# 13/12 VIRGINIA TECH (5-0, 0-0 ACC) HOKIE NOTES TOP TOPICS About Tonight’s Game v The Hokies are ranked No. 13 in the vs. The Hokies enter the game 5-0 on the AP Top 25 poll and 12th in the USA Penn State season and the Nittany Lions are 3-2 this Today/Coaches poll (3-2, 0-0 BIG 10) season … The Hokies are ranked 13th in the v The Hokies won the 2018 Charleston AP poll and 12th in the USA Today Coaches Classic with an 89-83 victory over No. Bryce Jordan Center (15,261) poll. 23/22 Purdue v The Hokies have signed Andre University Park, Pa. Last Time Out: VT 75, St. Francis 37 Gordon, Yavuz Gultekin, Anthony Nov. 27, 2018 The Hokies defeated Saint Francis, 75-37, Harris and Emanuel Miller to NLIs 7 p.m. in Cassell Coliseum on Saturday … Ahmed v Nickeil Alexander-Walker was Hill led four Hokies in double figures with 19 named MVP of the Charleston Classic ESPN2 points … Ty Outlaw had 15 points, Nickeil and the ACC Player of the Week last Alexander-Walker had 11 points and Justin week Robinson scored 10 points and dished out seven assists … Tech outscored the Red Flash, 42-15 in the second half and held SFU The Most Important Thing 2018-19 to 25.9 percent from the field for the game. Virginia Tech has three seniors on the roster … Two of them, Ty Outlaw and SCHEDULE Vs. Penn State Ahmed Hill, have already earned their undergraduate degrees from Virginia Tech … (5-0, 0-0) This is the ninth meeting between the Justin Robinson has announced that he will Date Opponent Time TV two schools … Tech holds a 6-2 advantage Hurricane Relief Exhibition (Lynchburg, Va.) finish his degree requirements in December 11/ 4 at Liberty W 86-70 in the all-time series … The Hokies are 0-2 2018, in just 3 1/2 years, as will Kerry against the Nittany Lions in the ACC/Big Ten 11/ 9 GARDNER-WEBB (ACCNE) W 87-59 Blackshear Jr. … Outlaw has been granted Challenge, with both games being played at a sixth year of competition by the NCAA Charleston Classic (Charleston, S.C.) the Bryce Jordan Center … Tech is 3-2 in … The wing from Roxboro, North Carolina 11/15 vs. Ball State (ESPN2) W 73-64 road games against Penn State, 1-2 in the missed the 2017-18 season following surgery 11/16 vs. Northeastern (ESPN2) W 88-60 on a torn ACL in his right knee … He missed 11/18 #23/22 PURDUE (ESPN2) W 89-83 Bryce Jordan Center and 0-1 against PSU the 2015-16 season with a heart ailment. 11/24 ST. FRANCIS (PA) (ACCNE) W 75-37 under Buzz Williams … Tech is 38-52 all- Big Ten/ACC Challenge (University Park, Pa.) time against schools currently in the Big Ten 11/27 at Penn State 7 p.m. ESPN2 and 1-0 against the Big Ten this season. --- TIME CHANGE --- Virginia Tech vs. CCSU 12/ 1 CENTRAL CONN. ST. 5 p.m. ACCNE Hokies in the Challenge 12/ 5 VMI 7 p.m. ACCNE Saturday, Dec. 1 - 5 p.m. 12/ 9 SOUTH CAROLINA STATE 1 p.m. ACCNE The Hokies are 5-7 all-time in TIME CHANGED TO 5 p.m. Boardwalk Classic (Atlantic City, N.J.) 12/15 vs. Washington 7 p.m. ESPNU the ACC/Big Ten Challenge … Tech is 12/19 NORTH CAROLINA A&T 7 p.m. ACCNE 3-4 in road Challenge 12/28 UMES 7 p.m. ACCNE SOCIAL MEDIA 1/ 1 NOTRE DAME* 1 p.m. ESPNU games … Tech won Twitter: @hokiesports & 1/ 5 BOSTON COLLEGE* Noon RSN its last two games in @HokiesMBB 1/ 9 at Georgia Tech* 7 p.m. RSN the Challenge, most 1/15 at Virginia* 8 p.m. Raycom Instagram: HokiesMBB 1/19 WAKE FOREST* 4 p.m. RSN recently a 79-55 Snapchat: Hokiesports 1/21 at North Carolina* 7 p.m. ESPN win over Iowa in #Hokies 1/26 SYRACUSE* 8 p.m. ESPN2 Blacksburg last season … Tech won its last 1/30 at Miami* 7 p.m. ESPN2/U road Challenge game, 73-70, at Michigan 2/ 2 at NC State* Noon Raycom 2/ 4 LOUISVILLE* 7 p.m. ESPN two years ago … Tech is 2-2 in the Challenge BROADCAST 2/ 9 at Clemson* Noon ESPN/2/U under Buzz Williams. 