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Hall receives ACC award for defense

The ACC announced its 2001 All-ACC Defensive Team yesterday. Its members are Virginia junior forward Adam Hall, Maryland's Juan Dixon, Brendan Haywood of North Carolina, Georgia Tech's Alvin Jones and Shane Battier of Duke. Hall finished Virginia's regular season with 82 defensive rebounds and averaged 5.4 rebounds.


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Hand erases doubts with senior season

Few athletes have gone through as much turmoil as point guard Donald Hand. Over the course of his Virginia career, the senior from Paterson, N.J., played for two different coaches, watched the player he was brought in with depart and filled several roles for the men's basketball team.


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Baseball set for in-state showdown

The Virginia baseball team will pack its umbrellas and travel to Norfolk today to face in-state rival Old Dominion. After inclement weather forced the cancellation of Sunday's game against Seton Hall, Virginia (7-4) will make its second road trip of the year to face the Monarchs (3-11) at Bud Metheny Complex. "We went on the road and played well at both spots, at VCU and at Liberty," Virginia coach Dennis Womack said.


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Women's hoops fails in ACC first round

GREENSBORO, N.C.-The Cavalier women's basketball team battled through foul trouble, led the entire first half, built six different leads of eight points or more and still managed to fall to Florida State, 83-77, in the first round of the ACC Tournament on Saturday. Virginia (20-13) entered the tournament seeded fifth, behind a Seminole team that has had a breakout season, after being picked to finish last in the league in preseason voting.


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Terrapins trounce unimpressive Cavs

COLLEGE PARK, Md.-If you walk into Cole Field House and play one of your worst games of the season, you will probably experience something like what happened to the Virginia men's basketball team Saturday: a 35-point whipping. Behind poor shooting, poor defense and an uninspired performance altogether, the No.


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Cavaliers suffer separation anxiety away from U-Hall

COLLEGE PARK, Md.-When a team goes 7-1 in the conference at home but drops six of eight on the road, the numbers don't lie. As the Virginia men's basketball team travels to Atlanta this weekend for the ACC tournament, their dismal road record pinpoints an aspect of the Cavaliers' game in need of some serious attention.


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Syracuse sticks men's lacrosse with first loss

The No. 3 Virginia men's lacrosse team lost at top-ranked Syracuse on Saturday, 13-7. Although they took the first lead, the Cavaliers (1-1) were left down, 6-3, at the half. In the third quarter Syracuse (2-0) took a definitive lead, 9-3, and then finished off the Cavaliers in the fourth quarter to take Virginia to a 13-7 loss that was its worst since the 1995 NCAA Semifinals when the Cavaliers lost to the Orangemen, 20-13. The Cavaliers travel to No.


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Cavs hope to finish season with victory

Now that the home crowd has finished its most successful shanty-town impression in recent memory, the Virginia men's basketball team hits the not-so-friendly road to Maryland for its final game of the regular season.


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Women's lacrosse loses season opener

The Virginia women's lacrosse team started its season off on the wrong foot yesterday when it fell to William & Mary on the road, 13-10. The Cavaliers (0-1) jumped to a 7-4 halftime lead behind a very balanced attack.

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