Playing its first game of the NCAA tournament, the UVA women’s basketball team breezed past the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos 86-52 on March 23 and will face Old Dominion on Tuesday night. We may have had to consult a dictionary to figure out what a Gaucho is (for the record, a rebel-rousing South American cowboy), but we know that the win spells P-L-A-Y O-N for UVA’s only basketball team in the NCAA tournament.
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