A.D. Vassallo News

Though Virginia Tech men's basketball coach Seth Greenberg isn't superstitious about heaping praise on his team after its 8-1 start to the season, his attention to detail and eye on the big picture keeps him from getting too comfortable.

BLACKSBURG Friends and guys he played basketball with back home in Charlotte, N.C., have been calling Dorenzo Hudson, wondering what happened to the scorer they knew.

Watch Virginia Tech's Dorenzo Hudson offensively on Saturday. He and the Hokies will be at Penn State, but he'll be easy for all of us around here to find: 7 p.m., ESPN2.

Prior to the start of its season, the Virginia Tech men's basketball team was picked to finish eighth in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

It's a good thing the Virginia Tech men's basketball team hasn't played a heavyweight yet.

Two of the top three returning scorers in the ACC play in the same state. If you're thinking North Carolina, you're wrong.

BLACKSBURG, VA. -- Persecution complexes are common around ACC basketball programs that lack fabled pedigrees, but Virginia Tech Coach Seth Greenberg is hoping to use his to motivate his team's play on the court.

Last season, the Hokies missed the NCAA tournament for the second straight year, in large part because of defensive breakdowns, particularly late in games. This season, Greenberg has stressed a return to a defense-first approach, playing with 'a chip' when the opponent has the ball.

Virginia Tech's Seth Greenberg begins his seventh season as the head basketball coach in Blacksburg ... named the ACC Coach of the Year twice in the school's first five years in the league, Greenberg is 107-85 in his six seasons with the Hokies ... over the past three years, Tech is 26-22 in ACC regular season play and has averaged 20.7 wins per ...

There are quite a few former Virginia Tech players participating in this week's NBA summer league in Las Vegas.

Given that we're talking about a rising high school junior, place this in the for-what-it's-worth file: Robert Brown, a 6-foot-4 shooting guard from Clermont, Fla., committed earlier this week to Virginia Tech.

The Chicago Bulls will play five summer league games in Las Vegas, beginning with Golden State on July 14th.

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While Virginia Commonwealth point guard Eric Maynor is projected to be selected in the first round of tonight's NBA draft, three other players with state connections likely will find themselves sweating through the late stages of the second round.

File January Tech's A.D. Vassallo, driving past Virginia's Mamadi Diane, is playing in a pro league in Puerto Rico while awaiting the NBA draft.

As much as Virginia Tech men's basketball coach Seth Greenberg relishes having a few lightly recruited players turn into stars on his team, he'd like it even more if some of those players got a shot in the NBA .

He averaged 14 points, 5.7 rebounds, and 1.7 assists over the three games. FINAL RECORD: 19-15, 7-9 ACC, tied for 7th in the league.

According to K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune : "The Bulls began a busy week of draft workouts Monday at the Berto Center with Duke's Gerald Henderson, Arizona's Chase Budinger, USC's Taj Gibson, Maccabi Tel Aviv's Omri Casspi, Virginia Tech's A.D. Vassallo and Alabama Birmingham's Robert Vaden in for a spirited session.