When Ryan Foster toes the line for Virginia’s men’s cross country team in the early afternoon on Monday, he’ll do so for the final time.

While Virginia’s seniors were disappointed to end their season without a winning record, without a bowl bid and having never beaten state rival Virginia Tech, they stood behind their coach, Al Groh.

Less than a month after playing Duke to a double overtime, scoreless tie in the regular season, Virginia fell 2-0, ending the Cavaliers’ season in the third round of the NCAA tournament.

It didn’t lock Virginia down immediately, but Clemson’s defense certainly turned the tide after a rocky first quarter during the Tigers’ 13-3 win in a defensive struggle Sunday.

Clemson erased any chance Virginia had to play in the league’s title game on Saturday, taking a 13-3 victory away and four turnovers away from the Cavaliers at Scott Stadium.

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While stumbles along the way were painful, the Cavaliers (5-5, 3-3 ACC) are once again playing meaningful football in November.

His two free throws with 29 seconds left propelled Virginia to a 68-66 win in front of 10,311 at John Paul Jones Arena.

Old Dominion took full advantage of the Cavaliers’ sloppy performance and foul trouble woes, beating No. 16 Virginia 78-70 in front of a rowdy crowd of 5,016 at the Ted Constant Center.

Tonight, Virginia (2-0) will be looking for another good performance out of one of its elder statesmen when it hosts Radford at 7 p.m.

Virginia (2-0) marches on this evening, completing one of the toughest weeks of the season — the 16th-ranked Cavaliers play at No. 25 Old Dominion (2-1) at 7 p.m.

Scattershooting around the ACC, while wondering if Clemson’s C.J. Spiller will explode against Virginia’s defense and kick coverage this weekend …

Nobody expected Sylven Landesberg to walk into college hoops and take up where he left off as one of New York City’s most prolific scorers in schoolboy history.

For much of Wednesday night’s game against South Florida, very little of what Calvin Baker did on the court was very pretty or seemed to come easy.

Some of the best recruiters in Virginia football history have been former employees of Al Groh.

Ogletree, Virginia’s top pass-catching option with 50 receptions for 640 yards, boasts another year of eligibility stemming from his medical redshirt in 2007.

When UVa takes the floor against South Florida at John Paul Jones Arena, the tempo of the game figures to be more conventional.

In the wee hours of the morning Tuesday, former Virginia point guard Sharnee Zoll rolled out of bed and turned on her computer.

The Virginia player whom VMI coach Duggar Baucom was talking about first in the wake of his team’s 107-97 loss on Sunday was Sammy Zeglinski.

Monday night, Debbie Ryan’s Cavaliers staged an 83-82 win coup over the defending national champions on their own court.

Virginia, behind a school freshman record 28 points from Sylven Landesberg and a career-high 26 points and 18 rebounds from sophomore Mike Scott, held off pesky VMI in front of 9,955 fans to win its 11th straight season opener.

Kim Romansky scored with less than five minutes remaining, and Wake Forest survived an off day to defeat Virginia 4-3 on Sunday in the quarterfinals of the NCAA field hockey tournament at a cold and blustery Kentner Stadium.

Maryland held on to defeat Virginia for the ACC Championship, 1-0.

UVa, thanks to a strong first-half performance and some clutch defensive plays down the stretch, was able to hold off a valiant West Virginia effort, downing the Mountaineers, 3-2, in front of 499 fans at Klockner Stadium.

Traci Ragukas of Virginia scored what proved to be the winning goal late in the first half as Virginia edged James Madison 2-1 yesterday in the first round of the NCAA field hockey tournament at Kentner Stadium.

For three years, Leitao and an army of UVa fans have been waiting for Diane to step up, take charge and not be afraid to fail.

Since coming to Charlottesville three years ago, Virginia coach Dave Leitao has been able to recruit a stable of three- and four-star prospects to his program.

When Virginia’s basketball schedule first came out, the season-opening game versus VMI probably wasn’t a very big topic of discussion around the water cooler.

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.

Yes, for the last three years — ever since coach Dave Leitao came aboard — Virginia has been blessed with one of the best players in the conference.