Miami beats Hokies
Well, I wasn’t in Miami to see this in person, but No. 5 Miami cruised to a 76-58 win over the last-place Hokies.
Miami led the entire second half.
Shane Larkin and his teammates blanketed Erick Green, holding him to just 16 points, nine below his average. Green was 6 of 13 from the field.
Larkin, one of Green’s fellow contenders for ACC player of the year, had a much bigger impact. Not only did he do well defensively on Green, but he also had 22 points, three treys and six assists.
Kenny Kadji had 20 points and three of Miami’s eight treys.
Miami shot 50 pct from the field to Tech’s 29.6 pct.
Cadarian Raines was 2 of 6 from the field and had four points. CJ Barksdale had seven boards and 12 pts and was 6 of 9 from the field.
Marquis Rankin was 1 of 5 from the field and had five points. Will Johnston was 0 of 1 from the field and did not score.
Jarell Eddie’s slump continued. He was 1 of 6 from the field and had five points. R.obert Brown had 12 pts off the bench and was 3 of 8 from the field. Joey van Zegeren and Christian Beyer were each 1 of 2 from the field, and Marshall Wood was 0 of 1.
Tech fell to 12-16, 3-12 heading into Saturday’s home finale with Clemson.
Next up for UM is a visit to Duke.
February 27, 2013 - 9:19 PM
A team people thought was so good in the OOC portion of our schedule has turned out to be absolutely awful. I guess an SOS in the high 200′s helps hide the truth.
Nice to see Barksdale start to contribute and I really think VanZegren has unlimited potential, but unless Eddie and Robert Brown learn to shoot and somebody learns to play defense this summer this team could reach a level of bad next year that not even the Golden Hokies will remember.
A shout out to whoever decided not to televise the game and spared me the 20 minutes it would have taken for me to realize that the Hokies were phoning it in. Great job JJ!
The basketball situations at Tech, men and women, is ridiculous, and not getting any better. The teams are not in the same universe as even good teams, much less really good teams.
Thank you Jim Weaver for another failure on your part in hiring coaches.
Will somebody please get Weaver out of Virginia Tech athletics? Please !!!
Another mail in job ! ! Please get to the end of the season. Our major sports athletic programs are an embarrassment to this great University. If I ran my department at work like this, I would be FIRED ! ! !
The beloved chokies choked again behind the one man offensive! The chokie nation has to be thinking now that we do suck and yet some still think we can beat everybody! So thus the motto continues: “we only have 8 schlorship players” Go Chokies!!
It is a shame that I can pull for Tech in football where i have a better than 50% shot at seeing “my team” win. And then watch a basketball program also “my team” with essentially no chance of winning against anyone. Looking at Miami I wonder what Tech’s chances of getting 5 talented players to commit are? In my view after this year, not much. Weaver needs to spend some money and get a Name coach who doesn’t cheat in recruiting. Maybe that is the problem, that person does not exist.
I don’t see what all of the fuss is about??
Frankly, I loved the game?…..It was another Tech loss!
Nobody knows if James Johnson can be a head coach or not. He was hired in May last year and maybe didn’t have time to assemble a staff that he really liked. But to judge a new coach on less than a year’s amount of work is ridiculous. And Miami is a talented, senior-led team that demolished Duke and North Carolina … both of which are going to the NCAA’s this year. Many of you posters would have fired Frank Beamer after he was 2-8-1 in his sixth season of coaching. Or maybe John Wooden because he didn’t win a Pac-8 conference title after 13 years at UCLA. Geniuses …
Weaver is bad…no question. He needs to retire.
Way too early to judge JJ, even for fanATICS…but the elephant in the room is the ailing, aging old man who’s running athletics into the ground for the love of a dollar.
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Here are a few free tips – assuming the highest priority goal is to actually build a high performing athletics program, you don’t achieve it by trying to save money, you do it by investing…and if you don’t have enough money, you raise it…and if you don’t have the right people to raise enough money, you go hire them.
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If the highest priority goal is something else, why even get out of bed in the morning?
George the difference with Frank Beamer is that the program was bad long before him and we were on probation. JJ took over a team from a coach who had done far better than any before him and turned VT in a competitor in the ACC (which is far more than anyone thought was possible). If you don’t think this guy is a bad coach you are not watching the games or worse hearing his comments after. He has proved incapable of leading these players.
I don’t think he will get fired of course, but I don’t think he has a prayer of making this team competitive in the next few years at which point he should be fired.
Not to early to judge him? He’s been here for 6 years and he had as much time with these players as Seth would have – they can’t start practicing until early fall.
You take a job you take the blame for the failure. Is this going to be like Obama and I’ve got to listen to it was someone else’s fault 4 years into his tenure? You own it from day one and this year he was a dismal failure. He obviously has no idea what he’s doing and had no business being hired to this job.
Still it’s Weaver’s fault for hiring a coach who had not earned the right to coach at this level. He was not a bright young coach that everyone was talking about, I’m not even sure that Seth Greenberg wanted to keep him on the staff. I’m not sure that Seth did not show him the door. Make no mistake this guy was hired ONLY because the recruits were waivering, the current players revolting and Weaver had no plan. He did the only thing he thought he could – hire a guy who he thought would stop players from transfering and recruits from jumping ship.
I know I’m being hard on JJ for a mistake that Weaver made, but his rolling over on players in the press has been the worst example of leadership I’ve seen out of a coach in quite some time. You never saw Frank Beamer calling out players during this year.
Seth Greenberg DID want to keep JJ on the staff. He did NOT show him the door. He did NOT want JJ to leave for the Clemson staff.
Look who’s breaking out the CAPITAL letters! I think I was pretty clear that I was surmising and not stating fact my point being that it’s entirely possible that from what I’ve seen this year that JJ is a great players buddy but a lousy coach and perhaps Seth new that.
Feel free to comment on the rest of my points if you like, I would love to hear your opinion as I can read the stat sheet all by myself.
Just waiting for the day that VT coaches and staff are held accountable by the local media.
Did not mean to offend with the use of capital letters. Was just trying to draw attention to what the facts were on Johnson’s exit to Clemson.
I have to leave the commenting to you folks for the most part, since I am a reporter and not a columnist.
I have no problem with it at all. I want you to report (and happy enough when you ignore ignoramus’s like myself), but I also want more criticism when it’s warranted and I have heard too little of it from the few reporters who report on VT sports.
I don’t think you know the facts anymore than I do. J Johnson left for Clemson, that’s a fact. Seth Greenberg was fired – a fact. J Johnson was hired, a fact. Beyond that, even regardless of what you are told, doesn’t make it a fact.
Are Weaver’s comments on why we got no thursday night game a fact? No. Even when it comes out of a coach or AD’s mouth doesn’t make it a fact. I find it interesting that Seth Greenberg, as last reported, had not spoken to JJohnson. I believe if he was supportive of JJ he would have spoken too him and his silence speaks volumes.
Where’s the reporting on J Johnson’s missteps this year? Does he have no accountability? Is he not responsible at all?
I don’t think there was any reporting on Seth’s firing. The questions died too quickly and thusly there was no accountability on Weaver’s part for what the majority of fans thought was a huge mistake.
Obviously Weaver is not going to account to fans and sports reporters are the only voice we have to get him to be accountable, to make Frank Beamer accountable, to make Stinespring accountable and to make J Johnson accountable.
It’s my job to keep you accountable.
Report! Dig! I can read the stat sheet myself.