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Virginia Tech vs. SBU Game Notes • Page 1 Game 6 Virginia Tech (4-1, 0-0) HOKIE HOOPS vs. 2011-12 GAME NOTES St. Bonaventure (2-1,0-0) 2011-12 Schedule & Results Hokies return to Cassell Coliseum (4-1, 0-0 ACC) Date Opponent to face Bonnies 11/12 ETSU (ESPN3) W 64-53 NIT Season Tip-Off – Blacksburg, Va. Sun., Nov. 27, 2011 • 6 p.m. 11/14 MONMOUTH# (ESPN3) W 91-46 Cassell Coliseum (9,847), Blacksburg, Va. 11/15 FIU# (ESPNU) W 78-63 Series vs. SBU: VT, 10-5 Series Streak: VT, two NIT Season Tip-Off – New York, N.Y. Last Meeting vs. the Bonnies: VT, 76-68, OT, 12-23-10, Rochester, N.Y. 11/23 #5/5 Syracuse^ (ESPN2) L 58-69 Live Stats: hokiesports.com 11/25 Oklahoma State^ (ESPN) W 59-57 Radio: Virginia Tech IMG Sports Network & Westwood One TV: ESPN3.com 11/27 ST. BONAVENTURE 6 p.m. ESPN3 Big Ten/ACC Challenge NOTING THE HOKIES 11/30 at Minnesota% 9:15 p.m. ESPN2 Entering Tonight’s Game 12/ 4 KANSAS STATE 5:30 p.m. ESPNU Virginia Tech is 4-1 on the season. 12/ 7 at Rhode Island 7 p.m. St. Bonaventure is 2-1 on the season 12/11 NORFOLK STATE 4 p.m. ESPN3.com VT leads the all-time series, 10-5. 12/17 CAMPBELL 4 p.m. 12/19 NORTH FLORIDA 7 p.m. The Win Over Oklahoma State 12/22 EASTERN MICHIGAN 7 p.m. ESPN3.com 12/31 at Oklahoma State 12 p.m. ESPN2 The Hokies claimed third place in the 2011 NIT Season Tip-Off with a 59-57 win over Okla. State. 1/ 7 at Wake Forest* 12 p.m. ACCN/ ESPN3 Erick Green scored 18 points in the victory. 1/10 FLORIDA STATE* 7 p.m. ESPNU Dorian Finney-Smith recorded his third double-double of the season with 10 points and 14 1/14 at Boston College* 3 p.m. RSN/ ESPN3 rebounds. Cadarian Raines grabbed a career-high nine rebounds in just 12 minutes of action. 1/19 NORTH CAROLINA* 9 p.m. ESPN/2/3 1/22 at Virginia* 6 p.m. ESPNU Green Named to All-NIT team 1/25 BYU 7 p.m. ESPN 1/28 at Maryland* 2:30 p.m. ACCN/ ESPN3 Erick Green was named to the NIT Season Tip-Off All-Tournament team. 2/ 2 DUKE* 7 p.m. ESPN/2/3 2/ 4 CLEMSON* 4 p.m. RSN/ ESPN3 Interesting Side Notes 2/ 9 at Miami* 9 p.m. ESPN/2/3 Tech has had five different players lead them in scoring in each of the five games this season. 2/ 12 BOSTON COLLEGE* 6 p.m. ESPNU Dorian Finney-Smith has led the team in rebounding all five games. 2/ 16 at Florida State* 7 p.m. ESPN/2/3 No one on the Tech team had more than one assist in the win over Oklahoma State. 2/ 18 GEORGIA TECH* 3 p.m. RSN/ ESPN3 2/ 21 VIRGINIA* 9 p.m. ESPNU Hudson Honored by ACC 2/ 25 at Duke* 12 p.m. ACCN/ ESPN3 3/ 1 at Clemson* 9 p.m. ACCN/ ESPN3 Dorenzo Hudson was named the ACC Co-Player of the Week, for the week ending Nov. 20. 3/ 4 NC STATE* 6 p.m. ESPNU Hudson scored an ACC-high 31 points in the win over FIU on Nov. 15. 3/ 8- ACC Tournament ACCN/ESPN/2/ESPNU 3/ 11 (Philips Arena, Atlanta, Ga.) Greenberg Facts Seth Greenberg is 158-107 (.596) at Virginia Tech and 371-277 (.573) in his 22nd season as a * - Atlantic Coast Conference Games collegiate head coach. # - NIT Season Tip-Off, Blacksburg, Va. ^ - NIT Season Tip-Off, New York, N.Y. Greenberg is 103-31 (.769) as a head coach in Cassell Coliseum. % - Big Ten/ACC Challenge, Minneapolis, Minn. All times are EST and are subject to change Rankin Nears Return Marquis Rankin, who had knee surgery on Oct. 6, is nearing return for the Hokies. Television Rankin has begun practicing with the team. His progress is being monitored by the Sports ESPN3.com Medicine staff. Dave Weekley & Glenn Consor Thompson Out for the Season Radio Redshirt senior forward, JT Thompson, will miss the 2011-12 season after suffering a tear to the ACL in his right knee on Nov. 2. He missed the entire 2010-11 season with the same injury to his Virginia Tech IMG Sports Network left knee. Bill Roth & Mike Burnop Hokie Probables F 31 Jarell Eddie So. 6-7 Charlotte, N.C. 8.4 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 2.2 apg Virginia Tech Athletics Communications F 15 Dorian Finney-Smih Fr. 6-8 Portsmouth, Va. Primary Contact 7.4 ppg, 10.8 rpg, 3.4 apg Bill Dyer - Associate Director C 14 Victor Davila Sr. 6-8 Canovanas, P.R. [email protected] 6.4 ppg, 5.0 