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2015-16 Virginia Tech Game Notes Game Twenty-One ▪ Florida State WOMEN’S BASKETBALL 2015-16 GAME NOTES GAME INFORMATION GAME 21 ▪ FLORIDA STATE TALLAHASSEE, FLA. (TUCKER CENTER) Date/Time: January 31, 2016 / 2 p.m. VIRGINIA TECH Hokies (14-6, 2-5 ACC) Opponent: #11/11 Florida State Atlantic Coast Conference Site: Tallahassee, Fla. (Tucker Center) Radio: 100.7 FM WNMX / HokiesXtra Head Coach: Dennis Wolff (Connecticut, 1978) - Fifth Season Talent: Andrew Allegretta, play-by-play at TV: N/A #11/11 FLORIDA STATE Seminoles (17-4, 7-1 ACC) Live Stats: Seminoles.com Atlantic Coast Conference Live Video: ESPN3 Head Coach: Sue Semrau (Cal-San Diego, 1985) - 19th Season Series: FSU leads 24-10 Blacksburg: 7-9 THE HOKIES Away: 2-14 Virginia Tech dropped a 57-45 decision to No. 17/17 Miami the last time out. Regan Magarity led the Neutral: 1-1 Hokies with 11 points and grabbed five rebounds. Vanessa Panousis and Sidney Cook each had eight Under Wolff: 1-6 points and four rebounds. Hannah Young led on the boards with nine rebounds while Chanette Hicks First Meeting: Dec. 17, 1979 tallied five points, three assists and three steals. FSU won 67-57 in Tallahassee Last Meeting: March 6, 2015 Miami held a 36-23 lead at the break and extended its advantage to 17 with a pair of baskets coming FSU won 82-43 in Greensboro out of the break. The Hokies went to work, going on a 17-0 run that spanned 4:54 to tie it up at 40-40 with 8:12 to go. Miami answered with a 10-1 run to push the lead back to seven. The Hokies were Last Tech win: Feb. 24, 2013 unable to get a run going in the final minutes as the Hurricanes hit six from the line in the final minute 71-52 in Blacksburg to help secure the win. SCHEDULE/RESULTS Date VT OPP Opponent TV Time/Result Panousis leads the Hokies with 10.5 points per game along with handing out 2.4 assists per game. N13 Presbyterian W, 58-44 Young is adding 10.0 ppg and shooting 39.6 percent from the field, including a 43.3 percent clip from N15 George Mason W, 80-63 outside while pulling down 4.9 rebounds per game. Cook is posting 8.8 ppg and 5.1 rpg, and Hicks is N18 at Georgetown BEN L, 56-73 adding 8.5 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 3.9 apg and 2.85 spg. Regan Magarity leads on the boards with 5.7 rpg and N20 Providence W, 62-46 chipping in 8.3 ppg. N22 College of Charleston W, 81-47 N25 Wofford W, 73-42 THE SEMINOLES Florida State defeated Wake Forest 96-55 on the road Thursday night. Brittany Brown tallied 22 points, Big Ten/ACC Challenge 11 assists and nine rebounds to lead the Seminoles. Shakayla Thomas tallied 16 points while Maria D3 at Penn State W, 64-59 Conde and Ivey Slaughter each tallied 15 points. Slaughter also scooped up six steals. D6 8/8 at Tennessee SECN W, 57-43 D9 RV/RV Morgan State W, 73-33 Florida State jumped out to the early lead after outscoring the Demon Deacons 27-9 in the opening D13 RV/RV Coppin State W, 72-39 quarter. Wake Forest held the advantage in the second frame 24-21, but FSU took the 48-33 lead in D19 RV/RV Mount St. Mary’s W, 59-42 to the break. The Seminoles again jumped out coming out of the break, outscoring Wake 48-22 in the D21 RV/RV Radford W, 47-40 second half. D30 RV/RV Furman W, 59-30 Thomas leads the Seminoles with 17.3 ppg. Adut Bulgak is adding 13.7 ppg and grabbing 7.6 rpg. J3 RV/RV --/RV Boston College * W, 58-33 Leticia Romero is knocking in 10.3 ppg while Brown is notching 10.3 ppg and handing out 4.9 apg. J7 RV/RV RV/RV at Louisville * ESPN3 L, 45-56 J10 RV/RV RV/25 at Syracuse * ESPN3 L, 39-60 THE SERIES J18 NR/RV Clemson * RSN W, 79-49 This marks the 35th meeting in one of the Hokies’ longest series. The Seminoles won last season in J21 NR/RV NR/RV NC State * RSN L, 61-72 the quarterfinal round of the 2015 ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament, defeating Tech 82-43 in the J24 NR/RV 3/3 at Notre Dame * ESPN3 L, 41-80 Greensboro, Coliseum. Panousis and Rachel Camp each had nine points for the Hokies. Thomas led J28 17/17 Miami * ESPN3 L, 45-57 the Seminoles with 17 while Romero tallied 11. J31 at Florida State * ESPN3 2 p.m. COMPARING THE TEAMS Up Next: Virginia Tech is back at Cassell to host Georgia F4 Georgia Tech * 7 p.m. Virginia Tech ________________ Florida State Tech on Thursday, Feb. 4 at 7 p.m. F7 at Virginia * 2 p.m. 60.5 _______ Points Per Game ________75.9 F11 at North Carolina * 7 p.m. 50.4 ____ Points Allowed per Game _____54.1 F14 Pittsburgh * ESPN3 2 p.m. +10.1 _______ Scoring Margin _______ +21.7 F18 Duke * ESPN3 7 p.m. .641 _____ Free Throw Percentage _____.687 F21 at Miami * 4 p.m. .391 _________ Field Goal % __________.476 F25 at Wake Forest * 7 p.m. .332 _____ Field Goal % Defense ______.378 F28 Virginia * ESPN3 2 p.m. 6.7 ____ 3-Point FG Made per Game _____5.0 .339 ______ 3-Point Field Goal % ______.357 All times Eastern Rankings: AP/USA Today Coaches Poll .248 ____ 3-Point Field Goal % Def. _____.325 * ACC Games Schedule subject to change 37.5 ______Rebounds Per Game ______41.4 36.2 _____ Rebounds Against Avg. ______27.0 +1.3 ________Rebound Margin ______ +14.4 VIRGINIA TECH POSSIBLE STARTERS ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS 4.5 ________ Blocks Per Game _________3.0 April Goode, Director - Social Communication 13.1 _______ Assists Per Game ________16.7 ## Name ppg rpg misc. fg% ft% O: 540-231-8823 ▪ C: 540-392-1336 7.2 ________ Steals Per Game ________10.7 4 Hannah Young 10.0 4.9 .433; 3pt% .396 .722 Email: [email protected] 16.6 ______ Turnovers Per Game _______17.3 5 Vanessa Panousis 10.5 2.3 2.3 apg .342 .897 18.1 ___ Turnovers Forced per Game ____20.6 11 Regan Magarity 8.3 5.7 1.33 spg .441 .675 Evan Nicely, Strategic Communications Assistant +1.5 ________Turnover Margin _______ +3.3 O: 540-231-1494 ▪ Email: [email protected] 12 Chanette Hicks 8.5 3.9 2.9 spg .444 .473 0.8 ___________ A/TO Ratio ___________1.0 24 Taijah Campbell 4.9 4.9 1.5 bpg .479 .750 hokiesports.com @VT_WBBall VTHokieWBB 2015-16 Virginia Tech Game Notes Game Twenty-One ▪ Florida State NOTEWORTHY FRESHMAN TIE ON FIRE Chanette Hicks scooped up three steals versus Miami STREAK SNAPPED The Hokies connected on 14-of-27 from outside the to tie the freshman class record of 57 set by Sonya Virginia Tech’s win over Tennessee on Dec. 6 arc, shooting 51.9 percent against George Mason to Dalton (1979-80) and Ieva Kublina (2000-01). snapped the Lady Vols’ 44-game unbeaten streak set a new team single-game three-pointers made at home against unranked opponents. In addition, record. 3Q SCORING Tennessee’s 43 points marked the fewest UT has RULER OF THE CASSELL The Hokies dropped in 28 points in the third quarter ever scored in a game. The Hokies’ Vanessa Panousis tallied six three- versus Clemson on Jan. 18. It marked the second pointers in the win over George Mason, tying a most points scored by the Hokies in the third this A FEW FIRSTS Cassell Coliseum record. The mark is also the third season (29 vs. GMU, 11/15/15) and the second most The Hokies win over then-No. 8 Tennessee was the highest single-game total in Tech history. in any quarter on the year. first win over a top-10 team since Tech knocked off then-No. 8 Maryland in 2012. It was also the STRONG START program’s first win over the Lady Vols. The Hokies went 13-1 to open the season, marking one of the best starts in program history. In addition, BACK-TO-BACK Tech’s 11-game win streak marked the third longest With the wins over Penn State and Tennessee, the RECORD WATCH in history. The longest streak is 18 games (1998-99) Hokies picked up their first back-to-back wins over VANESSA PANOUSIS with the second at 12 straight (2003-04, 2005-06). non-conference Power 5 opponents since early in 1,000 Point Club - 999 the 2003-04 campaign. 3-point FG: Panousis Career - 182 (3rd on list) D-FENCE Career Rec.: 200 - Carrie Mason, 2002-06 The 33 points scored by Boston College on Jan. 3, CHALLENGE ACCEPTED 2016 ties the fewest points allowed in an ACC game. The Hokies knocked off Penn State 64-58 in the Panousis Junior Year - 47 Tech also held Clemson to 33 points on Jan. 2, 2012. 2015 Big Ten/ACC Challenge. Tech’s last win in the Junior Rec.: 71 - Lindsay Biggs, 2008-09 challenge came in 2012 over Wisconsin at home. It Panousis ACC Career - 80 GIMME THE BALL also marks the first time that the Hokies have won ACC Career Rec.: 84 - Lindsay Biggs, 2006-10 Virginia Tech scooped up 16 steals in the game on the road as part of the challenge.