Five-star Ocean Lakes standout Levonta Taylor, the No. 1 cornerback in the Rivals100, announced tonight that he will be making his college decision on April 3.

Check out this video interview with All-American guard Malcolm Brogdon following UVa's loss to MSU. He breaks down that game against the Spartans, talks about Darion Atkins' senior year, and also how he he would describe UVa's 2014-2015 season.

CavsCorner Video: Malcolm Brogdon

I caught up with 2018 QB Tyler DeSue over the weekend in Atlanta at the Rivals QB Challenge Presented by Under Armour. He already holds an offer from Virginia and has been fielding interest from Penn State, Miami, Florida State, Oklahoma State, Georgia and Tennessee.

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In the article linked below 2017 QB Lindell Stone talks about where he stands with UCLA, UVA and Temple, the three schools that have offered him. Stone also talks about his recent visit to Florida.

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Any of you going to the baseball game this afternoon at LU?

This is just me talking. I am 77, have been a student at UVA and longtime fan and sufferer but eternal optimist. I am down in the dumps about our sudden exit from the tournament for a lot of reasons. One is having to face another dismal football season next fall. This spring has been disaster in baseball(so far) plus our tennis teams while still good aren't as good. Our lacrosse teams are better but not like a few years ago.A resurgence in some of these sports in the coming weeks will help restore hope and spirits.

As far as the basketball team is concerned we lost to a better team on Sunday. I believe CTB and the players will learn from it and be better for it. We have a lot to be proud of, and the best is yet to come. We have a winning program not just a winning team. CTB has built the program for the future as well as the present. We are blessed to have him witness his COY award.

It is true our offense was off for the last part of the season. We need better three point shooting. We need JA to come back. His injury hurt our offense in some many ways. He was far from his normal self in the tournament. If everyone on the team works as hard as he did last summer to improve, great things are ahead for us.

Lastly, Michigan State put everything in our game last year and had nothing left in the tank. It will be interesting to see if they have anything left this year. If not, it shows that he put all his marbles in the Virginia basket last year and this year. Regardless, M State played a great game to beat us.

I do have a basketball hangover, but I have never been prouder of our team, our coach and our fans. Hold your head high
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From UVa:

Virginia Blanked by Georgetown, 1-0
Cavaliers travel to Liberty Wednesday for 3 p.m. game

The No. 14 Virginia baseball team was shut out by Georgetown, 1-0, Wednesday at Davenport Field. The Cavaliers (14-8) were limited to a pair of hits in dropping their third straight game and suffering their first home shutout loss since Feb. 28, 2012, against Liberty. UVa was limited to its fewest hits ever in a home game at Davenport Field, which opened in 2002.

Virginia starter Alec Bettinger (So., Woodbridge, Va.) pitched five innings, allowing a run, four hits and two walks while striking out six. He took the loss and fell to 2-1 on the year. Kevin Doherty (Jr., Laytonsville, Md.) worked four innings of scoreless relief, retiring 12 of the 13 batters he faced.

Georgetown starter Simon Mathews (2-2) pitched five perfect innings to earn the win. Will Brown fired three innings of two-hit relief before David Ellingson pitched a perfect ninth inning to pick up his third save.

Georgetown (9-10) scored its lone run in the fourth inning when A.C. Carter hit a one-out home run into the left-field bleachers off of Bettinger. It was Carter's second home run of the season.

The Hoyas had a perfect game working until Doherty lined a ball through the legs of Brown with one out in the sixth inning. Robbie Coman (Jr., Lake Worth, Fla.) singled with one out in the eighth, and pinch runner Thomas Woodruff (Sr., Clifton, Va.) then stole second base with two outs, marking the lone time the Cavaliers advanced a runner past first base.

Virginia begins a five-game road swing on Wednesday at Liberty. Game time is 3 p.m., and a live broadcast will be available on ESPN3.

Decided to hold it a day to give myself a little more time to think but our final Weekend Wrap of the hoops season is now live on the front page and linked below. I tried to look at this year and frame next year accordingly as everyone understands just what kind of team UVa should have next season.

Weekend Wrap: Another tough end of the season

I know I am whistling in the dark here, but I wish this board would just chill with all the expectations: "national champion", "final four" "deep run". I know it won't happen but it sure would be nice to just let it happen. I don't know if the players read these, but if they do, it probably just adds pressure to their thinking. My reading of TB is he is satisfied if they "do the best they can".

