Link: Short story on VT losing at Wake
here is the link to the no-quotes, quick, short game story on Tech finishing as the 12th seed with a 90-79 loss at Wake. For full game story, check back around 6:30 or 7 pm
http://www.roanoke.com/sports/virginiatech/vtbasketball/1762673-12/tech-loses-to-wake-forest.html
March 10, 2013 - 4:49 PM
We get a team in the tourney we can beat either way. The second season starts now! Go Hokies!
Seems like UVa beat us by 16 points one game and 18 points the other game. To falsely pretend we’ve got a good shot against them (as one of the 2 possibles) is laughable. Then I saw who posted it. The heat in Texas must be pretty intense.
Only forty minutes away from this nightmare of a season being over. The really optimistic news is that next year we won’t have Erick Green, so all the other players can increase their scoring by about five points a game or so.
I remember back in November, when I posted repeatedly on here that Brown, Eddie & Raines needed to drastically improve their scoring (and overall play) in order to help Green. Seems like somebody mocked me for beating that drum. Looking back over this season, what’s the thing that even the lemmings have said? Green needs help in the scoring column. Just like I told you, Z, and you refused to admit it.
Next season? Nobody coming in is as good as who we have right now in their spots. Mueller is the closest, and that’s only because Rankin is so shaky. Yeah, good times next year. Some on here are already saying that next year’s W-L totals won’t matter, that we’ve got to give Johnson several years before we can finally pronounce him unsuitable to be dropped into an ACC head coach position without prep.
Wonder what Ricky Stokes is doing these days?
Missed most of the game, but saw the last 11 minutes.
This team just disappears for stretches. I’ll certainly be rooting for this team, but without any real expectations in tourney. I just would like to see them win two games – enough to rinse some of the sour taste of this season from their mouths. This season has taken me through all the phases of fan grief – in the end I’m just feeling for the guys.
What was up with Brown? Did he get benched or was he hurt or ill. I noticed he only had 3 shots and 9 minutes. It was nice to see Rankin have a good game – he looked much more confident with the ball I thought.
Congrats to Green for all time leading scorer at VT. I don’t care what they say the guy leads the league over the next closest player by 7 ppg. SEVEN points per game! Someone’s going to have to look me in the face and try and convince me he’s not the league’s best player.
Just so everyone understands, Green has the record for most points in a season, not career.
Brown played only seven minutes in the first half. He did not do a good job guarding CJ Harris. Had two fouls in first half.
That ZMan must be on that chokie juice or something because if you think that the beloved chokies are going anywhere your wrong!! The only place they are going is home!! Its one thing to think that the chokies have a chance and even today’s game I thought they would be closer but to be down by 20pts and have the one man offense bail you out and brown play like he’s MIA well it tells you something and that is that the beloved chokies and their sorry fans will see their precious team lose once more and then pray and hope that their team gets better for next year!!! The beloved chokie nation thinks it can’t get worst and by having a sorry AD who cares less about you here’s a tip forget the chokies but yet they are so beloved its ok to be losers, so here’s to the loveable losers GO Chokies!!!!
Folks, let’s all face facts. What team in the bottom half of the ACC has less talent in their JR-SO-FR classes than our Hokies? None, IMO!
Therefore, we will be last again in the ACC. JJ was not ready for HC coach in our conference, so Mr. Weaver gets “another Stokes” as HC.
Let’s hope football will be different than the last version.
GO HOKIES!! ShenValley Hokie
VTR, as Berman mentioned, Green set the single season points total. Bimbo Coles is still the overall leader in career scoring. Green will finish in 10th place on VT’s all time scoring list, just ahead of Ace Custis. To show how different this season has been for him, he’ll end up with around 800 points, maybe a little less for the year. His first three seasons combined, he totalled less than 1000 points. Green will probably end up with something like 1750 points or so. Bimbo, Dell Curry, Malcom Delaney all finished with well over 2000 points. Seems like Bimbo had about 2500, roughly. I think (without checking) that maybe Dale Solomon also scored 2000 points. He was up near the top of the career list somewhere.
Bimbo is first on the career list with 2484, followed by Dell at 2389 and Malcolm at 2255. Solomon fourth at 2136.
There were some high scoring teams during the Moir years. If my memory serves, the first featured guy was Wayne Robinson, followed closely after by Solomon. Then you had Perry Young come in – he was hugely underrated, and often gets ‘forgotten’ in the discussion of great Hokies. While Perry Young was still here, we got in the group of Dell Curry, Keith Colbert, Bobby Beecher. They all seemed like good scorers. The list goes on, buy all of those guys came in within a short time frame. Again, memories are fuzzy, but it seemed like we were scoring 80-85 points a game during the Curry/Colbert/Beecher years. Compare that to us averaging 70 or less now during conference, and you can understand why those teams were called the Hurrying Hokies.