Virginia Tech is hiring Megan Duffy as its next women’s basketball coach, the school announced Wednesday.
Duffy hails from Marquette, where she spent the past five years at the helm, taking the Golden Eagles to the NCAA Tournament three times. She accumulated a 110-46 record there, including a 64-30 mark in the Big East, and was the fastest coach in program history to 100 wins. Duffy also garnered the most road wins and most home wins in a single season in program history.
Duffy will be trusted to guide Virginia Tech through a rebuild after the program lost its trusty coach Kenny Brooks to Kentucky this offseason.
Brooks came to Virginia Tech in 2016 to take over a program that hadn’t won more than six games in more than a decade. In a relatively short period of time, Brooks moved the Hokies into the middle of the ACC, and with the 2019 recruiting class — highlighted by Elizabeth Kitley and Cayla King — he built a powerhouse. Virginia Tech won its first ACC Tournament title in 2023 and made the program’s first-ever Final Four. This season, the Hokies won the ACC regular season title, but fell to a No. 4 seed in the tournament after Kitley, the All-American center, suffered a season-ending injury. The Hokies lost in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
With Brooks’…
