School-record crowd propels women's hoops to win
(02/26/96 5:00am)
Several records were broken when the 12th-ranked women's basketball team took down North Carolina, 61-56, in Cameron Indoor Stadium on Friday.
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Several records were broken when the 12th-ranked women's basketball team took down North Carolina, 61-56, in Cameron Indoor Stadium on Friday.
The men's and women's tennis teams square off against some of the top names in collegiate tennis this weekend at the National Team Indoors.
For the first time in the history of the program, the women's basketball team picked up its 11th Atlantic Coast Conference victory of the season. Against a tough 16th-ranked Tiger team (19-5, 9-5 in the ACC) in Clemson, S.C., No. 12 Duke (22-5, 11-4) captured a 75-65 contest Monday evening.
The 11th-ranked men's tennis team continued its opening weekend of dual matches with a 4-2 win over No. 18 Virginia Commonwealth on Saturday.
The men's tennis team opened its season with a 5-2 victory over Virginia Tech in Greensboro, despite missing one of its top players.
An athlete sweats for three hours a day on the practice field, grabs a quick shower and a bite to eat, then pores over his books for a few hours every day so he doesn't get behind. He readies for a game that will mean ecstasy or heartbreak depending on the outcome. In the few hours he has free, it's understandable that he may want to get off campus and relax, perhaps to join his friends for a meal or a movie.
Four members of the men's and women's tennis teams faced other top collegiate tennis players at the Rolex Intercollegiate Tennis Championships in Dallas, Texas, this past weekend.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.-The Virginia women's basketball team had compiled a 92-4 home-game record in this decade prior to Saturday night, including winning its last 65 of 66.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.-The magnitude of the women's basketball team's 72-69 victory over Virginia at University Hall is hard to explain by statistics alone, even though the statistics are a good place to start describing just how important that win was for the Blue Devils.
It must seem routine by now for the men's tennis team to win Atlantic Coast Conference Championships.
Game commentary
The men's tennis team has dominated the Atlantic Coast Conference over the past few years.
CHAPEL HILL--Freshman Hilary Howard scored just four points in Wednesday night's game against North Carolina. When the final buzzer sounded, however, Howard's last two points were etched in the memory of nearly everyone in the crowd of 3,216 at Carmichael Auditorium.
The Austrailian Open may be nearing its end, but the collegiate tennis circuit is just beginning.
Once again, the talk of the Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball coaches on their weekly teleconference centered around a general agreement of balance in the conference this season. While some may have thought that then-No. 6 Wake Forest was edging away from the pack, the Demon Deacons dropped their first conference game to then-No. 19 Clemson on Sunday, 55-41.
The men's and women's swimming teams finished their home schedules this year with two final meets this weekend. Although the weekend started off with a loss to Virginia on Friday afternoon, both the men's and women's squads picked up their second win of the year against the College of Charleston on Sunday.
RALEIGH--When the buzzer finally sounded, the crowd of 12,400 in Reynolds Coliseum stood in a stunned silence. Duke senior Chris Collins got some lucky bounces, and N.C. State's Curtis Marshall did not.
Game commentary
It hardly matters to the women's basketball team that Thursday night's victory was not pretty. The Blue Devils won a 57-53 contest over Maryland, and Duke wanted a win any way it could get it.
The wrestling team finished up its fall season of tournaments with an 11th-place showing at the Billy Sheridan Invitational in Lehigh, Penn., on Saturday.