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Virginia Tech vs. North Florida Game Notes • Page 1 Game 12 Virginia Tech (8-3, 0-0) HOKIE HOOPS vs. 2011-12 GAME NOTES North Florida (5-6,0-0) 2011-12 Schedule & Results Hokies host North Florida in quick turn (8-3, 0-0 ACC) Date Opponent around game in Cassell Coliseum 11/12 ETSU (ESPN3) W 64-53 NIT Season Tip-Off – Blacksburg, Va. Mon., Dec. 19, 2011 • 7 p.m. 11/14 MONMOUTH# (ESPN3) W 91-46 Cassell Coliseum (9,847), Blacksburg, Va. 11/15 FIU# (ESPNU) W 78-63 Series vs. UNF: first meeting Series Streak: first meeting NIT Season Tip-Off – New York, N.Y. Last Meeting vs. the Ospreys: first meeting 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 Internet: theACC.com/ESPN3.com 11/27 ST. BONAVENTURE (ESPN3) W 73-64 Big Ten/ACC Challenge NOTING THE HOKIES 11/30 at Minnesota% (ESPN2) L 55-58 About Tonight’s Game 12/ 4 KANSAS STATE (ESPNU) L 69-61 Virginia Tech is 8-3 on the season. North Florida is 5-6 on the season. 12/ 7 at Rhode Island (Cox HD) W 78-67 This is the first-ever meeting between the two schools. 12/11 NORFOLK STATE (ESPN3) W 73-60 12/17 CAMPBELL (ESPN3) W 85-60 The Victory over Campbell 12/19 NORTH FLORIDA 7 p.m. theACC.com$ The Hokies defeated Campbell, 85-60, on Saturday afternoon in Cassell Coliseum. 12/22 EASTERN MICHIGAN 7 p.m. ESPN3.com Dorenzo Hudson and Victor Davila scored 15 points each to lead five Hokies in double figures. 12/31 at Oklahoma State 12 p.m. ESPN2$ Erick Green scored 12 points, Jarell Eddie had 11 points and Dorian Finney-Smith added 10 1/ 7 at Wake Forest* 12 p.m. ACCN/ ESPN3 points in the victory. 1/10 FLORIDA STATE* 7 p.m. ESPNU 1/14 at Boston College* 3 p.m. RSN/ ESPN3 Garland to Transfer 1/19 NORTH CAROLINA* 9 p.m. ESPN/2/3 1/22 at Virginia* 6 p.m. ESPNU Tyrone Garland has decided to leave the Virginia Tech progam and transfer to another school. 1/25 BYU 7 p.m. ESPN $ 1/28 at Maryland* 2:30 p.m. ACCN/ ESPN3 Greenberg Facts 2/ 2 DUKE* 7 p.m. ESPN/2/3 Seth Greenberg is 162-109 (.598) at Virginia Tech and 375-279 (.573) in his 22nd season as a 2/ 4 CLEMSON* 4 p.m. RSN/ ESPN3 collegiate head coach. Greenberg is 106-32 (.768) as a head coach in Cassell Coliseum. 2/ 9 at Miami* 9 p.m. ESPN/2/3 2/ 12 BOSTON COLLEGE* 6 p.m. ESPNU Interesting Side Notes 2/ 16 at Florida State* 7 p.m. ESPN/2/3 Virginia Tech has led at the half in every game this season. 2/ 18 GEORGIA TECH* 3 p.m. RSN/ ESPN3 2/ 21 VIRGINIA* 9 p.m. ESPNU Dorenzo Hudson leads all active ACC players in career minutes played (2,801). 2/ 25 at Duke* 12 p.m. ACCN/ ESPN3 Virginia Tech’s 45-point win over Monmouth is the largest margin of victory by an ACC team this 3/ 1 at Clemson* 9 p.m. ACCN/ ESPN3 season. 3/ 4 NC STATE* 6 p.m. ESPNU 3/ 8- ACC Tournament ACCN/ESPN/2/ESPNU Davila OK 3/ 11 (Philips Arena, Atlanta, Ga.) Victor Davila suffered a wound over his left eye in the win over Campbell that required three * - Atlantic Coast Conference Games stitches to close. # - NIT Season Tip-Off, Blacksburg, Va. ^ - NIT Season Tip-Off, New York, N.Y. DFS Shines in the Early Going % - Big Ten/ACC Challenge, Minneapolis, Minn. Dorian Finney-Smith leads ACC freshmen in rebounding, assists and double-doubles. $ - Also shown on ESPN3.com DFS has three of the top five rebounding performances by and ACC freshman this season. He also All times are EST and are subject to change has two of the three five-assist games by an ACC freshman this season. Television/Internet Thompson Graduates theACC.com/ESPN3.com Redshirt senior forward, JT Thompson graduated in Cassell Coliseum on Friday afternoon. He will Jerry Massey & Cory Alexander miss the 2011-12 season after suffering a tear to the ACL in his right knee on Nov. 2. He missed Radio the entire 2010-11 season with the same injury to his left knee. Virginia Tech IMG Sports Network Bill Roth & Mike Burnop Hokie Probables F 31 Jarell Eddie So. 6-7 Charlotte, N.C. 10.1 ppg, 4.9 rpg, 1.5 apg Virginia Tech Athletics Communications F 15 Dorian Finney-Smih Fr. 6-8 Portsmouth, Va. Primary Contact 7.8 ppg, 8.2 rpg, 2.6 apg Bill Dyer - Associate Director C 14 Victor Davila Sr. 6-8 Canovanas, P.R. [email protected] 7.0 ppg, 3.5 rpg, .525 FG% (o) - 