Men defeated Hopkins in lax, and the women defeated Duke. The women's track team won four dual meets by decisive margins. Lastly, the women's swimming team finished 5th at the NCAA meet. It was their highest finish ever.

I thought that the sports page headline in the RTD was overly negative. The headline was "Fading down the Stretch." The secondary headline was a quote from Atkins, "Definitely, towards the end, we pulled away from our principles, the way we were playing early on. We weren't as tough... It caught up to us." I think that most UVA fans would agree that after our fantastic start, we did not finish as well as we hoped. We had a very tough string of games at the end of the year, and there is no way of knowing how much the loss of Anderson had on the team, both in terms of his loss of scoring and defense and also the necessary increase In playing time for our other starters.. It is certainly possible that this had as much negative impact on our poor shooting in the MSU game as their defense.

Buried deep in the article was an oh, by the way Bennett was the national COY. I guess that this is as much as we can expect when the RTD has a Hokie beat writer summarizing the UVA season.

From UVa:

The below statement is from Virginia men's basketball senior forward Darion Atkins:

"I would like to apologize for my inappropriate comments to the media in Charlotte. I let my emotions get the best of me during the NCAA Tournament and I did not intend to offend anyone. In hindsight I wish I had used more appropriate words to express myself. I've met with my teammates and coaches to express my remorse for this unfortunate situation. I want everyone to know that I care so much about this program, and I hope this does not become a distraction from all that we were able to accomplish this year."

Today is my oldest daughter's birthday. She was born on March 23rd, 1983. That weekend, the night before we brought her home from the hospital, I watched NC State upset UVa and Ralph in the West Region Final. Ralph's senior year and the infamous Jimmy V National Championship. To this day I have never fully recovered from that blow! And now, I feel like it has happened all over again. I am truly devastated and thoroughly disappointed in this team. Like Ralph's last team, I felt this team could go so much further. What is it with Virginia Sports teams? We seldom overachieve, but seem to underachieve with regularity. I am a grown man and still get upset with Virginia sports. I have been working all day, and all I can think about is yesterday's game. I am a Wahoo for life, as they say on the Football scoreboard during the game, and today I truly am bleeding orange and blue. Sorry for the rant, I needed to let off some steam!! Happy Birthday, E, dad loves you!!

Last year when we lost I was so proud of our season. Even my Hokie friends rooted for us. This year they wanted us to lose and so did the media. I feel very letdown for some reason even though 30-4 is nothing to hang your head about, but will Tony look in the mirror and adjust his offensive coaching style? I already know the 16 class has changed the way he recruits, but the slow starts on offense killed us the last few weeks of the season.

Looking at next year's roster we could lose Atkins, JA, and maybe Hall or BJ if they choose not to stick around.

We add Thompson, Salt and baby Tyler, but how much do they help? The keys next season will be-

If JA returns?
Can Tobey man up?
Wilkins and MS taking the next step
LP becoming a scorer
Nolte being a 3 point threat
Transition offense

This is a top 5 team if all return
Top 15-20 with JA, but maybe being a 3 or 4 seed takes pressure off.

Boy if Seth Allen would have come to Uva. I think TB will adjust, but do we have a right to be hard on a program 61-11 in the last two years because of the tourney? Go Hoos.

2016 four-star Mamadi Diakite plans to officially visit Georgetown, USC, Virginia and Washington according to recruiting analyst Rob Harrington.



This post was edited on 3/23 7:12 PM by BradFranklin

Enough of Maryland or bottom 10 teams

I want Mich St next season.

From UVa:

Bennett Named USBWA National Coach of the Year
Bennett earns honor after leading Cavaliers to ACC regular-season title and school-record tying 30 wins

Sixth-year Virginia head coach Tony Bennett was named 2014-15 U.S. Basketball Writers Association Henry Iba National Coach of the Year, announced Monday (March 23) by USBWA. The award is based on regular-season performance.

Bennett guided Virginia to a 30-4 overall record and a 16-2 ACC finish that produced the program's second consecutive outright regular-season conference title. The 30 wins matched the school record set in 1982 and 2014.

