Virginia Tech women defeat Boston College for seventh straight win

And Virginia Tech coach Kenny Brooks wasn't happy about it.

Kitley and Georgia Amoore combined for 50 points to lead the 16th-ranked Virginia Tech women's basketball team to a 74-63 victory over Boston College in front of a packed Cassell Coliseum crowd.

“We want to grow our game. Our game has to get better, we have to get cleaner,” Brooks said. “When I'm irritated, [Kitley] Sometimes they come out with a knot in their head like she did, but no one does anything. We have to enforce it because the game is supposed to protect certain areas and otherwise all the tall girls would go play volleyball. ”

Kitley had 24 points, 15 rebounds and two blocks for the Hokies (20-4 ACC, 11-2 ACC).

“She gets hit all the time and it's frustrating,” Brooks said. The team made just 13 free throw attempts. “We all have to do better, whether it's the rules committee or whatever, to keep this game clean. … It's not safe when there's so much physicality.”

When asked what it was like for Kitley to play in such a physical game, Brooks replied:

“She does it every day,” Brooks said. “That's why I'm frustrated. It's not new. … She gets beat up every single game. That's why it really pisses me off that someone wants to question her toughness. … They’re not protecting her. They’re hitting her.”Every game.

“That hasn’t changed. I’m really happy that she wanted to come back to play in her fifth year.

“She gets beaten up, and for me, I’m tired of it.

“She is a generational player in our league and you would think she would be protected.”

“People want me to punch someone or yell at someone during a game, but that's not our job,” Kitley said. “We're good at keeping our cool.”

“It's a little sad. … I don't really expect to get a call,” Amoor said.

Amoor had 26 points and four 3-pointers.

Kitley and Amoor each scored nine goals, despite BC (11-15, 3-10) hoping to contain them.

“Amoore is one of the best point guards in the country. I think Kitley is the best post player in the country,” BC coach Joanna Barnabay-McNamee said. “We were trying to stop [the two of] they. they are really good. ”

Tech remains first in the ACC with Syracuse (10-3 ACC) one game back. Louisville and North Carolina State are tied for third place with 9 wins and 3 losses.

The Hokies have won seven straight.

“Our focus now is on [about going] It was 1-0,” Amoor said. “I feel like in the ACC, we were watching the upsets and everything that was going on. I was always up to date with all the stats on ESPN and when the team was winning. . But I think now we're really confined to ourselves.”

“At the turn of the year…we started talking about, 'This is us versus us. …Don't worry about…what's going on at other gyms,'” Brooks said.

Matilda Ek and Kayla King combined for 27 points in last Thursday's win at North Carolina State.

But on Sunday, Ek had nine points and King had six. King was just 2-of-14 from the field, while Ek was 3-of-13.

“We need Kayla and we need Matilda to step up and knock down shots,” Brooks said. “To reach our goals, we’re all going to have to step up and do something, not just Georgia, not just Liz.”

BC, who led throughout the second half, lost seven games in a row.

Tech outscored BC 51-29. Kitley grabbed eight of Tech's 20 offensive rebounds. Olivia Sumiel had 11 rebounds and Clara Strzok had six rebounds.

“Sometimes we get out of the zone that we were running, and I think that's our Achilles heel. We just put our bodies on somebody to block,” Barnabay-McNamee said. “We gave them too many offensive boards.

“Struck, when she's in the game with Kitley, we look like the smallest team now. So we really have to find someone and block. We didn't do that. Ta.”

The Eagles went on a 10-2 run to cut the lead to 54-51 with 8:16 left. However, Eku made a 3-point shot and extended the lead to 57-51.

After Teanna Todd was whistled for an intentional foul when Amoore was hit in the head, Amoore made two free throws to make it 59-51 with 7:31 left.

BC then cut the lead to 63-58 with 5:01 left, but Kitley made two free throws with 4:33 left and two more with 3:00 left to make it 67-58. .

Tech, which had won 23 straight home games, played in front of 8,925 cheering fans.

“They weren't just some quiet old guys,” Barnabay McNamee said of Tech fans. “A lot of students were really into it.

“What a great home court advantage.”