Hoops Reflections

Virginia Tech’s basketball season ended Friday night with a close loss to Duke.  Today, it’s time for some thoughts and reflections on various topics.

Bubble Thoughts

Before we get into Tech specific stuff, I want to spend a few paragraphs comparing bubble teams from this season to recent Hokie teams that were relegated to the NIT.

RankPositionPlayerCollege
1DEEli Harold
2DB/WRAlex Carter
3WR/ATHJoel Caleb
4LB/DEKen Ekanem
5RBJ.C. Coleman
6LBKwontie Moore
7DTKorren Kirven
8LB/RBTrey Edmunds
9LBDeon Clarke
10WR/SAnthony Cooper
11SC.J. Prosise
12DTNigel Williams
13DLCourtnye Wynn
14LBDevin Vandyke
15OL/DTAndre Miles-Redmond
16S/WRDesmond Frye
17DT/OLTyrell Chavis
18OLWin Homer
19LB/SMark Hall
20ATHDer'Woun Greene
21TEDakota Jackson
22WRThomas Smith
23WR/SMario Nixon
24QB/ATHBrenden Motley
25OLAugie Conte
26WRRomond DeLoatch
27WR/CBMaurice Canady
28SMike Tyson
29WR/TEKyle Dockins
30LBAvery Thompson
31DT/OLDerek Dowrey
32DL/TESeth Dooley
33DTAlston Smith
34OLWill Smith
35OLJackson Matteo
36RB/LBDevon Johnson
37LBRhakeem Stallings
38TE/DEDylan Stallings
39DBD'Metrius Williams
40RB/DBDivante Walker

Obviously you can’t compare different seasons for the most part, but considering UVA was comfortably in as a 10-seed this year with very similar numbers that Virginia Tech put up in the past, feel free to do a little complaining.

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