On Saturday, a night that was 35 torturous, gut-wrenching, angst-filled, frustrating years in the making, when “Next Year” finally arrived and the breaks finally went the Virginia Cavaliers’ way and the Hoos didn’t leave the floor on the wrong end of another instant classic, the catharsis became all too real at the intersection of 14th and University in Charlottesville, Virginia.
I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but UVA won. If you were in Charlottesville at 11:07 p.m. on Saturday night, you heard it and felt it.
The sidewalk outside of Boylan Heights was impassible to foot traffic some 20 minutes after the game as the scene unfolded, but before Charlottesville police blocked off 14th between University and Wertland.