1) Schedule better teams.

2) Win 1 or 2 games you shouldn't. (i.e.--don't go 0-4 against the top 2 teams in the ACC)

Someone, anyone saying VT got hosed try to explain to me how scheduling:

Brown
UNC-Greensboro
Campbell
Delaware
VMI
Charleston Southern
UMBC
Longwood

Makes ANY sense if you're trying to beef up your OOC schedule? You know for 100% certain that the committee's going to look at that if it's a close call. How hard would it have been to drop any one of those 8 teams and play Radford, Richmond, William & Mary, VCU, ODU, George Mason...all in-state teams who either made the tourney and/or have better RPI's than the above? The highest rated RPI out of those 8 teams above is Delaware, with 239 out of 347 teams. All the rest are lower than that, with the lowest being UMBC (333).

I'll put it this way--VT could have scheduled:

Radford
Richmond
William & Mary
VCU
ODU
George Mason
ETSU
Appy St.

INSTEAD of those 8 teams above, saved $$$ on travel costs all around, even if it meant agreeing to 1-2 less home games, and had a MUCH better SOS. Whatever money they lost in 1-2 less home games would have been brought back up by those in-state teams travelling to Cassell for their other home games. SOS wouldn't be an issue had they won those games. Even a loss to say Richmond wouldn't have looked bad, and 7-1 or 6-2 against those 8 looks 100x better than 8-0 against the 8 teams they played. The lowest RPI out of those teams is Radford at 168.

Greenberg/VT have no excuses given the above as far as I'm concerned.