Wahoowa!!! The Virginia men’s basketball team secured its first Final Four appearance since 1984 with an 80-75 overtime win over Purdue in Saturday evening’s (March 30) South Regional Final in Louisville, Kentucky. We took to Twitter for reaction on UVA’s victory and brought back videos, messages, and photos for you to check out.
Enjoy, and Go Hoos!
LOUISVILLE, Ky — pic.twitter.com/QkIWwN4flB
— Joshua Needelman (@JoshNeedelman) March 31, 2019
We are going to the #FinalFour #GoHoos #Wahoowa
🔶⚔️🔷🏀 pic.twitter.com/jB9zGVWLtG
— Matthew Althoff (@UVAEquipment) March 31, 2019
The quest to avenge continues!
Virginia advances to its first Final Four since 1984! pic.twitter.com/3ZzrbrXfTK
— ESPN (@espn) March 31, 2019
First #FinalFour for Tony Bennett feels GOOD! 👏#MarchMadness | @UVAMensHoops pic.twitter.com/Z8WxW8aMo5
— NCAA March Madness (@marchmadness) March 31, 2019
WE’RE GOING TO THE #FINALFOUR!!!
🔶⚔️🔷 #GoHoos pic.twitter.com/L16y0HZaWG— Virginia Men’s Basketball (@UVAMensHoops) March 31, 2019
Incredible moment between Coach Bennett and his father, Dick Bennett. #PressOn to the #FinalFour!
🔶⚔️🔷 #GoHoos pic.twitter.com/2lxQi3umBN— Virginia Men’s Basketball (@UVAMensHoops) March 31, 2019
yo that’s my FAM FAM 😭❤️ https://t.co/VL5WrMwInJ
— anna (@ambennett25) March 31, 2019
Back at the hotel to celebrate with our amazing fans! 🔶⚔️🔷 #GoHoos pic.twitter.com/mk6HgMwYaY
— Virginia Men’s Basketball (@UVAMensHoops) March 31, 2019
Final buzzer pic.twitter.com/26Gjm4Vmib
— Ava Wallace (@avarwallace) March 31, 2019
Charlottesville is having a time pic.twitter.com/g3gLqGvAC7
— Ava Wallace (@avarwallace) March 31, 2019
WE’RE HEADING TO OT! 😱#MarchMADNESS | #Elite8 pic.twitter.com/pmX7SHt35Z
— NCAA March Madness (@marchmadness) March 31, 2019
VIRGINIA IS HEADING TO THE FINAL FOUR!!!! MAMADI DIAKITE’S TYING BUCKET AT THE END OF REGULATION IS EVEN BETTER WITH TITANIC MUSIC!!!! A CLASSIC REGIONAL FINAL!!! 🏀🚢🎶 pic.twitter.com/NCD6zWMewM
— Titanic Hoops 🏀🚢🎶 (@Titanic_Hoops) March 31, 2019
F I N A L F O U R !!!!!!! I’m in tears !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
— Bub Evans (@JontelEvans1) March 31, 2019
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— Mike Scott (@mikescott) March 31, 2019
WAHOOWA!!! #FINALFOUR
— akil mitchell (@ajmitchell25) March 31, 2019
It’s 515 am, I’m on a bus in the middle of nowhere France, SCREAMING at my phone
— akil mitchell (@ajmitchell25) March 31, 2019
#FinalFour TALK !! 🗣#Hoos #PressOn
— Justin Anderson (@JusAnderson1) March 31, 2019
Confession: Yes I wish I would have stayed at UVA years ago, I was young and my head was in the wrong place.
But mannnn one a freakin HOO, always a HOO!!!!!
I’ve heard so much down talk about UVA through the years it’s wild.
— John Doe (@Tev_Is_Blessed) March 31, 2019
— Evan Nolte (@EvanNolte) March 31, 2019
LONG OVERDUE 🔹🔸 #HOOSBABY
— London Perrantes (@London_Tyus) March 31, 2019
I’ll still go to war for this man any day of the week ! #Redemption https://t.co/0JQDHnZexY
— London Perrantes (@London_Tyus) March 31, 2019
Mood 😭 pic.twitter.com/NnIWuOQ82V
— Isaiah Wilkins (@isaiahwilkins17) March 31, 2019
The Story Continues…🤫 https://t.co/Ur2PZe1mjR
— Casey Morsell (@CaseyMorsell) March 31, 2019
Let them sleep 🤫 #wahoowa https://t.co/kVzmu5Isk4
— Kadin Shedrick (@kcshedrick) March 31, 2019
🏀 and Advance!! LET’S GOOOO!!!🔶⚔️🔷 @VirginiaSports @UVAMensHoops #Wahoowa #GoHoos https://t.co/n0s1qRy1jH
— Carla G. Williams (@ADWilliamsUVA) March 31, 2019
Speechless!
