Virginia Tech Season Preview: Hokies recover from injury-plagued 2011-12
By Gaurav Bhat | November 4, 2011Every year since 2007, Virginia Tech has fallen just short of the NCAA Tournament.
Every year since 2007, Virginia Tech has fallen just short of the NCAA Tournament.
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Just nine days from the start of the 2011 season, Duke’s rotation is finally starting to come into focus, after the team’s last exhibition game against Bellarmine showed little continuity.
In what should have been an easy exhibition game against a Division-II team, the Blue Devils came out of the gate slowly when they kicked off their collegiate season last weekend.
Duke substitutions came fast and furious Saturday against Bellarmine, with new players entering the game on nearly every dead ball.
After losing Nolan Smith and Kyle Singler to graduation and Kyrie Irving to the NBA Draft, Duke enters the season without an obvious go-to player.
Duke will continue its tradition of playing top-tier Division II programs in preseason exhibition matchups.
Mike Krzyzewski cannot remember a season when the Blue Devils have not had at least one player on the Wooden Award watch list.
In Greensboro, N.C., on the eve of the 2010 ACC tournament, head coach Mike Krzyzewski and his staff were preparing for their first-round matchup with Virginia.