This column isn't going to be very long. I've been writing about Hokie sports
for almost eleven years, so I recognize moments when no one, not even the most
gifted scribe, can do a game justice. Just remember that on February 13, 2007,
Virginia Tech basketball went down to Chapel Hill and knocked off North Carolina
at home. Every time I think this team has topped itself, they do it again.
I'm spent. When I sat down at 8:00 to watch this game, I was fine. By 10:33
p.m., when Zabian Dowdell and Deron Washington stonewalled gifted point guard Ty
Lawson on Lawson's game-winning attempt, I had a knot in my stomach and a
headache, courtesy of a gut-wrenching 81-80 overtime win by the Hokies. I'm not
kidding; as I write this, I feel kind of sick.