The Hokies' first intercollegiate basketball game was played January 22, 1909, resulting in a 33–26 win over Emory & Henry College.

Tech left the Southern Conference in 1965, and in its first season as an independent went to the NIT for the first time in school history, posting an overall mark of 19–5 after losing to Temple in the first round.

DeVoe and Tech parted ways following that season when he refused to sign a new contract after openly admitted that he was a candidate for the vacant head coaching job at Ohio State, his alma mater.

Even though it did not compete in a round-robin regular season schedule, it was able to beat regular season champion Louisville in the semi-finals and Florida State in the tournament championship game to earn its third trip to the NCAA tournament, where it lost to NCAA runner-up Indiana State led by star Larry Bird.

Moir and Tech reached an agreement to part ways following an NCAA investigation that left the team on probation through October, 1989.

Tech hired Moir's assistant Frankie Allen as interim head coach to lead the program in the 1987–1988 season while it searched for an athletic director to replace Bill Dooley.

[11] Allen led the Hokies to a 19–10 record and a third place tie in the Metro conference in that year that he began as interim coach.

Tech sought full Big East membership, including for basketball, and in March 1994, the league voted on expansion.

[13] Tech was left seeking to join its fellow Metro members in an attempt to create another large conference.

The two schools sued the 12 members of the new conference,[14] but in the end Tech had to settle for its third choice for a basketball league, the Atlantic 10.

In November 1999, Tech finally was rewarded with an invitation to full membership in the Big East Conference.

[18] Stokes was dismissed after three straight losing season in the Big East, and Tech brought in coach Seth Greenberg to right the ship.

On May 2, 1977, after making a required site visit to Blacksburg to evaluate Tech's formal application, the ACC took its first vote on expansion since Virginia was admitted in 1953.

[25] A year later, Georgia Tech was tapped to be the league's eighth member, expanding its footprint into the lucrative Atlanta television market.

On May 16, 2003, the ACC voted 8–1 to enter into formal discussions with Miami, Syracuse, and Boston College, leaving Virginia Tech out of the mix.

[28] On June 6, 2003, Big East members Tech, Rutgers, Connecticut, Pittsburgh, and West Virginia, entered into a suit against the ACC and two of the three proposed defectors - Miami and Boston College.

[29] The lawsuit charged that the defendants conspired "on a scheme that is calculated to destroy the Big East and misappropriate its value for their benefit.

Clough was the individual who visited with Virginia Tech president Charles Steger to officially deliver the news of the ACC change of heart on June 18.

The third ACC university that was likely supportive of the Hokies to the point of vetoing a bid to Miami, Boston College, and Syracuse was Wake Forest University The school is geographically closest to Blacksburg (in Winston-Salem, NC), but as a small private school had little in common with Tech.

[31] When Tech finally got the seven necessary votes for invitation, the biggest surprise was that Syracuse and Boston College were left out of the mix.

The fifth co-plaintiff, Connecticut, stayed with the Big East until its football members became the American Athletic Conference in 2013).

Tech had its first winning record since 1999–2000 under Greenberg, going 15–14 and advancing to its first Big East basketball tournament in Madison Square Garden.

Tech beat Temple at home in the first round of the NIT, before falling to former Metro rival Memphis.

It ended the year with a 22–10 record, the first time Tech had crossed the 20-win mark since the 1995–1996 season, when it also went to the NCAA tournament.

[34] The Hokies finished the 2009–10 season with a record of 23–8 and were snubbed for the NCAA tournament partially because they had one of the worst nonconference schedule strengths in recent memory.

Star Erick Green led the team to its first non-conference home defeat of a ranked opponent since 1995 by scoring 28 points.

They played Miami for the second time in a week in the second round, winning the game, setting up a rematch with Florida State in the quarter finals.

[40] Texas A&M was required to pay Virginia Tech $750,000 in lieu of Williams completing his contract with the Hokies.

[41] On April 7, 2019, Virginia Tech announced the hiring of former Wofford coach Mike Young to lead the program.

To get to the final night, they had to go into overtime to beat Clemson, then bested second seed Notre Dame, and third-seeded North Carolina.