Virginia wins NCAA Tournament first round
By Ben Baskin | November 15, 2012The Virginia men’s soccer team earned a dramatic victory against Patriot League champion Lafayette in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Thursday afternoon.
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.
The Virginia men’s cross-country team Friday brought home the NCAA Southeast Regional Championship for the first time in program history.
Each November, 32 of the finest singles players in men’s college tennis fight for the ITA Indoor Intercollegiate Championship title.
After suffering a tightly contested loss to Maryland Friday, the Virginia volleyball team rebounded the next day to defeat Boston College on Senior Night. Virginia (9-19, 3-14 ACC) knocked off a formidable Georgia Tech team last weekend, and the newly confident Cavaliers expected Maryland and Boston College to be tough but winnable matches.
The No. 16 Virginia wrestling team swept aside its competition for the second consecutive weekend. The Cavaliers competed in the Movember Duals in Boiling Springs, N.C.
I know I might be a little biased about this topic. I’m from New Orleans and grew up on a steady diet of LSU football with a side dish of the other Southeastern Conference competitors.
The Virginia men’s soccer team earned an at-large bid to the 2012 NCAA Tournament and will host Lafayette, the Patriot League Champions, at 1:30 p.m.
Junior guard Joe Harris scored 11 of his game-high 15 points in the second half, and Virginia relied on a suffocating defensive effort in the second period to preserve a 54-45 win against Fairfield in the first round of the NIT Season Tip-Off Monday night.
Coach Steve Swanson was the first to admit that his team did not play up to full potential in their opening game of the NCAA tournament Friday night.
After defeating No. 14 Iowa 3-2 in the first round of the tournament, the No. 7 Virginia field hockey team saw a magical season come to a close with a 5-2 loss to No.