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Winter break: free feature for 5 Blacksburg restaurants

Virginia Tech's winter break means about 5 slow weeks, from finals through Jan 16, with dorms closed for a month. We're giving 5 Blacksburg restaurants a free featured spot on Gameday Blacksburg plus a short slow-weeks plan. Spots are limited to 5.

Home games in Blacksburg, Dec 11, 2026 – Jan 16, 2027

Official 2026-27 home events at Cassell Coliseum in this window. Away and neutral-site games are omitted. The official football and volleyball schedules list no home events in Blacksburg during these dates, including no bowl game in town.

• Sun, Dec 13 · Men's basketball vs Radford · 1 p.m.
• Sun, Dec 13 · Women's basketball vs Campbell · 5 p.m.
• Sat, Dec 19 · Women's basketball vs Wake Forest · 2 p.m.
• Mon, Dec 21 · Women's basketball vs Radford · Noon
• Mon, Dec 21 · Men's basketball vs VMI · 6 p.m.
• Mon, Dec 28 · Women's basketball vs College of Charleston · 2 p.m.
• Wed, Dec 30 · Men's basketball vs Louisville · 8 p.m.
• Sun, Jan 3 · Women's basketball vs Syracuse · 4 p.m.
• Thu, Jan 7 · Women's basketball vs Notre Dame · 6 p.m.
• Sat, Jan 9 · Men's basketball vs Boston College · 8 p.m.
• Fri, Jan 15 · Wrestling vs Pitt · 7 p.m.
• Sat, Jan 16 · Men's basketball vs SMU · Noon

Expected crowds

Cassell Coliseum seats 8,925. Hokies men's home games averaged 6,367 fans last season (2025-26; 17 home games). Women's home games averaged 4,319 fans (2025-26; 18 home games). Using those averages: 5 men's games × 6,367 ≈ 31,835 seats filled, and 6 women's games × 4,319 ≈ 25,914 seats filled. That is an estimate based on last season's average, not a forecast of visitors this year. The 1 wrestling dual is listed without an attendance estimate — we do not have a sourced season average.

Sources: men's basketball schedule, women's basketball schedule, wrestling schedule, football schedule, volleyball schedule, Cassell Coliseum, NCAA men's attendance 2025-26, NCAA women's attendance 2025-26. Times as posted; they can still change.