Virginia Tech NCAA Tournament Notes • Page #5 Virginia Tech Hokies (2-, 0-6) vs. HOKIE #2 Illinois Fighting Illini (23-, 9-7) HOOPS 2006-07 Schedule & Results Hokies make first NCAA appearance in (21-11, 10-6 ACC) 11/10 COPPIN STATE 94-43 W years against Illinois in Columbus 11/14 WEST FLORIDA 95-47 W Old Spice Classic - Orlando, Fla. GAME 32: Friday, March 16, 2007 • 7:10 p.m. 11/23 Western Michigan (ESPN2) 68-71 L 11/24 Montana (ESPNU) 77-56 W Nationwide Arena (19,916), Columbus, Ohio 11/26 Southern Illinois (ESPNU) 64-69 L Live Stats: ncaasports.com ACC/Big Ten Challenge TV: CBS 11/29 IOWA (ESPNU) 69-65 W Radio: Virginia Tech/ISP Network BB&T Classic - Washington, D.C. 12/ 3 George Washington (RSN) 62-63 L (Verizon Center)) 12/ 6 OLD DOMINION 72-55 W 12/10 APPALACHIAN STATE 69-37 W Hokie Notes 12/17 WAKE FOREST* (FSN) 63-60 W Entering The NCAA Tournament Aeropostale Classic - New York, N.Y. 12/21 Seton Hall (ESPNU) 80-61 W The Hokies are 21-11 overall and were 10-6 in ACC action (Madison Square Garden) ... The Hokies are the fifth seed in the West Region ... Illinois is the 12th seed in the West Region and are 23-11 overall 12/23 CAMPBELL 94-70 W and were 9-7 in Big Ten play ... The winner of this game will 12/30 at Marshall (CSS) 58-59 L 1/ 3 RICHMOND 65-53 W play the winner of the #4 Southern Illinois vs. #13 Holy Cross 1/ 6 at #5/5 Duke*(ESPN) OT 69-67 W game on Sunday, March 18 in Columbus, with the winner of that game advancing 1/10 at UNC Greensboro (RSN) 74-51 W to the West Region in San Jose. (Greensboro Coliseum) 1/13 #1/1 UNC* (ABC) 94-88 W Last Time Out: NC State 72, Virginia Tech 64 1/17 at Florida State* 73-82 L The Hokies fell to NC State, 72-64, in the semifinals of the 2007 ACC 1/21 ARV/#22 MARYLAND* (FSN) OT 67-64 W Tournament on Saturday afternoon in Tampa, Fla. ... The game was close 1/23 at Miami* (RSN) 92-85 W throughout, with NC State leading 31-25, at the half ... The score was tied, 48-48, 1/28 at Georgia Tech* (FSN) 73-65 W with 7:10 remaining, before the ‘Pack went on a 10-2 run to take the lead for good 1/31 N.C. STATE* (RSN) 59-70 L ... Zabian Dowdell led the Hokies with 15 points and Jamon Gordon recorded his 2/ 3 at Boston College* (RLF) 59-80 L 2/10 VIRGINIA* (RLF) 84-57 W first double-double of the season with 12 points and 11 rebounds, along with four 2/13 at #4/4 UNC* (RLF) OT 81-80 W assists and three steals ... The Hokies struggled from the line, hitting just eight of 19 2/18 at NC State* (RLF) 56-81 L attempts in the game. 2/21 BOSTON COLLEGE* (ESPN) 79-62 W 2/24 MIAMI*(RSN) 73-57 W It’s Been Quite a While 3/ 1 at ARV/#25 Virginia* (ESPN) 56-69 L Virginia Tech makes its first appearance in the NCAA Tournament since the 1995- 3/ 4 CLEMSON* (RLF) 74-75 L 96 season ... The Hokies were the ninth seed and defeated eighth 3/ 9 vs. Wake Forest (RLF/ESPN) 71-52 W seed Wisconsin-Green Bay, 61-48, in Reunion Arena in Dallas, 3/10 vs. NC State (RLF/ESPN) 72-64 L Texas, in the first round of the Midwest Regional ... The Hokies 3/16 vs. Illinois# (CBS) 7:10 p.m. lost to top-seed and eventual national champion Kentucky in the * - Atlantic Coast Conference Games second round of the tournament ... Bill Foster was the head coach # - NCAA West Region, Columbus, Ohio of the Hokies, who had won the NIT the previous season ... In the All times are EST All times are subject to change 2007 Division I Men’s Championship interim, the Hokies have made just one post-season appearance, First/Second Rounds Columbus, Ohio in the 2005 NIT. Ohio State University, host HOKIE ProBABLES hokiesports.com F 13 Deron Washington Jr. 6-7 New Orleans, La. 11.8 ppg, 5.4 rpg, 1.0 bspg, 1.3 spg F 40 A.D. Vassallo So. 6-6 Toa Baja, P.R. 11.4 ppg, 3.9 rpg C 33 Coleman Collins Sr. 6-9 Stone Mountain, Ga. 7.7 ppg, 5.0 rpg, 1.1 bspg G 1 Zabian Dowdell Sr. 6-3 Pahokee, Fla. 18.0 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 3.3 apg, 2.2 spg G 22 Jamon Gordon Sr. 6-3 Jacksonville, Fla. 11.3 ppg, 4.5 rpg, 4.6 apg, 2.7 spg NCAA First and Second Rounds • Nationwide Arena • Columbus, Ohio • March 6, 8, 2007 Virginia Tech NCAA Tournament Notes • Page 2 The NCAA Tournament Heading to Columbus Virginia Tech will make its eighth trip to the NCAA Tournament on