Associate head coach for offense Tom O’Brien and sophomore outside linebacker Max Valles are leaving the Virginia football program, while former North Carolina wide receiver and kick-return specialist T.J. Thorpe is just now on his way.
The No. 3 Virginia men’s basketball team survived its first scare of the season in its ACC opener against the Miami Hurricanes (10-4, 0-1 ACC). Struggling at the line came back to haunt the Cavaliers, who blew an 18 point halftime lead and were forced to play two overtimes to overcome the Hurricanes. Virginia (13-0, 1-0 ACC) shot under 70% from the line which allowed Miami to claw its way back into the game.
The Cavalier Daily relives some of 2014's brightest moments in Virginia athletics.
The Virginia men’s basketball team won a Tuesday night tussle with high-scoring Davidson, prevailing 83-72 at John Paul Jones Arena for its first 12-0 start since 1981-82.
The Virginia men’s basketball thumped Harvard by a 76-27 final score on Sunday at John Paul Jones Arena to improve to 11-0 for the first time since 1992-93.
The Virginia men’s basketball team dispatched Cleveland State by a 70-54 final score Thursday night at John Paul Jones Arena, resuming its winning ways following an 11-day break for exams.
For three months, the Virginia men’s soccer team toiled with a 3-5-2 formation. Coach George Gelnovatch saw the alignment as an opportunity to compensate for his recently depleted offensive attack.
The Virginia Men's Soccer team arrived in back in Charlottesville Sunday evening, returning home from a seventh national championship win against UCLA in Cary, NC.
In a battle between two of the nation’s elite soccer programs, Virginia (14-6-3) defeated second-seeded UCLA (14-5-5) — prevailing 4-2 in penalty kicks after a scoreless regulation and two extra-time periods — to win the program’s seventh national championship.
If the Virginia women’s soccer team were Superman, Florida State would be its Kryptonite.
The Virginia men’s basketball team handed Virginia Commonwealth a 74-57 defeat Saturday afternoon in Richmond, improving to 9-0 for the first time since 2001-02 and snapping the Rams’ 22-game home winning streak.
The Skinny: The Cavaliers are 8-0 for the first time since 2003 largely thanks to their stifling defense, which currently ranks No. 1 nationally in scoring. Their most recent triumph came Wednesday, 76-65, at the expense of former ACC foe Maryland, who scored 13 points less than their season average against Virginia.
The Virginia women’s basketball team allowed Illinois to shoot 55 percent from the field and committed 18 turnovers on the way to a 86-63 loss to Illinois in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge — the worst loss of the season.
The No. 7 Virginia men’s basketball stayed perfect on the season, dispatching the No. 21 Maryland Terrapins by a final score of 76-65. The win marks the Cavaliers’ first victory over a ranked opponent in their 2014-15 campaign.
Virginia (22-2) faces an unfamiliar foe in the semifinals as they square off against No. 1 seed Texas A&M (22-2-2), which has had an impressive run to the final four, defeating powerhouses Notre Dame and Penn State. The Aggies represent the only SEC team still active in the College Cup, but their rise to national prominence in recent years has put the traditionally football-dominated conference on the women’s college soccer radar.
Now just one game stands in the way of a return trip to the College Cup — an NCAA Quarterfinal matchup against No. 8 Georgetown (14-4-4, 6-2-1 Big East) in Washington, D.C. Saturday.
Virginia will travel south this weekend to compete in the Georgia Fall Invitational, which will serve as the swimmers’ first chance at making NCAA times. The No. 9 Cavalier women (2-1) will compete against No. 2 Georgia (7-0), No. 5 California (3-1), No. 6 Auburn (6-0-1), No. 15 Penn State (8-1) and Florida State (1-2) while the Virginia men (1-3) will compete against those team’s male counterparts — No. 1 California (3-0), No. 4 Georgia (5-1), No. 13 Auburn (3-2), No. 18 Penn State (5-2) and No. 20 Florida State (1-2).
The Virginia men’s basketball team squares off against Maryland Wednesday night at Xfinity Center in College Park, Maryland as part of the 2014 ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
The Virginia women’s basketball team will conclude its three-game road trip Wednesday night against Illinois in the annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
After racking up 123 tackles in 12 starts as a rookie, Virginia freshman free safety Quin Blanding was Tuesday named the ACC Defensive Freshman of the Year by the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association.
