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Hokies hang on in frantic finish

Thursday, February 17, 2005

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) -- Zabian Dowdell and his Virginia Tech teammates talked a lot about not being intimidated by Duke and forgetting their lopsided loss on the Blue Devils' home court just 18 days earlier. The Hokies took the message to heart, and when Dowdell made a 3-pointer with 14.6 seconds to play, Virginia Tech stunned Duke 67-65 Thursday night. "Now we belong," Dowdell said of the Hokies, in their first season in the Atlantic Coast Conference. "I mean, they have to take us serious now ...

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