With less than a week until the 65-team field for the NCAA Tournament is picked, the Virginia men's basketball team has one last shot to earn a bid: a run at the conference title in the ACC Tournament this Thursday through Sunday. The Cavaliers (15-14, 5-11 ACC) are scheduled to play seventh-seeded Georgia Tech (14-16, 7-9 ACC) Thursday at 7 p.m.
Walking around Grounds, students see club sports practices all the time, but chances are, you have never stopped to watch the men's club squash team practice off-Grounds at the Albemarle Racquet Club.
The Virginia softball team split a midweek doubleheader against James Madison University yesterday, losing the first game 4-0 before taking the second game 2-1. Virginia (7-13, 2-1 ACC) began the afternoon with a shutout loss to the Dukes in which JMU junior pitcher Jenny Clohan allowed only six hits and one walk over seven innings while striking out two. Clohan "threw a great game," Virginia coach Eileen Schmidt said.
It was supposed to be a rebuilding year. Having lost several of its best swimmers from the 2007-08 roster, the Virginia men's swim and dive team was not supposed to win the ACC Championship and it certainly was not supposed to do so by a margin of 273 points. Nevertheless, during Spring Break the Cavalier men dominated the competition, captured the 2008 conference crown and -- for the first time since 2004 -- the Virginia swimming and diving program swept the ACCs, bringing home both the men's and women's titles. "I was nervous going into this meet, especially after last year where I thought we were going to win for sure and we got kind of blown out," senior PJ Sullivan said.
With traditional powerhouses Syracuse and Princeton on the Spring Break schedule, Virginia men's lacrosse coach Dom Starsia predicted an exciting and difficult stretch of lacrosse for his Cavaliers.
There are few things as emotionally draining in sports as a narrowly missed chance to upset a favored rival.
Things may be turning around for the Virginia softball team. After an opening weekend that saw the Cavaliers go 0-5, Virginia (6-12, 2-1) has won four of its past six contests.
Fresh off losing two of three games in its opening conference series against N.C. State during the weekend, the Virginia baseball team regrouped and resumed its non-conference domination against Radford Tuesday, winning 8-2 to improve to 11-0 in non-conference play. "We had a rough weekend against N.C.
"Sometimes, at the height of our revelries, when our joy is at its zenith, when all is most right with the world, the most unthinkable disasters descend upon us." While what happened to the Virginia football team the last two months might not be as bad as how Ralphie Parker describes the senseless devouring of his Christmas turkey by the Bumpus' dogs in "A Christmas Story," it's safe to say things were looking up for Virginia in early January. Sure it started on a sour note -- the Alex Trlica field goal that gave Texas Tech the Gator Bowl victory.
Last Saturday, the Virginia baseball team found itself in a similar situation to where it was last year around this time.
The No. 24 Virginia women's basketball team had a productive Spring Break, going 2-1 and reaching the semifinals of the ACC Tournament in Greensboro, N.C.
At 14-14 overall and 4-11 in the conference going into Sunday's game against Maryland, even a convincing win in the Cavaliers' final home game could not make things right.
How does one really describe what Singletary means? Let's check the dictionary: Singletary (v.)
It has been a rough season for Virginia. High hopes of another trip to go dancing were slowly demolished in the cruelest of fashions as the Cavs consistently lost to conference foes by the smallest of margins.
Last week Michael Salmonowicz wrote a letter to the editor begging an answer to the question why The Cavalier Daily's sports section ignores excellence and rewards mediocrity. Salmonowicz referred to the seemingly insufficient coverage of the women's basketball team in comparison to its male counterpart, which seems to be a valid question-- as of Monday night, Debbie Ryan's squad stood at 20-8 (8-4 ACC) while the men had tallied a mark of 13-12 (3-9 ACC). Each week in the winter season, the Sports section devotes its Gameday page to a men's basketball game.
With the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth, things seemed eerily familiar for Old Dominion.
With the ACC Tournament just around the corner, the Virginia women's basketball team finds itself in a must-win situation as it heads into the last two games of the season against Boston College and Georgia Tech. The Virginia women are 3-3 in their last six games.
It has been four years since the Virginia swimming and diving program swept the ACC Championship meets, capturing both the men's and women's titles in 2004.
After capturing the National Team Indoor title, the Virginia men's tennis team has maintained its intensity and flawless record.
Spring Break will be anything but restful for the Virginia men's basketball team -- the Cavaliers will play four ACC teams in nine days to finish the regular season. The Cavaliers (13-12, 3-9 ACC) enter the month of March with their first multi-game winning streak in conference play, two games, after a convincing 78-60 home win against N.C.
