The No. 14 Virginia Tech women's basketball team has gotten off to a 3-0 start for the seventh consecutive season under Kenny Brooks. They have already topped 100 points, and own two wins of 55 or more.
Below are a look at the top news and notes from the program.
•Tech's defense held USC Upstate to just 24 points Monday night, the fewest points that the program has ever surrendered in a single contest. The Spartans were 9-of 43 from the floor and committed 26 turnovers in the game.
•In each of the three games, the Hokies have had a different leading scorer: Cayla King (33), Elizabeth Kitley (22) and Kayana Traylor (17). Five Hokies average double figures, with a third, Ashley Owusu adding 9.3 per contest.
•Tuesday afternoon, the Wooden Award announced its Watch List for the 2022-23 season with three Hokies: Elizabeth Kitley, Ashley Owusu and Taylor Soule included in the initial 50 student-athletes. Tech is one of three schools and the only ACC school to have three athletes on the Wooden Award Watch List.
•Elizabeth Kitley is climbing the charts in a number of statistical categories. She ranks inside the top 10 of five categories in VT women's basketball history. She is second in double-doubles (36), third in blocks (196), fourth in rebounds (832), seventh in field goals made (592) and eighth in points scored (1,463).
•Senior guard Cayla King scored a program record nine 3-pointers in the Hokies' opening night victory over Mount St. Mary's. Through games played on November 14, her 14 treys lead the nation. She has climbed to a tie for fifth place in all-time threes at VT with 159 in her career, matching the total of Kendyl Brooks. King has also registered a block in all three contests, the second time in her career that she has recorded one in three consecutive games.
•PG Georgia Amoore has tallied 11 points in all three games this season. The junior from Australia is averaging 5.6 assists and 3.3 rebounds as well.
Four of the Hokies' next five games will come against Power Five competition with just one of those taking place on Carilion Clinic Court at Cassell Coliseum. Next week at the Baha Mar Pink Flamingo Championship, Tech will face the SEC Champion Kentucky Wildcats as well as Missouri. Following a home contest with Longwood (Nov. 27), the Hokies will play host to Nebraska in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Dec. 1. On Sunday, Dec. 4 Tech travels to Tennessee to participate in the Jimmy V Women's Classic in a nationally televised contest.
