The most bothersome aspect of March basketball is the suddenness with which
your season can end, especially if your last game was one that you would love to
repeat, so as to wipe away the bad taste in your mouth. That is surely the case
after the Memphis Tigers abruptly ended the 2004-05 season for Virginia Tech,
but not before energizing fans with promise that sunnier days are ahead.

While fans, players and coaches have all kept Listerine bottles handy in the
past week to eliminate the unpleasant taste of a 21-point loss to Memphis in the
second round of the NIT, the next stage of Year Two in the Greenberg era is
thrust upon us, more quickly than all of us wanted.

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