It was a brutally cold day in Happy Valley. There were mounds of snow behind UVA’s first half goal. The snow flurried pretty heavily late in the first half. The wind chill was biting. Some games you are not just battling your opponent, you are also fighting the weather. This was one such case.
Of course, the Xavier Musketeers were fighting the same biting weather conditions. For the Virginia Cavaliers, though, who left last weekend’s tragedies 300 miles behind them, this weather was surely reflective of their overall mood.
As head coach Steve Swanson said after the game:
“It’s just been a really hard week.