2005-06 Basketball Recap: Hokies Crush Morgan State 77-49
November 25, 2005
 The Virginia Tech men’s basketball team got a double-double from Coleman Collins and swatted aside the Morgan State Bears 77-49 on Friday night in Cassell Coliseum. Collins, who missed the last two games due to family issues, scored 14 points and grabbed 14 rebounds. Collins was one of five Hokies to score in double figures for the game.
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2005-06 Basketball Game Preview: Virginia Tech vs. Morgan State
November 25, 2005
The Virginia Tech men’s basketball team will conclude a six-game homestand tonight at 7pm when they take on the Morgan State Bears in Cassell Coliseum. The Hokies are 4-1 on the season, while the Bears are off to an 0-4 start after participating in the BCA Classic. Tech is expected to handle Morgan State easily before getting ready for a big road test against Ohio State on Monday night.
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2005-06 Basketball Recap: Tech Tops the Herd 71-54
November 21, 2005
The Virginia Tech men’s basketball team won their third consecutive game on Monday night, knocking off the Marshall Thundering Herd 71-54 in Cassell Coliseum. The win takes the Hokies to 4-1 on the season, while Marshall drops to 0-2. Tech, which is missing two starters in Coleman Collins and Wynton Witherspoon, got good contributions from a lot of different players, including sophomore Deron Washington. Washington led the Hokies in scoring for the second straight game with 17 points. He also had six rebounds and blocked three shots.
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2005-06 Basketball Game Preview: Virginia Tech vs. Marshall
November 21, 2005
The Virginia Tech men’s basketball team returns to action on Monday night when they take on the visiting Marshall Thundering Herd in Cassell Coliseum. The Hokies are coming off a 74-62 victory over Mount St. Mary’s on Friday night, while Marshall dropped their season opening game 91-81 at Evansville. Virginia Tech will once again be without junior center Coleman Collins, who is home dealing with family issues.
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2005-06 Basketball Recap: Tech Defeats Mount St. Mary's 74-62
November 18, 2005
Despite playing without junior center Coleman Collins, the Virginia Tech men’s basketball team managed to knock off Mount St. Mary’s 74-62 on Friday night in Cassell Coliseum. In Collins’ absence, several other Hokies had career nights to pick the slack, including sophomore forward Deron Washington, who scored 24 points and grabbed ten rebounds.
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2005-06 Basketball Game Preview: Mount St. Mary's
November 18, 2005
After opening the season 2-1 in the NABC Classic, the Virginia Tech men’s basketball team will entertain Mount St. Mary’s in Cassell Coliseum on Friday night at 6 pm. The game will be televised by Comcast SportsNet. On paper this game looks to be a blowout in favor of the Hokies, but judging by the results of past out-of-conference games, nothing is certain.
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2005-06 Basketball Recap: Tech Beats Western Carolina 54-40
November 13, 2005
The Virginia Tech men’s basketball team rallied from Saturday’s loss to Bowling Green and defeated Western Carolina 54-40 Sunday afternoon in Cassell Coliseum. Four Hokies scored in double figures, with junior guard Markus Sailes leading the team with 13 points. Jamon Gordon played another good game for Tech. Gordon recorded a double-double, scoring 11 points and grabbing ten rebounds.
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2005-06 Basketball Recap: Hokies Drop Close Game to Bowling Green, 72-71
November 12, 2005
The Virginia Tech men’s basketball team dropped a heartbreaker on their home court to Bowling Green on Saturday afternoon, losing 72-71 on a tip in at the buzzer. As time was running down, Bowling Green’s John Floyd put up a shot from the baseline but missed. With no opposing players in the vicinity, three Virginia Tech players went up to grab the game-ending rebound, but freshman forward A.D. Vassallo accidentally tipped the ball into the basket for the Falcons just before the buzzer sounded.
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2005-06 Basketball Recap: Hokies Finish Off Radford With Strong Second Half, 80-50
November 10, 2005
The Virginia Tech men's basketball team got their season off to a good start, knocking off visiting Radford 80-50 in the opening game of the NABC Classic in Blacksburg on Thursday night. The Hokies got off to a sluggish start but got stronger as the game went on, using their superior talent and athleticism to defeat the Highlanders.
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2005-06 Basketball Preview: NABC Classic
November 10, 2005
 Virginia Tech men's basketball team will host the NABC Classic beginning tonight at 7 pm in Cassell Coliseum. The four-team tournament is a round robin event, meaning each team will play every other team once. The Hokies will play all three teams in a span of just four days, and the first team on Tech’s schedule are the Highlanders from Radford. The Hokies and the Highlanders will tip-off tonight at 7 pm, and will be immediately followed by Western Carolina and Bowling Green at 9 pm.
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A Gym Rat's Notebook: 2005-06 Preview: Frontcourt Adds New Faces
November 1, 2005
 After a 2004-05 season that saw a football player moonlighting as a critical off the bench role player down the stretch for a first division ACC team, one of the first priorities of Head coach Seth Greenberg and his assistants was to replenish the front line for this season with additional bodies, and especially size.
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A Gym Rat's Notebook: 2005-06 Preview: Perimeter Could be Right Stuff
October 18, 2005
 “And they all came to talk about it. They came to cry and laugh and fight about it. While searching for the Promised Land, tired souls with empty hands asking to themselves, ‘Is this all there is’?” Those words from the song “Is This All There Is” by Los Lobos have been quite applicable in recent years when applied to the basketball program at Virginia Tech. Mired in deep mediocrity for far too long, the program languished in the dust-bin regions of the Big East while being a collective drain on the psyches of program followers. All the while, people were waiting for something good to transpire during the winter that they could embrace.
