For 20 minutes on Wednesday night, it looked like the Virginia Tech Hokies were ripe to pull off an upset of the No. 2 Duke Blue Devils, going into halftime with a 36-32 lead at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Things started well for the Hokies in the second half, as Tech matched Duke in points in the first four minutes, heading into the under-16 timeout with maintaining its four-point lead. Unfortunately for the Hokies, Duke freshman Pablo Banchero got hot, scoring seven points in a row to cut Tech’s lead to one point.
The Hokies would go scoreless for around five minutes as Duke’s offense went on a 13-0 run to take a 47-42 lead — a lead it would never relinquish.