Seth Greenberg

To celebrate his birthday Friday, Phoebus High junior forward Troy Williams narrowed his college options to five. Coincidentally or not, the NCAA permits prospects five official campus visits, though in this era of early commitments, few take all of their...

Last week’s announcement that the ACC will expand its conference basketball schedule from 16 to 18 games was expected and surprising. Expected: The arrival of Syracuse and Pittsburgh, which grows membership to 14, virtually assured a longer ACC...

Virginia Tech’s basketball team dusted overmatched Eastern Michigan on Thursday and now takes its longest break of the season before a New Year’s Eve test at Oklahoma State. But the Hokies’ routine 71-52 victory — Eastern Michigan...

With three minutes remaining, it was a ball game again. What once was a 16-point lead had been trimmed to four, and Hampton was on its way to blowing it. But just like that, the Crabbers regained their composure. Hampton scored on six of its final...

Last week’s transfers of KT Harrell and James Johnson compromise Virginia’s basketball team. Their sudden exits limit the Cavaliers in practice, thin their bench and foil plans to redshirt freshman Paul Jesperson. Serious concerns all. But...

The Miami Hurricanes won two games last week in which they squandered 16-point leads. They rely on a center with a negligible vertical leap, and their coach almost missed the program's marquee moment with a flu bug that sent him to the ER. Say hello to...

January matched Virginia Tech basketball's worst month in Seth Greenberg's eight seasons as coach. Six defeats in seven games, including setbacks at ACC lightweights Wake Forest and Boston College. February couldn't have started with a much more...

Enduring a prolonged shooting slump and off to its worst ACC start in six years, Virginia Tech faces the conference's most talented team Thursday night at Cassell Coliseum. Not what you would call ideal timing. But this game against eighth-ranked...

Virginia Tech men's basketball assistant coach James Johnson is leaving coach Seth Greenberg's staff to become an assistant coach at Clemson, according to two sources within Tech's athletic department that spoke Friday to Daily Press columnist David Teel....

So many commencement celebrations. Beaming graduates, proud parents. So many sporting victories. Elated athletes, rabid fans. This was Virginia Tech's Cassell Coliseum and Lane Stadium -- before Tuesday. One memorial service. Grieving students,...

Responding to continued staff turnover, Virginia Tech athletic director Jim Weaver on Friday forcefully rejected any notion that the school’s men’s basketball program is underfunded. Earlier Friday, news broke that associate head coach...

James Johnson spent five years at Virginia Tech, by far the longest tenure of his basketball coaching career. He “loves” the school, its people and proximity to his hometown. But he could not resist an offer from a friend at a rival ACC...