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Two members of the Virginia women's basketball team received awards from the ACC Monday. Brandi Teamer was given the ACC rookie of the week award and her teammate, Telisha Quarles, was named ACC player of the week. Quarles, a senior guard from Louisa, helped lead the Cavaliers to three conference victories this week.


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Virginia set to take on Seminoles

With the close of the ACC regular season in sight, Virginia men's basketball coach Pete Gillen and his team realize their remaining games take on new significance after a dismal performance against No.


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Softball takes two of three at tournament Virginia's softball team won two of three games in the Triangle Classic Sunday.


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Weak defense leads to easy Wake victory

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Much has been said about the Virginia men's basketball team's inability to execute in the halfcourt offense, and yesterday at Wake Forest, these struggles extended to both sides of the court.


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The Virginia baseball team shut out Bucknell yesterday, 8-0, and moved to 3-0 on the season after beating the Bison twice Saturday. Virginia senior Dan Street, a first-team All-ACC pitcher, and sophomore reliever Joe Koshansky combined to allow just three Bucknell hits.


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Deacons demoralize Virginia

Winston-Salem, N.C. - Many figured that after coming off of a tough, last second, double overtime loss to Clemson earlier in the week, the Demon Deacons would have a tough time getting psyched up for the men's basketball game against Virginia.


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Emotional Cavaliers play textbook basketball on Debbie Ryan Day

The day belonged to Virginia women's basketball coach Debbie Ryan. And that statement became even more true when Charlottesville Mayor Blake Caravati literally proclaimed it "Debbie Ryan Day" during pregame festivities that honored Ryan for her 25 years of service to the University as head women's basketball coach. It would be remiss not to write about Ryan today, when she truly coached a victory out of her young Cavalier squad - it was the 559th such victory of her illustrious career. Ryan truly is a master of coaching, one of the most over-criticized and under-appreciated vocations.


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The Virginia football team will host Colorado State Thursday, Aug. 22 in the second annual Jim Thorpe Classic.


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Virginia faces off against Wake Forest

When the Virginia men's basketball team enters Joel Coliseum Sunday, the Cavaliers will attempt to accomplish a feat that a Virginia team has not pulled off in nearly two years: beat a ranked team on their home court. No.


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Cavaliers hope to continue late season push at Wake

With only four games remaining until the conference tournament, the Virginia women's basketball team travels to Winston-Salem, NC, to play ACC rival Wake Forest (10-13, 4-9 ACC) tonight at 7 p.m. Sitting on a 13-10 overall record and 6-6 conference mark, the Cavaliers desperately need a win to keep alive hopes of making a 19th consecutive NCAA tournament. "We want to finish off the ACC strongly," sophomore guard Anna Prillaman said.

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