Heading into the home stretch of competition, the Hokies lead the Hoos 7.5 to 6.5 with 8 points remaining.
This weekend, the #24 Hokies (30-5) take on the Hoos (16-21) in Softball, likely a point for VT. Also this weekend is Men's Tennis, where UVA is currently ranked #5, while the Hokies are unranked. Barring an upset, this should go to UVA.
Next weekend, I believe are the ACC Golf Championships, and I can't find any info on how good either team is.
The final contest of the month will be the Women's Lacrosse point, which will pit #7 UVA against #21 VT.
As I can't find rankings for golf, I'll go Dutch and split the points, and I'll give UVA the advantage in Lax. So,
going into the last month of competitions, I see the score being 9.5-9.5, with ACC Champs in Track and Field (Women's and Men's) and Baseball to go.
Edited to include softball.
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What sport is this? Softball?
I believe so. The softball team is 30-5.
So if there are no upsets, VT should win 11.5-10.5 if I'm reading this right.
Yes
Nice. Thanks for posting this!
That would be some satisfaction.
Hey, ANYTHING to eat at their souls & existence.
Trying to find some info on the golf team, here are the results from each teams most recent tournaments.
Tech
1. Georgia Southern 290-280-268=838 (-26)
2. East Tennessee State 285-280-286=851 (-13)
3. Notre Dame 288-287-286=861 (-3)
4. Mississippi State 283-285-294=862 (-2)
5. Kentucky 289-291-285=865 (+1)
6. College of Charleston 283-292-293=868 (+4)
7. Virginia Tech 304-289-286=879 (+15)
8. Middle Tennessee State 292-300-291=883 (+19)
9. Minnesota 295-299-292=886 (+22)
10. Georgia State 299-302-288=889 (+25)
11. UAB 292-298-300=890 (+26)
12. Army 296-300-295=891 (+27)
13. Maryland 301-300-302=903 (+39)
14. Lipscomb 295-309-304=908 (+44)
LOLUVA
1. South Carolina 279-286-277-842
2. Kansas 282-287-280-849
3. Col. of Charleston 285-277-292-854
4. Missouri 279-296-282-857
5. Kent State 280-284-295-859
6. Iowa State 287-292-282-861
7. NC State 291-290-281-862
8. Kentucky 291-292-281-863
9. West Virginia 287-287-291-865
10. Duke 287-293-287-867
11. Purdue 289-295-285-869
11. Virginia 286-290-293-869
13. Wisconsin 286-297-288-871
14. Middle Tennessee State 289-298-293-880
15. Ole Miss 288-294-300-882
What am I looking at?
Team standings from each teams most recent tournament
Cumulative score for all players on each team for the three days of the tournament they played in
Looks like College of Charleston is a good comparison since they were in both tournaments.
Looks like CofC beat VT by 11 strokes and they beat UVA by 15 strokes.
So if these tournament scores are comparable at all (minimal golf knowledge), then it looks like UVA and VT golf are similar level.
Edit: Just now see the post below about respective ranks - looks like my ballpark comparison is off.
but CofC shot 14 strokes different between those two tournaments, Kentucky and Middle Tenn St are better comparisons as they shot about the same on both, but the courses may also play to a teams strengths in diff ways. Who knows, the difference in 100 and 60 in college golf may be very small and the right course could have Tech finish ahead of uva
Yeah, like I said I don't have much golf knowledge besides the basics. I was just trying to find a ballpark comparison in the results.
Your link to the rankings is much more useful! Thanks! Looks like UVA is far ahead in golf.
Uva's women golf is ranked #17, Tech is #49 . Men's golf, UVa at 59 and Tech at 100. So not looking good there, but golf seems like a uva sport.
Source: http://golfstat.com/index.cfm?event=public.teamRanking
Hokie softball sweeps LOLUVa, but men's tennis falls to the Hoos.
That puts us up 8.5-7.5
Just a reminder, three clash points will be decided over the next few days:
Men's Golf (higher finish in ACC championship, 4/18-4/20)
Women's Golf (higher finish in ACC championship, 4/18-4/20)
Women's Lacrosse (winner of head to head, 4/20)
Fun fact: since the dawn of the clash, we have never scored a point in either Men's or Women's golf (see: my theory that spring sports exist to give LOLUVa a chance at winning this whole thing). Losing all three points this weekend pretty much guarantees the hoos a win this year. Going 2-1 would be huge, giving us a two point lead. However, I suspect we'll be all knotted up at 9.5 come Sunday, with three more points left to score. The good news is that we have traditionally done very well in the track competitions so we should be favored to close out the clash 2-1 to win it for a third year in a row. 🤞🤞
VT plays sports after March madness ends, who knew.
http://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=team&tid=17695
Looks like LOLUVA is going to get the point in women's Golf. But impressed with where Tech is in the standings going into today.
