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Game Recap | wake forest (6-12, 13-17) 90, Hokies (4-14, 13-18) 79

Posted on10 March 2013. Tags: ,

The Hokies delivered a dud of a regular season finale on the road against wake forest, losing 79-90. This game was never close. The final score is not an accurate representation of how soundly the Hokies were beaten today, especially in the paint.

The good news is that Erick Green went off for 35 points, tied for his career-high, and in doing so, gave him 786 for the season, one more than Bimbo Coles’ school record of 785. We should say Coles’ OLD record because Erick “The Winchester Rifleman” Green is the new sheriff in town.

Erick also moved into the top 10 on the Virginia Tech all time scoring list.  His 15th point on the day moved him past Ace Custis. He now has 1,727 career points (Ace had 1706).  Baring a deep ACC Tournament run, he’ll finish in 10th.

And in case anyone is wondering, Green’s 786 points came in 31 games. Bimbo’s 785 points also came in 31 games. So to quote Techsideline.com, “it’s a legit record.”

Although it was already locked up, it’s pretty much official that Green will finish the regular season as the nation’s and ACC’s leading scorer. And get this, he’s the first ACC player since south carolina’s (yes, they used to be in the ACC) Grady Wallace did so in 1957. Think of all the ACC greats that ever accomplished that feat: Michael Jordan, Tim Duncan, Ralph Sampson, etc., etc., etc.

Outside of those two highlights, that was about it. Virginia Tech’s “big men” played pretty small today. As Bill Roth said during the game, “Hokies giving up layup after layup.” It was about ugly as a game as we’ve seen all season. And how many times have we said that this year?

After the game, ACC broadcaster and former virginia player Cory Alexander gave his vote for ACC player of the year to Green. All the votes are due by 9 p.m., Sunday night (tonight), so we should probably hear something later this evening.

If you want to recap the play-by-play, go to HokieSports.com and look up the box score and relive the agony of defeat.

Want numbers of who scored what? Here you go:

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  • 69Hokie

    I wonder which parts of this game Weaver thinks were good? Does anyone above Weaver care? VA Tech deserves a FULL-TIME AD!

    • danram

      [Paragraph deleted - we will not tolerate name calling of other posters which this was... Sort of. You are normally fine so just be more careful next time.]

      Jim Weaver has been an outstanding AD for VT. He has managed the largest, by far, expansion of athletic facilities in VT’s history, taking on over $100 million in new debt in the process, and has kept the department nicely profitable throughout. Moreover, the professional way in which he had organized and managed the VT athletic department was a significant part of the reason why we were invited to join the ACC in 2003. The league representatives that the ACC sent to Blacksburg on a fact-finding mission were very impressed with what they found. Jim Weaver is regarded by his peers as one of the best ADs in the country, and rightfully so. Want to see what an athletic department can look like when it’s managed poorly? Take a look at Maryland and Tennessee. 90% of the D-1 athletic departments in this country lose money each year. VT has always made money under Weaver.

      As for the basketball program, please understand this: Jim Weaver had no choice but to fire Seth Greenberg. Maybe he should have done it sooner than he did, but it had to be done. Seth Greenberg had so thoroughly antagonized and alienated people in the Merryman Center that half the current team was going to transfer if he stayed. Moreover, he had continually run off assistant coach after assistant coach and couldn’t keep a staff together. Even James Johnson, as much as he loves VT and Blacksburg, had had all he could take of Seth and moved on to Clemson before being brought back. Weaver couldn’t find any good assistants who wanted to come to work at VT because word had gotten out about what Seth was like to work for. There was only one thing left to do.

      The problem with this year’s team is simply a lack of talent. The results this year probably wouldn’t have been much different had Seth stayed. So please stop with the knee-jerk Weaver-bashing, OK? [Deleted]

      • Niemo

        Danram – I agree Weaver has done a lot of good for VT, but none of it has been in the last few years. Part of why we couldn’t get/keep good assistants is we were dead last in assistant salaries despite turning a $4 million profit on hoops. And look at the women’s program. There’s financially responsible and there’s cheap. Weaver is the latter, and that’s not a good thing in my eyes.

        We make money each year (at least for now until football attendance drops, if it ever does). Whoop-dee-Doo. I’d rather start winning. And we are in the ACC now, so all those good $ figures of the past are irrelevant now. I’d rather spend some money and take some chances, and that can be done without falling into a red hole on the finances.

