Are we for real yet?
Posted at 11:45 pm on Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 by VinceThe Virginia Tech men’s basketball team, in their 3rd season as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, has visited two teams who were undefeated at home (Georgia Tech and North Carolina) and gave them their first losses on their home courts. I can’t count how many times I’ve heard the phrase, “Win your home games and split your road games,†describing how to be successful in the ACC. With a 4-2 road record and a 4-1 record at home against conference opponents, the Hokies are doing better.
After sweeping Duke and UNC, the premier hoops teams of the ACC, can anyone question that the Virginia Tech men’s basketball team isn’t legit?
Has that set in yet? I’ll say that again. The Virginia Tech Hokies have beat the Duke Blue Devils in Cameron, they’ve beat North Carolina in Cassell, and they beat the Tarheels again in Tech’s first trip to the fabled “Dean Dome†where UNC was previously unbeaten this season. Two of those wins mark the first ever win for Virginia Tech over Duke in Durham and the first win over UNC in Chapel Hill since 1966. If I was a true stats junky I’d find out the last team to sweep Duke and North Carolina in the regular season, but I’ll just wait for ESPN to tell me that.
What a turnaround we’ve had since the loss at Boston College. There were many Hokie fans who doubted the team after the beatdown that BC gave us. They thought the Hokies had already peaked. Instead of giving in to the pressures of the ACC, the Virginia Tech men’s basketball team has played with renewed inspiration. First they obliterated the Virginia Cavaliers by 27 points. That win marked the largest margin of victory over a conference opponent since joining the ACC. And tonight they marched down to Chapel Hill and won their toughest road game of the year. Folks, we didn’t peak when we took down North Carolina in Cassell. Tonight’s win was bigger.
Are the Hokies for real?
You better believe it.