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Virginia Tech Season Preview Record Last Season 19 - 15, 7 - 9 ACC Players Lost AD Vassallo, Hank Thorns, Cheick Diakite" target="_new">Cheick Diakite New Players Erick Green" target="_new">Erick Green, Manny Atkins" target="_new">Manny Atkins, Ben Boggs" target="_new">Ben Boggs, Cadarian Raines" target="_new">Cadarian Raines  Projected Lineup Malcolm Delaney" target="_new">Malcolm Delaney, Dorenzo Hudson" target="_new">Dorenzo Hudson, JT Thompson, Jeff Allen" target="_new">Jeff Allen, Victor Davila" target="_new">Victor Davila  Schedule Highlights 11/27 vs Temple, 12/1 @ Iowa, 12/6 vs Georgia, 1/2 vs Seton Hall  Virginia Tech Schedule Virginia Tech Scouting Report
Projected Statistics (Returning Players Only) Explanation of Statistic Projections

 

Name Pts Asts Rbds Stls Blks TOs % Correct  Jeff Allen 16.3 1.7 8.3 1.3 1.1 2.4 61  Malcolm Delaney 16.3 3.9 4.0 1.4 0.2 2.6 75  J.T. Thompson 11.3 1.1 6.0 0.8 0.5 1.7 85  Dorenzo Hudson 6.7 1.5 2.5 0.6 0.3 1.2 88  Lewis Witcher 6.4 0.6 4.9 0.6 1.6 1.2 84  Victor Davila 5.5 0.6 4.2 0.3 0.8 1.0 93  Terrell Bell 4.2 0.7 2.9 0.6 0.6 0.9 89  Chris Panneton 4.1 0.6 1.0 0.2 0.0 0.6 100  Tom Amalfe 1.1 0.4 0.5 0.2 0.0 0.3 99  Paul Debnam 1.0 0.5 0.7 0.4 0.0 0.3 98  Terrance Vinson 0.9 0.2 0.7 0.1 0.0 0.3 99  Gene Swindle 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.1 100 Things to Watch

The Hokies lost one of the top scorers in team history in A.D. Vassallo, but return the other two big time scorers from last season in juniors Malcolm Delaney and Jeff Allen. The two account for over 50% of the team's returning scoring. There is still reason to believe the Hokies could be better this season provided someone besides Delaney and Allen can hit some shots, which was difficult at times last season.

Delaney is the leader in the backcourt. His scoring averaged nearly doubled from his freshman year to his sophomore year (9.6 to 18.3). Delaney will have some help with the returns of juniors Dorenzo Hudson and Terrell Bell" target="_new">Terrell Bell, along with incoming freshmen Manny Atkins, who is expected to replace Vassallo, and Erick Green, who will back up Delaney, and may be the heir apparent to the point guard position.

Allen averaged 13.7 points and 8.4 rebounds last season, and plays like a power forward, even though he's only 6-7.  As a sophomore Jeff Allen stepped on the floorer a lighter version of himself, but reports are Allen consulted with Seth Greenberg and has added back some of weight.  Greenberg felt that Allen lost of some his interior effectiveness when he slimmed down.

Junior J.T. Thompson came onnicely in the postseason for the Hokies where he averaged 12 points and five rebounds, and hopes to build on that success. Also expected to help are Victor Davila and Lewis Witcher" target="_new">Lewis Witcher, and freshman Cadarian Raines, who is similarly built like Jeff Allen, and plays a lot like Allen as well.

by Will Ojanen

Fantasy Player to Watch

Malcolm Delaney only hit 38.5 percent of his shots last season, but still found a way to score 18 points per game last season, and it is quite possible that he could score 20 points per game if the rest of the team fails to pick up the scoring. If that's the case, he could be an All-American.

Last Year's Player Statistics Virginia Tech Name GP Mins Pts Asts Rbds Stls Blks TOs FG% 3P% FT%    AD Vassallo  34  36.6  19.1  2.6  6.2  0.8  0.9  2.5  45.0  36.7  82.9    Malcolm Delaney  34  36.8  18.1  4.5  4.0  1.5  0.3  2.9  38.5  35.4  86.9    Jeff Allen  33  30.7  13.7  1.3  8.4  1.8  1.3  2.7  48.8  40.5  61.1    Dorenzo Hudson  34  20.8  4.6  1.1  1.9  0.6  0.1  1.1  36.2  33.3  80.0    J.T. Thompson  24  21.0  6.5  0.7  3.7  1.0  0.3  1.4  52.5  0.0  62.5    Cheick Diakite  32  17.7  3.8  0.3  3.9  0.1  1.2  0.3  54.3  0.0  55.9    Victor Davila  33  11.8  3.1  0.2  2.0  0.1  0.2  0.5  54.1  0.0  53.8    Terrell Bell  32  12.5  2.3  1.0  2.7  0.4  0.2  0.8  33.3  19.4  45.8    Hank Thorns  30  18.9  2.7  2.4  1.6  0.6  0.0  1.2  29.9  19.5  62.5    Lewis Witcher  30  8.8  2.0  0.0  1.4  0.2  0.3  0.3  55.1  0.0  40.0    Terrance Vinson  8  1.3  0.0  0.0  0.1  0.0  0.0  0.4  0.0  0.0  0.0    Paul Debnam  5  1.0  0.8  0.0  0.2  0.0  0.0  0.6  50.0  0.0  100.0    Chris Panneton  3  0.3  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0    Evan Synstad  2  0.5  0.0  0.0  1.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0    Gene Swindle 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0    Tom Amalfe 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0    Darrion Pellum 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0  
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