At last glance, Virginia quarterback Marc Verica was sitting outside the locker room down in Winston-Salem, N.C., still absorbing a stinging loss to Wake Forest.

On Friday night in Cary, N.C., the Virginia men’s soccer team pulled off one of the major upsets of the season when it beat previously undefeated and top-ranked Wake Forest in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament.

Virginia handed No. 1 Wake Forest its first loss of the season, 3-2, in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament at WakeMed Soccer Stadium.

Virginia will get an up-close look today at the Great Redshirting Experiment when the Cavaliers take on Wake Forest in a game that neither team can afford to lose.

Those that have clamored for a playoff system in college football should take a closer look at the current developments in the ACC.

Obviously, the two Demon Deacons have had help from their supporting cast, but regardless, Wake Forest (5-3, 3-2 ACC) will enter Saturday’s game against Virginia (5-4, 3-2) ranked fourth in the nation in turnover margin.

On Sunday at Klockner Stadium, Swanson’s team looked comatose in its final regular-season game, a 1-0 loss to the No. 18 Demon Deacons.

Scattershooting around the ACC, while noting that Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen said he was still frustrated by the loss at Virginia ...

While it was good to see the progress made this season by coach Bowen Sargent’s Virginia men’s golf team, it was perhaps even more satisfying in local golf circles to observe the rise of two homegrown kids that competed with their teams along with UVa in the NCAA Championships this past week at Purdue.

Virginia clearly had its thoughts set on today’s ACC title game with top-seeded Miami during a 7-4 loss to Wake Forest in the final game of pool play at the ACC baseball tournament.

Brian O’Connor is not sure if it has ever happened in ACC Tournament history. O’Connor’s Virginia baseball team, as a reward for earning the No. 6 seed in the league’s postseason event, drew a first-round contest with No. 3 seed North Carolina (45-10, 22-7), which just so happens to be the nation’s top-ranked team.

Behind three scoreless innings of relief work from Davis, the Cavaliers mounted a rally and upended Wake Forest, 4-2, in the opening game of the weekend series.