Men's soccer squad's 3-1 NCAA loss ends season
By Ben Baskin | November 19, 2012The Virginia men’s soccer team fell 3-1 to New Mexico Sunday evening in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, ending the team’s season.
The Virginia men’s soccer team fell 3-1 to New Mexico Sunday evening in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, ending the team’s season.
The NCAA Tournament run by the No. 2 seed Virginia women’s soccer team ended this weekend with a loss in the third round at home to Duke, 3-1.
The No. 10 Virginia women’s swimming and diving team defeated Penn State and No. 14 Indiana in this weekend’s tri-meet in Bloomington, Ind.
Junior forward Akil Mitchell finished with 14 points and a career-high 16 rebounds to lead the Cavaliers to a blowout 83-43 win, their largest victory under coach Tony Bennett. He completed his double-double before the end of the first half, finishing the opening period with 10 points and 12 rebounds—one more than the Redhawks’ team total of 11.
As almost anyone who regularly follows sports pundits or really digs the history of quantum of physics surely knows, Albert Einstein famously defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Sophomore running back Kevin Parks was stopped short on a pair of runs from inside the Tar Heel two-yard line late in the third quarter and North Carolina (7-4, 4-3 ACC) grabbed momentum with a 97-yard touchdown-scoring drive to spoil the Cavaliers’ Senior Night and end the team’s postseason aspirations, 37-13.
With three decisive dual meet victories already under their belts, the Virginia swimming and diving teams head to Bloomington, Ind.
The Virginia volleyball team knows the postseason is beyond reach but has adopted a different goal for its final three matches: make others miss out as well.
The Virginia women’s basketball team hosts Providence Sunday after winning its first two games of the season.
The Virginia men’s soccer team earned a dramatic victory against Patriot League champion Lafayette in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Thursday afternoon.
Sophomore tight end Jake McGee kept the Virginia football team’s bowl hopes alive with his game-winning catch against Miami on Saturday — his second game-winning catch in as many home wins.
The challenge for the Virginia men’s basketball team entering the season was to integrate a talented cast of freshmen with a small stable of returning veterans to weather the losses of Mike Scott, Assane Sene and Sammy Zeglinski.
At this point in the season, there are few teams in the nation playing as well as the No. 2 Virginia women’s soccer team.
Two weeks into the season, the No. 17 Virginia wrestling team has decimated all competition. The Cavaliers (5-0) now enter a string of challenging matches that will give the team its first real test.
The Virginia women’s basketball team announced letters of intent from four recruits Wednesday, and coach Joanne Boyle’s 2013 class now ranks No.
When senior linebacker LaRoy Reynolds walks onto the football field at Scott Stadium for the final time Thursday evening, the bright lights illuminating a newly-galvanized fan base, a bowl berth within his team’s grasp, he will feel a familiar jolt of energy one last time in Charlottesville.
The Virginia men’s soccer team will host Patriot League Champion Lafayette Thursday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
The anticipation for the first game of the season for the Virginia men’s basketball team was hard to put into words.
The Virginia women’s basketball team escaped with a victory in Philadelphia Monday evening, using a strong second half to down Penn, 68-65. The Quakers (0-2, 0-0 ACC) dominated much of the first half, leading by as much as 15 points.
By the time Delaware was putting the finishing touches on a 59-53 victory in front of 8,490 appalled John Paul Jones arena patrons Tuesday evening, the “formality” of Virginia advancing to the NIT Season Tip-Off Finals at Madison Square Garden had turned into a lost opportunity.