The women's basketball game tonight between Virginia and host Clemson will be on CSN Plus (the CSN overflow channel).
The game was not supposed to be televised orginally. The CSN Plus game tonight was supposed to be N.C. State at Wake Forest. But that game was postponed because of the death of State coach Kay Yow, so the UVa game will be televised instead.
Brittany Cook has torn the ACL in her right knee and will miss the entire season, Virginia Tech coach Beth Dunkenberger said Thursday. Cook was the ACC's leading scorer last season.
"My heart aches for her and her teammates feel so bad for her," Dunkenberger said. "Obviously you'll miss the leading scorer in the ACC, but right now everybody wants to step up. She said she's going to be there for them. She told them how much she believes in them and they all want to prove that all of this hard work is going to pay off."
Initially doctors thought the injury was just a sprain, but the ACL tear was revealed in an MRI late Wednesday,Dunkenberger said. Cook will have surgery to repair the tear next week.
-- katrina waugh
Monica Wright and Aisha Mohammed scored 27 points apiece as the Virginia women's basketball scored a 91-77 win over DT3 in a preseason exhibition game on Friday at the John Paul Jones Arena. But forward Lyndra Littles sat on the bench in street clothes.
Coach Debbie Ryan said Littles, Virginia's second leading scorer and rebounder last season, was out for "personal reasons," and said she did know how long she would be out of action.
Guard Kristen London also sat out for "disciplinary reasons," Ryan said, and would be out for "several games."
Wright had 10 rebounds and six assists. Mohammed had six rebounds.
-- katrina waugh
Paulisha Kellum, charged with replacing Sharnee Zoll at point guard for the Virginia women's basketball team, has been lost for the season with a torn ACL in right knee, the school announced Thursday.
"This is a tremendous loss for our program," coach Debbie Ryan said in a news release.
The Cavaliers were picked to finished fourth in the ACC in the league's preseason media poll.
Kellum started at the 2 guard spot in 31 of 33 games last season, averaging 9 points and 3.2 assists a game.
Ryan said this fall the 5-foot-8 junior from Upper Marlboro, Md., was the leading candidate to fill the role of point guard, along with freshman Ariana Moorer, of Woodbridge, and senior Britnee Millner, of Martinsville.
According to the news release, Kellum was injured in a scrimmage against George Mason on Saturday and the extent of the injury was revealed by an MRI on Tuesday.
"I know Paulisha will come back as strong as ever and of course we will see her through every step of the way," Ryan said in the release.
-- katrina waugh
Virginia's Monica Wright was named to the preseason ACC women's basketball team, announced today in Greensboro.
Maryland's Kristi Toliver was named the preseason player of the year and the Terps' Lynetta Kizer was the rookie of the year.
Wright and Toliver along with Duke's Chante Black, North Carolina's Rashanda McCants and Maryland's Marissa Coleman made up the preseason all-ACC women's team, as determined by a panel of local and national media and school representatives.
North Carolina was picked to repeat as league champion, followed by Maryland and Duke.
Virginia was picked to finish fourth. Virginia Tech 10th.
1, North Carolina
2, Maryland
3, Duke
4, Virginia
5, Florida State
6, Georgia Tech
7, Boston College
8, N.C. State
9, Clemson
10, Virginia tech
11, Miami
12, Wake Forest
Virginia Tech announced today that last year's freshman star Kat Barbour is no longer on the team.
Coach Beth Dunkenberger said Barbour is in good academic standing and said she hopes the
5-foot-10 sophomore from Charlottesville will remain in school through the end of the semester and then transfer to someplace "where she can get a fresh start."
Barbour averaged 15.5 points and 3.6 rebounds in 26 games.
Queen Harrison did not make the final of the 400-meter hurdles at the Summer Olympics.
Harrison was only seventh in her semifinal heat Monday with a time of 55.88 seconds. The top four finishers in each heat made Wednesday's final. She missed out on fourth in her heat by 0.71 seconds.
The other two Americans, Sheena Tosta and Tiffany Ross-Williams, did advance. Tosta won her heat in 54.07 seconds. Ross-Williams was third in Harrison's heat with a time of 54.99 seconds; the heat was won by Melanie Walker of Jamaica (54.20).
-- Mark Berman
Virginia Tech's Queen Harrison advanced to the semifinals of the 400-meter hurdles Sunday at the Summer Olympics.
Harrison was one of 16 hurdlers moving on to Monday's semifinals. The top three finishers in each of the four heats advanced, as did the next fastest four hurdlers overall.
Harrison was only fourth in her heat, but she was 13th overall with a time of 55.96 seconds.
All three Americans advanced.
-- Mark Berman
Porschia Hadley said she picked Virginia Tech over Clemson, Maryland and South Carolina because of "the family atmosphere and the people there are really nice."
She said she liked the players she met on her visit to campus, likes coach Beth Dunkenberger and, since she plans to one day be a pediatrician, is impressed with the university's biology department.
Hadley, a 6-foot-3 post who averaged 22.6 points and 18.6 rebounds a game for Macon Co. High School, is a three-time all-state pick in Georgia and played AAU with the Georgia Metros this year.
She said she expects to play either 4 or 5 for the Hokies beginning in 2009.
"I think I can come in as a freshman and make an impact," Hadley said.
-- katrina waugh
Abby Redick went to the beach last week and came back a Hokie. She said Sunday night that she committed to Virginia Tech on Saturday after spending the week with her family at Isle of Palms in South Carolina.
The rising senior at Hidden Valley High School in Roanoke said she likes the university, the students, the basketball program, staff etc. ... also that it is close enough to home that she can get there if she wants to but far enough to feel a little independence too.
Redick, a forward for the two-time defending Group AA champion Titans, said she is having surgery to repair a torn ACL on Thursday.
Redick said the first thing the Hokies coaches said to her when they found out she had torn her ACL was "we still want you to be part of our family."
The Hokies also got a verbal commitment from forward Porschia Hadley, twice named to Georgia’a AA all-state team by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Hadley, a 6-3 rising senior at Macon County High School in Montezuma, Ga., averaged 22.6 points and 18.3 rebounds a game last season.
-- katrina waugh
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