Yep! Not since the early 80s has the Commonwealth of Virginia been so endowed in the sport of hoops! This year, barring an injustice on the order of the Immaculate reception, Virginia should have 3, maybe 4, teams in the big dance!
Virginia Commonwealth University (the only school that gets the name right) qualified last night. UVA and Va. Tech should be in by virtue of beating every top tier team in the ACC (they just could not figure out how to beat the also rans). Old Dominion may join them in an at Large bid, but their conference is not considered top tier, so multiple bids are not always given.
But Virginia is not a stranger to the big dance. After all, last year's Cinderella was none other than George Mason - A Virginia team! And UVA managed to get into the final 4 once when they had one of the greatest basketball players of all time (and then did it without him).
I know that our fair neighbors to the north will be represented as they are having a good season as well (beating the hated Duke - outside of Durham, who does not?). But I wonder how many other states can claim 3-4 members of the final 64? I think that list is going to be very short!
Terp, the Season is over. Time to quit hating Duke (well we can never really do that), and start worrying about Virginia! All of us against just you!