Green Injured At Second Day Of NBA Draft Combine
Well unfortunately Hokies, I have bad news in regards to Erick Green's day two performance at the NBA Draft Combine. Green did not appear on the floor with the point guards at the beginning of...
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Green Stands Out Among PG's At NBA Draft Combine
Green was invited to an attended the NBA Draft Combine in Chicago today, which was broadcast live on ESPNU and later ESPN2. Thursday was the first day of the two-day event in which 60 players are...
Analyzing Erick Green's Strengths And Weaknesses
Erick Green has perhaps the best chance to be drafted of any Hokie in the modern era. Though Tech has not been a hotbed of future NBA'ers, nor has it produced the best basketball pedigree, it has...
Tech, Wake & Clemson Left Out Of ACC-B1G Challenge
The ACC announced earlier today that the Virginia Tech basketball program would be one of three left out of the annual ACC-Big Ten Challenge that pits schools from each conference against each...
Hokies Fill Out 2013 Class With Dynamite Point
First off, BIG TIME kudos to James Johnson. He took over a program ailing at the end of April in 2012 (by no fault of his own). He managed to maintain the roster minus one player (who may have been...
End Of An Era: Erick Green's Virginia Tech Career
Obviously we've written a lot about Erick over the years, but with the phenomenal year he put together in 2012-13, we wrote about his nightly exploits ad nauseam with several, long, impassioned...
How Did This Happen?
I guess for the purposes of this post, we'll start out with Brown as he is no longer with the team. I wrote several things about Brown when his transfer was announced, including several of his...
Hokies Basketball Program Suffers Another Loss
Originally reported as a rumor late last night on Twitter by @HillcrestHokie Basketball news coming — HillcrestHokie (@HillcrestHokie) March 25, 2013 And early this morning confirmed by...
Tech Basketball Players That Fell By The Wayside
The Hokies' 2012-13 season has been hampered by their lack of scholarship players, leaving them to play with only eight available scholarship bodies all season long provided no injuries or...
Replacing Erick Green: Can It Be Done?
In the 2011 blockbuster Moneyball, based on a 2003 book by Michael Lewis documenting the 2002 Oakland Athletics, the A's are tasked with replacing three cornerstone players (Jason Giambi, Johnny...
Erick Green Wins ACC Player Of The Year
We made our case for Erick Green to be the ACC Player of the Year one week ago. It wasn't difficult to do, but being that Green was on a last placed team at the time (which ended up finishing alone...
How The Hokies Can Avoid Finishing Last
Despite this very much up and down (and very much down) season for the Hokies, and despite an agonizing nine-game losing streak in the heart of conference play, they still have a chance to do...
The Legacy Of Erick Green
Few Virginia Tech basketball fans remember a spritely Erick Green walking onto the court against the Brown Bears in the Hokies' first game of the 2009-10 season. I was there, simply to look at the...
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Best Conference for Va Tech?
I know there has been a lot of fear-mongering when it comes to conference realignment in the last 2 years. Much of that has originated with our neighbors to the West in Morgantown. I also realize...
Virginia Tech Basketball's Lost Season: 2012-2013
Let's face it folks. This basketball season is over for the Hokies. Many of us holding out hope that there was enough left in the tank to make a slight turnaround and get back close to .500 to...
Breaking Down 2013 Commitment Malik Mueller
Late to the recruiting party because of the situation that Jim Weaver put the staff in, and short on quality domestic options, the Hokies basketball program has once again found an overseas option...
Jim Weaver Bears Responsibility
The state of the basketball program is a mess because of Jim Weaver's firing polarizing coach, Seth Greenberg, and hiring an inexperienced James Johnson to run the program. Trevor argues why Weaver needs to retire.
Erick Green Is Not Being Snubbed
Yes, Erick Green leads the country in points per game, but that alone is not a good enough reason to be on the watch list for the player of the year award. Find out why in this op-ed piece by Trevor Greene.
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Why I Think Erick Green Is A Star, Not A Hog
via 1.bp.blogspot.com [Ed. Note: Bumped from FanPosts. Thanks to Hokie Mark for this analysis. Chicagomaroon will do a counterpoint to Trevor's Erick Green post from this past weekend later this...
Making Sense Of A Season That Got Away
I wanted to publish this post after the blowout loss to Colorado State, but the Hokies, down a scholarship player (and a big nonetheless...at least for them) were totally outperformed by a team...
Virginia Tech To Open ACC Slate With Wake Forest
During the Q & A I refer to myself as GC (GobblerCountry) and John as BSD (Blogger So Dear). Also, here are my answers to John's questions. Enjoy, and GO HOKIES! Here are the three...
Hokies Down A Scholarship Player With Wood Injury
The injury was first reported on Twitter by Roanoke Times Virginia Tech beat writer Mark Berman: #Hokies freshman reserve forward Marshall Wood suffered broken foot in yesterday's game. No word...
Hokies Suffer Embarrassing Loss To The Eagles
The number one reason the Hokies lost this game is effort. Many 2012 Tech basketball and James Johnson apologists have said something to the effect of, "well, this team is tired and needs a break,"...
Hokies Best Devils In Sloppiest Game Of The Season
Despite coming into the game 0-5, the Devils really made a game of this one, going toe-to-toe with the Hokies for most of the first stanza and trailing at halftime by a mere six points. But after...
Tech Falls To WVU Despite Green's Sensational Game
It says a lot about this basketball team that by far the worst game they've played this year to this point was a 1-point loss. They competed, they made some pretty big plays down the stretch, but...
Hokies-Mountaineers To Renew Rivalry In Basketball
During the Q & A I refer to myself as GC (GobblerCountry) and Wesley as TSM (The Smoking Musket). You can also find my answers to his questions here. Enjoy, and GO HOKIES! GC: So the last time...
