Saturday night’s ACC Tournament championship game seemed to be a matchup made in heaven — the top-two teams in the nation’s premier league slugging it out with conference dominance on the line. The dream slowly devolved into a nightmare for second-seeded Virginia.
The Cavaliers shot just 36.5 percent from the field, including a mere 33.3 percent in the second half. Brogdon connected on just 6-of-22 field goals for 15 points, while junior guard London Perrantes managed only a 3-of-14 performance from the floor. The duo went a combined 4-of-17 from deep.
To paraphrase Bane from Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, last year’s team merely adopted close games as their ally. The 2016 team was born into them, molded by them.
Coach Tony Bennett could not keep his joy hidden. Sitting at the podium after his second-seeded Virginia team defeated Miami 73-68 Friday night to reach his second ACC Tournament championship in three years.
If there was any doubt left of whether or not Virginia senior guard Malcolm Brogdon deserved to become the first ever player to win both ACC player of the year and defensive player of the year in the same season, it should be quelled after Thursday night.
For the second game in a row coach Tony Bennett emptied his bench. No. 2 seed Virginia played its reserves Thursday night in a 72-52 quarterfinal victory No. 10 seed Georgia Tech.
The ACC Tournament began on Tuesday. The Cavalier Daily Sports staff gives you their favorites to win it all and poses the biggest questions of the tournament.
Mike Tobey stood alone. With 2:20 remaining in the game, the senior center waited patiently at the free throw line as cheers of his name rained down on him.
"The Skinny" on weekend action for baseball, women's golf, men's tennis and women's lacrosse
The No. 7 Virginia women’s lacrosse team (4-1) won its third straight game Wednesday in dominant fashion against William & Mary (2-2), 16-8.
The Virginia softball team is coming off of a strong weekend in which they went 3-2, picking up key victories against Ohio, La Salle and Furman along the way.
The No. 14 Virginia men’s lacrosse team is hoping to make a mark early in the conference schedule heading into its ACC opener against No. 3 Syracuse Friday at 5:30 p.m.
This year, the Virginia team will attempt to defend their ACC title and win their sixth championship. This time, however, they get to try and do it at home.
At the end of last year’s football season, many people looked at the Virginia program with disappointment. Across the country in Provo, Utah, Bronco Mendenhall looked at it as something quite different: a challenge.
Virginia Athletics Director Craig Littlepage announced yesterday that women’s basketball coach Joanne Boyle would be returning for a sixth season. Boyle, who has only posted one winning record in ACC play during her tenure, has not led a team to an NCAA tournament bid since 2009, when she was still at California.
No. 4 Virginia finishes off the regular season at home Saturday night when they face No. 11 Louisville at John Paul Jones Arena.
In a battle of Jeffersonian origins, the No. 19 Virginia baseball team hosted William and Mary on a beautiful first day of March. Fresh off two losses in three games against East Carolina, their only home weekend series defeat to a non-conference club over coach Brian O’Connor’s tenure, the Cavaliers scratched across nine runs inthe first inning Tuesday.
No. 4 Virginia basketball escaped an upset bid by Clemson, 64-57, in an ugly Super Tuesday contest at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, S.C.
Well, it’s hard to believe we’re here, but here we are — the last week of ACC regular-season hoops.
After three days of competition in Boston, Mass., the Virginia men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams received the same results at the ACC Indoor Championships as they did in 2015.
