Perspective: For Hokies’ brothers in arms, painful loss is a reminder of all they’ve been through
By Barry Svrluga Barry Svrluga Sports columnist with beat writing experience on baseball, golf, the NFL, college basketball and college football Email Bio Follow Sports columnist March 30 at 7:00 AM As Ahmed Hill shuffled through a hallway early Saturday morning underneath the stands at Capital One Arena, gazing into the nothingness before him, he had to be thinking about it. The curl he ran, down two to Duke with 1.1 seconds showing on the clock.
But let’s not forget that with single tick left on the clock, Robinson and Hill and the Virginia Tech coaching staff had Williamson and the Blue Devils beat. Flat-out beat. This was, of course, the second game in a row in which Duke watched a ball on the rim with the clock perilously near zero, only to have it fall away. On Sunday, it was Aubrey Dawkins of UCF, whose tip-in would have beaten the Blue Devils. It missed. Just like Hill with the lob, somehow it missed.
That play is now part of NCAA tournament history. It doesn’t come close to revealing the history Hill and Robinson share. Robinson, the tough and clever point guard, missed a dozen games earlier this year with a foot injury. The Hokies could have crumbled on the court. Robinson could have crumbled off it. Neither did. Hill helped both.
“I told him after the game, ‘It’s not over. Our careers aren’t over,’” Robinson said. “We both have a bright future ahead. At the end of the day, I’ll take the blame for it, say the pass was off-center.”“Justin threw a great pass,” Hill said. “I just came up short.”
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