This road trip was a short one. It’s not a long hop northwest, over the mountains and out to the north central part of Kentucky on the Ohio River, and sort of hovering between Ohio and Indiana. It’s basketball country and the programs in that area take their teams seriously. There may be cultural reasons why basketball might be so popular and there is reasonable assurance that more than several people have researched and written as to why, but suffice it to say, the Virginia Tech Lady Hokies were showing up in the house of an 18th ranked team with a 21-3 record.