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Virginia Tech opens the 2015-16 men's basketball season on Saturday night, Nov. 14, as they host Alabama State in Cassell Coliseum. Tip-off is 7 p.m. and the game will be broadcast on the Virginia Tech/IMG Sports Network and ESPN3.
About Tonight’s Game
This is the season opener for the Hokies and the Hornets.
Starting This Off
The Hokies are 49-3 all-time in home openers in Cassell Coliseum ... Tech is 10-1 in home openers since joining the ACC in 2004 ... Tech defeated Maryland-Eastern Shore, 71-46, in last season’s home opener, the Hokies’ first home opener under Buzz Williams.
Series Against The Hornets
This is the first-ever meeting between the two schools … The Hokies are 2-0 all-time against members of the Southwestern Athletic Conference … This is the first of three SWAC teams playing in Cassell Coliseum this season.
A Golden Opportunity
Virginia Tech sophomore wing Justin Bibbs won a gold medal as a member of the championship USA team at the FIBA U19 World Championship, held in late June and early July in Heraklion, Crete, Greece ... Bibbs becomes the first Hokie to win a gold medal in a sanctioned USA Basketball FIBA world championship.
New Name, Same Place
The Hokies will play this season in the same arena, Cassell Coliseum, but the playing surface has a new name and new markings ... The floor is now known as Virginia Tech Carilion Court at Cassell Coliseum ... This is in recognition of a generous sponsorship of Virginia Tech athletics by Carilion that will be used to fund scholarships and strategic initiatives, as well as to support public-health awareness ... Carilion was awarded naming privileges to the court for 10 years in recognition of a sponsorship that will provide $500,000 a year over that time ... With the naming, Carilion will support student-athletes who are pursuing health careers, promote health awareness and the Carilion Clinic Children’s Hospital, and honor the importance of the Virginia Tech Carilion partnership.
A New Look for Courtside
Beginning this season, a new look to Cassell Coliseum will take place, as the Virginia Tech Department of Athletics unveiled plans for “Courtside at Cassell” ... This allows Hokie fans the opportunity to enjoy premium courtside seating at Cassell Coliseum ... Courtside at Cassell will consist of 14 brand new four-seat tables which will line the court across from the team benches and along the baseline ... Each four-seat table will consist of upgraded luxury seats and will be priced at $20,000 for the men’s basketball season plus the cost of season tickets ... Members of the media who previously occupied these courtside seat locations will be relocated above the team tunnel in sections 16, 17 and 18 to a newly constructed and expanded area ... The ADA wheelchair-accessible seating area will also be relocated from the baseline area to above the team tunnel with convenient access to concourse level amenities ... The number of ADA accessible seating locations will more than double as a result of this renovation ... Radio and TV media will remain courtside.
Radio
Virginia Tech IMG Sports Network
Jon Laaser & Mike Burnop
Also available on:
Satellite: Sirius: 126 XM: 194
Digital: Hokies Xtra & TuneIn
(free on downloaded apps)
Television/Internet
ESPN3
Andrew Allegretta & Mack McCarthy
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