No Big Ten Challenge for VT?
The Hokies are alone in the ACC cellar, what with BC having beaten Wake last night and GT having beaten the Hokies last Saturday.
But the Hokies are also in last when it comes to the ACC teams and the RPI, and that means something for next year. Next year, the ACC will have 14 teams with SU and Pitt coming aboard, while the Big Ten will still only have 12. So the bottom two teams in the RPI at season’s end among the current ACC schools, SU and Pitt will be left out of the ACC Big Ten Challenge next season.
Who knows how it will be at season’s end, especially since VT will get an RPI bump from playing Duke and Miami and NC State in the coming weeks — but right now VT has the worst RPI in the league at No. 154. Clemson is second worst at 148. (GT at 119, Wake 130, BC 134). So Tech could find itself not in the ACC Big Ten Challenge next season.
That will only be an issue next season. Two seasons from now, the Big Ten will get 14 when Rutgers and Maryland come aboard.
February 14, 2013 - 11:49 AM
These sorry chokies need to take a chapter from the football program and that is to schedule cupcakes and hope to win them so that the sorry chokie nation can over hype them and the rest of us in the real world can see how pathetic off a program they have become!! After all the chokie nation claimes: “we are the best we can beat anybody and we are #1″ And yet in the real world we know that they beat nobody and these chokies can’t even beat the weakest d3 team in the country!!
Hokies will get over not playing in the Big Ten Challenge. They will have eight months to rest before starting next season. In the meantime, Coaches must get on the road and recruit some quality bodies to play. We have good players, but not enough to compete at this level. Everybody is tired when the game starts, now, because there is no one to come off the bench to play. Hitting one out of ten shots in the first five minutes against anybody is not going to even get you into the game, much less finist it with any fervor. We have had the same problem for the last two years with Seth, but next year is on this years coaches. Only carrying eighat players worthy of a scholorship is nothing new for Hokies, but it is not something to be proud of.
It’s not like we’re going to be on the bubble next season anyway. Strength of schedule won’t matter. We’ve still got to play a full ACC schedule, and that’s where the rubber hits the road.