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Women's Basketball Schedule Last week, SabreMail featured the men's basketball schedule. This week, the women's schedule is in SabreMail. From the UVa Athletics Media Relations official release: A 16-game regular-season home schedule and at least five televised games highlight the Virginia women's basketball team's 2010-11 schedule released Wednesday (Sept. 8) by the Atlantic Coast Conference. Among the teams scheduled to visit UVa's John Paul Jones Arena during the 2010-11 season are ACC opponents Boston College, Duke, Florida State, Maryland, Miami, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest. The Cavaliers also host non-conference opponents Drexel, East Tennessee State, Holy Cross, Longwood, Mount St. Mary's, North Carolina A&T, Pennsylvania, Radford, Richmond and UMBC. Additionally, John Paul Jones Arena was selected as one of 16 sites for the first and second rounds of the 2011 NCAA Championship and will host two games on Sunday, March 20 and one contest on Tuesday, March 22. Game times will be announced at a later date. Should the Virginia women's basketball team earn a berth to the tournament, the Cavaliers would automatically be slated to play in JPJA for the first two rounds. "It's a very challenging schedule this year," Virginia head coach Debbie Ryan said. "And John Paul Jones Arena is a great place for the NCAA Championship because our fans are so great. It's a fan-friendly arena and it's going to be a tremendous thing for the community, the state and for women's basketball." The Cavaliers' home games against Maryland (Jan. 21), Florida State (Feb. 7) and Boston College (Feb. 20) and their away contests at North Carolina (Jan. 28) and Virginia Tech (Feb. 27) will be televised by the ACC's Regional Sports Network (RSN). After the season-opener at Hofstra (Nov. 12) and a road contest at Tennessee (Nov. 18), UVa's 2010-11 road schedule features the Paradise Jam in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the Cavaliers will face Iowa State (Nov. 25), West Virginia (Nov. 26) and TCU (Nov. 27). In the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, Virginia heads to Ohio State on Dec. 2. The Cavaliers are scheduled to play ACC games at Clemson, Georgia Tech, Florida State, Maryland, North Carolina, NC State and Virginia Tech. For the full release and ticket information, click here.
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This Week In Recruiting There will be some news on the basketball recruiting front this week. Whether it's positive or negative remains to be seen. Landon School (Bethesda, MD) head boys basketball coach Andy Luther said late last week that senior Darion Atkins will make an official visit to the University of Virginia this week. Coach Luther believes the visit will begin Monday. Atkins, a 6-8, 210-pound power forward prospect, took an official visit to Notre Dame over the weekend. The Fighting Irish and the Cavaliers lead for the athletic prospect, a player Luther calls "extremely long and athletic. He has incredible timing as a shot-blocker. He has impressive vertical abilities and he gets back up off the floor really fast, which probably explains his gifts as a shot-blocker. He runs the floor very well. He's very active on the offensive glass. He has a good nose for the ball." A decision from Atkins may come as soon as this week. Stay tuned to TheSabre EDGE for the latest on this situation later this week. Virginia has secured some perimeter help in this class with commitments from Greater Atlanta Christian (Atlanta, GA) guard Malcolm Brogdon and Merrill (WI) wing guard/forward Paul Jesperson.
Football recruiting ... On Saturday, I stopped by St. Christopher's School (Richmond, VA) to see the Saints take on St. Stephen's and St. Agnes (Alexandria, VA) in what turned out to be a highly competitive contest on the gridiron. The game featured two of UVa's 2011 recruits - DE/TE Thompson Brown (St. Christopher's) and LB Darius Lee (SS/SA). Brown, a 6-4, 225-pound prospect with tremendous athletic ability for his size, turned about a 10 to 15-yard pass into a 43-yard touchdown reception to start the scoring. St. Stephen's answered with a touchdown of its own before a safety gave St. Christopher's a 9-7 lead at the half. A third quarter touchdown - set up by a bobbling, circus catch by Lee - and a field goal gave St. Stephen's a 17-9 lead before St. Christopher's scored 18 unanswered points in the fourth for the 27-17 win. Defensively, Brown finished with seven tackles and a forced fumble. Lee, who starts at safety and tight end, was in on a number of tackles throughout the day in addition to hauling in several passes on offense. I'll have more from this game later in the week, so stay tuned to TheSabre.com for the full report. Also coming up this week on the football recruiting front, I'll have the latest on Bayside (Virginia Beach, VA) cornerback Demetrious Nicholson, Newton (Covington, GA) linebacker D.J. Hill, and more.
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 ...
4-Star RB Firms Up Commitment To UVa
PF Darion Atkins Set To Visit Top Two More recent recruiting updates on The Sabre ...
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Hoos Talking Returns!
The Sabre's Richmond radio partner "Hoos Talking" is back on the air! Hosted by Jim Hobgood and Frank Maloney on Wednesday evenings, the show features expert analysis as well as featured guests from around the world of UVa athletics. Check out The Sabre's Hoos Talking page for archived audio from this year's first two shows! The clips feature The Sabre's own Chris Horne and Kris Wright and more. Hoos Talking will air from 6-8 p.m. on Wednesdays through football season. Don't forget, you can listen live on the Web - just click on The Sabre's Hoos Talking page for the "listen live" link.
Blog Banter: Moore Remembers Clemson Win Wednesday marked the 20th anniversary of Virginia's first win against Clemson, ending a 29-game streak against the Tigers. On Sept. 8, 1990, No. 14 UVa topped No. 9 Clemson, 20-7. To this day, it's a game Hoo fans remember fondly. Read about it in the EDGE archives! On a teleconference Wednesday, Moore remembered that the Cavaliers went into the game with a lot of confidence after crushing Kansas 59-10 a week earlier. "What I remember about that game is that we had a tremendous amount of confidence coming off that first game at Kansas. We were playing with a lot of veteran leadership, guys that had played a lot of football, a lot of fifth-year seniors," Moore said. "I don't think anyone thought about the streak. The only thing we thought about was playing this Clemson team and trying to figure out how to get an ACC win so we could defend our ACC Championship." Read The Good Ol Blog daily!
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Issue No. 108 - Oct. 10, 2003
VMDO Architects receives awards for design of UVa's baseball stadium The Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects (VSAIA) has bestowed VMDO Architects of Charlottesville, VA (116 2nd St.) with an Honor Award this year for their well-received design of the University of Virginia's Davenport Baseball Stadium. The Central Virginia Chapter of the VSAIA has also acknowledged the local firm with a Merit Award for the Cavaliers new baseball facilities. "We feel proud that our colleagues have chosen to recognize the quality of our work on the baseball stadium project," says lead VMDO architect Joe Celentano. "It is especially satisfying given the extremely compressed design and construction schedule and could not have been accomplished without a completely integrated team effort between the owner, architect, and contractor." Davenport Field, now considered to be one of the best places to watch and play baseball in the Atlantic Coast Conference, was funded in part from $2 million in gifts from anonymous donors, which enabled the University of Virginia to move ahead with the baseball field's renovation and expansion. VMDO's design included such amenities as a canopied grandstand with 1,600 seats to replace the existing metal-seat bleachers, and six skyboxes for lease by fans and corporate sponsors. New stadium lighting was also installed, as well as an on-site locker room and clubhouse, a press box, concession area, and a grass-filled seating area. VMDO Architects was founded in 1976 and is the 2003 recipient of the T. David Fitz-Gibbon "Architecture Firm of the Year" Award from the Virginia Society of American Institute of Architects.
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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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