Virginia Tech coach Seth Greenberg pointed something very interesting out yesterday.

Both the Hokies and Maryland have seven freshmen on their rosters (the Terps get to that point by including redshirt freshman Jerome Burney). Tech, though, is far more reliant on its newcomers.

Greenberg ballparked it as twice as many minutes for freshmen, and I thought it might actually be higher. Well, I would be wrong in that case. Maryland's freshmen have played 860 minutes, or 53.75 a game. The Hokies' six freshmen have logged 1,537 minutes, or 102.47 a game.

That's right --- half of Virginia Tech's minutes are played by freshmen.

Probably the most comparable major team in the country is Purdue, which has four freshmen among its top six players has 1,489 minutes played in 15 games (99.27/game).

No one, though, has anything on The Citadel. The 5-9 Bulldogs (who have four non-Division I wins) deploy a roster with just two non-freshmen. The lone senior, Demetrius Nelson, has played in only seven games because of injury. The other upperclassman is junior guard Jonathan Brick (the brother of former Maryland women's player Vicki Brick).

Not surprisingly, freshmen account for 2,410 of a possible 2,800 minutes for The Citadel, a whopping 172.14 minutes a game.

--- Patrick Stevens