Friday in NCAA TourNAmeNT - Columbus Columbus, Ohio, against Illinois ... Virginia FridAy, MArCh 16 - First round Tech is the fifth seed in the West Region ... south region The winner of this pod of the West Region 12:15 p.m. No. 4 Virginia vs. 13 Albany (CBS) will advance to San Jose next week. 2:45 p.m. No. 5 Tennessee vs. 12 Long Beach State (CBS) This Place Looks Familiar West region Oddly enough, Virginia Tech is very 7:10 p.m. No. 5 Virginia Tech vs. 12 Illinois (CBS) familiar with Columbus, Ohio ... This will 9:40 p.m. No. 4 Southern Illinois vs. 13 Holy Cross (CBS) be the Hokies’ third trip to the Ohio Capital in the last four seasons ... In the 2003-04 sundAy, MArCh 11 - ChAMpionship season, Virginia Tech lost to Ohio State, TBA South Region winners (CBS) 62-57, in Nationwide Arena ... Last season, TBA West Region winners (CBS) the Hokies fell to OSU, 69-56, in Value City Arena in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge ... The Hokies are 2-2 all-time in Columbus, with Virginia Tech on a Neutral Floor Vs. Teams from Illinois all four games coming against Ohio State ... The Hokies are no strangers to playing Virginia Tech is 5-4 all-time against It’s not just basketball, in 2002, the Hokies on a neutral court this season ... Tech is 4-4 schools from the state of Illinois ... Tech finished 22nd in the NCAA Men’s Golf this season on a neutral floor ... Tech was has played Northern Illinois the most often, Championship at the Scarlet Course at OSU. 1-2 in the Old Spice Classic in Orlando holding a 3-0 record against them. over Thanksgiving ... Tech is 6-10 on a The Series vs. Illinois neutral floor under Seth Greenberg ... The This will be the third meeting all-time Hokies were 1-1 in the ACC Tournament in VT in the NCAAs between the Hokies and the Illini ... Illinois Tampa last week ... Tech is 4-7 in the NCAA 2007 has won both previous meetings, including Tournament on a neutral court. a 92-68 victory over the Hokies in the Big Fifth seed - West Regiom Island Invitational in Hilo, Hawi’i on Dec. 1996 Seth vs. Illinois Ninth seed - Midwest Region 1, 1996 ... The other meeting was an 85-75 This will not be Seth Greenberg’s 1986 Illinois victory in the Puerto Rico Shootout first meeting with Illinois in an NCAA Seventh seed - Southeast Region on Nov. 27, 1994, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Tournament ... In 1993, the 11th seed Long 1985 Beach State, coached by Greenberg, lost in Ninth seed - East Region The Series Against the Rest of the Field the opening round of the West Region in 1980 Virginia Tech has never faced Holy Cross Salt Lake City, to the sixth seed Illini, 75-72 Seventh seed - Mideast Region in basketball ... The Hokies are 0-1 against ... Illinois was coached by Lou Henson. 1979 Southern Illinois, falling to the Salukis, 69- Eighth seed - Midwest Region 64, in the second round of this season’s Old The Other Side 1976 Spice Classic in Orlando. Mideast Region (no seeds) Along with the four teams from the West 1967 Region, Columbus will host four teams from Mideast Region (no seeds) Virginia Tech in the NCAA Tournament the South Region ... Virginia will playAlbany This will be the Hokies’ eighth trip to and Tennessee will play Long Beach State ... the NCAA Tournament and first since 1996 Of course, the relationship between Virginia ... Tech is 5-7 all-time in the tournament ... Tech and Virginia is well documented, but About the Site This is the Hokies’ highest-seed ever ... Tech there is also a connection between the Virginia Tech will play its first round NCAA has twice been the seventh seed, twice the Hokies and Long Beach State ... This is the game at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, ninth seed and was an eighth seed in 1979 49ers first NCAA appearance since 1995, Ohio ... The arena is the home to the Columbus ... There were no seeds in the Hokies’ first when LBSU was coached by current Hokie Blue Jackets of the NHL ... This is not the home two NCAA appearances ... Tech’s furthest mentor, Seth Greenberg. arena of host Ohio State ... The Buckeyes trip into the NCAA Tournament was in play their home games in Value City Arena 1967, when the Hokies lost to Dayton, Virginia Tech vs.