Hokies will start the season November 4th. If not otherwise noted it's a home game. Seven home games, three neutral site games and one more potential neutral site game at Ft Myers Tipoff.
Schedule
Nov 4th Delaware St
Nov 8th USC Upstate
Nov 11th Winthrop
Nov 15th Penn State (in Baltimore)
Nov 20th Jacksonville
Nov 25th Michigan (Ft Myers FL Tipoff)
Nov 27th South Carolina/Xavier (Ft Myers FL Tipoff)
Dec 4th Vanderbilt (against Nickel/Collins)
Dec 12th NC A&T
Dec 15th Navy
Dec 21st St Joes (Holiday Hoopfest Philly)
Hokies honestly should come out of this 9-2 or better if they don't fall on their face.
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The only problem is that we legitimately don't know if VT will be really good, really bad, or somewhere in between. That's 5 power conference teams, if you include Xavier and St. Joes. I'll be pleasantly surprised if we're 9-2 in those games.
Not getting dusted by USC and Xavier would be nice for once. This is a poor OOC schedule. Will leave no room for error with losses to dog ACC teams.
Last year we lost by 79-77 to eventual 26-8 South Carolina, but got curb-stomped by 34 against Florida Atlantic (25-9), and three days later by 27 against Auburn (27-8). But we also beat Iowa State (29-8) in late November.
I don't think we can have any expectations that this year's team would be able to do better than that against teams of that caliber. But then I also have no idea if we're going to win 12 games, or 22.
But I think my season MBB tickets are conference games only. Any word on cost for these critical preseason games?
Tickets for the home nonconference games are priced at $15 per game, outside of the highly-anticipated SEC/ACC Challenge against Vanderbilt on Wednesday, Dec. 4, which will be priced at $45 per ticket.
https://hokiesports.com/mens-basketball-single-game-tickets
For season ticket holders it's $5 per game per seat except Vanderbilt which is $30. You have to buy all the games or none. Two windows to buy tickets in October and November.
Had hear the $5/$30 numbers, but first I've heard of the all or nothing portion. If it is all or nothing, seems to defeat the point of filling the lower seats, if one buys all and then goes to 3 games.
Missing the logic here.
It was a price gouge regardless as they kept the season ticket price the same, but now are charging more if you want to go to the non-conference games as well.
Exactly my thoughts. Agree 1000%.
I found the details in my email:
Oct. 1, 2024
Claim window #1 open (includes all November nonconference games)
Oct. 8, 2024
Deadline for ticket members to claim tickets to November nonconference games
Nov. 4, 2024
Claim window #2 opens (includes all December nonconference games
Nov. 11, 2024
Deadline for ticket members to claim tickets to December nonconference games
All nonconference games can be claimed by ticket members at a discounted rate of $5 per ticket per game. This excludes the ACC/SEC Challenge against Vanderbilt which can be claimed for $30 per ticket. Again, non-ticket member tickets will be between $15 and $45, a significant saving for ticket members.
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Reading the bolded part felt like chewing on foil. Trying to nickel and dime us an extra $60 and call it "a significant saving" was hard to read
Let me tell you how this will play out...
CMY will have his squad juiced early and they will win 7- 9 of those first 11 games. We will all get excited, then ACC play will begin... We will go on an incredibly frustrating slide and lose 11-15 of our next 20(ish) games. The team will finally begin to gel right at the very end of the season, giving us all hope, only to play hard, but get tired, in the ACCT.
We will limp into the offseason with a massive portal exit leaving CMY another opportunity to rebuild the roster.
Rinse... Repeat...
Why do you have to be so right?
I unfortunately agree. Barring lightning in a bottle I am not sure this teams finishes with more than 6-7 ACC wins.
I think that's a very realistic floor, but I do also believe there's a pretty respectable ceiling for this team.
I feel like this roster has a fair amount of talent and experience, and much more athleticism than last year's team. The question is how quickly can an almost completely new group of players gel in Mike Young's system. Young is an outstanding coach, and he's had a lot of players leave Blacksburg much better than when they got there (Aluma, Cattoor, Mutts, Kidd).
But all of those guys bought in and it turned out well for them. Will that happen with this group? I literally have no idea.
The athleticism part is true but several other ACC squads also seemed to get significantly better in the portal this year.
I think the Hokies and Seminoles suffered the most in terms of continuity. Miami lost the most overall but by spending big NIL seems to have pieced together a pretty solid starting five. Most projections show the Hokies finishing 13th or 14th, ahead of Stanford, Cal, Boston College, SMU and Florida State. Worse yet, many of those projections were with Jordan Ivy-Curry committed. Now we are left with the relatively unknown commodity of Jaden Schutt, who was injured last year at Duke. How he performs or Jayden Young steps up to that spot will be a big factor on how this team does.
Right now the starting five as I see it:
Hysier Miller
Jaden Schutt
Ben Burnham
Tobi Lawal
Mylaejl Poteat
Primary Backups to each spot:
Brandon Rechsteiner
Jayden Young
Rodney Brown/Tyler Johnson
Ryan Jones
Patrick Wessler
I think it's a lock that we play three guards almost all the time, including to start the game. Burnham isn't a guard, so he's going to spend most of his time as a "4".
CMY wants four shooters on the floor and I am not sure Poteat qualifies despite the practice highlights of him hitting jumpers from outside. For that reason, I don't think we see Lawal + Poteat on the court together very much. Will be interesting to see how it shakes out.
Miller: P
Brown: G
Schutt: G
Burnham: F
Poteat: C
bench, ordered by PT:
Lawal: C/F
Young: G
Reichsteiner: P
Jones: C
Johnson: F
Yes- even though St. Marys, Dayton, Nevada, San Diego State, VCU get in every year, this is not a tournament team. We won't do well enough in the mid acc games, as you pointed out. That is what killed us the past couple years. Can't beat the Pitts, NC States, Wakes, Miami's, ND's . The chef's kiss is mid UVA winning 15 acc games somehow.