The Virginia Tech Hokies improved to 15-10 on the season after Saturday’s 71-59 dismantling of the Syracuse Orange in Blacksburg. The win is Tech’s fifth in a row, and the Hokies now sit at 7-7 in ACC play, 2.5 games behind Virginia and Wake Forest for third place in the league.
The Hokies had dominated for much of the game until Syracuse’s Buddy Boeheim tied the game at 54 with 6:56 remaining. The crown at Cassell Coliseum began to have that familiar feeling from earlier in the season when the Hokies would seemingly fall apart late in games.