[caption id="attachment_5390" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Virginia Tech's NCAA Tournament are looking quite good at this point. [Credit: Harley Taylor][/caption]The Virginia Tech Hokies haven't made the NCAA Tournament since 2007 but after getting to the NIT in year 2 of the Buzz Williams era, expectations rose for the 2016-2017 season with the belief that the Hokies could end the drought this season.
Now, the Hokies seem to be on track to make the NCAA Tournament at 16-6 overall and 5-5 in ACC play with 8 ACC regular season games to go in a year in which the ACC is seen as the best conference in America with a chance as many as 10 or 11 teams in the field. However, Virginia Tech isn't completely safe just yet and has a little more work to do to lock themselves in the NCAA Tournament.
At this point, the Hokies are projected on the 8 seed line by both Joe Lunardi of ESPN and Jerry Palm of CBS Sports with Lunardi tweeting out on Saturday that the Hokies were 30th on the S-curve, a very good position to be in at this point especially with their being 14 at-large bids behind them on Lunardi's S-curve. Based on those numbers, the Hokies definitely are comfortably in the NCAA Tournament at this point with there not being any reason to currently be sweating it out based simply on the top two bracketology experts.
However, while the committee won't evaluate different bracket projections, they will take a look at the numbers that show how the Hokies are in solid position at this point. (All numbers as of February 6th)
- RPI: 40
- BPI: 55
- KenPom: 55
- Record vs. RPI top 50: 2-4
- Record vs. RPI top 100: 8-6
- Record vs. RPI top 150: 9-6
- Record vs. RPI outside top 150: 7-0
- ESPN SOR: 30
- SOS: 86
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