After freshman Neoklis Avdalas made the Virginia Tech men's basketball team's final field goal with 3:36 left in the second half against Stanford on Wednesday night at Cassell Coliseum, the Hokies held a 13-point lead at 65-52. Game over, right?
Well, it should have been. Instead, Virginia Tech allowed Stanford freshman Eubka Okorie to take over the game, literally, and what was supposed to be a résumé-building win for Virginia Tech turned into a loss that will be devastating come Selection Sunday in mid-March.
Okorie accounted for 40 of the Cardinal's final 42 points as Stanford, which couldn't do much offensively over the first 25 minutes, erupted in the final 15 to hand the Hokies a 69-68 loss when Okorie drained a deep 3-pointer with 3.