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during the
2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 4, 2024. The regular season ended on March 16, 2025, with the 2025 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament that began with the First Four on March 18 and ended with t ...
. The Hokies, led by sixth-year head coach Mike Young, played their home games at Cassell Coliseum in Blacksburg, Virginia, as members of the
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. The Hokies won their first three games of the season. They then went on a six game losing streak, which began in the Hall of Fame Series against
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. They then lost their campus game in the Fort Myers Tip-Off against
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74–64. They lost both games in Jacksonville as part of the main tournament. Upon returning they also lost their ACC–SEC Challenge game against Vanderbilt and their ACC opener against eighteenth ranked
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. They broke their losing streak with a 95–67 win over North Carolina A&T. They finished their non-conference season with a loss at Saint Joseph's in the Holiday Hoopfest. They lost to fourth-ranked
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to wrap the 2024 portion of the season. Over their next four ACC games, they went 3–1, with their only loss coming in California to
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. They defated
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,
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, and NC State. However, they couldn't continue their success as they went on a three-game losing streak where they lost to Wake Forest,
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, and Clemson. The Hokies went 3–3 over their next six games, which included a two point win over Notre Dame, and a
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victory over
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by one point. However, the stretch included a home loss to Virginia and a loss to
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where the Hokies only scored 36 points. In their final five games they went 2–3, defeating Miami again and
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in
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. They lost to nineteenth ranked
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,
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, and eleventh ranked Clemson in the final game of the regular season. The Hokies finished the
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13–18 and 8–12 in ACC play to finish in a five-way tie for ninth place. As the tenth seed in the 2025 ACC tournament they faced fifteenth seed California in the First Round. Virginia Tech couldn't repeat their regular season win and were defeated 82–73 in double-overtime. They were not invited to the NCAA tournament or the NIT.


Previous season

The Hokies finished the season 19–15, 10–10 in ACC play to finish in a tie for eighth place. As the eighth seed in the ACC tournament, they lost to ninth seed
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in the Second Round. They received an at-large bid to the
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and were a third seed. They defeated
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in the First Round before losing to second-seed
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in the Second Round to end their season.


Offseason


Departures


Incoming transfers


2024 Recruiting class


Roster


Schedule and results

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References

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Virginia Tech The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly referred to as Virginia Tech (VT), is a Public university, public Land-grant college, land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States ...
Virginia Tech The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly referred to as Virginia Tech (VT), is a Public university, public Land-grant college, land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States ...
Virginia Tech The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly referred to as Virginia Tech (VT), is a Public university, public Land-grant college, land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States ...