I just returned from the Dean Dome. Boy that was ugly. I have never seen a team fare so poorly against Carolina. The first highlight of the evening came at about 9:15 when the television screen flashed that Duke had lost to Florida State, breaking its ACC winning streak. The entire Dean Dome, Carolina and Virginia fans alike, erupted. While I have never been a big Duke fan, I don’t particularly understand the animosity between Carolina and Duke. It just happened that this morning there was an author on the radio talking about a book on the rivalry, titled To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever. Hopefully I will get around to reading it one day. The second highlight was at the very end when we all got onto our feet to see if Carolina could bring the scoreboard to triple digits in the last 35 seconds.
With 28 seconds left, Carolina was awarded two foul shots and missed both.
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Maryland 71 UVA 70 - last game at University Hall :)
I am going to miss the old Univ. Hall. During my first year at UVA, we used to have to go there every first week of semester to do final registration. Eventually that process was overhauled to the point where we could do that over the telephone (and now via internet). At my graduation, the economics department had its ceremony there.
Here's a good article in the Richmond Times Dispatch about the Univ. Hall and the new John Paul Jones Arena.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137834515680
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