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Basketball Recruiting Profiles: Noah States and Patrick Patterson
October 7, 2005
 Lord Botetourt High School in Daleville Virginia already has a Virginia Tech basketball connection, and Noah States is giving thoughtful consideration to adding his name to the program, although he still has two years remaining before his arrival into any college is trumpeted. Junior Chris Tucker has added frontcourt depth for the Hokies during his first two seasons in Blacksburg after a stellar career at Lord Botetourt, and 6-7,175-pound 2007 frontcourt prospect Noah States has an intimate familiarity with the school, campus and basketball program.
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A Gym Rat's Notebook: Got My Mojo Working
October 7, 2005
 Ahh yes, the dawn of October that many a sports fan considers amongst their favorite months. College football has once again eagerly arrived and is reaching the midpoint of their season. Major league baseball is embarking on another round of playoffs that hopefully can provide the excitement of last season. And the NBA has watched its various teams largely complete the summer overhauls of their franchises and training camps have kicked off, with an early November start of the season.
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Basketball Recruiting Profiles: Marshall Moses and Martavis Kee
September 23, 2005
Marshall Moses has a new home this season at Kernersville (NC) Glenn, after having spent last season in South Carolina at Aiken HS, where he averaged 22 points and 13 rebounds. And, while the 6-7,230-pound JR F has the requisite low post presence to attract suitors, he has been somewhat surprised at what he has learned from talking with college coaches interested in recruiting him.
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A Gym Rat's Notebook: A Look Ahead to the ACC, Part 2
June 21, 2005
While the ACC returns the men’s NCAA defending champion in North Carolina, that team will look quite a bit different, as well as much younger than the edition that head coach Roy Williams guided this past season.
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A Gym Rat's Notebook: A Look Ahead to the ACC, Part 1
June 7, 2005
With the ACC adding Boston College next year, thus going to twelve teams for the 2005-06 men's basketball season, it might be an opportune time to look at the conference and how it shapes up next year after the graduations, additions, defections and early NBA draft entries.
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Hokie Hoops Quickly Building an ACC-Caliber Program
May 19, 2005
A look at the Virginia Tech basketball roster and the recruiting classes that the Hokies have put together for 2005 and 2006 leads one to quickly realize that the shallow bench that plagued the Hokies in their ACC debut this past year will quickly be a thing of the past. By the 2006-07 season two years from now, VT will go ten deep and will be able not just to rotate players in, but rotate players in who can score and contribute.
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A Gym Rat's Notebook: A Look Ahead to 2005-06: The Backcourt
May 1, 2005
When looking at the overall prospects for the Virginia Tech 2005-06 basketball season, as I complete our look ahead by scrutinizing the returnees in the backcourt for next season, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention one fact that looms large over the program. It is a fact that many people are aware of, but nevertheless it still causes concern, even coming off the fine season that the program was able to generate in year one of the ACC.
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A Gym Rat's Notebook: A Look Ahead to 2005-06: The Frontcourt
April 21, 2005
With four starters returning from team that finished with an 8-8 conference record, and a 16-14 mark overall that included post-season play in the NIT, the basketball future for Virginia Tech appears to be a reasonably bright one, over the next couple of years at least. What can we really expect though from the individual members of the team, and will the team be one that we recognize from this year with the main components back, or will it be another changing-of-the-guard?
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Basketball Recruiting Primer
April 12, 2005
It's easy to see that Seth Greenberg has gotten off to a good start at Virginia Tech. Two consecutive winning records, a trip to the NIT and an ACC Coach of the Year Award are all the proof needed. He has brought good basketball back to Blacksburg and managed to revive a once dormant fan base that is rapidly turning Cassell Coliseum into a very tough place to play. While Greenberg has done very well in his first two years, his ultimate fate will be based upon how he does in the long term and if he is able to bring ACC caliber players to Blacksburg.
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The Tech Effect
April 7, 2005
Nice Final Four by the Tar Heels. North Carolina got their supremely-talented acts together at the start of their national semifinal against Michigan State and rolled over the Spartans. Monday night it was reversed, with Carolina hitting Illinois hard in the first half then holding on to bring another basketball championship back to Blue Heaven. Roy Williams notched his first championship and is to be commended for bringing together a sometimes-contentious team [ie, Rashad McCants] and getting them to perform at a championship level. They can also tip their light blue hats to Virginia Tech.
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Commonwealth Classic Report
April 4, 2005
The Virginia All-Stars came to play last Friday night, defeating the National All-Stars by a score of 147-131.
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Tourney Thoughts
March 30, 2005
The college basketball season winds down to a precious few games, namely the three that will comprise the Final Four. This weekend will certainly have to go some distance to match the sheer excitement that was generated by last weekend’s Elite Eight. In one of the more remarkable examples of why so many people follow the NCAA Tournament and why CBS lays out big bucks to occasionally break up the sales pitches with a little basketball, we were treated to three of the best regional finals since the NCAA decided that Mr. Naismith’s game might amount to something.
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A Gym Rat's Notebook: Gearing Up for Next Year
March 28, 2005
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.
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