It’s all a matter of perception and expectations. The
Virginia Tech basketball season that ended its season last Saturday with a Beale
Street blues-inspiring performance against Memphis is regarded as a success.
Tech finished 16-14, a marginal improvement over last year’s 15-14 Big East
swan song. This Tech team has been tabbed monumental overachievers.
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Expectations were low. A bunch considered to have little
ACC-quality talent, a lack of an inside presence and no depth was picked by ACC
media to finish near the bottom of the ACC standings and was widely ridiculed as
being one of the worst teams ever to play in the ACC. Things didn’t exactly
work out that way.