There were no burned-out hulks of torched cars, no broken windows and no looted stores. Although no figures were readily available, police said there were few arrests and little vandalism. Virginia’s celebrations stood in stark contrast to other college town celebrations over the past 20 years.
Teeming crowds of screaming students swarmed the streets around the University of Virginia, climbing atop a dump truck, spraying each other with beer and champagne and shouting with joy after the Cavaliers won the NCAA men’s basketball championship game in overtime Monday night.
The University of Virginia athletics department is inviting fans of the national champion Cavaliers men’s basketball team to greet team members when they arrive at the John Paul Jones Arena on Tuesday.
Boylan Heights went crazy after the Wahoos won their first ever national championship on Monday night. Fans would start partying inside Boylan Heights before they flocked to the University Avenue where they met other fans to celebrate the big victory.
As a star basketball player at Friends Central School in Wynnewood, De'Andre Hunter really made a name for himself on the court. But in the halls of the school, it was a different story. But Hunter carried the same work ethic that got him success on the court into the classroom.
Kyle Guy was named the Final Four's 'Most Outstanding Player' as the UVA basketball team beat Texas Tech 85-77 in OT for its first-ever National Championship.
This time, there were tears of joy. Virginia defeated Texas Tech, 85-77, in overtime to win the first NCAA championship in program history Monday night at U.S. Bank Stadium, one year after becoming the first No. 1 seed to lose to a No. 16 seed in men’s tournament history.
This time, there were tears of joy. Virginia defeated Texas Tech, 85-77, in overtime to win the first NCAA championship in program history Monday night at U.S. Bank Stadium, one year after becoming the first No. 1 seed to lose to a No. 16 seed in men’s tournament history.
The NCAA men's basketball title game was an overtime thriller Monday night. The University of Virginia is now home to the national champs, and a player who calls Philly home had a lot to do with it.
Dick Bennett has difficult time watching his son, Tony, coach Virginia. He rarely attends games. The Cavaliers didn’t make it easy on the elder Bennett, beating Texas Tech 85-77 on Monday night in the first overtime NCAA championship game in 11 years. When it was over, Dick and Tony Bennett shared a hug on a court covered in confetti and then posed for a picture with the whole family before the son went to cut down the net.
On the road to a national title, there is often an incredible comeback, a game where the winning team has to overcome long odds. For Virginia, there were three.
House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., cited a provision of the law known as 26 U.S. Code § 6103 in the letter he sent to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig. The law allows the chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee to seek returns by sending a written request, and that those returns "shall" be handed over. This legal authority is almost a century old, said University of Virginia law professor George Yin. "Congress decided that tax information should remain confidential except in two situations," Yin has written.
Any given human could function at a high level well into his or her dotage. But these are outliers. The overwhelming majority decline. This happens to different people at different ages, but scientists have established that decline accelerates with advancing age: In a study by the University of Virginia, adults between the ages of 61 and 96 showed a decrease in cognitive speed twice as great as adults under age 60, and a drop-off in memory four times as great.
A federal judge has ordered North Korea to pay more than $500 million in a wrongful death suit filed by the parents of Otto Warmbier, a UVA student who died shortly after being released from that country.
(Video) The UVA community celebrated nurses of color during a special recognition ceremony.
(Video) People all over Charlottesville can start creating new tools to help make the city smarter.
UVA alumni kicked off Monday's national championship game day by joining UVA President Jim Ryan for an early morning run around Minneapolis.
Monday’s men’s college championship between Virginia and Texas Tech was widely predicted to be a duck: a snoozy, asleep-on-the couch-by-10 p.m. bore, thanks to two torpid, defense-first, low-scoring outfits certain to batter each other into somnolent submission. But the Hoos vs. the Red Raiders would defy its critics and potshots and ramp up into a bona fide gem – one of the better title games in history, really – a wake-the-kids-up overtime thriller that was close until its final moments.
April is even madder than March. A week after winning on one of the most memorable plays in NCAA tournament history, UVA advanced to the national title game — on a sequence that won’t be forgotten in these parts anytime soon. Kyle Guy was fouled with 0.6 seconds remaining, then calmly made all three free throws to deliver the win.