rpg, .583 FG% (o) - 540-231-8853 G 5 Dorenzo Hudson r-Sr. 6-5 Charlotte, N.C. (c) - 540-998-5906 Secondary Contact 15.6 ppg, 3.2 rpg, 1.8 apg Rachel Perreault - Communications Assistant G 11 Erick Green Jr. 6-4 Winchester, Va. [email protected] 13.8 ppg, 2.5 rpg, 2.0 apg (o) - 540-231-2228 Virginia Tech vs. SBU Game Notes • Page 2 Last Time Out: VT 59, OSU 57 They’re Free, Aren’t They What Brown Can Do For Us The Hokies claimed third place in the In the Virginia Tech win over FIU, Dorenzo Robert Brown came out NIT Season Tip-Off with a 59-57 win over Hudson hit all 12 of his free throw attempts of the blocks fast for the Oklahoma State in Madison Square Garden ... That is a new career high for perfect free Hokies ... In his first two on Friday afternoon ... Erick Green led the throw shooting in a game for Hudson and is collegiate games, Brown Hokies with 18 points and Dorian Finney- the first game that a Hokie made at least 10 scored 12 points in the win Smith had 10 points and 14 rebounds ... free throws in a game and shot 1.000 since over ETSU and 19 points to Cadarian Raines grabbed a career-high nine Malcolm Delaney hit 14 of 14 from the line lead the Hokies in scoring rebounds in just 12 minutes of action ... Tech against Maryland on Feb. 15, 2011 ... In all, in the win over Monmouth did not score a field goal in the last 6:30 of Delaney had nine career games of making at ... He is currently third on action, but made key defensive stops and least 10 free throws in a game and shooting the team in scoring. Robert Brown made free throws to hold on to the win. 1.000 ... This is the first time that Hudson has ever made all of his free throw attempts in Thompson to Miss 2011-12 Season The Series vs. St. Bonaventure a game and made 10-or-more free throws ... Senior forward JT Thompson, who missed The Hokies lead the all-time series, Hudson made 20-of-21 free throws in the win the entire 2010-11 season 10-5, including a victory on a forfeit by St. against Seton Hall on Jan. 2, 2010 in Cancun, following surgery to repair Bonaventure from 2002 ... Tech won the last Mexico, a game in which Hudson scored a a torn anterior cruciate meeting, 76-68, in overtime in Rochester, N.Y., career-high 41 points. ligament in his left knee, last season ... Tech is 4-1 in Cassell Coliseum will miss the 2011-12 against the Bonnies ... Tech and SBU were More on Hudson’s Free Throws season with the same fellow members of the Atlantic 10 Conference With his last two free throws in the win injury to his right knee ... from 1996-2000 and the Hokies were 3-2 over Monmouth, his six for six performance The injury occured during against SBU in those games. in the loss to #5/5 Syracuse and making his practice on Nov. 2. first attempt in the win over Oklahoma State, JT Thompson Green is Good Dorenzo Hudson made 21 consecutive free Fast First Start Erick Green was named throw attempts ... He is 27 of 31 from the line With Erick Green unavailable with a to the 2011 NIT Season Tip- so far this season, good for 87.1 percent. strained Achilles tendon, Tyrone Garland Off All-Tournament team ... made his first collegiate start in the season- Green scored 14 points in The First Freshman opening win over ETSU ... The sophomore the loss to #5/5 Syracuse Dorian Finney-Smith from Philadelphia started at the point and led and led the Hokies with accomplished something in the Hokies with 13 points ... His 24 minutes 18 points in the win over the win over ETSU that has played set a new career-high, as did his seven Oklahoma State. not happened in Blacksburg made free throws ... Garland followed that Erick Green for quite some time ... with an 18 point performance in the win over Hudson Honored by ACC His double-double of 10 Monmouth ... He continued his outstanding Virginia Tech guard Dorenzo Hudson has points and 16 rebounds play with a career-high five assists in the been named the Atlantic Coast Conference is the first time a Hokie Dorian Finney-Smith win over FIU and had 14 points in the loss to Co-Player of the Week for freshman has accomplished #5/5 Syracuse and 18 points in the win over the week ending Nov.