After picking up a win over East Tennessee State on Sunday afternoon at Cassell Coliseum, the Virginia Tech women's basketball team heads to Florida on Thursday night looking for its first ACC win against Florida State.
Eleven days ago, the Hokies dropped their first ACC game at home against Duke, which was a much better team than their record indicated after Kara Lawson beefed up her schedule early in the season. Now, Virginia Tech will play the Seminoles, looking to even their conference record before the Christmas break.
Virginia Tech women's basketball has big ACC game at Florida State
Both teams enter the game 0-1 in conference play after Florida State lost at home, 93-58, to Notre Dame earlier this year. Virginia Tech is looking to avoid another 0-2 conference start, as they did last season. On Jan. 2, FSU came to Blacksburg and routed the Hokies, 105-74, which dropped them to 0-2.
After this game, Virginia Tech will host Radford in their final non-conference game before the rest of the schedule is ACC games until March. In terms of the NCAA Tournament, Megan Duffy and her team need to start piling up conference wins, which would be good wins.
Virginia Tech has struggled away from Cassell this season, losing at James Madison and against BYU over Thanksgiving Weekend. If the Hokies are going to have a chance to make the NCAA Tournament after being the first team left out last season, it's games like Thursday night's at Florida State that they need to win.
The Seminoles are struggling this season, but as we saw against Duke, not every team is what their record says. Last season, the Seminoles made a run in the NCAA Tournament, and you have to think that they'll get things figured out before long in 2025-26.