of Virginia Tech's first home game Center Elizabeth Kitley and guard Kayla King were featured on November 5, 2019, to saint francis. The Hokies won 105-41 in front of 1,209 fans.
Compare it to the previous regular season. home gamea 74-62 win over North Carolina on Sunday.. fans of all ages All seats in the Kassel Coliseum were filled. After the match, Several hundred of them have returned. meet Virginia Tech players.
Kitley, King, and guard Georgia Amoore, who arrived one semester later, have spent their entire lives in Blacksburg.They are Virginia Tech First NCAA Tournament appearance in 14 yearsthat's all that Canceled due to the new coronavirus pandemic. They hope Virginia Tech will finally reach that goal in his 2021, 2 rounds ago Collision with 2nd place Baylor.They saw Virginia Tech's efforts. Up to the 5th seed in 2022, Lost to 13th place Florida Gulf Coast.
They are Virginia Tech Final 4 in 2023, Obtained 1st seed First time in program history.Just before theyMerger victory from In the ACC Tournament, they won three games in three days to earn a ring.
And on their senior day, fanBass thanked them. They are On Sunday morning, ESPN's College Game Day had half the arena full, and two hours later all 8,925 seats in Cassel were occupied.
“We affectionately call (the fans) a healthy cult because their passion for the Hokies is so strong,” Virginia Tech head coach Kenny Brooks said. “Their performance has been great for our school and great for our program.”
The team has made so much progress that ESPN's College GameDay visited on Sunday, bringing its flagship pregame women's basketball show to Blacksburg for the first time. Virginia Tech is no stranger to college gameday in other sports. There have been five football shows and one men's basketball show.But in the women's basketball show, Virginia Tech will host the first ACC that I visited.
The only other campuses to get this show are UConn, Tennessee, South Carolina, Iowa, and LSU.
“If we sold it to Disney, I don't know if they would buy it,” Brooks said.
Virginia Tech filled Cassell Coliseum five times. since January. That number will increase to seven when they host the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament in a few weeks. By 2022–In the 23rd season, the number of spectators was never reached.
Amour gestured toward the courtroom from his seat during the press conference. Looking back on her achievements. Sunday may be her last home game of the regular season – she has the option of returning for a fifth year – but she doesn't have to make a decision until after the season.
“Free T-shirts bring people together, free pizza brings people together,” Amoore said. “It’s great when people come out and care about us and show their passion and ride the waves with us. So do other people watching. It's the coolest thing ever, the impact we've had on this town.”
The kids in attendance cheered in appreciation as Kitley and Amoore emerged from the locker room after their reporting duties. Kitley and Amoor waved and then began signing autographs.
Kitley and Amoor spent nearly an hour signing autographs for every last person in Cassel Coliseum, taking photos and hugging the children there.I gathered my hands and had a conversation with everyone.I made cards and Funko Pops — Customize Amoor and her dogWinnie.
There's over another month of basketball ahead, and then the future comes. For tech seniors, it's uncertainty, and many don't even know where they'll be living in the next few months. But for now, they'll always have Sundays and a healthy cult.
