Tech preps for No. 13 North Carolina Sunday afternoon

The seventh-ranked Virginia Tech women’s basketball team is set to play host to No. 13 North Carolina on New Year’s Day, with tipoff slated for 4 p.m. Both squads are coming in after losses on Thursday night. Tech fell at Clemson 64-59 and UNC lost to FSU 78-71 at home in Chapel Hill.

GAMEDAY INFORMATION

Sunday, January 1 | 4:00 p.m. ET

Cassell Coliseum 

vs. No. 13 UNC (9-3, 0-1)

HOW TO FOLLOW

TV Broadcast – ACCN (Eric Frede and Christy Thomaskutty)

 

LOCAL RADIO

Virginia Tech Sports Network

Play-by-Play: Evan Hughes

 

THE SERIES WITH CLEMSON 

•VT is 12-21 all-time vs. UNC and 9-14 in ACC play. 

•The Hokies are 6-8 at Cassell against the Tar Heels and 8-3 overall under Kenny Brooks. 

•Last season, the clubs met three times with the regular season meetings going to the home team. In the quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament, a shorthanded Tech squad rallied to defeat UNC 87-80 in OT. Four Hokies (Aisha Sheppard 22, Georgia Amoore 22, Kayana Traylor 19 and D’asia Gregg 10) scored in double figures in that contest in Greensboro.

 

A WIN WOULD…

•Move the Hokies to 2-2 in ACC play.

• Snap a two-game losing streak in ACC play for the Hokies. 

• Be Tech’s first over a ranked opponent this season. 

 

CAYLA KING BREAKS OUT OF SLUMP

•Senior guard Cayla King, one of the nation’s top 3-point artists made five triples at Clemson on Thursday night after going scoreless in the two previous games. 

•King is fifth all-time at VT in 3’s made with 183. 

•This season she is 38-89 (42.7%) from deep. She began the season with nine 3’s against Mount St. Mary’s setting a program record for a single game.