Women’s Basketball: Quality win for ‘Hoos, who defeat Notre Dame, 81-70
Virginia really needed that 81-70 win over Notre Dame on Sunday – a dub over a borderline Quad 1 team to start a stretch of Quad 1 and 2 games in the next couple of weeks.
Virginia really needed that 81-70 win over Notre Dame on Sunday – a dub over a borderline Quad 1 team to start a stretch of Quad 1 and 2 games in the next couple of weeks.
Can you believe, outdoor sports, today? The women’s lacrosse season opened on Friday, with #10 Virginia hosting #16 Navy, not at Klöckner Stadium – too icy – but instead, on the lax practice field.
Virginia took control with a big defensive third quarter, on its way to a 67-56 win over Miami on Thursday in JPJ.
A late 11-2 Virginia Tech run doomed Virginia in a 76-64 loss on Sunday in Blacksburg.
Virginia led by 15 at halftime, 11 with five minutes to go, but had to survive three OTs to finish off a 109-103 win at Wake Forest on Thursday.
Virginia erased an 18-point second-half deficit to force overtime, but two late turnovers, and a missed three at the buzzer, let NC State escape with the 78-76 win on Saturday.
The ACC has moved the Virginia-NC State women’s basketball game scheduled for Sunday to a 3 p.m. Saturday start, an hour, roughly, from the conclusion of the Virginia-North Carolina men’s game.
The case is officially closed in the murders of two women who were victims of the Colonial Parkway serial killer in the ‘80s.
Virginia snapped its two-game losing streak in emphatic fashion, getting 20 points off the bench from Caitlin Weimar and 17 points and nine assists from Kymora Johnson in an 84-46 win over Pitt on Thursday in JPJ.
Virginia turned an 11-point halftime deficit into a six-point fourth-quarter lead, but Duke turned the game back in its direction with an 11-0 run, then finished out a 65-58 win on Thursday in Durham.
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