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The TSL Basketball Show: The Regular Season Winds Down For Virginia Tech Basketball

February 25, 2026·50 min·1 clip

Robert Bateman opens the show with Chris Coleman and David Cunningham after Virginia Tech's 67-66 loss at Miami. The panel immediately calls it another one-score ACC defeat and another rough reminder of how close the Hokies keep getting without getting over the line. They use the Miami finish to talk about the season as a whole. Stanford is the main reference point, especially the 13-point lead Tech blew in the final three minutes. That stretch gets treated like the kind of game a decent team has to close out. The conversation keeps coming back to execution. Injuries matter, but the group also points out that Virginia Tech has not handled the moments it could control. That is why the season feels like a pile of missed opportunities instead of just bad luck. The NCAA tournament picture hangs over the whole discussion. The panel says the Hokies probably will not make it, and they point to how steep the remaining path is. Even so, they say wins over Stanford and SMU might have changed the conversation by now. The math gets specific. If Tech had handled those games, beating Boston College might have been enough to settle things. Instead, the margin for error is gone. That is where the season sits. The talk does not stay abstract. They keep circling back to the late-game possessions that decided the Miami result. When Tech had the lead with a couple of minutes left and still lost, the issue was not complicated. It came down to making the right play under pressure. That makes the frustration worse. The group suggests those mistakes are fixable, which is exactly why they sting. There is a team here that has been good enough for more. A Tyler Johnson update comes up near the end. The panel asks whether he can return before tournament play, with Virginia Tech not playing again until Saturday. The question is there, but the answer does not come before the show moves on. That unfinished thread fits the bigger mood. Virginia Tech's season is being defined by what it could not close, not by a shortage of chances. The show leaves you with the sense that the margins have already done too much of the damage.

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A blunt look at how Virginia Tech keeps turning close games into missed chances.

The episode treats Virginia Tech's 67-66 loss at Miami as part of a larger problem, not a one-off break. It links that defeat to the Stanford collapse, the injury issues, and a season-long habit of letting winnable games slip away.

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