Duke picked up their 16th win of the season by defeating the Hokies in Blacksburg, 77-67. Duke shot 55.4% in the game and 59.3% in the second half while holding Virginia Tech to just 44.8% shooting. Jeremy Roach scored a team-high 16 points with four made threes and dished out four assists. Kyle Filipowski had 14 points and eight rebounds. Tyrese Proctor added 12 points, five assists, and three rebounds. MJ Collins scored 13 of his 17 points in the first half for Virginia Tech. Hunter Cattoor hit his 300th career three-pointer in the game and finished with 15 points.
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We need TJ to get some court time. Great team win tonight.
Great all around team effort tonight, was nice to see Foster hit a few shots too. If he can get going with what else Duke has on offense, the sky is the limit for this team.
Hope to see Stewart keep developing too, he can take this team to another level if he’s ready
Where was the Virginia Tech team I saw over the past week since the Virginia loss?!
I'm truly disappointed with how there was NO appreciable team play for the Hokies. There was far and away too much individual heroics. The times they stood around and watched Duke line up their plays and run them: the epitome of TEAM basketball.
It was as if the Hokies were spectators like the crowd; They were in awe of Duke instead of working to chomp them down to size.
Coach Young got out coached in this one. It's one thing when a team comes out and out hustles you–like UVA did–because I do believe the Hokies had the right junk yard dog mentality to battle the Wahoos, they just out executed and out hustled my Hokies. I can still believe that won't happen in Blacksburg.
But in this game against Duke, Coach didn't appear to get into their ass*s and say get your heads out of your ass*s, stop being awe-struck and run the plays we do in practice.
Now, he could be far more diplomatic than I am right here while sending all the way home the message. Nevertheless the sentiment and its crucial message needed to be done sent and it wasn't.
We miss players like Mutts and forgive my shoddy memory, but the forward (or center) we had with him. Those guys got after it and had Carolina, Duke and Virginia "watching" them as they ran plays on their way to beating them and winning an ACC Tournament.
Frank Beamer in the end devastated Virginia Tech Football in how he advocated for his undeserving son to become the next HC over an obvious Bud Foster, but it can never be said that he allowed his players to be awe-struck by whomever was on the opposing bench. He made damn sure they were out there taking every opportunity to chomp them down and put his team in a position to win — outside of keeping Bryan Stinespring on as OC and not ONLY as a recruiter and O-line coach.
I hope to see Coach Young figure out what he allowed to happen here and get it straightened out pronto. Tech has beaten Duke handily with the talent level it has RIGHT NOW!
One win was given to them. Don't delude yourself. You know it and the basketball world knows it. How they are in the top 10 after losing to very unranked teams. DSPN strikes again.
2 great wins, keep up the consistent work guys‼️
Yikes… Go Duke!