The scene looked and sounded so familiar: Virginia Tech’s offensive players talking in hushed tones after a game, in the bowels of some stadium, about how their shortcomings marred a stingy performance by the Hokies’ defense.
It has become a recurring nightmare for Tech, one that could derail a season that seemed to have turned upward for the young Hokies. They squeezed just 250 yards out of Thursday night’s 16-14 loss at Miami. The Hurricanes and North Carolina now must lose in order for Tech to find a way to its second consecutive ACC championship game.

Had Gardner-Webb held serve at home last Saturday against Coastal Carolina, tonight’s matchup with No. 24 Liberty would have held so much more meaning for both teams. As it happened, though, the Chanticleers knocked off the Bulldogs in Boiling Springs, N.C., clinching the Big South Conference championship for the Flames.
That doesn’t diminish today’s game for Liberty, which is still holding out slim hopes of earning its first FCS playoff berth. But how much does Gardner-Webb have to play for?

Amber Mays was working on instinct, and when VCU’s Radoslava Bachrarova stopped and prepared to shoot, Mays defended.
Too well, it seems. The Liberty guard nicked Bachrarova’s arm as the VCU guard attempted a 3-pointer with 2.1 seconds left. Bachrarova sank all three free throws, and the Rams escaped with a 59-57 victory Friday night in the first round of the Preseason Women’s NIT.

It took Seth Curry all of 14 seconds to endear himself to Liberty’s fan base Friday night. That’s when he pulled up and hit his first jumper. Thirty-eight seconds later, Curry drilled a 3-pointer. At that second, it was clear that all of the hype surrounding his arrival at Liberty was justified.

Longtime Virginia Tech defensive coordinator Bud Foster will interview for Clemson’s head coaching position Friday.

Multiple media sources are reporting that Clemson will interview Virginia Tech defensive coordinator Bud Foster this weekend for its vacant head-coaching job.
According to Tigerillustrated.com, which is affiliated with Rivals.com, Clemson athletic director Terry Don Phillips plans to interview Foster today.
Tech coach Frank Beamer also confirmed after Thursday’s game that Foster is being interviewed by Clemson.

BLACKSBURG — It was a horrible feeling at the time, but the disappointment from not making the NCAA tournament last season has only pushed Virginia Tech’s players harder.

MIAMI — Virginia Tech’s unpredictable offense was at it again Thursday night in Miami. A week after romping for 400 yards, the Hokies took a step back in a 16-14 loss to the Hurricanes at Dolphin Stadium.

Gardner-Webb’s seventh opponent — Presbyterian — was the first to rush for 100 yards as a team against the Bulldogs this season. Since then, GWU’s run defense has taken a bit of a hit, at least in terms of raw statistics.
VMI ran for 321 yards against Gardner-Webb, but that’s to be expected considering the Keydets are second in FCS in run offense. A week later, Stony Brook rolled up 316 yards against the Bulldogs.

Four different players scored as Lynchburg College’s field hockey team dominated visiting Sewanee (The University of the South) 4-0 on Wednesday in the first round of the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament.

Virginia Tech’s men’s basketball team will be without sophomore forward J.T. Thompson for the next four to six weeks.

The formula has been simple for the last several years. Rely on an experienced talent base. Plug in a new player here or there. Tweak and adjust.

MIAMI — Sean Glennon doesn’t have much time.

Liberty coach Danny Rocco sat in his office with his son David, his eyes glued to ESPN.com’s stat tracker Saturday night.

BLACKSBURG — Virginia Tech starting quarterback Tyrod Taylor (ankle) has done limited work in practice this week and is listed as questionable for Thursday night’s game at Miami.

Seth Curry has no intentions of running from his brother’s shadow. Curry admits that Stephen Curry’s sensational NCAA tournament run a year ago, when he led Davidson to the brink of the Final Four, has added additional scrutiny to his freshman year at Liberty.

Virginia Tech redshirt freshman running back Darren Evans was named the ACC’s offensive back of the week Monday after rushing for a school-record 253 yards in the Hokies’ 23-13 win over Maryland on Thursday.

The Lynchburg College women’s basketball team enters this upcoming season with plenty of expectations.

Last season is one that the Lynchburg College men’s basketball team will be happy to leave in the past.

Virginia Tech’s next home football game, Nov. 22 against Duke, will kick off at 5:30 p.m. and will be televised on ESPNU, the ACC announced today.

The University of Virginia’s Nov. 22 football game against Clemson at Scott Stadium will start at noon, the ACC announced today. Raycom will televise the game, which is U.Va.‘s home finale this season.

University of Virginia athletic director Craig Littlepage was emphatic last night when asked about the 2009 football season. “Al Groh will be our head coach,” Littlepage said

The five true freshmen whom Al Groh has used this season are likely to assume prominent roles on the University of Virginia football team in years to come.
For one, however, his first season may be over.
Groh said Sunday that outside linebacker Cameron Johnson, who has missed the past two games with an ankle injury, probably won’t play again during the regular season.

Shooting guard Jeff Jones started 25 games as a freshman in 2007-08 and ended the season by scoring 26 points against Bradley in the College Basketball Invitational semifinals.
Yet when the University of Virginia basketball team’s starting five took the floor Sunday at John Paul Jones Arena, Jones was on the bench. Classmate Mustapha Farrakhan started at shooting guard against Division II Shepherd University, and the 6-4 left-hander justified UVa coach Dave Leitao’s faith in him.

Corey Rasberry’s career touchdown haul entering Liberty’s game at VMI could be counted on one hand.
One fist actually.
“He never scored in high school, he never scored in Pop Warner, he never scored in college football,” said Flames tailback Rashad Jennings, Rasberry’s roommate.
Until Saturday, at least. The tight end caught a 19-yard touchdown pass from Brock Smith in the first quarter of Liberty’s 38-26 victory, catching a throw on a play-action rollout before sprinting down the left sideline for the score

Yannick Reyering, a former all-ACC soccer player, is out as Virginia’s kicker, at least for the moment. Saturday against Wake Forest, true freshman Robert Randolph took over for Reyering, who missed two field goals Nov. 1 in UVa’s overtime loss to Miami (Fla.) at Scott Stadium.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — In eight days, the University of Virginia football team went from first to fifth in the ACC’s Coastal Division.

LEXINGTON — Liberty’s defense was predictably gassed. VMI had spent much of the first half and the early part of the third quarter Saturday at Foster Stadium running all over the Flames. A pitch here for a big gain. A burst up the middle there for a first down. The Keydets had cut an 18-point deficit to two, and the Flames knew they needed to do one thing: Get the big boy the football.

Though a berth in the 16-team FCS playoff field is now a serious longshot for Liberty’s football team, the season isn’t over. Far from it. The Flames still have a number of goals within reach in the season’s final three weeks, starting with today’s game at VMI.

BLACKSBURG — The same Virginia Tech offense that struggled to gain one yard three games ago against Boston College was seemingly unstoppable Thursday night against No. 23 Maryland.