Hokies beat Bradley in OT
Wish I had been in Las Vegas to see this one: the Hokies rallied to beat Bradley 66-65 in OT in the Las Vegas Classic at the Orleans Arena to improve to 9-2 on the season.
Tech, which won despite having only seven healthy scholarship players, will face the Colorado State-Portland winner at 11:30 p.m. Sunday in a game that will air on the CBS Sports Network.
Bradley (8-3) led 65-60 with 49 seconds left in OT.
Joey van Zegeren made one of two free throws to cut the lead with 40 seconds left.
Walk-on forward Christan Beyer got the rebound after Bradley’s Dyricus Simms-Edwards missed a free throw. Erick Green madea layup and a free throw to cut the lead to 65-64 with 26 seconds to go.
After a Beyer steal, Green made another layup for a 66-65 lead with 21 seconds left.
Bradley’s Walt Lemon Jr. missed two free throws with 11 seconds to go. Bradley got the offensive rebound, but Lemon missed a jumper with 3 seconds remaining.
Tech trailed 35-25 at the half.
Down 46-35 with 12:06 left in the second half, the Hokies went on an 18-5 run to grab a 53-51 lead with 4:47 left in regulation. Beyer tied the score at 51 with two free throws and Green gave Tech the 53-51 lead with two free throws. Green and Jarell Eddie each had six points in the run, with Cadarian Raines adding four points.
Bradley tied the score, but Green made a layup for a 55-53 lead with 2:03 left in regulation.
Lemon made a layup to tie the score with nine seconds left in regulation. Green missed a jumper with 3 seconds left,
Tech had 24 turnovers and shot 41.1 percent from the field to Bradley’s 36.5 percent. Tech was 16 of 25 from the free-throw line to Bradley’s 11 of 18. Bradley had eight 3-pointers, twice as many as Tech, but Tech had 43 rebounds to Bradley’s 36.
Green (11 of 20 from the field) had 31 points (career high) and eight rebounds, He had 8 of Tech’s 11 OT points.
Eddie (5 of 14) had 12 points. Raines (6 of 11) had 16 points and nine rebounds, a good sign for Tech.
C.J. Barksdale had no points. But Beyer played 27 minutes in the absence of injured forward Marshall Wood. Beyer had three points, nine boards and two steals. Beyer, in his first season on the team, had played a total of 15 minutes entering the game.
Van Zegeren had two points.
December 22, 2012 - 11:00 PM
Nice win VT!! Eric Green will need a strong back to keep carrying his team. Some of the others need to make a few shots tomorrow night. Coach em up JJ.
From the radio broadcast, Christian Beyer is the story of the game, contributing defense, rebounds and effort as a walk on. As a kid without a scholarship, it’s a great tribute to his effort to be able to make an important contribution.
Unfortunately, I think the thin bench shows up late in the game with Eric Green missing some shots he would normally make. My guess is that his legs were gone as he plays flat out for the vast majority of the game. It’s really hard to shoot well when exhausted. Raines also had a great game underneath. Go Hokies!
If Brown and Eddie don’t come out of their deep slumps this team is in real trouble when ACC play starts. Can’t afford for Eddie to shoot so poorly in the 1st half and Brown is a complete no show. With Green choking at the free throw line you have to wonder if the pressure got to him a little although he’s putting forth a herculean effort. When’s the last time Green went 6 for 10 at the line and missed two in a row.
The firing of Seth Greenberg I’m afraid will have repercussions beyond this year that won’t be easily overcome.
We can dance if we want to
We can leave the old coach behaind
The old coach didn’t and since he didn”t dance
then he’s no coach of mine
I say we can go where we want to
We finally are gonna get there
No whining, no excuses and ACC beware
And we can dance
I could go on and on and on!
A signature win over OK St. and a really good win over Bradley. Ok, so they aren’t THAT good but the Bradley win is an OT win. Shows we have some heart and toughness.
All of us who saw a 9-2 start please stand up.
No one standing huh?
Hooray for us!
Signature win? OK state is not that good. And bradley is a mid major team I’d never heard of so yeah you should have beaten them soundly, instead you need overtime to barely win cause of luck. Yeah 9-2 startm wait for ACC play you’ll have to play teams better than georgia southern and colorado state week in and week out. Also yeah green scores a lot, but no one else on your team does. Yall need to work on that cause teams are just gonna lock down on green and then yall are done cause no one else can score. The ACC like always is not scared of VT. This wasnt a nice win for them. Beating Bradley in overtime by one point is not a nice win. I find it hilarious that yall think so