Shout out to Mr. Dan Rickenbach for his support!

THE LOW POST:

Just to mix things up, I tracked how many times we fed the post today.  Note that these numbers only include passes into the post to our bigs (i.e. I didn’t count touches via offensive rebounds or passes to our bigs on the perimeter — this truly represents their touches inside of 10 feet).  Also, I only counted one feed per possession — i.e. if Raines got the ball down low then fed it to Barksdale, it only counted for Raines.

• Possessions: 64
• Raines: 12
• Barksdale: 1
• van Zegeren: 5
• Beyer: 1

That’s 19 feeds to the low post in 64 possessions by my count (30%).  It’s no surprise based on the numbers above that Raines had 8 FG attempts and 3 assists, while CJB had just 3/2 (most of his work was on the perimeter or after other guys touched it down low).

Just wanted to share… given Cadarian’s low post moves, I like this ratio.

HALL OF FAME:

Had we lost, I’d have added Travis McKie to our Opponents Hall of Fame.  He had 20 points and 15 rebounds today, including a double-double in the first half.

Coming into today, he was 12/41 on 3-pointers (29%).  Today he was 4/6 today.  That’s the way it has been over the last 10 games.  But the Hokies still found a way to win.

THE TALE OF TWO HALVES:

• First half: wake — 15 offensive rebounds and 5 made 3s (averaged 9 offensive rebounds and 5.3 made 3s PER GAME coming in)
• Second half: wake — 2 offensive rebounds and 2 made 3s — that’s how you make a comeback — getting stops.
• First half: EG — 1/8 FGs — 4 points.
• Second half: EG — 7/10 FGs — 18 points

FLIP THE SCRIPT:

• The Hokies came in the #1 FT% team in the ACC at 73%… they won going 8/16 from the line for 50%

THE TALE OF TWO GAMES:

• wake vs clemson: 44 total points and 0 fast break points
• wake vs VT: 65 total points and 18 fast break points

HOKIES AND 2ND HALVES:

Going into today’s game, Tech had not led in the 2nd half (not counting overtime) of their previous ACC 3 games and had only been tied for 24 seconds (the final 0:24 vs georgia tech).  Well, they took the lead 2 minutes into the 2nd half today.  That 1-point lead lasted 35 seconds, but obviously they off and on in the final 6:30.