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# | Clinical Offensive Performance Lifts Hokies to 96-85 Victory Over Florida State 
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# | Clinical Offensive Performance Lifts Hokies to 96-85 Victory Over Florida State 
true but i think that we weren't scheduling as a team looking to make the tournament because until a month ago that was a pipe dream.
ive always thought it'd be interesting to try to do a round-robin style thing with other teams va, since most of them already play each other. if we scheduled richmond and vcu, maybe WM/ODU and george mason possibly. I feel like that would cover the bigger teams and still be good for RPI, as well as being games good for the fans
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# | Clinical Offensive Performance Lifts Hokies to 96-85 Victory Over Florida State Don't give me that look. If you were to notice, and I think you should have, I didn't say hooing. I added the extra o just to stave off any of this kind of negative connotation. But, I'll leg you just to reward you for hating on those a-hoos as much as I do.
There's only one explanation:
I have said that I am hopeful, but not confident. That still holds for me, maybe to try to temper disappointment if it comes. I said the same about our last two games, so I'm trying to stay with the pattern and hoping for the same results.
I love the analogy of SEC fans and the wealthy elite. While pretty accurate, you're comparing this
to this
I think the lesson learned is that we need to schedule to the RPI. There is no reason to schedule a RPI 260 team. Even a win drops our RPI and a loss is disastrous. VCU has a RPI of 40 and I guarantee they would answer our phone call. Why not setup a yearly game with them? Win or lose it helps our RPI.
I think performance at end of season is an important factor. Texas Tech was one and done in their conference tourney losing to a 12-20 TCU squad. They have lost 3 of last 6. Wins came against bottom of league KSU,OSU and TCU. They finish at 17-12. If we continue to win and get 20 or 21 wins to take win streak to up to 8. I think we start to compare very favorably to a team like Texas Tech. I think they are in trouble of missing the cut. Things just have to fall the right way.
Well, I think we all know they're idiots. And don't forget, like someone pointed out on another thread, we ARE Va Tech, so there ya go.
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# | Buzzketball Central: Florida State Seminoles(19-12,8-10) at Virginia Tech Hokies(18-13,10-8) 930PM ESPN2/ACC Network If you are going to pay all that $ to get your girl into a private school in the most image influenced part of the eastern US, you might as well pay to get them the tools they need to succeed there.
Woof! Woof!
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# | Clinical Offensive Performance Lifts Hokies to 96-85 Victory Over Florida State I mean, once the clock hit about 3 minutes we should have known better. You guard the ball, if he gets to the basket you give him the layup. We shouldn't have been trying to draw charges at that point, but we were and got called for a couple blocks.
SEC fans (football fans at least) are like the wealthy elite. They only want their wealthy elite friends to have yachts, private schools and au pairs. They don't want the commoners to have anything resembling wealth or status.
Now, they hate their wealthy friends, don't get me wrong. Lots of jealousy and badblood for generations there. But they loathe the plebeians more and they have every intent of keeping that gate manned to keep them out of the club.
The ACC tournament champions don't play in the NIT
will be much tougher to beat miami away from home, but hey, as the article says, let's make the arena cassell north! go hokies!
Neither do I but a buddy of mine was at my place last night and was like, hey, did you see the VT coach was showing his players how to honor the anthem!? I was like yeah that's four months old. Then he showed me this article claiming that he was addressing behavioral problems, FML
I don't know how sec teams fans cheer for other sec teams. I wish both teams could lose in so many of these games
If the committee weights an opening day loss to Alabama St. just has heavily as a 7 game ACC winning streak they're idiots.
I think it's because Pitt's sparkling 2-7 record vs the RPI top 50 is much better than our 3-10 record.
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# | GIFTORY: Frame-by-Frame Highlight Reel of Virginia Tech's 96-85 win over Florida State Stupid. Overproducing. Adds nothing.
Thing is, there have been soooooo many upsets in the lower leagues where teams who are legitimately good enough to get in on their own merit are falling flat that you're probably going to see even fewer teams than normal selected from the power conferences. Really, the only team on the bubble from the ACC who likely falls into the dance is Pitt. There's just not enough spaces for everyone else.
She's 6-1 picking the ACC tournament games so far...she missed the Syracuse-Pitt game but she's gotten everything else right.
I for one, will be perfectly happy when we fall just short of an ACC tournament title, but get to hang one of those nifty "NIT champion" banners in the Cassell.
The committee is set up to reward complete seasons (you know, except for all those mid-major champions who have crap seasons but make a run in their tournaments), and at the beginning of the year, we didn't deserve to get in. I think we do now, but them's the breaks.
I'm just baffled as to what Pitt has actually done to apparently be a lock. I think even GT has a better resume than them honestly. If the Hokies can beat Miami again tonight, I just don't see how that resume isn't more impressive than Pitt, even with the Week 1 Alabama St. loss. But from what the talking heads are saying, and how ridiculous this whole selection process seems, I think we need to win it all to get a bid.
Wouldn't know what the kids are calling it now. We're 65 and 63 years old. At least we could stay up and watch the whole game without falling asleep.