Photo Gallery Update
Wednesday, March 10 2010 by Tim - 0 comments
I posted this all over TheSabre a couple days ago, but I just wanted to make sure it was noticed over here. I’ve posted seven photo galleries from four sports (Men’s and Women’s Basketball, Men’s and Women’s Lacrosse). As you can see, I took a little hiatus after the Soccer National Championship game, but hopefully the photo galleries will pick up. Here’s the links to the individual galleries: Men's Lacrosse vs Syracuse (3/7/2010) Men's Basketball vs Maryland (3/6/2010) Women's Basketball vs Virginia Tech (2/28/2010) Men's Basketball vs Duke (2/28/2010) Women's Lacrosse ...
Landesberg’s Season Ends, Cavs Fall to Maryland
Sunday, March 07 2010 by Tim - 0 comments
As I sat in JPJ yesterday watching the team warm up (I got there very early, so I saw pretty much all the warm-ups), I had this nervous feeling about a missing person from the floor: Virginia’s leading scorer, Sylven Landesberg. Initially, I just chalked it up to the injury problems he’s been having lately – he was probably in the back gym or the training room or something like that. But when the team came out for the final warmup (the more public one where they get to run in to the band playing) and Sly wasn’t with them… I knew something else had to be up. A quick jump onto TheSabre told me that...
Men’s Lacrosse: #1 Syracuse at #2 Virginia
Sunday, March 07 2010 by Tim - 0 comments
Just wanted to toss a quick note out about this game. It’s a beautiful day in The Hook and everyone should want to come down/up/over and spend their afternoon at Klockner watching the two best teams in the nation face off. If the weather wasn’t a big enough draw for you by itself, check out this article from ESPN . Hard not to support a team with stories like that. I think the article forgets to mention that they’re some damn good Lacrosse players too ;)Wright Named ACC Player of the Year
Thursday, March 04 2010 by Tim - 0 comments
As anticipated, the Atlantic Coast Conference named Virginia’s Monica Wright Women’s Basketball Player of the Year today. She had been named the Preseason ACC Player of the Year at the start of the season, so it’s good to see her live up to the hype. Earlier in the week, Wright was also named ACC Defensive Player of the Year. I’m not positive, but I think that might be the first time the two awards have ever gone to the same team, much less the same person. I got tired of looking through the ACC archives after going back four years. Monica leads the ACC in both points (23.0ppg – only player above...
Weekend Recap
Sunday, February 21 2010 by Tim - 0 comments
It was an interesting starting weekend for several spring sports, to go along with the conclusion of one sport and the continuation of a couple others. Overall, it was a positive weekend for the ‘Hoos and there’s definitely going to be some exciting spring sports action on grounds this weekend. Let’s see how things went: Baseball Gotta start with baseball. The #2 team in the country started off its season on Friday by traveling down to #11 East Carolina. Pretty rough way to start off. As I mentioned yesterday, the Cavaliers got the win on Friday , taking down the Pirates 6-2. Saturday was not as...
Baseball Opens Season in Style
Saturday, February 20 2010 by Tim - 1 comments
I’ll have more on the opening weekend of the 2010 Virginia Baseball season after it’s all said and done, but I wanted to toss something up here about the game yesterday. The ‘Hoos fell behind the East Carolina Pirates 0-2 in the bottom of the first inning, but Sophomore star Danny Hultzen settled into a groove and went 5 scoreless innings afterwards. The Cavaliers would score twice in each of the 4th, 6th and 7th innings to take a 6-2 lead. The aforementioned first inning issues and a couple of late pitching miscues notwithstanding, it was a very solid opening outing against a VERY solid East Carolina...
Building on Success
Monday, February 15 2010 by Tiki - 0 comments
Following the most successful season in the history of Virginia baseball, the Hoos enter the 2010 season with lofty expectations. The preseason Baseball America poll has the Hoos ranked 2 nd , behind defending champions Texas. The ESPN/USA Today poll has the Hoos 4 th . In both polls, the Hoos are 1 of 6 ACC teams in the top 25. The Hoos return almost their entire team from last year, having lost only a few contributors, SP Andrew Carraway , RP Matt Packer , SP Jeff Lorick and RP Robert Poutier . Carraway is a big loss, as he had 9 wins and was second on the team in innings pitched with 91. Packer...
Women Get Revenge For Early Loss
Monday, February 08 2010 by Tim - 0 comments
In the Virginia Women’s Basketball team’s second ACC game of the season – and first ACC home game of the season – all eyes were on Monica Wright. If she kept up her pace of points, she would surpass Dawn Staley and take over first place on the Virginia all-time scoring list. Monica did just that. But there was also a basketball game that day, one that counted for the ACC standings. Virginia did not prevail in that regard. Tonight, nearly a month later, the lady Cavaliers traveled to College Park, Md. to attempt to get revenge for that early home loss. And revenge they got. Led by Monica Wright...
The Legend Moves On: “Bullet” Bill Dudley
Thursday, February 04 2010 by Tim - 0 comments
Likely the most talked about football player in University of Virginia history, William McGarvey “Bullet Bill” Dudley, passed away this morning. A native of Bluefield, Virginia, Dudley came to Virginia at the age of 16 on an athletic scholarship. He saw the field some his second year, but it wasn’t until his third year that things really broke out. His senior year was, in a word, amazing. He was the first Virginia All-American that year, and received the Maxwell Award as the best collegiate player that year – the only Virginia player ever to win the award. From his Wikipedia entry : Dudley also...
Virginia Offense: Back from the Dead? UPDATE
Monday, February 01 2010 by Ben - 5 comments
You'd think so. I'm not sold just yet. After a lackluster performance against VT (although, my hunch is that, were I to crunch the stats, Virginia would have averaged well over 110 PPP at the 4:58 mark of the second half of that game. They were terrible thereafter.) , Virginia came out and thumped UNC on Sunday night. Does a great game against a mediocre Carolina defense exonerate them? I doubt it. Let's see how they fare against NCSU on Wednesday. Anyway, here's the updated chart people were clamoring for: Here's the graph from last year:...