We Are Who They Thought We Were

Nine seasons into their ACC tenure, the Hokie basketball team has turned into what almost everyone expected back in 2004: a cellar-dweller.

There’s no embarrassment in losing to Duke, as the Hokies did last night. But losing by 32 points at home is another matter, and I read a tweet by Mark Berman this morning that really drove home what’s going on here:

Do you remember that UNC game, back on December 19, 2004? The ACC did a very nice thing for VT: for Virginia Tech’s first-ever ACC game, the league sent one of its marquee teams, UNC, to Cassell. (Contrast this with the Big East, who never, in four years of membership, sent Syracuse to Cassell.)

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