Conference teams need big wins in upcoming holiday tournaments to erase the memories of Georgia Tech’s blowout loss to Kennesaw State and Wake Forest’s season-opening fiasco against Stetson.
Tag: Virginia Tech
2010-11 ACC Preview
Could the ACC produce another national champion? There’s certainly a contender, and there are also teams with surprising coaching changes and no slouches near the bottom.
2010 ACC Post-Mortem
The 2009-10 ACC season saw a national champion, a few teams that didn’t go far in the Big Dance, and a major surprise among the teams that didn’t get there. Once the season was over, a couple of surprise coaching changes took place.
Effort Not a Problem For Boston College of Late
There have been times this season where Boston College’s effort has been in question. Much like Saturday afternoon, when the Eagles beat North Carolina, Wednesday night wasn’t one of them, as the Eagles blew out Virginia Tech 80-60 largely from playing harder.
ACC Notebook – Starting the Conference Grind
As we begin to enter the grinding two months of conference play, the ACC appears to be one of the top conferences in the country. The conference has two undefeated teams remaining – and neither one is named Duke or North Carolina.
Aeropostale Holiday Festival Wrap-Up
A day after handily defeating Marist in the semifinal, St.John’s met their match. Virginia Tech defeated the Red Storm 81-67 before slightly over 2000 at Madison Square Garden . The win gave Virginia Tech a second straight Aeropostale Holiday Festival title. Tech defeated St.John’s is last year’s championship.
St. John’s falls in Holiday Festival – and on Hard Times
It was crushing news to Norm Roberts and his staff last month when informed that their best player, Anthony Mason Jr. would miss the entire season with a foot injury. It only got worse when Justin Burrell sustained a facial fracture after being hit by teammate Sean Evans in practice last Thursday. So with its top two players sidelined, along with freshman Malike Boothe playing with a sprained left thumb, it was no suprise that it would be a struggle vs former Big East memeber-now ACC foe Virginia Tech.
