Ryan Weiner is a sports editor for the 137th term of The Cavalier Daily. He is a fourth-year College student, majoring in government and history. Ryan is from Potomac, Md. and enjoys writing about Virginia baseball, football, basketball and industry-wide news in college athletics.
The Cavaliers are looking to repeat their successes from the previous year despite a new team and a new schedule.
According to the new contract, Odom’s tenure as the head of the program will continue through 2032, with an annualized salary increase from $3.25 million to $4.15 million.
Five players from the 2026 Virginia squad were drafted. From the first round all the way to the 14th round, here is how each Cavalier fared this year at the MLB draft.
Having miserably failed their first trial of the tournament, the Cavaliers now turn their attention to Southern Miss, the No. 9 seed nationally, who just lost in a shocking upset to Little Rock. If they lose this next game, Virginia’s time in the NCAA Tournament will come to an end much earlier than predicted.
While there are several reasons why the 2026 Cavalier season has been successful, the bullpen has, is and will continue to be the deciding factor in important games that determine the course of the season down the stretch.
“We are going to play better,” Pollard said. “We are going to go home, going to regroup and we have got to get some guys going offensively.”
Virginia was not even out-hit, with the hit total actually ending at 12-9 in favor of the Cavaliers. However, the timeliness of those hits as well as some free passes allowed for the Rams to reap the full benefits of its success relative to their Commonwealth counterparts.
“We’re so grateful to have this opportunity,” Elliott said. “This program has been working hard over the last several years to get to the postseason and we’re so excited to be in Jacksonville.”
The Cavaliers are set to go fish in the portal pond again to replace outgoing stars. But who should they target?
“I feel like we missed and made mistakes that they capitalized on,” graduate linebacker James Jackson said. “It’s hard to win games when you make mistakes a lot.”
