It was a sold out crowd inside Cassell Coliseum with the No. 20 Fighting Irish bringing their six game win streak into Blacksburg to face a Hokies squad who was looking to get over the .500 mark in conference play.
The Hokies started the game scoring the first four points and prior to the first media timeout the Irish and Hokies traded buckets left and right but once the Irish got comfortable it seemed like Tech was going to need more than just luck to be on their side to pull off the upset at home.
Notre Dame went up 14-12 and didn’t look back in the first half as they rode a 19-0 run extending their lead over the Hokies to 33-17.