The Virginia men’s and women’s track teams opened the long outdoor season last Saturday with the Virginia Cup at Lannigan Field.
After Shane Larkin drilled a stepback 3-pointer with a minute remaining for a 57-55 lead, East Region No. 2 seed Miami benefited from a blown out-of-bounds call on the ensuing Illinois possession to escape with a 63-59 victory Sunday.
Though both squads found themselves ranked among the NCAA’s best teams, the Cavaliers owned a 1-4 record against fellow top-ten units and the Blue Devils were winless in just one try. Following Duke’s 13-7 win against the Cavaliers, the teams’ situations appear less analogous.
Behind dominating pitching and timely hitting, the young Cavaliers put together an impressive sweep of the Wolfpack at Davenport Field and have staked a strong claim as one of the top ten teams in the nation.
Following their tremendous performance over three days at the NCAA Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, redshirt senior Jedd Moore and redshirt sophomore Nick Sulzer will have their name added to the short list of All-American wrestlers in Cavalier program history.
The Virginia women’s swimming and diving team completed their season with an 18th place finish at the NCAA Championship meet in Indianapolis. Nine different Cavalier swimmers were able to make it out of prelims to score points for the team.
The No. 14 Virginia men’s lacrosse team found itself on the wrong end of a 15-8 beat down against No. 10 Johns Hopkins in front of 10,487 fans at M&T Bank Stadium Saturday in the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic. The loss was the Cavaliers’ first in an Inside Lacrosse event and third consecutive regular season loss to the Blue Jays.
Simply put, this game belonged to freshman forward Justin Anderson. And Anderson, though far from the perfect player, harbors a passion for basketball which epitomizes everything sports could and should be.
Led by another assertive effort by budding star freshman guard Justin Anderson, the Cavaliers (23-11, 11-7 ACC) coasted past St. Johns (17-16, 8-10 Big East) 68-50 for their 19th straight home victory, the fourth longest active streak in Division I men’s basketball.
Virginia looks to extend its dominance to conference play as it hosts No. 8 Duke and No. 70 North Carolina this weekend.
After an exhausting stretch that spanned six matches in nine days, the No. 32 Virginia women’s tennis team returns home to host a pair of matches against No. 72 Boston College and No. 55 Virginia Tech this Friday and Saturday.
The Virginia Track and Field team opens up its outdoor season with a home meet at Lannigan Field at this Saturday’s Virginia Cup.
Four months after losing to Delaware in the NIT Season Tip-off, Virginia finds itself two wins away from making amends for that disappointment by advancing to New York in the postseason NIT Tournament.
The Virginia softball team defeated George Washington 2-1 in ten innings on Wednesday evening, outlasting the visiting Colonials. It was the third win in a row for the Cavaliers, a streak they hope to continue this weekend at Maryland.
This Saturday at Klöckner Stadium, Virginia gets another shot at toppling an elite opponent, this time No. 6 Duke. The Blue Devils (8-1, 1-1 ACC) have qualified for 15 straight NCAA Tournaments under coach Kerstin Kimel.
The Virginia baseball team continued its dominant mid-week play Wednesday night with yet another blowout victory against lowly Yale (1-9, 0-0 Ivy), improving to 6-0 in midweek games this season by a combined score of 62-8 with a 10-0 rout to sweep the two game set.
The most talented wrestlers in the nation have assembled at the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa for the start of the NCAA Championship.
After a disappointing three-week stretch which saw the No. 14 Virginia men’s lacrosse team drop three of its four games by a combined three goals, the Cavaliers travel to M&T Bank Stadium Saturday for the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic, where they will meet No. 10 Johns Hopkins.
After winning the program’s sixth consecutive ACC Championship and finishing the season with a perfect dual meet record, the No. 10 Virginia women’s swimming and diving team will face one final challenge — the NCAA Championship meet in Indianapolis.
If the motto for March is “Survive and Advance,” the Virginia basketball team should have left John Paul Jones Tuesday night pleased with the result. But after beating overmatched Norfolk State in the first round of the NIT Tournament 67-56 in an all-around eyesore, the Cavaliers could hardly mask their disappointment.
