CAVS BLOG: More than you ever wanted to read about the game

After blowing a two-run lead in the top half of the ninth inning, Virginia fell 4-3 in last night’s elimination game against Arkansas in the College World Series.

BLACKSBURG – Virginia Tech men’s basketball coach Seth Greenberg said he was “shocked and disappointed” when he learned that University of Virginia coach Dave Leitao agreed to resign.

Watch the ceremonies as Meadowbrook offensive tackle Morgan Moses goes to U.Va.

Barack Obama’s inauguration is next Tuesday, Jan. 20, in Washington. About a dozen miles away in College Park, Md., Virginia and Maryland will play an ACC men’s basketball game that night. Typically, U.Va.‘s traveling party spends only one night in a hotel before a road game. Because of the inauguration, however, the Cavaliers will leave Charlottesville on Sunday and stay that night in Columbia, Md. They usually stay in Greenbelt, Md., but they’re heading farther away from Washington to avoid the inauguration-related congestion.

Monica Wright scored 22 points and Lyndra Littles added a season-high 21 to lead No. 16 Virginia to an 83-38 victory over Rider yesterday in the Cavalier Classic. It was the seventh straight game Wright has topped 20 points. She also had six steals. The Cavaliers never trailed, building a 48-19 halftime lead behind 16 first-half points from Littles and 12 from Wright.

CHARLOTTESVILLE—Dwayne Reed hit a 3-pointer with 1:24 left and Auburn held on for a 58-56 victory over Virginia tonight. The Tigers (6-4) led 50-42 with 9:15 remaining before Virginia (4-4) scored 12 unanswered points, including five points each from Sammy Zeglinski and Sylven Landesberg, to take a 54-50 lead—its first since 12:42 left in the first half.