Virginia Tech Basketball Has More Potential Than It Seems

At first glance, they don’t look very impressive. Sometimes, a second or a third doesn’t help too much either. In all honesty, it’s extremely easy to hear the name Virginia Tech Hokies and immediately write them off as a football school. Believe it or not, it’s really not as bad as the highlight reels or the record may indicate. Okay that’s not completely true either, but just for kicks, let’s look at a couple of things.

First, just pretend the loss to the Virginia Cavaliers on February 9, didn’t happen. We all pretty much figured that was going to be the result being that the Hokies were the road team and they would get a more focused Cavaliers team. The Cavaliers got off to a slow start in conference play dropping a few of their early games including a two point upset by these same Hokies back in January. After that, the Cavaliers immediately circled their next meeting and this became a revenge game. That wasn’t good news for the citizens of Blacksburg.

When you take a look at the rest of the schedule, it isn’t that bad. There is a loss to the Duke Blue Devils with a rather large margin of victory, but past that, there are quite a few narrow losses. Yes, there are some hiccups like coming up on the wrong side of the scoreboard to teams that they’re supposed to be better than, but they took an improving Syracuse Orange team to overtime and gave the North Carolina Tar Heels and the Louisville Cardinals all that they could handle.

To make a long story short, the Hokies have proven that even though they still rank in the bottom tier of the conference, they aren’t an easy night for anyone. They usually beat the teams they should, and they lose to the teams they’re supposed to lose to. If this team gets a couple of studs and the ball bounces favorably  on a play or two in a couple of games, then they could have surprising results. Truthfully, you can’t ask for much more from a “football school.”