, both to the fifth-ranked Baylor Bears (9-2), following seven straight wins to begin the year.
The Virginia softball team (4-14, 1-2 ACC) traveled to the FMU Softball Stadium in Florence, South Carolina, where it sandwiched a win between two losses to drop the series to Pittsburgh (15-2, 2-1 ACC). The Cavaliers began their first series of conference play with a doubleheader on Saturday.