The Cavaliers, who were picked to finish fourth in the ACC, became the first ACC school to win 16 or more games in back-to-back seasons. Bennett's Cavaliers lead the nation in scoring defense at 51.5 points per game and Virginia has been ranked in the top 10 the entire season.

Under Bennett's guidance, Virginia secured its third straight season with 23 or more wins for the first time since 1981-83. Bennett's career mark at Virginia is a stellar 136-64 (.680 winning percentage).

Bennett, the Henry Iba Award winner in the 2006-07 at Washington State, is the ninth coach to earn the award more than once and the second to win it at two different schools. Roy Williams has won the award at Kansas (1990) and North Carolina (2006). The legendary John Wooden was named the USBWA National Coach of the Year six times, joining five other coaches to win it twice (Lou Carnesecca of St. John's, John Chaney of Temple, Gene Keady of Purdue, Bob Knight of Indiana, Ray Meyer of DePaul and Fred Taylor of Ohio State).

In case you missed it earlier on the front page, our video interview with senior forward Darion Atkins is linked below. He talks about the loss to Michigan State, what he thought was the difference, how he views his UVa career now that it's over, and what he thinks his legacy will be for the Cavaliers.

CavsCorner Video: Darion Atkins

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I'm reposting this from another post I wrote not sure is anyone is interested or not but I post it just incase.

I made it and from my untrained eye I would say there were about 200 or so in attendance. I'll give you my best take on it (I'll apologize in advance since I was mostly watching the DB's) Practice seemed as organizes as usual. Very deliberate and nicely planed. they did a lot more 11 on 11 than I expected. The guys looked to happy to finally be in pad. Of course there wasn't full contact but the hits that would have been delivered looked to be in good form. A lot of the guys looked to have put on some muscle. Guys that come to mind Trent Corney looked like a Heman action figure, Andrew Brown looks to have put in some work during the off season. He looks slimmer and more compact. I can't remember more specifics but there were countless more.
From what I saw of the linemen O and D they looked to be mixing it up really nice. In fact it got a little chippie towards the end of practice between Brown and a OL player ( I didn't see the number but it was a big pill up when it was all said and done.)
OB's put in some nice work from what I can tell it Lambert, Johns, and Cutler(in that order). All three threw some nice balls I was happy to see that.
RB's had some nice runs and some really nice catches from the back field. There was a lot of north south running not a lot of dancing and juking. I notice a emphasis on finishing runs even after the whistle was blown.
WR looked as strong as usual. I have to Sevrin, Thorpe (transfer from UNC), Terrell, Dockins had some very nice catches. IMO the more the guys work together with the QB's I think they will make some nice plays this year.
LB's had some nice plays I'm not sure who started but there were some plays of note from Stalker, and Kiser the other nice plays I can't remember the numbers of the guys.
DB's look like they are coming together nicely everyone was flying to the ball and had some nice plays. I have to admit Canady looks really comfortable at safety, and The rotation from the other player (can't remember their number sorry) did well.
There wasn't a lot of special teams work but from what I saw there is still a completion between the punters. I was a few good hang time from a few of them.
The coaches were all on the same page and were very vocal on good and bad plays. All in all IMO a very good first day of pads.
There are probably some things I have forgotten but that's what I remember at the moment.

all have one thing in common - they came to Hall of Fame coaches. Think about that. We are in very good hands. The future is very bright.

Team seems like they cant come out for the BIG games. Looks like we tuck our chins in tight and absorb the blows and swing back every now and then. My thoughts on the players:

MB killer instinct needs to start once they jump for the ball. Attack!!!! Seems to not want to be involved with a lot of contact consistently.

JA will need to learn how to dribble

LP will have to tighten up on his defense and look to score more often

EN - Find your stroke please get those feet faster.

Shayock need more PT keep that mid-range going (he has the ability to dribble penetrate)

Hall - more PT

Watkins - Keep learning and working hard.

Toby - Practice with the hockey team to get some fight and aggressiveness about yourself

Gill - Gotta bang no matter the opponent

DA - Always came to play

Well deserved recognition for what he accomplished his year.

darion atkins called his fourth foul a 'terrible call' claimed he wanted it more than other guys & said uva 'played like a bunch of p*ssies


This is why I like DA. We got pushed around and beat on the glass