2/13 GEORGIA TECH* 8 p.m. Raycom Radio 2/16 at Pittsburgh* 4:30 p.m. RSN Up to 13th Virginia Tech IMG Sports Network 2/18 VIRGINIA* 7 p.m. ESPN Jon Laaser & Mike Burnop 2/23 at Notre Dame* 4 p.m. ESPN/2/U The Virginia Tech Hokies are currently 2/26 DUKE* 7/9 p.m. ESPN/Ray ranked 13th in the AP poll … That is the Sirius: 81 XM: 81 Internet: 81 3/ 5 at Florida State* 7 p.m. ESPNU school’s highest AP ranking since the 1995- 3/ 8 MIAMI 7 p.m. ESPN2 96 season … Tech peaked that season in late TV/Internet ESPN2/ESPN app 3/12 ACC Basketball Tournament ESPN/2/Raycom February at No. 8, its all-time highest ranking Mike Corey & Debbie Antonelli 3/16 (Spectrum Center, Charlotte, N.C.) … The last time the Hokies played a game * - Atlantic Coast Conference Games ranked higher than 13th was on Feb. 25, All times are EST and are subject to change 1996, a 57-41 loss at Temple … Tech is 12th in the USA Today Coaches poll. GAME 6 A Giving “5” Getting on Track Wrapping Up The Purdue Win With his seven assists In the win over Saint Ahmed Hill, who only had five points in the win over Saint Francis, Ty Outlaw was in the first half on the Purdue win, exploded Francis, Justin Robinson 5-of-9 from three-point for 18 points in the second half on 6-of-10 moved into fourth place range … Outlaw entered shooting, including three 3-pointers and at Virginia Tech in career the game with just four three free throws. It was his most points assists, with 473, passing made three-pointers in the in a game since Nov. 17, 2017, versus Al Young … Robinson first four games combined Washington when he had 23 as well … The tied a school record and Justin Robinson … Outlaw holds the Ty Outlaw Hokies got to the lane with ease and made established a new Virginia Virginia Tech record for most the Boilermakers pay, making more free Tech ACC game mark with his career-high three-pointers in a game, with eight against throws than Purdue attempted, as they made 12 assists in the win at Boston College last Miami two years ago. 19 of 26 compared to Purdue’s 7-of-11 year … He joins Dave Sensibaugh, Bimbo mark … The win over Purdue marks the first Coles and Troy Manns with 12 assists in Climbing the Lists time that the Hokies have ever defeated a a game and broke the ACC game record In the loss to Louisville ranked Big Ten team. of 11 he previously held, along with former last season, Ahmed Hill teammate Devin Wilson. became the 47th player The Charleston Classic, Redux in Virginia Tech history to Virginia Tech is the fifth ACC team to Big Week for NAW record 1,000 career points win the championship at the Charleston Nickeil Alexander- … In the win over No. 5 Classic, joining Clemson (2008), Miami Walker earned big props Duke last year, Justin (‘09, ‘14) and Virginia (‘15) … It’s been 10 following his performance Robinson scored his Ahmed Hill years since the Hokies won a nonconference in the Charleston Classic 1,000th career point … Robinson is now tournament, winning the Holiday Festival … In leading the Hokies 38th on the career scoring list at 1,138 title in New York in 2008 … This is the to the championship, and Hill is 40th at 1,091, after passing Jay first three-game in-season tournament that Alexander-Walker was Purcell and former teammate Zach LeDay in Virginia Tech has ever won. named the Most Valuable Nickeil the win over Saint Francis. Player in the event, joining Alexander-Walker No 2s teammate Justin Robinson Wrapping Up Saint Francis In the win over Northeastern in on the all-tournament team … On Monday, Virginia Tech’s field-goal percentage Charleston, the Hokies did not allow the Nov. 19, Alexander-Walker was named the defense was its best of the season … P.J. Huskies a two-point field goal in the first half ACC Player of the Week for the first time in Horne scored a season-high eight points … Tech did not allow NU any basket other his career ... His 25 points in the win over … He went into the game having scored just than a three-pointer until the 6:12 mark of Purdue was his second-highest career point seven points in the Hokies’ first four games the first half. total, trailing only his 29 points in a win … Tech’s 14 3-pointers tied a season over The Citadel last season … His seven high … The Hokies also drilled 14 in their Sharing is Good rebounds in the game was a season-high for win over Northeastern in Charleston … Ty Virginia Tech recorded 20 assists on 32 him and also his second-best performance Outlaw scored a season-high 15 points, his made baskets in the win over Gardner-Webb on the glass … His seven assists in the win first game in double figures since scoring … Tech reached the 20-assist mark eight over Northeastern is a new career-high.