#13 Virginia Tech @ Penn State

Who will WIN this matchup?

#13 Virginia Tech Hokies (5-0)

@ Penn State Nittany Lions (3-2)

Current odds:

Virginia Tech Hokies: (-170)

Penn State Nittany Lions: (+150)

•  The line for this game is Virginia Tech by 4 points.

• Virginia Tech didn’t suffer a letdown against St. Francis (Pa.) after taking down No. 18 Purdue in the championship game of the Charleston Classic on Nov. 18. The 12th-ranked Hokies pummeled the Red Flash, picked to win the Northeast Conference, and seek its first 6-0 start since 2012-13 when they visit Penn State on Tuesday as part of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.Virginia Tech had three players score at least 20 points, and the Hokies sank seven of their last eight shots to take down the Boilermakers 89-83, securing a victory against a ranked Big Ten team for the first time in school history and winning a non-conference tournament for the first time since 2008.

• Penn State lost to Bradley 59-56 in the Cancun Challenge championship game on Wednesday despite 27 points from junior star Lamar Stevens.

• Senior Ahmed Hill (15.4 points, 14-of-25 3-pointers) scored 13 of his 19 points in the second half against the Red Flash, making 7-of-11 from the floor, including a season-high five 3-pointers. Senior Ty Outlaw (6.2 points), who scored just 11 points in the Hokies’ three wins in the Charleston Classic, scored 15 – all on 3-pointers – as the Hokies drained 14 shots from the arc to tie a season high. Nickeil Alexander-Walker (19.6 points, 4.4 assists, 2.4 steals), the Most Valuable Player of the Charleston Classic after scoring 20-or-more points in all three games, scored 11 points against St. Francis and has scored in double figures in all five games this season.

• Stevens (24.8 points, 8.8 rebounds), who shot just 7-of-20 from the floor against Bradley but 12-of-14 from the line, has scored 20 points in all five games this season and set the Cancun Challenge scoring record with 99 points in four games. The rest of the starting lineup combined for 14 points on 4-of-22 shooting against the Braves, as freshman Rasir Bolton was the only player besides Stevens in double figures with 10 points. Freshman sharpshooter Myles Dread (11.8 points, team-high 13 3-pointers), Josh Reaves (11.8 points, 6.0 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 2.4 steals) and Bolton (10.4 points, 34 percent shooting) average double figures for a team that is shooting 42.2 percent from the floor and 32.3 beyond the arc despite having not faced a team from a power conference yet.

• Virginia Tech G Justin Robinson (15.6 points, 6.2 assists) joins Michigan State’s Cassius Winston and Auburn’s Jared Harper as the only three players from power conferences to average at least 15 points and six assists.

• Bolton scored 38 points on 11-of-19 shooting in the first two games but has scored just 14 points on 5-of-28 shooting over his last three.

• Penn State shot 18.8 percent in the second half and 28.8 percent for the game against Bradley – its lowest percentage for a game since shooting 27.3 percent in a 60-39 loss to Northwestern in 2015.