
Virginia names Missouri State’s Amaka Agugua-Hamilton new women’s basketball coach
Amaka “Mox” Agugua-Hamilton, who had a 74-15 record in three seasons at Missouri State, is the new women’s basketball coach at Virginia, the school announced Monday.

Amaka “Mox” Agugua-Hamilton, who had a 74-15 record in three seasons at Missouri State, is the new women’s basketball coach at Virginia, the school announced Monday.

The nation’s two slowest teams, North Texas and Virginia, faced off in a second-round NIT game on Sunday.

Virginia (21-13) will host St. Bonaventure (22-9) in an NIT quarterfinal contest on Tuesday at 7 p.m. on ESPN.

Virginia gave up a 10-point second-half lead, going the final 5:42 of regulation without a point, then nearly gave up a seven-point lead in the OT.

Jake Gelof is absolutely bonkers right now – 4-for-4 on Sunday, with his 12th homer, hitting .464 on the season.

Fifth-ranked Virginia went deep five times – two of them grand slams – on its way to an 18-1 win over Boston College on Saturday.

Junior Kate Douglass and sophomore Alex Walsh combined for six individual event wins to lead the Virginia women’s swimming & diving team to its second consecutive NCAA championship.

Top-ranked Maryland outshot #2 Virginia 53-34 and dominated on faceoffs on the way to a 23-12 win in a rematch of the 2021 national title game.

In the hundred years since Virginia Tech admitted its first five female students, women have become a mighty force at what was once an all-male institution.

Susan Swecker was re-elected as chairwoman of the Democratic Party of Virginia on Saturday. Swecker won re-election with 80 percent of the vote.
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