The Metro Conference was a very good basketball conference back in the day. In fact, the pinnacle of Virginia Tech basketball was achieved while the school was part of the Metro, along with Louisville, Florida State, Memphis, and others.
The Metro Conference was one of those leagues that did not have football. It was basically like the Big East before the Big East added football in 1991. Metro Conference members who had a football team were Independents on the gridiron. The Big East saved itself for more than a decade because they added football. The Metro went out of business in 1995 partly because they didn't add football.