Cavs eye Terps, bowl game
By Billy Kynes | November 16, 1999For the past 12 years, only four teams in Division I have racked up seven or more victories every season.
For the past 12 years, only four teams in Division I have racked up seven or more victories every season.
The preseason doesn't look to get much easier for the Cavalier women's basketball team as the Russian national team comes calling at University Hall tonight at 7:30 p.m. The Russian national team comes into tonight's showdown continuing their seven-game American tour after previous stops in Atlanta, Raleigh, Chapel Hill and Clemson.
The Virginia women's crew team literally blew their competition out the water this weekend, winning all four events at the regatta they hosted on the Rivanna Reservoir. Over 250 rowers from six teams came to the Cavalier boathouse to compete in Sunday's "Rivanna Romp." All of the Cavaliers' ACC opponents -- North Carolina, Duke and Clemson -- attended, as well as teams from the University of Miami, Georgetown and Ohio State. Rowers competed in four different events on the four-kilometer course.
First Dan Ellis was knocked out of the Florida State game, both literally and figuratively. Then he watched backup David Rivers lead Virginia to its biggest win of the season against Georgia Tech, creating a full-scale quarterback controversy.
For the third straight year, the Virginia field hockey team bowed out of the NCAA Tournament after a 3-0 loss to Old Dominion.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.--The Virginia men's soccer team fell last night 2-1 in triple overtime to No.
At this point last week, the Virginia women's soccer team had lost four of its last five games and was still recovering from a heart-wrenching loss to Clemson in the first round of the ACC Tournament.
The Virginia women's basketball team never has been easily intimidated. So it's fitting that even when the U.S.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.--Drew O'Donnell could have been dead for all we knew. After 129 minutes of grueling soccer against the undisputed No.
Thomas Jones cranked out another Heisman-worthy performance Saturday, but beleaguered quarterback Dan Ellis stole quite a bit of his thunder with a record-breaking passing day as the Cavaliers rolled to a 50-21 win against winless Buffalo in the home finale. Jones scored twice and rumbled for 221 rushing yards as Virginia (6-4, 4-3 ACC) gained bowl eligibility with its sixth Division I-A victory.
Just about this time last week, the Cavaliers were hoping for a positive turnout against Georgia Tech.
Angela Hucles has a penchant for auspicious debuts each time she moves up a level in the soccer world.
In 1992, Cavalier women's basketball stand out Dawn Staley was hailed as the one who would bring a struggling Virginia program into the ACC spotlight and who would help lead the team to a national championship.
WINSTON-SALEM, NC--The mighty Cavaliers are back. Despite finishing their worst regular season in nearly two decades and finishing last in the ACC, Virginia dominated No.
North Carolina Coach Bill Guthridge announced yesterday that guards Ed Cota and Terrence Newby will be reinstated to the men's basketball team. Newby and Cota were suspended from the team after being charged with misdemeanor assault following a Halloween night brawl.
The Virginia field hockey team will begin its NCAA Tournament run against longtime rival Old Dominion Saturday at College Park, Md. The Cavaliers and Monarchs have bumped heads in the tourney several times.
Last night's exhibition contest was a bit like a pickup game at the YMCA for the Virginia men's basketball team.
He is one of the largest men on the field, and yet he is largely overlooked. He has to recognize defensive fronts immediately and direct the rest of the offense, but credit is seldom directed his way.
The Virginia men's soccer squad enters the ACC Tournament today with the seventh seed and its season in question.
You may spend Sunday afternoon sleeping until three. You may spend it parked in front of the NFL on CBS or nursing the previous night's hangover.