Archive: Virginia
A Stat for Syracuse and Virginia Fans
Syracuse's loss to Colgate in the regular season finale yesterday was bad news: Only once in the history of the NCAA tournament has a team lost its final regular season game and won the national title. In 1986, North Carolina lost its regular season finale to Virginia, 11-9. It won...
By Christian Swezey | May 4, 2008; 04:12 PM ET | Comments (0)
Keeping It Hot, 4/29
Eyewitness Accounts Mount St. Mary's has played some of the best teams in the country: Maryland (a 17-7 loss), Navy (12-5), Virginia (20-2), Georgetown (14-7) and Johns Hopkins (12-1). So after the Johns Hopkins game last night, I asked starting goalie T.C. DiBartolo which offenses were the most difficult to...
By Christian Swezey | April 29, 2008; 11:05 AM ET | Comments (5)
Keeping It Hot, 4/26
An Oddity in the Duke-UNC series Duke has won seven in a row over North Carolina. Yet several times in that run, UNC has started the game well. That held true in the ACC semifinals on Friday: Senior longstick defender Tim Kaiser scored following a faceoff to give the Tar...
By Christian Swezey | April 26, 2008; 11:21 AM ET | Comments (1)
Virginia-Duke
Nearly 4,000 tickets have been pre-sold to the Duke at Virginia game on Saturday at 6 p.m. at Klockner Stadium. Dave Curry, our Virginia Insider, has accounted for at least one of them. TFBO2F is still holding out for a freebie. Is Duke on the same level as untouchable teams...
By Christian Swezey | April 11, 2008; 09:21 AM ET | Comments (4)
Game Plan for the Rest of the Week
Apologies for not posting yesterday. Our computer was acting like HAL in the second half of "2001: A Space Odyssey." Though really, it was a strange day all around. We came back from running errands to see that the Liverpool-Arsenal Champions League match (soccer, not lacrosse) was tied at 1-1...
By Christian Swezey | April 9, 2008; 08:16 AM ET | Comments (5)
Season Thus Far: Virginia
Virginia (10-1) Highlights * Fifth-year senior G Bud Petit makes his first start in three years in a 12-11 overtime victory over North Carolina. * Record crowd of 7,579 watches 13-12 overtime win over visiting Johns Hopkins. MVP MF Brian Carroll, sophomore Is the main reason Virginia's extra-man offense is...
By Christian Swezey | April 7, 2008; 03:34 PM ET | Comments (0)
Halftime at Maryland-UVa: Quick Analysis
Maryland 9, Virginia 3. Virginia radio analyst Doug Tarring says he would not make a goalie switch if he were coaching UVa, even though freshman Adam Ghitelman has six saves and has given up nine goals. He thinks Ghitelman is the team's long-term answer in goal and a game in...
By Christian Swezey | March 29, 2008; 01:06 PM ET | Comments (2)
Last Minute Updates, and a Question...
TFBO2F noticed that the Maryland athletic department is hyping today's game against Virginia with TV commercials, complete with voiceovers from football and basketball play-by-play man Johnny Holliday. Not sure we had seen those before this year. The UVa-UMd game is on ESPN2. Clearly, it's a big deal. So on the...
By Christian Swezey | March 29, 2008; 06:20 AM ET | Comments (5)
Starsia Defines a Good Offense
Just spoke with Dom Starsia, the coach of top-ranked Virginia. The Cavaliers play Maryland on Saturday at noon at Byrd Stadium. Starsia defined a good offensive lacrosse team for TFBO2F. "A really good offensive team has five good options, five ways to attack. You have to be able to get...
By Christian Swezey | March 27, 2008; 09:52 AM ET | Comments (2)
Curry Weighs In
It's Wednesday. The big games are not until Saturday. Normally, TFBO2F treats this day the way Louden Swain treated that crucial weigh-in in the 1985 movie "Vision Quest." To get where we want to go, we have to make it through this first. Then Dave Curry called to "weigh in"...
By Christian Swezey | March 26, 2008; 08:13 AM ET | Comments (1)
Glading Questionable to face Johns Hopkins
Junior Danny Glading, a starting attackman for Virginia, is questionable to play against Johns Hopkins tomorrow, Coach Dom Starsia said. Glading (16 goals, 18 assists) has a strained hamstring and has not practiced this week. As a rule, the best cure for hamstring injuries is rest. "He wants to play;...
By Christian Swezey | March 21, 2008; 03:40 PM ET | Comments (2)
