The National Association of Basketball Coaches picked Virginia junior guard Roger Mason Jr.
I love the Winter Olympics. No, that was not a typo. I really love the Winter Olympics. The Summer Games are great, but Salt Lake City is the place to be if you want to see sports at its finest.
Few coaches reach the status of a "living legend" while still active in their field, but Virginia women's basketball coach Debbie Ryan is one such giant.
Former Virginia swimmer Ed Moses is pretty pleased with his life right now. With a solid GPA at one the country's most prestigious universities, an assistant coaching position on the up-and-coming Cavalier swim squad and a solid sense of stability with friends and family, Moses appears to have succeeded at finding the balance between academics, extracurriculars and fun for which most undergraduates strive. But Moses' undergraduate life has been anything but typical.
The No. 15 Virginia men's basketball team narrowly escaped North Carolina at University Hall last night. "We played with fire and almost got burned," Virginia coach Pete Gillen said. Luckily for Virginia, freshman point guard Keith Jenifer was able to douse the flames. With little over a minute left Virginia was up by only two.
For those of us who have any familiarity with women's college basketball, we all know who Debbie Ryan is.
Sophomore Luke Anderson was named ACC men's swimmer of the week for the third time this season for his performance against Maryland on Saturday.
F or the first five minutes and 40 seconds of last night's win against North Carolina, Virginia looked like they deserved the No.
Virginia's Travis Watson received the ACC player of the week award as a result of strong play in games with N.C.
Nobody needs to tell Joseph Forte that he made a bad decision. This time last year, Forte was the most important player on the most important team in college basketball.
Behind the strong support of its University Hall crowd of 3,078, the Virginia women's basketball team overcame a 13-point deficit in the second half to defeat conference foe Georgia Tech last night, 85-79. The win moved Virginia (13-10,6-6 ACC) into a fourth-place conference tie with Clemson and within a half-game of the third-place Yellow Jackets (14-9,7-6). The story of the game was the second-half offensive turnaround for the Cavaliers, who shot only 35.3 percent in the first half and were held to 32 points.
Normally, the Virginia men's basketball matchup against North Carolina would be one students would camp out for days to see.
The team will always overcome. It is a simple truth preached at every level of organized sports.
If the Virginia men's basketball team is successful in the second half of upcoming ACC and tournament play, it just might look back on the last 15 minutes of last night's 85-71 victory over the struggling Clemson team (11-13, 2-9 ACC) as a turning point in this season. After Clemson freshman Jamar McKnight hit a three-pointer to tie the game at 50 with 15 minutes, 11 seconds remaining, the Cavaliers (14-6, 5-5) rode their full-court press to a 15-0 run. Related LinksVirginia Men's BasketballClemson Men's Basketball "When we were tied at 50, we all felt flat out on the floor," junior guard Roger Mason Jr.
To put it bluntly, the Cavaliers came into yesterday's men's basketball game against Clemson reeling from four consecutive losses.
Despite winning six of 10 matches, the Virginia wrestling team lost its second close meet of the weekend to Virginia Tech on Sunday. The Cavaliers dropped a 22-19 decision to James Madison University on Saturday, and looked to improve their 1-6 dual match season against the Hokies. In a match marred by several ugly incidents, the Cavaliers could not overcome Virginia Tech and fell to 1-7 in dual meets on the season. One of Virginia's victorious matches came in the 125-pound weight class, but initiated a series of unsportsmanlike altercations. Virginia Tech's Geoff Head (15-8 on the season) shoved Cavalier wrestler Byron Dunlap (10-13) into the mat and onto the hardwood floor, after a whistle to stop play.
The No. 12 Virginia men's swimming team (8-2, 5-0 ACC) beat Maryland (4-8, 1-5), 199-96 in College Park yesterday.
Third-place Georgia Tech is the women's basketball team to beat as Virginia tries to regroup from Thursday's 73-65 loss at Clemson. Against the Tigers, the Cavaliers (12-10, 5-6 ACC) led by four with 10 minutes remaining but could not hold on.
The Virginia wrestling team (2-7, 0-1) will face off against a pair of in-state rivals this weekend.
As the Virginia swimming team travels to Maryland for its final regular season meet and looks forward to postseason competition away from its home pool, the Cavaliers will turn to their own well-traveled native son, Luke Anderson, to carry them to victory. Although the Virginia swimming team has completed its home schedule, traveling away from the comfort of Charlottesville is nothing new for sophomore Anderson.
