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The HOKIES play at GA Tech tonight. The game is supposed to be on the ACC network. The HOKIES are favored by 6.5; the over/under is 131. If the HOKIES are not ice cold from three again, this should be a win against a Yellow Jacket team that is 4-12 in ACC play. I'm still recovering from my golf trip; so no tables for this game.
LET'S GO HOKIES!
Did any of you Hokie men's basketball season ticket holders out there get an email in recent months with an offer to put in to get tickets to the ACC tournament this year? We never did, but the ticket office claims that emails went out in January. We're experienced computer/email users, so we know to check all spam/junk filters. Luckily we called this morning and found out that you could still put in for tickets if you went in to your account, selected "Manage account", then under "My Tickets" on the right select "Season Renewal Application". For some reason that is the only place where it is still available online, at least as far as we can find. It may be closed by the time you read this.
Juwan Howard throws a punch. pic.twitter.com/HiC3y7yKvG— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) February 20, 2022
Honestly, not really sure I've seen something like this explode on the court since the Malice at the Palace. Just an ugly all around incident that apparently stemmed from the fact that the Wisconsin coach called a timeout with around 30 seconds left in a decisive win.
Anyway, the Big Ten issued a statement last night, singling Howard out for his actions
LETS GO!
Just like Football
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FAM!
The Hokies host LOLUVA at 7 PM tonight. The game is on ESPN. The Hokies are favored by 4.5. Over/Under 118.5. The Hokies have 6 games left. UVA received votes in the latest AP poll; but not the coaches. Miami received votes in both. UVA, MIami and UNC are ahead of us in the ACC standings. GA Tech, Louisville and Clemson are not having good years. Winning out is a possibility.
The Hokies lost to UVA in Charlottesville by 2 earlier this year. We are a much better team now; but UVA is also better. UVA has won four in a row; we have won five. They have a statement win over Duke in their string. Our wins are over teams in the bottom half of the ACC standings.
Women's Basketball:
Round 1:
#12 Wake Forest (3-11) vs #13 Clemson (3-12)
#10 Duke (6-8) vs #15 UVA (0-13)
#11 Syracuse (4-9) vs #14 Pittsburgh (2-11)
Round 2:
#8 Miami (6-7) vs #9 FSU (6-7)
#5 Notre Dame (10-4)
#7 Boston College (6-7)
#6 North Carolina (9-5)
Round 3:
#1 NC State (14-1)
#4 Georgia Tech (10-4)
#2 Louisvilla (13-1)
#3 Virginia Tech (11-3)
The Hokies can win the share of the regular season crown by winning out, Louisville dropping a road game at UNC or Notre Dame, and NC State dropping a game they shouldn't (Wake or @Syracuse). At the very least, the Hokies have a good shot at 2nd if they take care of business
The Lady Hokies continue their brutal closing schedule today hosting #23/22 UNC at 1 PM. The game is on ACCNx.
Our closing schedule is going to be a real challenge:
Fortunately 3 of the last 5 are at home; but we finish against 3 top 25 teams and 2 of them are top 5. Today might be our best chance to get a win among those 3 games. The Ladies should be itching to revenge the loss at UNC earlier this year on Jan 9 when we lost 71-46 as a ranked team. That loss knocked us out of the top 25 and we have not been again to break back in. However a win today might do it.
FAM!
The Hokies host the Syracuse Orange today at 6 PM. The game is on ESPN2. Hokies are 8 point favorites. O/U is 145. Both teams are on 4 game winning streaks. Syracuse beat Wake Forest and Louisville at home; neither game was close. They beat NC State and BC on the road; both games were with 10 points. We beat FSU and Pitt on the road and GA Tech and Pitt at home. In their last two games before starting the winning streak, Syracuse lost at Pitt and at Duke.
The Men's Team
Is this optimism?
Am I allowed this?
Did we just have four consecutive FAM threads?
Do we have the next three at home and then a road game against a current bottom feeder?
I don't know about the first two, but the answers to the last two are yeses. For the first time since the first four games this season, the Hokies finish a tetralogy at 4-0, but these four are much more impressive, including two road wins, topped off by a rare win in Tallahassee.
The Lady Hokies host #11 GA Tech tonight at 8 PM. The game is on Regional Sports Networks. The Hokies, GA Tech and Notre Dame are all 9-3 and tied for third in the ACC. GA Tech has lost to Louisville, Miami and NC State. The Hokies lost to Notre Dame, NC State and UNC.
GA Tech is a defensive team only allowing 47.7 points per game. And they have a big to match up with Kitley in 6'5 Junior Nerea Hermosa. They also have 6'4 5th year forward Lorela Cubaj. GA Tech may be a team that can guard Kitley one on one.
Loyal McQueen, who started the first 3 games of the season has since transferred to Alabama.
The Lady Hokies host Clemson today at 6 PM. The game is on ACCNx. Clemson is 8-15 and 2-10 in ACC play. Their two wins were at LOLUVA(0-10) and at Wake Forest(2-10). Not a very impressive resume.
McCollum and some others are headed the other direction to the Pelicans.
Hopefully he'll get an even more prominent role for the Blazers, especially if Dame leaves.
Edit: I'm hyped because I'll get to see him play locally here, Go Hokies!
1-0. Go Hokies
The Ladies host BC today at 2 PM. Hokie Sports says the game is on Regional Sports Networks; but Watch ESPN says it's ACCN Extra. BC is 15-7, 6-5 in conference. 11-2 at home and 4-5 on the road. Their ACC losses are to Louisville twice, UNC, ND and Ga Tech. They beat Syracuse, Clemson, ND, Miami and LOLUVA. In their last game, they came back from down 9 at the half to outscore LOLUVA 24-7 in the third quarter and go on to win 65-57.
A win is a win, that's 3 in a row... but damn.
We get the rare back to back meeting of two ACC teams starting today. The Hokies play at Pitt at 7 PM today; and then at 7 PM on Monday. Both games are on the ACC Network. The Hokies are favored by 6.5 points tonight with O/U of 126.5. Pitt is 8-14 and 3-8 in the ACC. However, they are 3-2 at home in ACC play and the losses have been close games to ND by 1 and LOLUVA by 5.
The Hokies match up fairly well size-wise with the Panthers.
The Ladies play at Notre Dame tonight at 8 PM. The game is on the ACC Network. This is a big game for the Ladies, a chance to make a statement to the rest of the ACC. Notre Dame just beat NC State by 3 at home; we recently lost to NC State by 6 in Raleigh in a game in which we did not play well. Kitley was 3-23, Amoore was 5-12 and Sheppard was 3-12. If any of those 3 have a decent game, there might have been a different outcome.
Notre Dame is 17-4 and 8-2 in conference. The two losses were by 2 points at Duke and by 2 points at BC. We have been less consistent.
