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Stay Connected with Tech Women's Basketball
The ninth-ranked Virginia Tech women's basketball team is set to play host to the University of Virginia Cavaliers for the first of two matchups this season.
GAMEDAY INFORMATION
Thursday, January 5 | 7:00 p.m. ET
Cassell Coliseum
vs. The University of Virginia (13-1, 2-1)
HOW TO FOLLOW
TV Broadcast - RSN (Evan Lepler and Tabitha Turner-Williams)
LOCAL RADIO
Virginia Tech Sports Network
Play-by-Play: Evan Hughes
THE SERIES WITH UVA
•VT is 14-51 all-time vs. UVA and 8-26 in ACC play.
•The Hokies are 7-20 at Cassell Coliseum against the Cavaliers
•Coach Brooks is 4-6 overall against the Hoos. VT is 4-1 in the last five games in the series.
•Tech swept UVA for the first time since the 2015-16 season last year with a 17-point victory at home and a 29-point win in Charlottesville.
•This will be the first meeting with the Cavaliers under Head Coach Amaka Agugua-Hamilton. Last season she defeated the Hokies with Missouri State when the programs met in Puerto Rico in November.
•The last time a game in the series was decided by single digits was back on Jan. 19, 2020 when UVA won 69-61 at John Paul Jones Arena.
A WIN WOULD…
•Move the Hokies to 3-2 in ACC play this season.
•Signal the first three-game winning streak in the history of the series for the Hokies.
TIDBITS ON UVA GAME/UNC GAME
•The contest with Virginia will be the 100th game of Cayla King's career and the 100th that she and center Elizabeth Kitley have played in together. The Hokies are 69-30 with those two on the court in the past four seasons.
•Against UNC, the Hokies scored zero fast break points, the first time this season that they had been held scoreless in that category.
•Tech had 16 assists on 21 field goals against the Tar Heels.
•Forward Taylor Soule did not attempt a free throw on Sunday, the first time in her VT career that she did not head to the foul line.
•Sunday's contest was incredibly close, with the largest lead that either squad held being six points. There were 12 ties and 26 lead changes in the game. At the end of the first three quarters VT lead by two points, and finished the game with a three-point margin of victory.