Women Get Revenge For Early Loss
Monday, February 08 2010 by Tim
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’s 34 points (plus 2 rebounds, 3 assists and 4 steals), the Cavaliers jumped on the Terrapins early, let them back in the game, then took it to them in the second half. In the end, Virginia prevailed 82-68 and moved to 6-3 in the ACC, 17-6 overall.
Next up for the Cavaliers is a trip to South Florida for a very winnable contest against Miami (16-7, 3-5 ACC). After that, the schedule doesn’t exactly get easy, but it includes a lot of games in the John Paul Jones Arena:
Feb 15 vs. North Carolina
Feb 16 vs. Longwood
Feb 22 vs. Florida State (another possible revenge game)
Feb 26 at Duke
Feb 28 vs. Virginia Tech
In 14 days the Cavaliers have four home games and one road contest against Duke. As Duke and FSU are the only two teams ahead of the Cavaliers in the ACC standings, those two games will likely determine the seeding for the ACC tournament.
Looks like it should be a fun finish on the women’s side of things.
Now let’s hope the men can take down the Terrapins on Wednesday in the same arena.