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The Mighty Hokies

The ACC expanded their conference by adding Miami, Virgina Tech and BC with the sole purpose of improving the conferences football, aka cash cow. What they didn't expect was for BC and VaTech to immerge as front runners in their Men's Basketball league and for VaTech to go out and sweep their matchups with UNC.

I will give and take some credit to myself right now. At the beginning of the season when I laid out my predictions I picked VaTech as my sleeper team. But that was to make the tourny and I said they would get knocked off in round 1. In all actuality the Hokies have a shot to win the ACC and advance deep into the NCAA tourny. I don't think they're a potential champion, but would you be absolutely stunned if a team that managed to win in Cameron Indoor and the Dean Dome in the same season somehow made it to the Final 4. Regardless of the fact they used to be basement dwellers in the Big East and have yet to make the tourny as members in the ACC, this team has done what so little teams in the past have done.

Who knows what they will do over the course of the next few weeks, win the ACC or not, advance to the 2nd weekend of the tourny or not, this Tech team has taken tremendous strides in establishing a program. And with the coaching ability of Seth Greenberg, should win the AP coach of the year, the Hokies could in fact be here to stay. And at that point the Head Honcho of the ACC should be given all the credit in the world for both making his football conference relevant, and at the sametime improving the hoop.
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