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Virginia Tech vs. North Carolina Game Notes • Page #25/ARV Virginia Tech Hokies (7-7, 7-3) vs. HOKIE #4/4 North Carolina Tar Heels HOOPS (22-3, 8-2) 2006-07 Schedule & Results #25 Hokies travel to face #4 UNC in (17-7, 7-3 ACC) 11/10 COPPIN STATE 94-43 W first-ever visit to the Smith Center 11/14 WEST FLORIDA 95-47 W Old Spice Classic - Orlando, Fla. GAME 25: Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007 • 8 p.m. 11/23 Western Michigan (ESPN2) 68-71 L 11/24 Montana (ESPNU) 77-56 W Dean E. Smith Center (21,800), Chapel Hill, N.C. 11/26 Southern Illinois (ESPNU) 64-69 L Series vs. UNC: UNC, 55-11 ACC/Big Ten Challenge Series Streak: VT, one 11/29 IOWA (ESPNU) 69-65 W Last Meeting vs. the Tar Heels: VT, 94-88, 1-13-07, Cassell Coliseum BB&T Classic - Washington, D.C. Live Stats: Hokiesports.com 12/ 3 George Washington (RSN) 62-63 L TV: Raycom/Lincoln Financial (Verizon Center)) Radio: Virginia Tech/ISP Network 12/ 6 OLD DOMINION 72-55 W XM Channel 193 12/10 APPALACHIAN STATE 69-37 W 12/17 WAKE FOREST* (FSN) 63-60 W Aeropostale Classic - New York, N.Y. 12/21 Seton Hall (ESPNU) 80-61 W Hokie Notes (Madison Square Garden) Entering Tonight’s Game 12/23 CAMPBELL 94-70 W The Hokies are 17-7 overall this season and 7-3 in ACC 12/30 at Marshall (CSS) 58-59 L action ... North Carolina is 22-3 overall and 8-2 in the ACC 1/ 3 RICHMOND 65-53 W 1/ 6 at #5/5 Duke*(ESPN) OT 69-67 W ... The Hokies are rnaked 25th in the coaches poll and also 1/10 at UNC Greensboro (RSN) 74-51 W receiving votes in the AP poll... The Tar Heels are ranked (Greensboro Coliseum) fourth nationally in both the AP and coaches polls. 1/13 #1/1 UNC* (ABC) 94-88 W 1/17 at Florida State* 73-82 L Last Time Out: Virginia Tech 84, Virginia 57 1/21 ARV/#22 MARYLAND* (FSN) OT 67-64 W For the second time in less than a month, the Hokies knocked off the ACC’s 1/23 at Miami* (RSN) 92-85 W first place team in Cassell Coliseum, as Virginia Tech defeated Virginia, 84-57, on 1/28 at Georgia Tech* (FSN) 73-65 W Saturday afternoon ... Tech opened up a 19-point lead, and led 38-22 at the half ... 1/31 N.C. STATE* (RSN) 59-70 L the Hokies withstood a minor Virginia comeback attempt early in the second half 2/ 3 at Boston College* (RLF) 59-80 L and led by as many as 29 points before posting the 84-57 win ... Starting forwards 2/10 VIRGINIA* (RLF) 84-57 W Deron Washington and A.D. Vassallo each scored 22 points in the win; Washington 2/13 at #4/4 North Carolina* 8:00 p.m. RLF recorded his second double-double of the season with 10 rebounds, as well ... 2/18 at North Carolina State* 4:00 p.m. RLF Gordon added 15 points to go with his six assists and five steals in the win. 2/21 BOSTON COLLEGE* 7:00 p.m. ESPN 2/24 MIAMI* 12:00 p.m. RSN The Series vs. North Carolina 3/ 1 at Virginia* 7:00 p.m. ESPN Today marks the 67th meeting in this series that began in 1911 ... The Hokies 3/ 4 CLEMSON* 1:00 p.m. RLF are 11-55 all-time against the Tar Heels … Tech won the last meeting, 94-88, in 3/ 8- ACC Tournament RLF/ESPN Cassell Coliseum exactly one month ago … Tech is 1-2 against UNC in ACC games 3/11 (St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, Fla.) … Virginia Tech is 4-25 against UNC in Chapel Hill and this is the Hokies’ first * - Atlantic Coast Conference Games appearance in the Smith Center … The series has been played in Blacksburg, Chapel All times are EST All times are subject to change Hill, Charlotte, Greensboro, Roanoke, Durham, Raleigh, Winston-Salem and Columbia, S.C. HOKIE ProBABLES hokiesports.com F 13 Deron Washington Jr. 6-7 New Orleans, La. 11.9 ppg, 5.4 rpg, 1.7 apg, 1.4 spg F 21 Lewis Witcher Fr. 6-9 Rocky Mount, Va. 3.4 ppg, 2.9 rpg C 33 Coleman Collins Sr. 6-9 Stone Mountain, Ga. 7.9 ppg, 5.0 rpg, 1.3 bspg G 1 Zabian Dowdell Sr. 6-3 Pahokee, Fla. 17.6 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 3.4 apg, 2.2 spg G 22 Jamon Gordon Sr. 6-3 Jacksonville, Fla. 11.7 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 4.5 apg, 2.6 spg Virginia Tech vs. North Carolina Game Notes • Page 2 The State We’re In Bookends SWAT With the win over Virginia, the Hokies All the talk going into the Virginia game In the win over Virginia, the Hokies are now 3-0 against in-state competition