Hokie ClubGREENSBORO, N.C. – Virginia Tech senior guard Lindsay Biggs earned this week’s Atlantic Coast Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Week honors for the period ending Jan. 17. The honor is the first time a Virginia Tech women's basketball players has received the weekly award since the Hokies entered the ACC in 2004. Biggs led the Hokies to an impressive 79-64 victory over 10th-ranked North Carolina in the school’s conference home opener at Cassell Coliseum.
The Hokies, winless against ranked teams since early 2006 and winless against preseason ACC favorite North Carolina since 1984, pulled off one for the memories on Jan. 14. Not only was the win just the squad’s third all-time against the Tar Heels, but it was also their first win over a top-10 team since they beat Duke on Nov. 15, 1998. In fact, it was just Tech’s fourth win all-time over a top-10 team, and the previous three all came by seven points or less.
Biggs led four Virginia Tech players in double figures in the upset win as the veteran from Midlothian, Va. keyed an early 9-0 run with two treys and a two-point basket, which turned a 17-10 deficit into a 19-17 lead. Biggs, who ranks fourth in the ACC in 3-point field goals made, finished the game on 8-of-16 shooting, including 3-of-8 from beyond the arc.
ACC women’s basketball action continues tonight: Virginia Tech welcomes in-state rival and 25th-ranked Virginia to Blacksburg at 5 p.m. The ACC match-up of the Hokies and Cavaliers will be televised on the league’s regional sports network.