You have to go back and test your memory, but it was two women’s basketball
coaches ago, and three men’s coaches, before you can correctly answer the
trivia question that perhaps many have not even considered. That question would
be: When was the last season in which both the Virginia Tech’s men’s and women’s
basketball teams competed in postseason play?

The year was 1995 and that will ring a bell for many followers of the
Virginia Tech men’s program, because it was the year that culminated in the
program’s second NIT championship. That tournament crown was captured in New
York City with a 65-64 overtime victory over Marquette, when Bill Foster was
still the Hokie head coach, and when the program was playing its final season in
the Metro Conference. The Hokies finished 25-10 that season.

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