| 15 January 2007
Warning: This post is heavily littered with super-happy, holy-crap-I-can’t-believe-we-did-it enthusiasm.
Currently, the Hokies are 13-4. I could have seen this. 13-4 is good, and looking at our schedule, pretty average. The thing is, Tech was 10-4 going into last Saturday. Next 3? Duke, UNC-Greensboro, and UNC (the real one). Now we are 13-4 after the greatest week of basketball ever. We are ranked for the first time since I was 12 years old.
At the beginning of this season, I told pretty much everyone I knew that Tech would be ranked in basketball this year. I wholeheartedly believed. After loses to W. Michigan and Marshall, my preseason hype was looking like an ESPN preseason poll. But the hype was for real. And this team is for real… when they want to be.
Sure we lost 4 games to teams that aren’t the greatest ever. Do I care at all? Does anyone care? No. This team has officially arrived. We aren’t contenders for National Titles, and we don’t expect to be. But with a history of nubbins basketball since the likes of Ace Custis (yeah, that was an Ace Custis reference), we are now ranked. Whether we can stay there is yet to be seen, but with the job Coach Greenberg has done in only 4 years, I have a good feeling we’ll stay solid.
For those that are not familiar with the program, or Hokies that have forgotten their roots, let me recap where we were my freshman year, the 2002-2003 season:
- We had a UVA grad as a coach.
- Our record was 12-17, with a 4-12 conference record.
- We did not make the Big East tournament. Do you know what it takes to make the Big East tournament? Not be last. Too tough of a task for us.
- Our best player was a 400 pound ex-offensive lineman named Terry Taylor.
- Our student section sat for 80% of the game.
Now, you can’t get student tickets. It is loud for every game. We are ranked, and the future looks bright. I know the season isn’t over, but some of us were there at the beginning. This team took a big step this past week. Oh, and this happened:
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