MBB HOKIES 17-18 | MEDIA GUIDE

M E D I A I N F O R M A T I O N PRESS AND PHOTO CREDENT I ALS Once again this season, Virginia Tech will use an online credentialing system. Email Bill Dyer, men’s basketball SID, at wdyer@vt.edu for instructions. The NCAA has established a control policy to keep the court free from congestion. Only photographers on assignment and members of the television media are given photo credentials. Freelance or amateur photographers will not be issued credentials. Accredited photographers may work along the playing floor at both ends behind the restriction line established by the NCAA. Permission to install strobe lighting must be made, in writing, to Bill Dyer at least 10 days in advance of the game. Photographers should follow the same credentialing system as listed above. In most cases, credentials will be mailed. Credentials may be picked up the day before a game from administrative assistant Donna Smith in the Strategic Communications Office. Credentials not mailed or picked up will be held at the Will Call Window located at the front entrance to Cassell Coliseum adjacent to Washington Street. Media parking is extremely limited. Parking is available in Lot 1 across Beamer Way from Cassell Coliseum. Requests for parking credentials should be made using the online credentialing system. In addition to being available online at hokiesports.com, media information and game notes are available by email as soon as they are updated. Media members wishing to be placed on this list should email Bill Dyer at wdyer@vt.edu, and ask to be placed on the list. GAME SERV I CES The Virginia Tech Strategic Communications Office will be at your service throughout the game. All media will be provided game notes, rosters, press guides and other pertinent information. Statistics will be available at halftime and at the conclusion of the game. Information provided includes play-by-play and individual and team statistics in standard NCAA box score format and a shot chart. Seating for media for basketball games is in the media section in the stands in the south end of Cassell Coliseum, at the concourse level above the player tunnel. Video and still photographers will shoot from the end zone, courtside. Members of the media work in a modern press room, located on the second floor of Cassell Coliseum, down the hall and to the left from the court entrance. This press room houses both the working press area and the postgame interview room. Only credentialed members of the media will be allowed in this work room. There is complimentary wireless Internet available in the press room and on press row. Please contact a member of the strategic communications staff for log-in information. POSTGAME I NTERV I EWS The Virginia Tech locker room is closed to the media. In accordance with ACC by-laws, requested players will be made available to the media following a 10-minute cooling off period in the auxiliary gym across the hall from the men’s basketball locker room. Coach Buzz Williams and the visiting coach will hold postgame press conferences in the interview room. The visiting coach will go first, followed by Coach Williams after his postgame radio interview. Media access to visiting players will be determined by the visiting media relations contact. CONTACT I NG COACH WI L L I AMS The only way to reach Coach Buzz Williams, other than through the ACC conference call, is by contacting Bill Dyer at (540) 231-8852 or wdyer@vt.edu. TECH ATHL ET I CS WEBS I TE Notes, releases, statistics and other pertinent information are available on Tech’s official website, hokiesports. com. The website will also have live stats during each home game. There is a media section of hokiesports.com with photographs, logos, StatCrew rosters and other pertinent information available to working members of the media. Contact Bill Dyer for more information and log-in information. ACC TE L ECONFERENCES The 15 ACC head basketball coaches will be featured on nine Monday teleconferences during the 2017-18 season. Each coach will have 10 minutes to make an opening statement and answer questions. There will be an instant replay of each teleconference on the conference’s website, TheACC.com, each Monday afternoon. The schedule of coaches, which changes weekly, will be released by the conference office. @VT_MBBall @vthokiembb VTMBBALL 158