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Previewing Basketball The Virginia men's basketball team won an exhibition contest against Division II Shepherd on Sunday by an 87-52 score. (Read about it here: Hoos Win Exhibition Contest.) With the only public preseason game out of the way, the Cavaliers open the regular season this week when VMI visits the John Paul Jones Arena on Sunday at 4 p.m. The Sabre is getting you ready for tip-off with a week's worth of preview articles about Dave Leitao's squad. Planned features include 10 Questions Facing Leitao's Hoos (2 parter), "Take 5" With Bailey Stephens, schedule analysis, a Jed Williams' column, and more. Make sure you subscribe to the EDGE to get all the information about your Hoos!
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This Week In Recruiting Lafayette (Williamsburg, VA) defensive end recruit William Hill will focus solely on his college decision now that his high school football career is over. The 6-4, 260-pound senior hopes to decide in the near future. He is considering scholarship offers from Connecticut, Duke, Penn State, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, among others. Hill has taken a handful of unofficial visits to Virginia. He has also been on an official visit to Tennessee, has an official visit scheduled to Penn State for this upcoming weekend, and may take an official to Maryland as well this month. In today's EDGE update, Hill talks recruiting and mentions when a college decision could come. Virginia likely will not host Hill on an official visit before a decision is made, but at least three important prospects are expected in Charlottesville on the weekend of Nov. 22 (Clemson weekend). St. Xavier (Cincinnati, OH) standouts Luke Kuechly and Patrick Muldoon, along with Camden (N.J.) wide receiver Tyree Watkins are scheduled official visitors. Kuechly, a 6-3 linebacker, and Muldoon, a 6-4 defensive end, are uncommitted targets. Watkins, however, has already committed to Virginia. Watkins has wavered some in his decision but recently seemed much more solid with his commitment to Virginia. We'll be sure to confirm with these three recruits again next week and find out what other prospects are scheduled to be in attendance for the Clemson weekend. Brookville (Lynchburg, VA) tight end/wide receiver Logan Thomas, a 6-6, 225-pound senior who has been selected to the 2009 U.S. Army All-American Bowl game, verbally committed to Virginia Tech on Thursday night. Thomas, one of the top recruits in the state of Virginia's 2009 class and one of Virginia's top overall targets, chose Tech over a list of finalists that also included Florida State, North Carolina, Virginia, and Wake Forest. Thomas informed primary recruiter Wayne Lineburg, a coach with whom the star had developed a close relationship with, of his decision last Wednesday night. Virginia's staff continues to pursue 6-5, 270-pound senior offensive lineman Devin Bolling and has offered top junior defensive end/tight end Zack McCray. The Cavaliers have not yet offered Bolling.
On the basketball recruiting front, stay tuned this week for the latest on 6-6 star junior Travis McKie. McKie, a standout out of John Marshall High School in Richmond (VA), is a top junior target of the Cavaliers. He discusses Virginia's standing as well as when a college commitment may come. Clemson, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth, and Virginia Tech are among the other programs in the running for the central Virginia star.
Chris Horne, our resident recruiting expert, provides updates throughout the week for Edge subscribers about UVa's commitments and recruiting targets in football and men's basketball. To sign up for an Edge subscription, please check out the Sabre Edge Sign Up and Information Page. If you're already on board as an Edge subscriber, click the links below to catch up on recruiting. Sabre Edge recruiting updates from the past week ...
Aboushi a Top Target of UVa
Q&A with Brunswick WR Kevin Royal More recent recruiting updates on The Sabre ...
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Selenski, Krzysik Earn ACC Honors Official UVa Media Relations News Releases Virginia's Paige Selenski (Shavertown, Pa.) was named the 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference field hockey Freshman of the Year, the league office announced Sunday following the championship game of the conference tournament. She is just the third player in program history to receive the honor and is the first since Meredith Elwell in 1996. "It is a fantastic recognition to Paige and the University of Virginia," said Virginia mentor Michele Madison. "She is an outstanding talent among UVa's great first-year class and no one works harder in practice. Her game gets better and better as she is a great listener and always accepts her role on the team. Selenksi, a forward, led Virginia in scoring with 17 goals and tied for a team-best with nine assists for 43 points this season. She played in all 21 games and tallied a team-high 97 shots. Additionally, six of her goals were game-winners. Meanwhile on the soccer field, Virginia senior defender Nikki Krzysik was named the 2008 ACC Defensive Player of the Year and five Cavaliers earned All-ACC honors as the conference announced its women's soccer honors on Tuesday. "Our entire program is extremely proud of the players who earned 2008 All-ACC honors, especially Nikki's distinction as the Defensive Player of the Year," said head coach Steve Swanson. "To have as many players as we had represented on both squads is a tribute to every member of our team and how hard they all have worked throughout the regular season. We are looking forward to the ACC tournament this week." Krzysik becomes the third Cavalier to be named ACC Defensive Player of the Year since the league split the player of the year award into an offensive and defensive honor in 2004. Sarah Huffman was the inaugural Defensive Player of the Year in 2004 and Becky Sauerbrunn took the honor last season.
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Issue No. 209 - Sept. 30, 2005 Post of the Week
Subject: The first quarter of the season is done, what to make of it? So, UVA is now 3-0 and evidently within the top 20. Well, this is just where UVA should be. None of these three games should have been close in the first place. Steady improvement and no injuries are all we can hope for starting against WMich, Sorry-excuse, and Dook. Steady improvement? Yes, definitely, but it is a little hard to measure. Since none of these opponents should have posed much of a challenge, is this really steady improvement in the sense of the team getting better or steady improvement in the sense of the team catching up to where it was supposed to have been in the first place? Marques Hagans and the OL are doing very well, and the front seven has done well in Brook's absense. It will be interesting to see how the receivers and DBs do in the next three games, as that will determine a lot. Injuries, well, hard to say if the Hoos will be good enough to deal with Maryland, BC, and Florida State, the first two on the road, if Lundy, Brooks, Barthelmes, and Ferguson (Dbrick, not Homer L) aren't there. Given the talent in Blacksburg and Coral Gables, it is probably reasonable that the Hoos will need to go 2-1 in the second quarter of their schedule. One man's opinion: based on the first quarter of the schedule, no way to say confidently that this is or isn't possible. This isn't a pep talk or a flame, just an opinion intended to have no positive or negative connotations. Being a fan of any team should be a low-stress proposition, but as a UVA fan, I'd have to say that the only real stress is that, three games in, still no clear picture about how competitive the team is in the ACC. Maryland seems to me to be the most critical game, since Maryland is the softest of the three upcoming games. Lose to Md and BC and beat FSU, and either it is an underachieving team or a fluke. Take care of the Twerps on the road, than that is building momentum. The BC game will be a lot easier coming off a win.
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Coming Soon The Sabre has you covered when it comes to Hoo news. Here are a few of the articles to expect on the site soon:
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Sabre Roundtable: Preseason Basketball
Wake Forest Scouting Report: Offense & Kicking
The Hawk's Nest - Kickoff Coverage
Tuesday Press Conference Notes '08 - Wake Forest
Greg's Stock Report '08: Miami
JHoo: 10 Things I Learned ... Miami
Inside The Game - Miami
Q&A - Boo Williams
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