The Virginia Tech men's basketball team travels to South Bend on Saturday to take on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Tip is at 4 p.m. and the game will be shown live on ESPN.
GAME INFORMATION
#20/18 Virginia Tech at Notre Dame
Feb. 23, 2019, 4 p.m.
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RADIO: Virginia Tech IMG Sports Network
Jon Laaser & Mike Burnop
Sirius: 84 XM: 84 Internet: 84
BROADCAST: ESPN/ESPN app
Tom Hart & Jimmy Dykes
About Today's Game
The Hokies enter the game 20-5 on the season and 9-4 in ACC play … The Fighting Irish are 13-13 this season and 3-10 in the ACC … The Hokies are 20th in the AP poll and 18th in the USA Today Coaches poll.
Last Game: #3/3 UVa 64, #20/18 VT 58
The Hokies dropped a close one at home to Virginia, 64-58 on Monday night … Tech kept the game close throughout, but shot just 10.7 percent from three-point range in the loss … Kerry Blackshear Jr. recorded his fifth double-double of the season with 23 points and 13 rebounds, on way to scoring his 1,000th career points … Ahmed Hill added 16 points and Nickeil Alexander-Walker scored 11 points.
Vs. Notre Dame
The Hokies are 3-8 all-time against Notre Dame and won the last game against UND, 81-66 in Blacksburg on Jan. 1, 2019 … Tech won the last meeting in Purcell Pavilion, 80-75, on Jan. 27, 2018 … Tech is 1-3 on the road against the Fighting Irish … Tech is 2-4 against Notre Dame under Buzz Williams.
KJ Hits 1,000
In the home Virginia game, Kerry Blackshear Jr., scored his 1,000th career point … Blackshear becomes just the 48th player in Virginia Tech history to reach 1,000 for his career … He joins teammates Ahmed Hill and Justin Robinson on the 1,000-career point list at Virginia Tech … He grabbed his 500th career rebound at Clemson ... The Hokies are now one of only six teams in Division I to boast three players with 1,000 career points … The six teams are Ball State, Lipscomb, Northwestern, TCU, Virginia Tech and Washington.
Climbing the Lists
Ahmed Hill is now 22nd in career scoring at Virginia Tech with 1,353 career points, after passing Justin Robinson and Carlos Dixon in the Virginia game Monday night … Robinson is now 24th in career scoring with 1,347 points.