regarded the match-up between the back blocked a total of 11 shots, including a this season ... Tech will play just four games courts of the opposing teams, but in the career-high six blocks by Coleman Collins against three separate in-state opponents end, it wound up being the battle of the ... The 11 blocked shots is the second- this season ... Tech is 407-298 (.577) all- forwards that told the story ... Head coach most by the Hokies in an ACC game (Tech time against schools from Virginia ... The Seth Greenberg inserted A.D. Vassallo blocked 12 shots in the win over #7 Duke in Hokies have played 13 schools from the into the line-up and he and fellow starting 2005) ... This is the fourth time this season state ... The only state Division I schools that forward Deron Washington each scored the Hokies have reached the double figure Tech has not played are Longwood, Norfolk 22 points in the win ... The duo combined mark in blocked shots in a game ... Tech’s State and Hampton ... Tech holds winning for 16-of-25 from the field and five-of- season high is 12 blocked shots against records against nine of the schools and even twelve from three point range, to go Seton Hall in Madison Square Garden in records against two others ... After the win with 18 rebounds and six assists ... More December. over Virginia, Tech is 12-8 against schools importantly, the duo held UVa starting from Virginia under Seth Greenberg. forwards Jason Cain and Mamadi Diane Increasing on Good to just four points and five rebounds ... With his five steals in the win against Defense Wins Virginia’s forwards were a combined two-of- Virginia, Jamon Gordon now has 63 steals Entering Saturday’s game, Virginia ten from the field and had more turnovers for the season, equaling his mark from last was third in the ACC in scoring offense, than assists. season ... That number is good enough for averaging 75.3 points per game in a tie for ninth in single-season steals at conference play ... The Hokies held UVa Hot From the Field Virginia Tech ... Gordon now has four of to 57 points, its lowest offensive output of Virginia Tech shot a season-best 59.5 the top ten single-season steals totals at the season ... The Cavaliers shot just 32.8 percent from the field in the win at Georgia Virginia Tech, the only Hokie to hold that percent from the field, including 35.7 Tech ... In the win at Miami, the Hokies distinction. percent in the first half. hit 25-of-43 field goal attempts, for 58.1 percent, which was then a new season-high So This is the Smith Center Usually Not Like This ... Virginia Tech shot 56.5 percent from the Tonight will mark the Hokies’ first- With the 27-point victory for the Hokies field in the loss at Florida State, including ever visit to the Dean E. Smith Center ... over Virginia, that marks the largest margin a blistering 17-of-24 (70.8 percent) in the Although this is the Hokies’ third season as of victory for Tech against UVa since Jan. second half ... At the time, the Florida a member of the ACC, the two schools only 20, 1962, when the Hokies defeated State game percentage was the second- met in Blacksburg in each of the first two Virginia, 92-59, in Charlottesville ... The highest of the season for the Hokies, trailing seasons in the league ... Tech has not played last time the margin of victory was double only the Hokies’ 38-of-66 (57.6 percent) in Chapel Hill since Dec. 6, 1975, when figures for either team was seven games ago, performance in the win over Campbell ... the #4 Tar Heels downed the Hokies, 88-75, when Virginia defeated the Hokies, 80-65, The second-half percentage against Florida in Carmichael Auditorium ... Tech has not in Charlottesville in 2003 ... Tech had not State is a high for the Hokies this season ... won in Chapel Hill since Feb. 12, 1966, recorded a double figures victory against In the win over Virginia, the Hokies were when the Hokies defeated UNC, 81-75, in Virginia since Dec. 10, 1985, in an 84-66 30-of-52 from the field, for 57.7 percent ... Carmichael. win in Roanoke ... Tech had not recorded a The Hokies are shooting 47.7 percent from The Cassell Guard double figures win over Virginia in Cassell the field on the season and that improves to In the win over Virginia, Zabian Dowdell Coliseum since Jan.