Jesus the collapse happened fast.
kind of expected. Doesn't matter too much so long as we win in lacrosse.
What is, a phrase typically uttered by LOLUVa fans after washing out of march madness (I said typically).
And while we've already swept UVA handily in softball, I would urge all here to keep an eye on our softball team. They're playing lights out and have a good chance to make some noise post season. You can catch most games (I go to hokiesports.com, softball, schedule for streaming link) and while our pitching has been really good, our hitting has been superlative. Lots of fun, if I were in the 'Burg, I'd be at their games.
Damnit lost at Lax too, after having the lead until less than 10 to play. Well shit that's probably the clash this year.
So that means we need to sweep men's and women's track and baseball.
Not looking good, kids.
Tomorrow will be pivotal for the track championships. Currently the LOLUVa women lead the tech ladies by 6
points. The LOLUVa men are actually sitting in first place with 77 the good guys back 17 points. Third place FSU is way back with 34.5.
So yeah, we need to straight up dominate the Saturday events on both sides to make up the deficits...
What!! Track is Tech's sport usually WTH.
Actually, we appear to be doing pretty well, just not as well as them. There are still a ton of events tomorrow, but I'd just always rather be ahead going into the home stretch.
Scheduling. Our strong events aren't first day.
Still only won by 6 and women got crushed by FSU.
Maybe you should have a chat with the teams...
Ok. Historically the teams have don't better than that. Same with swimming.
Vtnerf is 100% correct. Track and field meet scheduling and different teams strengths/weaknesses has a lot to do with how the leaderboards changes
By finishing ahead of the Lady Hokies in track and field I think LOLUVA wins the clash this year. Ending two straight years for Tech sports.
That's correct. LOLUVa stands at 11.5 and we are at 9.5 with only the baseball point up for grabs. Personally, if we pull of a baseball win, I'm gonna blame women's lacrosse and women's b-ball as both blew leads to give LOLUVa the points to win it this year.
But we still beat them in football.
Which means we still have THE Commonwealth Cup
We don't participate, but Virginia just advanced to the lacrosse National Championship game
Despite the recent Clash wins, we have a long, long way to go before we really are up on their level as an athletic department.
Jeez how it pains me to admit that you're right. Yep, rowing championship, maybe lax, for sure basketball. I know that we make fun of their tiddleywink championship and all, but truth be told, they have a serious athletic thing going on there that is way more than football and basketball. Luckily, their baseball team has had a couple of bad years, but we're not in a position to take advantage of that.
It's always been like this from what I can remember. VT was in a mid-major conference for most sports until 2000. Look what our wrestling team did this year. Our track teams did really well. Softball had a great year. Womens golf is doing really well for being such a young program. I think one of our soccer teams did well (I dont pay attention to soccer).
Look at it this way in the past ~10 years we have upgrade the golf course (by building a hotel on it), moved swimming facilities (our divers can now practice every dive in a local pool), made a commitment to basketball. It takes time and money to get the facilities in place, the staff in place to be a big time athletic department. And we are playing catch up to a lot of schools because we were a mid major for so long.
All of those things I know. I've been a UVA hater pretty much since the mid 70s, and have enough UVA friends that rub it in when they can, so I'm well aware of the way things have been. Football has helped, but they have enough accomplishments in sports that I do care about to mitigate even some of the football dominance.
Oh well, until I win the lottery, ain't much I'm gonna do about it.
My point was more that we are catching up, it just takes time. The BE was a basketball conference, outside of that and wvu/vt/miami/donavan McNabb football, the other sports teams weren't great as a conference. The competition for a lot if sports is much tougher in the ACC.
We now have one of the best pools in the ACC, we have a really good golf course, our in door track facility, while aging, is still one of the better facilities of its kind. Whits job before VT was mainly separating money from donors wallets. He's working on it and that's all going to help improve facilities and coaching staffs, which improves results, which improves recruiting, which gets more money!
Before the national championship in basketball, this is how UVa athletics was viewed nationally:
At the end of the day, football and men's basketball are the only sports that move the needle. We can take pride in the wrestling team and they can take pride in their lax/baseball/quidditch teams but nobody with direct ties to the universities is going to care.
If you give me a choice between football & MBB vs. everything else, I'm going to take the former every time.
The sad thing is they have megaboosters who specifically want investment in the lesser sports and give shot tons of money to the athletic department with that as a stipulation.
Exactly. I'd love to know all the machinations and donations behind their baseball program. It wasn't all Grisham.
Its cause they want to be thought of like Stanford, not a state school. But they have a lot of championships to win to be close to Stanford.
And the Hoos won the National Championship
Of course they did.