Couldn’t be happier for this special team! #wahoowa #finalfour pic.twitter.com/r6mnOQ1twi
— Jim Ryan (@presjimryan) March 31, 2019
DID I SAY IT https://t.co/qwkHQq0CYK
— Chris Long (@JOEL9ONE) March 31, 2019
This is how @UVAMensHoops has been staring down defeat and doing their thang!
WaHooFREAKINGWa! pic.twitter.com/WpzuNG99ro— Battle-Tested! (@bigray72) March 31, 2019
The players deserve this. The program deserves this. Tony deserves this. Wahoowa. https://t.co/J6kWv3gXTA
— Tyler Wilson (@t_willy18) March 31, 2019
HOOS IN THE FINAL FOUR BABY!!! WAHOOWA!!!!
— Luca Corinteli (@Luca_Corinteli) March 31, 2019
So happy for @UVAMensHoops they stayed the course all season and earned the right to be in the #FinalFour add another one Hell-UVA of a win! Finish the journey, proud to be a Hoo‼️#Wahoowa #GoHoos 🔶⚔️🔷
— Marques Hagans (@coachmhagans) March 31, 2019
Final 4 baby!!!!! Wahoowa!!! Cheeeeehoooooooooo!!!!!
— UVACoachAtuaia (@UVACoachAtuaia) March 31, 2019
We have wild fireworks 💥 going off in Crozet!!! Love it!!!
🔷⚔️🔶#Final4 #MarchMadness— Garett Tujague (@Coach2J) March 31, 2019
Congrats @UVAMensHoops on punching your ticket to the final four! Might as well go win it!! @ADWilliamsUVA
— dawnstaley (@dawnstaley) March 31, 2019
Virginia’s style works in March.
— John Gasaway (@JohnGasaway) March 31, 2019
So I don’t hear all the skeptics that said you can’t get to a Final 4 playing @UVAMensHoops style of play. 🙄
— Seth Greenberg (@SethOnHoops) March 31, 2019
Kyle Guy: “We made bad history last year. We’re making good history this year.”
Love how Tony Bennett and the Cavaliers players have handled the historic loss to UMBC a year ago. Incredible maturity – and rewarded tonight with trip to Final Four.
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) March 31, 2019
Virginia Basketball. A thing of beauty. pic.twitter.com/75yK0OoiHQ
— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) March 31, 2019
Dear Purdue and Virginia,
Thanks for giving us one of the great Elite Eight games we’ve seen in recent memory.
Sincerely,
America
— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) March 31, 2019
I NEVER STOPPED BELIEVING IN YOU TONY, GOD’S PLAN BABY pic.twitter.com/bjV9wUWVfj
— Mark Titus (@clubtrillion) March 31, 2019
Tony Bennett has coached himself to the first Final Four of his career. Virginia beats Purdue 80-75, winning one of the best, most entertaining, most memorable games in NCAA Tournament history.
— Matt Norlander (@MattNorlander) March 31, 2019
Considering the time, score, degree of difficulty and what was on the line, Kihei Clark’s pass to Diakite at the end of regulation is one of the best passes I’ve ever seen. Hoops version of Montana to Clark in 81.
— Eric Bossi (@ebosshoops) March 31, 2019
From UMBC to the Final Four. One of the great sports stories I have ever seen. Bennett and these players fielded every question with class and grace. They deserve this!!!
— Seth Davis (@SethDavisHoops) March 31, 2019
— UMBC Athletics (@UMBCAthletics) March 31, 2019
I HAVE NO TWEET PREPARED FOR THIS MOMENT BECAUSE HOLY CRAP THEY DID IT.
— Phony Bennett (@IfTonyTweeted) March 31, 2019
I’m a #UVa fan. I grew up in a UVa family. I live,die with the Wahoos. Didn’t go there. Just love UVa and all it stands for. I can’t explain what this moment means. I’m paid for words but I can’t put it into them. A win for a wonderful program and an exceptional coach
— Tucker Martin (@jtuckermartin) March 31, 2019
Sobbing happy tears.
So happy for this team and for this coach.
and for the fans who have cheered through years of futility, never daring to think that this would actually happen.— Andrew Freiden (@AndrewNBC12) March 31, 2019
Diakite I love you more than my first born
— Beth Cobb (@hoonurse) March 31, 2019
sign of the night pic.twitter.com/QZSpoEAXjQ
— Virginia 🏀🧡💙 (@UVABasketball) March 31, 2019
This was a direct quote from my older brother:
“If I tweeted, I would say, “The Hoos are curing my childhood PTSD from being a UVA family growing up in C’ville during the Sampson heartbreak era, crying during 6 premature ACC & NCAA tourney losses, & at 3am after the loss to Chamindade listening to the radio in bed in my ear with volume low, risking parental punishment on a school night.
No more ‘Virginia Chokaliers’ or ‘Virginia is for losers’! Looking fwd to a finals WIN…Total vindication for them, total cure for me…”