#19 Louisville (21-6)
at
Virginia Tech (12-15)
Cassell Coliseum
9pm ACCN
Late-night showdown with the Cards 😤🆚 No. 19 Louisville🟠 Wear Orange🕘 9PM📺 ACCN🔗 https://t.co/Ypqs6c8sMc🤝 @cmgleasing pic.twitter.com/Ay8mxgSjw1— Virginia Tech Men's Basketball (@HokiesMBB) February 25, 2025
Louisville Professionals Visiting
The Hokies come off their most complete game that essentially eliminated Miami from the ACC Tournament. Now they face the brand new team that Louisville went out and bought after two of the worst seasons in their history.
After going 12-52 the last two years, the new professional team is 21-6 and 14-2 in the ACC. They lost to Duke in early December and then a head scratcher to Georgia Tech at the beginning of February. Prior to ACC play their other losses were a ranked Tennessee, Oklahoma, a ranked Ole Miss, and a ranked Kentucky. 0-4 against the SEC which is seemingly the trend for the ACC this year.
Pat Kelsey has only one player in their top 10 players that isn't a transfer in this season. That is freshman Khani Rooths, the #33 player in last year's class. The other nine signed new contracts to play for the Louisville Professionals.
The key transfers are Chucky Hepburn (Wisconsin), Terrence Edwards (JMU), Reyne Smith (CoC), and Jvonne Hadley (Colorado). All four are averaging double-digit scoring.
They lost two key players to injury in Kasean Prior (12ppg prior) and Koren Johnson(3ppg but backup pg).
The scoring falls off a good bit after the four starters named above. James Scott and Noah Waterman are the two bigs that rotate in this 4 Guards 1 Big lineup for Kelsey.
They prefer extremely high tempo on both sides of the ball employing pressure at different intervals in a tight man to man defense and a hectic ball movement offense.
They shoot a ridiculous amount of threes so Hokies need to sacrifice a bit in the paint to limit clean looks from outside. Cards are attempting over 30 three pointers per contest. Fortunately only Smith and Hadley are proficient but they combine for over half of the 30 team attempts.
Tough to see the Hokies getting a win over this group of one year mercenaries but stranger things have happened.
Orange Effect 🟠Come out to Cassell Coliseum tonight to watch @HokiesMBB take on No. 19 Louisville and WEAR ORANGE 👇— HokieSports (@hokiesports) February 25, 2025
Professionals Starting Five
Chucky Hepburn
24 SR G 6-2 211
15.6 Pts, 3.3 Reb, 6.0 Ast
Terrence Edwards
5 SR G 6-6 190
14.9 Pts, 3.9 Reb, 2.7 Ast
Reyne Smith
6 SR G 6-2 180
14.2 Pts, 3.0 Reb, 0.9 Ast
J'Vonne Hadley
1 SR G 6-6 200
12.6 Pts, 7.3 Reb, 1.8 Ast
And/or
James Scott
0 SO F 6-11 210
7.1 Pts, 6.4 Reb, 1.4 Ast
Noah Waterman
93 SR F 6-11 210
5.8 Pts, 3.6 Reb, 0.4 Ast
Key Bench Players
Khani Rooths
9 FR F 6-8 205
3.8 Pts, 3.0 Reb, 0.3 Ast
Aboubacar Traore
25 SR G 6-5 190
5.5 Pts, 4.9 Reb, 0.6 Ast
stood on business @SinCereJones_ 🏆💪 pic.twitter.com/jZybBL2Glx— Virginia Tech Men's Basketball (@HokiesMBB) February 25, 2025
S/O @ChristianGurdak 🥇Big bump tonight between Gonzaga and PVI for the WCAC chip 🏆👀 pic.twitter.com/qcWtiXSfC5— Virginia Tech Men's Basketball (@HokiesMBB) February 24, 2025
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