540-231-8853 G 5 Dorenzo Hudson r-Sr. 6-5 Charlotte, N.C. (c) - 540-998-5906 Secondary Contact 11.2 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 1.9 apg Rachel Perreault - Communications Assistant G 11 Erick Green Jr. 6-4 Winchester, Va. [email protected] 16.1 ppg, 3.2 rpg, 2.7 apg (o) - 540-231-2228 Virginia Tech vs. North Florida Game Notes • Page 2 Last Time Out: VT 85, Campbell 60 Lots of Youth More on Raines The Hokies defeated Campbell, 85-60, on Among the Hokies’ 10 active scholarship In the Hokies win at Rhode Island on Saturday afternoon in Cassell Coliseum ... players, the Hokies have two seniors, one Wednesday night, Cadarian Raines recorded Tech led, 32-29, at the half, but opened the junior, two sophomores and five freshmen ... a new career-high, as he scored 12 points second half on a 13-0 run and never looked The two sophomores had seen a combined in the win ... He also had a career-high with back ... The Hokie seniors, Dorenzo Hudson 678 minutes of playing time up until this three steals ... He was six of eight from the and Victor Davila led five players in double season ... Neither had ever started a game field and grabbed four rebounds ... In the win figures with 15 points each ... Erick Green or played a very few minutes of meaningful over Norfolk State, Raines scored 10 points added 12 points and six assists in the victory ACC action ... Add to the fact that Dorenzo and grabbed seven rebounds, six on the ... Tech shot 54.7 percent from the field, Hudson had missed the majority of last offensive glass. including 73.1 percent in the second half. season before gaining a medical redshirt and this team becomes an extremely Garland to Transfer The Series vs. North Florida inexperienced total group. Tyrone Garland has decided to leave This is the first-ever meeting between Virginia Tech and transfer to another school. the Hokies and UNF … Tech is 20-4 all- Hot at the Charity Stripe time against schools from the Atlantic Sun The Hokies are shooting 73.6 percent from They’re Free, Aren’t They Conference, including a 1-0 record this the free throw line entering tonight’s game ... In the Virginia Tech win over FIU, Dorenzo season, as Tech defeated ETSU, 64-53, to open The last time the Hokies shot that well from Hudson hit all 12 of his free throw attempts the season. the line in a season was the 1980-81 season, ... That is a new career high for perfect free when Tech shot a school-record 75.0 percent throw shooting in a game for Hudson and is Senior Day from the line ... Tech has made 49 of its last 60 the first game that a Hokie made at least 10 In the win over Campbell free throw attempts, good for 81.7 percent. free throws in a game and shot 1.000 since on Saturday, Virginia Tech Malcolm Delaney hit 14 of 14 from the line seniors Dorenzo Hudson Rankin Returns against Maryland on Feb. 15, 2011 ... In all, and Victor Davila each Freshman point guard Delaney had nine career games of making at scored 15 points to lead the Marquis Rankin returned least 10 free throws in a game and shooting Hokies in scoring ... They to action in the loss to 1.000 ... This is the first time that Hudson has were a combined 11 for 20 Victor Davila Kansas State ... He had ever made all of his free throw attempts in from the field ... Davila’s 15 missed the team’s first a game and made 10-or-more free throws ... points was a season high seven games following Hudson made 20-of-21 free throws in the win for him and it marked the knee surgery on Oct. 6 ... against Seton Hall on Jan. 2, 2010 in Cancun, first time since the win over The surgery, to clean up Marquis Rankin Mexico, a game in which Hudson scored a FIU in the third game of the cartilage in the knee, was career-high 41 points. season that both players performed by team orthopaedic surgeon scored in double figures in Dr. Marc Siegel at Lewis Gale Hospital at Staying Hot From the Line the same game. Montgomery in Blacksburg, Va. ... He scored In the loss at Minnesota, the Hokies made two points and had an assist in seven minutes all seven of their free throw attempts in the Oh, What a Week! Dorenzo Hudson of action ... In the win at Rhode Island, Rankin game ..