The ACC is back! Battle of heavyweights in Charlottesville is proof
Four ACC Basketball teams qualified for the NCAA Tournament in 2025, and only five teams made it in the three prior years.
Four ACC Basketball teams qualified for the NCAA Tournament in 2025, and only five teams made it in the three prior years.
I’ve not heard a UVA Basketball home crowd that loud in a while, but, makes sense: that 86-83 win over Miami on Saturday was an NCAA Tournament second weekend-quality game, right here in Charlottesville.
Chance Mallory hit three free throws with 3.6 seconds left to break an 83-83 tie, Thijs de Ridder stole a crosscourt pass to break up a play out of a timeout for an attempted three to seal it, and Virginia got the win, 86-83.
We had world-renowned climate scientist Michael Mann at the University of Virginia for a while, before he left for Penn State, then Penn – then Ken Cuccinelli, doing the bidding of the climate deniers, tried to play legal footsie with him.

Just as the snow in the Shenandoah Valley has melted, another storm is developing that could deliver heavy precipitation in the region.
The two hottest teams in the ACC, Miami, winners of four straight, and Virginia, winners of seven straight, meet up on Saturday in Charlottesville.
George Mason has now lost three straight, and four of its last five, getting hit by a storm of threes from Dayton, which made 11 from long-range in a 82-67 win in Fairfax on Wednesday.
The world sees 200 million gallons of crap going into the Potomac. Donald Trump sees content.
This is probably the end of the run at Georgia Tech for Damon Stoudamire, who was a reach as a hire in the first place – he had one winning season in five years at Pacific before Tech hired him in 2023.
A Virginia museum will swear in a new group of American citizens on President’s Day to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary.
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