[caption id="attachment_5742" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Justin Robinson and the Hokies are NCAA Tournament bound. [Credit: Harley Taylor][/caption]It's no longer fitting to call this a "bubble watch" as the Virginia Tech Hokies have locked themselves in the NCAA Tournament with three-straight wins including a home win over #25 Miami on Monday that has VT at 21-8 overall including 10-7 in the ACC ahead of their final regular season game Saturday at home against Wake Forest.
Saturday's win over Boston College guaranteed that the Hokies would not have a loss to a team outside the RPI top 150 with a chance that all their losses are to teams inside the RPI top 100 if NC State finishes the season well.
Jerry Palm of CBS Sports has the Hokies on the 7 seed line in his latest projection while ESPN's Joe Lunardi had the Hokies as a 10 seed before Virginia Tech beat Miami and we'd anticipate that the Hokies will climb 1 or 2 seeds in his next projections. Meanwhile, ESPN's Eamonn Brennan still has Virginia Tech as a "team that should be in" in his latest bubble watch.
With that said, here's a look at some resume numbers. (Numbers as of March 1st, RPI based on ESPN calculation)
- RPI: 34
- BPI: 49
- KenPom: 42
- Record vs. RPI top 50: 4-6
- Record vs. RPI top 100: 12-7
- Record vs. RPI top 150: 12-8
- Record vs. RPI outside top 150: 9-0
- ESPN SOR: 22
- SOS: 79
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