Final seconds again not kind to Virginia Tech, whose NCAA hopes are now teetering

Virginia Tech lost another one that come down to the final seconds – make that four this season.

Ben Hammond missed a potential game-winning floater at the buzzer in a 67-66 loss at Miami on Tuesday night.

They don’t give you style points for last-second losses, meaning, Tech (17-10, 6-8 ACC, NET: 56) can’t get away with, yeah, but, we’re thisclose to being 21-6, 10-4.

The frustrating part to this one: the Hokies led 59-54 inside of seven minutes to go, but then went ice cold for the next three-plus minutes.

Tre Donaldson, on the other hand – as part of his game-high 32 points, he scored the final 13 points of the night for the ‘Canes (21-5, 10-3 ACC, NET: 37).

Resume: Virginia Tech

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Quad 1: 3-8
Quad 2: 4-1
Quad 3-4: 10-1

Topline

• RPI: 48
• NET: 56
• ELO: 68

Result-based

• KPI: 39
• WAB: 53
• SOR: 57

Predictive

• BartTorvik: 57
• KenPom: 61
• BPI: 69

Average: 56.4
NCAA Tournament seed projection: outer reaches of Second Four Out

Key remaining games

• Quad 2: Wake Forest (13-12, 4-8 ACC, NET: 64), Feb. 21
• Quad 1: @North Carolina (20-6, 8-5 ACC, NET: 28), Feb. 28
• Quad 1: @Virginia (22-3, 10-2 ACC, NET: 18), March 7