Monday's media predictions broke a string of nine straight years of the Hokies being picked to finish #1 or #2 in the Coastal Division.
When the votes were tallied in Greensboro, a jumble of voting on Duke, Virginia Tech, Miami and UNC in the Costal Division had resolved itself into a #3 prediction for the Hokies. And that was by a narrow margin, as the 571 points amassed by the Hokies barely nudged them ahead of UNC's 570 points.