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By Jeff White, VirginiaSports.com (For full article click here)
ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands -- At the end of practice Sunday night, Tony Bennett called his players together in the spartan gym of a local high school and reminded them of recent events on the mainland -- specifically, UVa's victories over Florida State in football, Tennessee in women's basketball and Virginia Tech in NCAA women's soccer.
"Hopefully we can cap off a great weekend for Virginia sports," Bennett said before the team headed back to its hotel on this Caribbean island.
UVa's third-year men's basketball coach got his wish Monday. It may not qualify as a marquee victory, but the Cavaliers beat Drake 60-52 in the Paradise Jam to end their stay in St. Thomas on a positive note.
"We lost a tough game the first game," senior guard Sammy Zeglinski said, "but I liked the way we responded the next two games, and we got wins that we needed to get."
