Game! Of! The! Night! Dec 30: Virginia Tech at Old Dominion
It's put up or shut up time for Old Dominion (7-4, 1-1 Colonial). The preseason league favorites have swung wildly from pole to pole, showing signs of their predicted level of play in amongst blowouts at the hands of Drexel and UAB, doing serious damage to any CAA two-bid scenario in the process. Their primary problems: shooting (42.3%, 222nd nationally) and an underachieving Alex Loughton (13.1 ppg).
This, tonight, a home game against a mid-level ACC team, is the kind of game a mid-major champion wins. Quick book on the Hokies: they don't cough up the ball (9th in D1 with a 16.6% turnover rate), they got beat by that last-second shot at Cameron Indoor, and they've loaded up on patsies (avg. RPI of victims: 254). So come on, Monarchs, you've got to take care of business here - if the final spread is in line to our average G!O!T!N! victory margin this week (28), we're going to move on.
