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2 weeks ago | 
cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann
Saturday’s loss to No. 9 Duke, another tally in a bewildering losing streak and the cap on a bewildering season, sent Virginia into the offseason The lacrosse stick’s end dangled from its other three quarters. How, precisely, it had reached its snapped state seemed unclear. The act had been hidden by a torrent of blue jerseys and their ensuing dog pile. Senior defenseman Ben Wayer, eyeblack smudged and eyes burning, walked away.
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2 weeks ago | 
cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann
Saturday’s loss to No. 9 Duke, another tally in a bewildering losing streak and the cap on a bewildering season, sent Virginia into the offseason The lacrosse stick’s end dangled from its other three quarters. How, precisely, it had reached its snapped state seemed unclear. The act had been hidden by a torrent of blue jerseys and their ensuing dog pile. Senior defenseman Ben Wayer, eyeblack smudged and eyes burning, walked away.
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2 weeks ago | 
cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann |Emory Huffman |Xander Tilock
Following the comings and goings of a monumental offseason Editor’s Note: This article was first published March 19 and will be updated throughout the men’s basketball offseason. Virginia men’s basketball has, in the span of six months, seen a legend retire and his successor get fired. Now that saga has entered a new phase, full of coaching changes and transfer portal turnover and recruiting battles. The offseason is here. And it is a mammoth one.
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1 month ago | 
cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann |Emory Huffman |Xander Tilock
Editor’s Note: This article was first published March 19 and will be updated throughout the men’s basketball offseason. Virginia men’s basketball has, in the span of six months, seen a legend retire and his successor get fired. Now that saga has entered a new phase, full of coaching changes and transfer portal turnover and recruiting battles. The offseason is here. And it is a mammoth one. Almost two decades have passed since uncertainty hovered around the program like this.
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1 month ago | 
cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann
Virginia submitted a fantastic performance, by all accounts, but lost in the final few minutes Coach Lars Tiffany gazed at the scoreboard, hands on hips. He stared it down for a long second. Then he turned and waded into the center of a downbeat huddle. Not long before, he had prowled the sideline, shouting instructions as a tie game rocketed into its final five minutes, the stands rattling behind him. Virginia, tied with No. 8 Syracuse, needed to score.
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1 month ago | 
cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann |Emory Huffman |Xander Tilock
Editor’s Note: This article was first published March 19 and will be updated throughout the men’s basketball offseason. Virginia men’s basketball has, in the span of six months, seen a legend retire and his successor get fired. Now that saga has entered a new phase, full of coaching changes and transfer portal turnover and recruiting battles. The offseason is here. And it is a mammoth one. Almost two decades have passed since uncertainty hovered around the program like this.
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1 month ago | 
cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann
Ryan Odom’s “core values” have remained the same at his four previous head coaching stops Ryan Odom stands close to the wall. Khakis. A V-Sabre quarter-zip. He is a khaki-and-quarter-zip guy this time of year, more of a joggers-and-sweatshirt guy come basketball season. In this video, Odom begins, after a second, to speak. What he’s saying is not the important part. The important part is what is behind him. Odom is in the head coach’s office.
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1 month ago | 
cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann
California Coach Mark Madsen sat there and stuttered. His answer had started with a resounding declaration, repeated twice for emphasis — “we are going to have great success here,” he said. But now he had run aground on a thorny sentence. “And to start it off with a home win against a —” Madsen paused. He looked into space, his mind sifting through possible answers. He was sitting in a room giving a press conference, moments after his team had polished off a 75-61 drubbing of Virginia Jan. 8.
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2 months ago | 
cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann
Ryan Odom figured, during the interview process, that the question was coming. It seemed logical, of course. So he prepared. He enlisted his wife to print out a couple pictures, and he had them in his back pocket. So when the moment came, when Athletic Director Carla Williams and University President Jim Ryan sat across the table from him and asked “why Virginia,” all he had to do was take out the picture. Slide it across the table.
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2 months ago | 
cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann |Xander Tilock
Athletic Director Carla Williams announced Wednesday that Virginia men’s basketball Interim Coach Ron Sanchez will not be returning as head coach next season. The announcement came roughly three hours after the team’s season-ending loss to Georgia Tech in the second round of the ACC Tournament.
