With two more months remaining in the regular season, the Cavalier baseball team hopes 2007 won't be a rollercoaster, because they are on a high. After taking two out of three from the Tar Heels in Chapel Hill last weekend, Virginia (19-4, 3-3 ACC) moved up to No.
The Virginia men's golf team is already two tournaments deep into the spring season and will play two more before the ACC Championships in late April.
When Kaitlin Duff found out from another teammate that she was named National Player of the Week by womenslacrosse.com, it was hard for her to act in any other way but surprised. "I didn't even know they had those kinds of things, so I was really surprised," Duff said.
Sophomore forward Lyndra Littles may have been suffering from a stomach virus, but it was the Charlotte 49ers who were left feeling sick last night as Littles connected on a jumper right under the basket with four seconds left to give the Virginia women's basketball team a dramatic 74-72 victory in the second round of the WNIT tournament. With the game's fate hanging in the balance, it was not Virginia coach Debbie Ryan but junior guard Sharneé Zoll who picked the play that would give Virginia it's 18th victory of the season. "I'm not going to brag," Zoll said.
I don't know where you were Thursday night, but at my rambunctious house of 16 testosterone-filled men, you would have thought the Cavaliers were playing their opening round game Thursday evening instead of Friday midday. The loud claps and screaming at the television -- I have yet to accept that the players can't hear us -- were not for the Virginia Cavaliers but for the Virginia Commonwealth Rams. My intuition tells me it was not so much an expression of love for our fellow Commonwealth brethren, but rather our hope that the No.
COLUMBUS, OHIO -- With 5.7 seconds left, Virginia junior Sean Singletary sprinted down the court, the game in his hands.
As the Virginia men's lacrosse team defeated Towson University 13-9 Saturday afternoon, junior attackman Ben Rubeor scored a career-high seven goals and the Cavaliers extended their winning streak to six games, the longest in the nation. "I am just glad we were able to get the win," Rubeor said.
Three weeks, 65 teams, 64 games, over 950 players. At its heart, March Madness is all about the numbers.
COLUMBUS, OHIO -- I sat down in front of my computer to analyze the game that just ended between Virginia and Tennessee in the second round of the NCAA Tournament here at Nationwide Arena in Columbus.
The Virginia women's basketball team will begin its quest for a postseason title when it takes on Charlotte in the second round of the WNIT tonight at John Paul Jones Arena. The Cavaliers received a first-round bye after going 17-14 in the regular season.
With just under five minutes left in the first half, Virginia senior J.R. Reynolds found himself flat on his back after being tripped and fouled by an Albany defender.
As the members of the No. 2-ranked Virginia women's lacrosse team walked off the field after demolishing No.
Spring has just about sprung as the Virginia men's and women's track and field teams lace up their running shoes and prepare to enter a promising outdoor season.
The Virginia women's rowing team will host a scrimmage against the Canadian National Team tomorrow.
The Cavaliers have not yet begun to fight. The real battle begins today in Chapel Hill as the Virginia baseball team (17-3, 1-2 ACC) takes on No.
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- It's Thursday afternoon and I'm back in my hotel room. Virginia and Albany just met with the media and then held hour-long open practices inside Nationwide Arena (the site of Friday's first-round NCAA matchup between the Cavaliers and the Great Danes). With the game less than 24 hours away, here are a few initial impressions of the teams, the arena and the tournament:
The Virginia men's lacrosse team looks to earn its sixth straight victory tomorrow at Klöckner Stadium against Towson University. After a first-week upset to Drexel, the Cavaliers (5-1) have tallied wins against perennial powers Princeton and Syracuse.
The Virginia softball team played in four early season tournaments this year, traveling to Tampa, Fla.; Tucson, Ariz.; Palm Springs, Calif.
women's tennis team will play at the Sheridan Snyder Tennis Center today for its first outdoor match against conference rival Virginia Tech. After two hard-fought losses on the road last weekend to No.
For the first time in six years, the Virginia men's basketball team finds itself in uncharted waters, the NCAA Tournament.
