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January 1st, 2006, 06:09 PM
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JMU HOSTS VIRGINIA TECH MONDAY IN TELEVISED MEN'S BASKETBALL GAME
HARRISONBURG, Va., Dec. 31, 2005 – The James Madison and Virginia Tech men's basketball teams meet in Harrisonburg for the first time in 16 seasons in Monday’s (Jan. 2) regionally televised contest (Comcast SportsNet). The teams last met at the JMU Convocation Center during the 1989-90 season, and they’ve played only one time during the last 15 campaigns.
Virginia Tech hosted JMU last season and posted a 77-53 December victory in the teams’ only meeting since 1990-91. The teams split games in 1990-91 – one at Virginia Tech and one in Richmond – in their other meetings since last playing at JMU.
Virginia Tech is off to one of its better starts in recent seasons and is 9-4 despite losing 58-55 at Old Dominion Friday (Dec. 30).
JMU is 3-5 and is coming off a second-place finish in Thursday’s (Dec. 29) and Friday’s (Dec. 30) Flint Hills Resources Islanders Classic at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. The Dukes beat Yale 79-69 and lost to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in the recent tournament.
The Series
Virginia Tech has a 9-4 overall lead in the series that began in 1978-79 and has won two of the previous three games in Harrisonburg. Lou Campanelli was coaching JMU when the teams first met – at Virginia Tech Dec. 30, 1978 – and the teams didn’t play at JMU until 1985-86 -- during John Thurston’s first season as JMU’s head coach.
The Hokies won the first Harrisonburg meeting 73-65 and won 91-74 at JMU in 1987-88. JMU won the last meeting on its home floor -- 102-88 during a 20-11 season in 1989-90.
Virginia Tech won 91-89 on its floor in 1990-91, and JMU beat the Hokies 73-58 later that season in the finals of the Richmond Times-Dispatch Invitational Tournament. The Dukes also beat Virginia Tech in the championship game of the 1986-87 Times-Dispatch Tournament.
JMU HOSTS VIRGINIA TECH MONDAY IN TELEVISED MEN'S BASKETBALL GAME
HARRISONBURG, Va., Dec. 31, 2005 – The James Madison and Virginia Tech men's basketball teams meet in Harrisonburg for the first time in 16 seasons in Monday’s (Jan. 2) regionally televised contest (Comcast SportsNet). The teams last met at the JMU Convocation Center during the 1989-90 season, and they’ve played only one time during the last 15 campaigns.
Virginia Tech hosted JMU last season and posted a 77-53 December victory in the teams’ only meeting since 1990-91. The teams split games in 1990-91 – one at Virginia Tech and one in Richmond – in their other meetings since last playing at JMU.
Virginia Tech is off to one of its better starts in recent seasons and is 9-4 despite losing 58-55 at Old Dominion Friday (Dec. 30).
JMU is 3-5 and is coming off a second-place finish in Thursday’s (Dec. 29) and Friday’s (Dec. 30) Flint Hills Resources Islanders Classic at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. The Dukes beat Yale 79-69 and lost to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in the recent tournament.
The Series
Virginia Tech has a 9-4 overall lead in the series that began in 1978-79 and has won two of the previous three games in Harrisonburg. Lou Campanelli was coaching JMU when the teams first met – at Virginia Tech Dec. 30, 1978 – and the teams didn’t play at JMU until 1985-86 -- during John Thurston’s first season as JMU’s head coach.
The Hokies won the first Harrisonburg meeting 73-65 and won 91-74 at JMU in 1987-88. JMU won the last meeting on its home floor -- 102-88 during a 20-11 season in 1989-90.
Virginia Tech won 91-89 on its floor in 1990-91, and JMU beat the Hokies 73-58 later that season in the finals of the Richmond Times-Dispatch Invitational Tournament. The Dukes also beat Virginia Tech in the championship game of the 1986-87 Times-Dispatch Tournament.