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cavalier sports 10 CAVALIER CORNER around grounds $100,000 Amount awarded to former UVA men's ten‑ nis standout JC Aragone (2013‑17), when he won the Oracle US Tennis Award. The program, which started three years ago, annually awards a male and female tennis player a grant to help finance their contin‑ ued development. Aragone is the second Cavalier to earn the honor, following former women's tennis star Danielle Collins, who earned the award in its first year. 35 Wins for the men's basketball team, a new school record, after the top‑seeded Cavs won its first NCAA championship with a 85‑77 victory over Texas Tech April 8 in Minneapolis. 29th Was where rookie PATRICK MCELROY finished in the Col‑ lege Squash Asso‑ ciation's (CSA) rank‑ ing of the top 32 players in the land. McElroy reached the Molloy Cup East semifinals at the CSA Individual Championships. 4 th Was where ESPN.com listed Virginia's Tony Bennett while ranking the 68 NCAA Tournament teams' coaches as players. Bennett was a two‑time Mid‑Continent Conference (now called the Summit League) Player of the Year, before play‑ ing 152 games for the NBA's Charlotte Hornets. The only three who checked in higher were Bobby Hurley of Arizona State, Johnny Dawkins of UCF and Chris Mullin of St. John's. 202 Assists this campaign for third‑year guard Ty Jerome, tied for third on Virginia's single‑season list. In the championship contest, he also be‑ came the school's 49th member of the 1,000‑point club and ended the year with 1,011 career points. ALL PHOTOS COURTESY UVA this month in uva history April 25, 1950 UVA produces its first NBA draftee, when guard Joe Noertker goes in the 10th round to the Washington Capitals after averaging 20.1 points per game as a senior for the Cavaliers. April 24,1973 Barry Parkhill becomes the program's first NBA Draft first‑round pick after being selected 15th overall by the Portland Trail Blazers. However, the former ACC Player of the Year never played in an NBA game, instead playing three seasons in the ABA and appear‑ ing in 173 games while notching 970 points, before embarking on his coaching career that lasted from 1977‑92. Since 1998, Parkhill has served as Virginia's associate athletics director for development. April 11, 1978 PETER SPOSATO set school records with four home runs and 10 RBI in a 28‑5 victory over Mary‑ land. Both marks still have never been equaled in program history. The women's team is amazing and closed out the season in amazing fashion. After having been picked to not finish inside the top 10, our ladies defied the critics and finished sixth. It was a full team effort. Everyone contributed at a high level. … The women did so much better than I could have imagined. We had 16 women here, and we are sending our three seniors out on a high note." — Second-year head swimming and diving coach Todd DeSorbo on UVA placing sixth at the NCAA Championships on the strength of 16 All-America swims (12 individual performances).