After suffering a tough 79-64 loss against No. 24 North Carolina on Sunday, the Virginia women's basketball team faces another menacing opponent in N.C.
Virginia learned a tough lesson last night at University Hall and junior guard Roger Mason Jr. put it best: "The game is never secure until the buzzer goes off." The Cavaliers (14-4, 4-4 ACC) simply could not close the deal against Maryland (16-3, 7-1 ACC). Virginia, up by nine with three minutes, 14 seconds to go, wound up on the wrong end of a 13-2 run and fell to the Terrapins, 91-87. "If you told me before the game that we'd be up nine with 3:14, I'd be thrilled," said a not-so-thrilled Virginia coach Pete Gillen. In a hotly contested back-and-forth game, Virginia had the largest lead of the night with only minutes left on the clock. "We just killed ourselves," freshman guard Jermaine Harper said. "The bottom line is we probably thought the game was over," Mason said.
The Virginia baseball team will enter the 2002 season ranked eighth out of the nine teams in the ACC.
Despite being a state champion at Williamsport High School in Maryland, redshirt senior Jimi Massey was not a highly touted wrestling recruit. "I wasn't a stud recruit," Massey said.
The weather finally seems warm enough for a quick swim and the Virginia men's and women's swimming teams are preparing for their final home meet against the University of Pittsburgh on Sunday. Entering the contest, both Cavalier teams sit among the nation's 25 strongest.
As if facing the No. 1 team in the nation wasn't enough for one week, the Virginia men's basketball team will turn around to face No.
For the second time, Virginia freshman forward Elton Brown is the ACC men's basketball rookie of the week, for his play against Georgia Tech (Jan.
If you take the time to look at Virginia men's basketball coach Pete Gillen after a Cavaliers' game, you would think he just ran a marathon. After a game, the sweat pours down his face and seeps through his shirt and tie.
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At 6-foot-8 and 255 pounds, Travis Watson's size sounds intimidating. Outside of ACC basketball it would be, but Watson is the smallest starting center in the conference.
With only two days left until the Virginia men's basketball team faces the Maryland Terrapins in University Hall, many students already have staked a claim in the line to get seats to the ACC match-up.
Track posts several season bests at Blue Heaven Saturday's Blue Heaven Invitational in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Kilgore seeks to change domestic violence laws Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore has proposed changes to the state's domestic violence laws. This week the Virginia General Assembly is likely to take up the bill, which includes greater confidentiality for victims, new fines for offenders, greater training for law enforcement officers and a streamlined process for obtaining restraining orders. Each of these measures has garnered strong support in the legislature, though some details of the bill have generated conflict between the Republican Attorney General and the Virginia State Senate.
V irginia's main concern coming into this game was quite simple: they needed to get off to a good start.
I n trying to hold down No. 21 North Carolina yes terday, the Virginia women's basketball team played tight defense and forced 21 turnovers.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Sunday's matinee in Chapel Hill pitted Virginia against No. 21 North Carolina.
DURHAM, NC - After scoring only ten field goals in the first half, the Duke Blue Devils used a 17-6 run to open the second half and put the Virginia men's basketball team away for good. A first half that seemed to preview a nail-biter turned out to be a tease, as the Blue Devils (18-1, 6-1 ACC) picked it up in the second half to beat the Cavaliers (14-3, 4-3), 94-81 at Cameron Indoor Stadium. In the first half, Virginia stayed tight behind the efforts of its freshmen.
Sunday night, the Virginia men's basketball team will have its mettle tested in one of the stiffest challenges that college basketball has to offer.
After toppling Florida State, 66-62, on Wednesday, the Virginia women's basketball team (11-8, 4-4 ACC) now sets its sights on Chapel Hill, where it will take on ACC foe North Carolina (14-5, 4-3) on Sunday. "Carolina's a great team, and we are going to have to play very, very well to beat them," Virginia coach Debbie Ryan said.
The Virginia swimming and diving team will travel to Columbia, S.C., on Saturday to square off against South Carolina at noon. The meet will be significant for the No.
