With
10:45 left in this game, everything was going according to plan. Coming out of half time, the Hokies had outscored
Virginia 25-12 to stretch a narrow 3-point half time margin to a 62-46 cushion. The Hoos were rattled, the Hokies were
rolling, and it was time for the Cavaliers to go quietly into that good night.


The Hokies had just poured a 7-2 run on the Hoos to build that 16-point lead. With Cassell Coliseum rocking, the
Cavaliers were expected to follow the same script they had followed two years earlier in Blacksburg, when they faded
down the stretch and gave up in a 73-55 Virginia Tech win.