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he Virginia Tech Hokies men’s basketball team will look much different in 2024-25. After the 2023-24 season ended in March, the Hokies and head coach Mike Young saw a mass exodus as players took advantage of the NIL rules to shop their services to other schools.

That meant Young and his staff not only had to convince some players to return from last season, but they had to fill several open roster spots. In all, the Hokies will have five new transfers and four freshmen.

We’ve known who the Hokies will play for several weeks, but on Thursday, Virginia Tech officially announced the dates for all of its non-conference opponents. The ACC slate will be released later.

Here’s the schedule:

Over the last couple of months, the 2024-25 non-conference opponents for the Virginia Tech men’s basketball team have been slowly released. Thursday, the school officially announced its non-conference schedule with two additions from the previous nine contests that were released.

The Hokies announced their non-conference games with the season beginning at home at Cassell Coliseum on Nov. 4 against Delaware State. USC Upstate will visit on Nov. 8, the night before the football team hosts Clemson at Lane Stadium, and then on Veterans Day, Virginia Tech will welcome Winthrop to Blacksburg. On Nov. 15, the Hokies will play Penn State in Baltimore followed by a home game five nights later against Jacksonville. Mike Young and his team will head to Florida to play in the Fort Myers Top-Off, opening with Michigan on Nov. 25, then will play either Xavier or South Carolina two nights later.

Virginia Tech will host former Hokies’ MJ Collins and Tyler Nickel on Dec. 4 as part of the SEC/ACC Challenge this season when Vanderbilt comes to Blacksburg. North Carolina A&T visits on Dec. 12 and Navy on Dec. 15 before Tech closes out the non-conference schedule at The Palestra on Dec. 21 against Saint Joseph’s before ACC play begins.

This will be a challenging schedule for Young and his new-look team after a mass exodus following last season in the transfer portal. Virginia Tech lost some key players that had eligibility to return and it forced Young and his staff to build a roster from the transfer portal along with some key recruits expected to step in and make a contribution this upcoming season.

The ACC schedule will be announced at a later date and this season, it’ll include SMU, California, and Stanford, the three new schools that are joining the conference for this year.