The road trip to Chapel Hill wasn’t a complete disaster. The Hokies managed to scare the Tar Heels in Game 2, and then work hard to earn a split against a team that hadn’t lost an ACC game at home this season. They had only lost a single game in Chapel Hill against Coastal Carolina before the Hokies took the third game of their series.
That seemed to ignite something in the Virginia Tech energy level. Prior to that game the team had been struggling to find its lost mojo against ACC teams and had dropped too many series to feel even remotely comfortable in getting a shot at post season play.