        There’s a lot Weaver has done I appreciate and enjoyed. But there does come a time when you need to move on. And his time is now. He did some great things for VT, but now we need new leadership.

      • Vindictive_Pat

        I was with you until the very last paragraph. Make no mistake, this team is quite talented. There’s a reason why Eddie, Brown, and Barksdale were rated highly by recruiting services coming out of high school. It wasn’t just VT who was after them. Those players are massively under-performing right now, and we can’t just say that it would have been the same way under Seth Greenberg because it’s convenient to the argument. Barksdale and Rankin are playing better this season, but Eddie and Brown are playing a good bit worse and have regressed rather than developing more under JJ. To me, that’s the biggest reason for our team being awful this year is that our #2 and #3 scorers are miserably inefficient at scoring in addition to an already sub-par defense getting much worse this season. I’m not going so far as to say that JJ is definitely to blame, but I definitely don’t think it’s fair to say that there is a lack of talent on this team. Our 8 scholarship players are on par talent-wise with the average ACC team… they just aren’t living up to their potential.

  • http://www.facebook.com/scott.paulis Scott Paulis

    first sentence – “georgia tech” should be wake forest – are you recycling game recaps? Might as well, they all seem to go the same way – Hokies losing with a thud.

    • http://www.thegarycope.com/ Cope

      Yeah. My bad. It’s been fixed and updated. wake, gt, same thing.

  • King

    Where to start? First off, congratulations to Erik Green. Fortunately, for him, he gets to graduate and leave this sinking ship. I wish him nothing but the best for his future and I hope he gets a shot at the NBA because he deserves it. As a fan, I’d love for him to carry VT to one more win in the ACC Tourney….heavy emphasis on “carry” because JJ is not going to coach us to victory and Green’s supporting cast is totally inept. I’m already starting to get upset just thinking about how bad we’re going to be next year. We’ll be lucky to win two ACC games. Thanks, Jim Weaver for making this all possible. In Berman’s interview this weekend, Weaver says we’re close to getting back to where we were. In other words, 9-7 in the ACC and a perennial NIT team. If you’re going to go on record, is it too much to ask that you set higher goals for the program? I really want to go the NCAA tournament more than once every 20 years. If anybody is reading this with the ability to make it happen, please fire Jim Weaver. That’d be great, thanks.

  • Blue Collar Hokie

    what a sucky last two years. . .

    but wouldnt it be great to beat ncsu or even better uva in the first round of the acct and have them sweatin it out on selection sunday?


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2012-13 Schedule

November
11/10 Hokies 80, etsu 62
11/12 Hokies 69, rhode island 50
11/15 Hokies 95, vmi 80
11/19 Hokies 96, unc-g 87
11/23 Hokies 87, appalachian state 76
**ACC/BIG Ten Challenge**
11/27 Hokies 95, iowa 79
December
12/1 Hokies 81, #15 oklahoma state 71
12/8 wvu 68, Hokies 67
**Continental Tire Las Vegas Classic**
12/10 Hokies 70, mvsu 49
12/15 Georgia Southern 78, Hokies 73
12/22 Hokies 66, bradley 65, OT
12/23 colorado state 88, Hokies 52
**Continental Tire Las Vegas Classic**
12/29 byu 97, Hokies 71
January
1/5 maryland 94, Hokies 71
1/9 boston college 86, Hokies 75
1/12 Hokies 70, georgia tech 65
1/19 Hokies 66, wake forest 65
1/24 virginia 74, Hokies 58
1/27 clemson 77, Hokies 70
1/30 miami 73, Hokies 64
February
2/2 unc 72, Hokies 60, OT
2/7 maryland 60, Hokies 55
2/9 Georgia Tech 64, hokies 54
2/12 virginia 73, Hokies 55
2/16 nc state 90, Hokies 86
2/21 duke 88, Hokies 56
2/24 Hokies 80, fsu 70
2/27 miami 76, Hokies 58
March
3/2 Hokies 69, clemson 61
3/5 duke 85, Hokies 57
3/10 wake 90, Hokies 79
**ACC Tournament in Greensboro**
3/14 vs. nc state, 2:30 p.m.
3/15 Quarterfinals
3/16 Semifinals
3/17 Finals

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