Chapel Hill, N.C. -- The Tar Heels were the better team tonight. While North Carolina was calm, collected and businesslike, Virginia was sloppy, frantic and in shambles. It's not that the Cavaliers couldn't have won this game; it's not even that North Carolina was too deep, too strong or too athletic for Virginia to keep up.
Riding the wave of a two-game winning streak, Virginia looks to remain in fifth place of the ACC standings with a win Saturday afternoon against Georgia Tech.
As the result of a total team effort, Virginia (12-6, 3-3 ACC) cruised to an 85-72 victory over Florida State last night.
Virginia baseball picked to finish seventh in the ACC The 2003 ACC Preseason Baseball Coaches Poll was announced yesterday with Virginia slated to finish seventh in the ACC.
As one looks at the box score of tonight's game, several things jump out. Sophomore forward Jason Clark tied a career-high with 12 points and sophomore guard Keith Jenifer also tied a career-high with eight assists.
Unable to find any success away from University Hall this season, the Virginia women's basketball team brings their 1-8 road record to tonight's matchup with No.
At first glance, it doesn't seem like Virginia senior wrestlers Josh Etu and Bob Seidel have much in common.
Well, it's finally happened. My time as sports editor of The Cavalier Daily has come to a close, and I'm slowly being put out to pasture as a columnist.
Virginia football players, sophomore Elton Brown and junior Almondo Curry, were arrested early morning Jan.
Virginia Trio named ACC athletes of the week Freshman swimmer Fran Crippen, senior wrestler Bob Seidel and senior women's tennis player Jennifer Tuchband all received the nod as the top athletes in the ACC last week. Crippen won four events over the weekend in dual meets against UNC and Clemson.
Coming off an 85-75 upset of then-17th ranked Wake Forest, Virginia will look to stay undefeated at University Hall when Florida State comes to town tonight at 7. The Cavaliers (11-6, 2-3 ACC) should be well rested, having six days off since beating the Demon Deacons last Thursday.
Despite 168 hours of constant scrutiny, dissection, and predictions from nearly every sports network, program and analyst last week, Sunday's Super Bowl between the Buccaneers and Raiders left many onlookers surprised not only by Tampa Bay's victory but by the convincing fashion in which it was achieved.
Virginia Sports Hall of Fame to induct former Virginia coach Terry Holland in April The Cavaliers' all-time winningest men's basketball coach and former Athletic Director Terry Holland will be inducted to the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame April 26. Holland, who coached Virginia legends Ralph Sampson and Jeff Lamp, manned the helm of Virginia basketball from 1974-1990, compiling a record of 326-173 and leading the Cavaliers to nine NCAA appearances, an NIT Championship and the Cavaliers' only two Final Four appearances. For six years from 1990-1995, Holland also served as Virginia's Athletic Director, and currently is a special assistant to University President John T.
At five-foot-seven, Cherrise Graham certainly doesn't tower over her opponents on the court physically, but her numbers more than speak for her heart, talent and ability to overcome setbacks. One of the more telling and suspenseful statistics that Graham, a sophomore guard from Pennsylvania, boasts is the team record for consecutive free throws.
Georgetown Women's Basketball Coach Patrick Knapp's scream was loud enough for the entire U-Hall crowd to hear. With just over four minutes left in the game and the Cavaliers leading 59-49 thanks to a 21-10 run, the visibly frustrated Knapp called a timeout and yelled at his team to "get over here!" The Hoyas (11-5, 2-3 Big East) were unable to come back from the 10-point deficit and fell to the Cavaliers (8-10, 2-5 ACC), 69-57. Sophomore guard Cherrise Graham led the Cavaliers with 23 points, including 3-4 from behind the arc, and tied for the team high with six rebounds. The Cavaliers broke open this close contest in the second half when the pace of the game quickened. "We sped things up and used our athleticism a little better," Virgina Coach Debbie Ryan said.
When Majestic Mapp entered Thursday's game against Wake Forest, he found his team in a dangerous position.
There's no place quite like home. Returning to the friendly confines of University Hall, Virginia (11-6, 2-3 ACC) used a balanced scoring attack to snap a three-game skid and upset 17th-ranked Wake Forest (12-2, 2-2 ACC) Thursday night, 85-75. The Cavaliers trailed for much of the first half, but junior guard Majestic Mapp came off the bench to give Virginia an emotional lift, as he logged his first significant minutes of the season. Virginia trailed by seven when Mapp entered the game with 6 minutes and 43 seconds left in the first half, but Mapp immediately hit a three-pointer and helped steady the Cavaliers. "We needed" Mapp, Virginia coach Pete Gillen said.
The cream of the ACC's crop of swimmers and divers descended upon the Aquatic and Fitness Center this weekend, with Virginia rising to the top in the pool and on the diving board.
Olympic committee calls for president's resignation The U.S. Olympic Committee continues to be riddled with turmoil as its chief executive Lloyd Ward joined seven other top officials in calling for a letter of resignation from USOC president Marty Mankamyer. Ward made public allegations against Mankamyer, calling into questions the president's ethics.
The nationally ranked Virginia men's and women's swimming and diving teams face ACC rivals North Carolina and Clemson at the Aquatic & Fitness Center this weekend.
