NCAA Tournament March Madness

#55 Virginia Tech

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Projection: first four out

Virginia Tech's résumé lives in that uneasy middle because it pairs a handful of bona fide résumé builders — road victories at Syracuse and South Carolina, a marquee home win over Virginia and solid neutral-site wins over Providence and Colorado State — with an equal number of damaging results that a committee will punish, namely home and road losses to elite conference rivals like Duke, Louisville, NC State and North Carolina and neutral or away setbacks to St Mary's, VCU, SMU and Stanford. The best moments prove the team can win away from Cassell Coliseum and compete against quality opponents, but the worst moments reveal an inability to string those performances together and include ugly home defeats and too many inconsistent road results; close losses at Wake Forest and Miami soften the sting but do not erase it. Because the profile contains limited signature wins late in the year, the only path to vault into clear safety is to add another high‑profile win away from home or at a neutral site and to avoid further bad losses, which is why the team projects on the edge rather than comfortably inside.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Charleston So241W98-67
11/8(N)Providence71W107-101
11/12St Joseph's PA116W94-59
11/16Charlotte183W84-76
11/19Bryant355W78-61
11/26(N)Colorado St88W66-64
11/27(N)St Mary's CA24L77-66
11/28(N)VCU45L86-68
12/2@South Carolina95W86-83
12/6George Mason96W73-62
12/11W Carolina229W96-74
12/14MD E Shore350W82-53
12/20Elon230W82-81
12/31Virginia13W95-85
1/3@Wake Forest74L81-78
1/7Stanford58L69-68
1/10California73W78-75
1/14@SMU42L77-76
1/17Notre Dame89W89-76
1/21@Syracuse83W76-74
1/24@Louisville19L85-71
1/27Georgia Tech162W71-65
1/31Duke1L72-58
2/7@NC State34L82-73
2/11@Clemson36W76-66
2/14Florida St56L92-69
2/17@Miami FL31L67-66
2/21Wake Forest74W82-63
2/28@North Carolina29L89-82
3/3Boston College156W72-63
3/7@Virginia13L76-72
3/10(N)Wake Forest74L95-89