Photos by JUSTIN COOK The Roanoke Times

Virginia Tech's J.T. Thompson (33) has a shot disrupted by Miami's Adrian Thomas during their ACC Tournament game on Friday.

JUSTIN COOK The Roanoke Times

Miami's James Dews (23) and Julian Gamble celebrate their 70-65 victory over Virginia Tech as J.T. Thompson (33) walks off the court in dejection after their ACC Tournament quarterfinal game.

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- For the first time in the college careers of any of its players, the Virginia Tech men's basketball team went one-and-done in the ACC Tournament.

Now the Hokies must wait to learn if they will get a chance to redeem themselves in the NCAA tournament.

The fourth-seeded Hokies fell to 12th-seeded Miami 70-65 in a quarterfinal Friday at the Greensboro Coliseum.

The Hokies (23-8), who had a first-round bye, went 0-1 in this tournament for the first time since a 2006 first-round loss to Virginia.

How surprising is it to lose to a No. 12 seed?

"Very," said All-ACC guard Malcolm Delaney, who was held to seven points. "But ... we didn't do what we were supposed to do to win.

"We didn't get stops and we didn't make shots."

Tech shot 29 percent from the field in the second half.

Terrell Bell made a 3-pointer to give Tech a 64-62 lead with 2:31 left, but the Hokies never scored another basket. They missed their final six shots.

"We needed to make shots down the stretch," said Dorenzo Hudson, who had 15 of his 16 points in the first half. "It's going to hurt us a little bit on the bus ride home, but we've got more basketball to play."

The NCAA tournament pairings will be announced at 6 p.m. Sunday (WDBJ).

The Hokies still seem like a safe bet for an at-large bid. Tech went 10-6 in ACC regular-season play, and no ACC team with that mark has ever been left out of the NCAAs.

"I would hope that the team that tied for third place in the ACC would be in pretty good shape, but ... that one's out of my control," Tech coach Seth Greenberg said.

It was the Hokies' third loss this season to a team currently ranked below No. 100 in the RPI. Miami (20-12) began Friday at No. 105.

The Hokies, who played a weak nonleague schedule, began the day at No. 53. But they have beaten three teams ranked in the top 50.

"If this game knocks us out of the NCAA tournament, that would be crazy," Delaney said. "We won enough games in conference, so I'm not worried."

Unlike the past two years, the Hokies entered this tournament confident of an NCAA bid. But they said that did not result in a lesser effort.

"We didn't come down here just to play and get to the NCAA tournament. We wanted to win," Delaney said. "Unfortunately, that's gone."

The Hokies shot 38.1 percent from the field, including 25 percent from 3-point range.

"We had open looks," Delaney said. "We had transition points we left up on the board. We had post points ... [that] just didn't go our way.

"We had the game under wraps, and we just couldn't finish it."

Delaney was 3-of-15 from the field (20 percent), his worst field-goal percentage of the season. He was 0-of-8 from 3-point range.

"I shot horrible," he said. "I had so many open looks that I just missed."

"We did a great job of knowing where he was at in the zone ... and making sure we had good close-outs on him," Miami coach Frank Haith said.

Hudson was 0-of-5 from the field in the second half.

Freshman guard Durand Scott (17 points) made two free throws to give Miami the lead for good at 66-65 with 1:53 to go. He had 11 of his team's final 13 points.

"We didn't guard the ball as well as we needed to in the last four minutes, and we didn't make shots," Greenberg said. "It really is not a whole lot trickier than that."

Down 66-65, Tech took a timeout with 12 seconds left on the shot clock. Delaney missed a jumper, got the rebound and missed another jumper near the basket.

With Tech down 68-65, Bell (12 points) missed a 3-pointer with 22 seconds to go.

A UM player "hit my hand," Bell said. "I looked at the ref and he didn't make the call."

Tech's Jeff Allen had 18 points and 11 rebounds.

MIAMI (20-12)

Scott 6-12 5-5 17, Dews 4-10 0-2 8, Jones 6-11 2-4 14, Johnson 1-4 3-4 5, Gamble 1-2 0-0 2, Grant 2-7 4-4 9, McGowan 3-4 0-0 7, Thomas 2-4 2-2 8. Totals 25-54 16-21 70.

VIRGINIA TECH (23-8)

Allen 7-13 4-6 18, Bell 4-9 0-0 12, Hudson 5-16 4-6 16, Davila 0-1 0-1 0, Delaney 3-15 1-3 7, Green 0-1 0-0 0, Witcher 1-1 0-0 2, Atkins 0-0 0-0 0, Thompson 4-7 2-2 10. Totals 24-63 11-18 65.

Halftime--Virginia Tech 37-35. 3-Point Goals--Miami 4-16 (Thomas 2-4, McGowan 1-1, Grant 1-3, Jones 0-2, Scott 0-3, Dews 0-3), Virginia Tech 6-24 (Bell 4-9, Hudson 2-6, Green 0-1, Delaney 0-8). Fouled Out--Allen. Rebounds--Miami 46 (Johnson 12), Virginia Tech 29 (Allen 11). Assists--Miami 11 (Grant 4), Virginia Tech 12 (Delaney 5). Total Fouls--Miami 17, Virginia Tech 18. A--23,381.