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Virginia has become college basketball’s lords of crunch time over the last 47 days with its mystical ride continuing on the shores of South Florida on Wednesday night, when the Cavaliers did it again.
Jay Huff scored the first 17 Virginia points of the game, Mamadi Diakite kept the Cavaliers afloat with 10 of his 14 in the second half, and Kihei Clark sank the go-ahead free throws with 8.3 seconds left as 22nd-ranked UVA escaped with another nail-biting road win, 46-44, at Miami.
The Virginia men’s basketball team will be taking its talents — and its ACC-best six-game win streak — to South Beach tonight at 9 to face Miami in the final true road game of the regular season.
Scattershooting around the ACC, while thinking Wednesday night’s Virginia trip to Miami is the classic trap game …
Virginia notched its sixth-consecutive win with a 16-7 win over Richmond on Tuesday evening at Disharoon Park. The Cavalier offense produced 10 or more runs for the sixth time in the last eight games.
Virginia softball jumped to a 2-0 lead, but James Madison rallied in the fifth and sixth innings to earn a 10-3 victory in the first game at Palmer Park.
Virginia women’s tennis freshman Natasha Subhash has been named the ACC Player of the Week and Freshman of the Week, as was announced by the league office on Tuesday.
Jay Aiello and Jack Mueller have earned two of the top seeds at the ACC Championships the league office announced on Tuesday with the release of the seeds and brackets for the event.
With so much going on in the world of Virginia Athletics this weekend other than the men’s basketball team’s upset over Duke, we didn’t give the other sports their proper due.
It was Virginia’s last practice at The Park, the softball program’s home for the past quarter-century, Covington’s last time in the hidden facility that no one seemed to know or care about. While most were ready to get the heck out of the place, Covington lingered and remembered.
During the heat of one of the biggest games of the season against the hardest team to beat in the ACC, Bennett took the time to notice Holland and his wife in the crowd.
Virginia will be home on Tuesday to host Richmond in a non-conference tilt at Disharoon Park. The game is scheduled to air on ACCNX with first pitch slated for 3 p.m.
Virginia women’s basketball senior guard Jocelyn Willoughby has been named to the All-ACC First Team in a vote by both the Blue Ribbon Panel and the league’s head coaches, as announced Monday by the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Virginia softball coach Joanna Hardin talks about how brand-new Palmer Park, which officially opens Tuesday against James Madison, will help advance her program.
The Virginia women’s basketball team will take on No. 8 NC State for Senior Day on Sunday at 2 p.m. at John Paul Jones Arena. Seniors Felicia Aiyetoan, Lisa Jablonowski, Dominique Toussaint and Jocelyn Willoughby will be honored in a pregame ceremony that begins at approximately 1:40 p.m.
The old coaches say that revenge is a dish best served cold. Huff would dispute that because Saturday night he was red hot in Virginia’s 52-50 upset over the seventh-ranked Blue Devils.
Virginia junior forward Jay Huff delivered a memorable all-around performance, finishing just one rebound shy of what would’ve been the program’s fourth triple-double and registering the key stop on Duke’s Vernon Carey Jr. on the next-to-last possession to help the Cavaliers knock off the seventh-ranked Blue Devils, 52-50.
Photos from John Markon from Virginia’s 52-50 win over #7 Duke.
Wins over Duke have been few and far between since 1983 when the Ralph Sampson-led Cavaliers routed the Blue Devils, 109-66, in the ACC Tournament.
No. 7 Duke visits John Paul Jones Arena Saturday (6 p.m., ESPN) for a crucial ACC showdown against Virginia, the hottest team in the conference.