M
MarsThe Big Team That Couldn't?
2011-2012:
Lost @ Minnesota by 3 points
Lost @ Wake Forest by 3
Lost to Florida State by 4 (trailed by 2 and had the ball with under 10 seconds left)
Lost @ Boston College by 2
Lost to BYU by 2
VT is a 12-win team right now, but those 5 losses are killer, and the results of all of them could have changed with one or two better possessions.
It goes deeper than that though...
2011-2012 RPI: 77
2010-11 RPI: 62
09-10 RPI: 59
-09 RPI: 61
-08 RPI: 53
Virginia Tech has literally been one of the last four teams left out of the Big Dance the last four seasons in a row now. It doesn't get much rougher than that. Poor little turkeys...