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UVA had a fantastic basketball season, culminating in an NCAA Tournament bid.  Before the #10 seed Cavs play the evil Gators in Omaha on Friday, here are some of the highlights (and lowlights) from their regular season:

• Sept 20:  Coach Tony Bennett releases an album of duets, in which he sings with Lady Gaga, Willie Nelson, and Mike Krzyzewski
• Nov 10:  Cavman releases a statement saying any accusations the he uses steroids are completely false
• Dec 22: Despite winning at both Oregon and Seattle, the team comes back with a pacific northwest depression.  Guard Sammy Zeglinski writes an angsty song about how his dad never gave him enough lunch money
• Jan 12:   UVA loses to Duke on the basketball court, but steals all the pocket protectors from their locker room
• Jan 19:  Center Assane Sene rolls his ankle re-enacting a scene from the Smurfs movie, but convinces his teammates it was a basketball injury
• Feb 8:  Guard Doug Browman takes off his gym shorts, and throws them into the hamper with 1.3 seconds left before bed time
• Mar 4: Forward Mike Scott named to the all-ACC best hair team

Good luck to UVA in the NCAA Tourney!  Beat those slimy Gators!!!

The UVA Football team is headed to the Chick-Fil-A Bowl to celebrate their impressive football season with chicken biscuits and cows that can’t spell. But before that, let’s take a look back at this historic season:

Sep 3: William & Mary (W 40-3)
RB Kevin Parks has a few too many red bulls before the game, rushes for 114 yards and 3 touchdowns

Sep 10: at Indiana W (34-31)
UVA wins despite the entire team having the the song “Goin’ Back to Indiana” stuck in their heads for 5 straight days before the game

Sep 17: at North Carolina (L 17-28)
UVA is humbled by losing to a football team that wears powder blue uniforms

Sep 24: Southern Miss (L 24-30)
UVA loses because they accidentally prepared to play Ole Miss

Oct 1: Idaho (W 21-20)
Mike London admits letting the game to into overtime because he thought he’d be paid overtime

Oct 15: (12) Georgia Tech W (24-21)
In a team meeting before the game, the Cavs unanimously vote that they should beat the #12 team in the country

Oct 22: North Carolina State (L 14-28)
UVA gives the ball up to NC State four times, saying they don’t want to be part of the 1%

Oct 27: at Miami (FL) (W 28-21)
UVA gets help from the engineering department in setting up a fake field goal, using holograms, mirrors, and a trap door on the 40 yard line

Nov 5: at Maryland (W 31-13)
Mike London wins the game, then blogs abouts about how delicious Maryland crabcakes are

Nov 12: Duke (W 31-21)
UVA jumps out to an early lead when Duke keeps trying to dribble and shoot the football

Nov 19: at (23) Florida State (W 14-13)
Mike London solidifies his spot as ACC Coach of the Year, UVA Big Man on Campus, and Charlottesville Idol

Nov 26: (6) Virginia Tech (L 0-38)
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On Saturday, the Virginia and Virginia Tech football teams will play a historic game, in which the winner will play in the ACC Championship.  But this is more than just one game.

Here is what’s on the line for Saturday’s game:

• The winner will be crowned Champion of the ACC Coastal Division (despite being at least 150 miles from coast)
• The truck drivers along I-81 between Blacksburg and Charlottesville will be reminded of football greatness as they are driving 45 mph uphill in the passing lane
• The winner gets a Dr Pepper patch sewn into their uniform for the Dr Pepper ACC Championship Game against Clemson
• Alumni who are programming super computers to assist with heart transplants will get to brag about a football score
• The winner will get the “Commonwealth Cup”, a trophy shaped like a Virginia Slim cigarette
• If UVA wins, the signs in Southwest Virginia will be changed from “Virginia’s Technology Corridor” to “Virginia’s Football Loser Corridor”.
• If Tech wins, the pillars of the Rotunda will be painted maroon and orange.
• Thousands of high schoolers will decide their education based on which students excel at throwing an oblong rubber ball

The UVA Football team is 2-0, and off to their best start since 2005.  Coach Mike London seemed as surprised as anyone, prompting an odd but excited pep talk.

“You know that thing where we won last week?” London said to his team at practice on Wednesday.  “Yes, let’s do that again!  That was awesome!”

Coach London attributes last week’s win to UVA scoring more points than their opponent.  Sources close to the football team say that London is forming this week’s entire game plan around this strategy.

London’s new tactic, which he codenamed “winning” (an idea he got from Charlie Sheen), has a two-part plan.  First, he wants to score some points on offense.  And second, he wants to do that other one where the opposing team scores few to no points.

“I don’t want to tip my hand and just give them our playbook,” London said of Saturday’s match up against UNC.  “But let’s just say we want to win by the end of the 4th quarter.”

Will Coach London’s new strategy work?  Find out Saturday as UNC hosts the ‘Hoos at 3:30 on ESPNU.