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BLACKSBURG – The Virginia Tech Athletics Department announced Wednesday that it is encouraging its fans who aren’t traveling to Winston-Salem to come to the men’s basketball game at Cassell Coliseum on Saturday and that it also plans on having the football game on televisions located in the concourse area, thus giving fans the opportunity to keep tabs on two of their favorite teams.

Athletics department officials had hoped that the Hokies’ football game at Wake Forest would be scheduled for a later kickoff and then started looking at different possibilities after the ACC office announced the 12:30 kickoff time for the football game. The men’s basketball team is scheduled to tip off against Appalachian State at 1 p.m.

Tech officials looked into moving the basketball game to a later tipoff time, but the Hokies’ volleyball match against Georgia Tech is slated for 6 p.m. Contractual obligations and opposing team travel arrangements made switching either the volleyball game or the men’s basketball game to a different day unfeasible.

There are four televisions in the concourse area of Cassell Coliseum, and these will be showing the football game during the Hokies’ basketball game. Tech officials also are looking into interspersing football highlights on the main video scoreboards in the Coliseum during the basketball game and may show the football broadcast during halftime of the basketball game.

Fans can purchase tickets to watch new coach Buzz Williams and the men’s basketball team for as little as $10 per person. Tickets can be purchased at hokietickets.com, or at the Tech ticket office at Cassell Coliseum before tipoff.

Admission to the volleyball match is free. The Hokies will be taking on Georgia Tech in the last home match of the season. The evening marks Senior Night in Blacksburg, and the Tech program will be celebrating the careers of Kathryn Caine, Jordan Fish, LaTasha Samson-Akpan and Megan Beckwith.

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