GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Six points. That's all that stood between Lindsay Biggs and 1,000.

Boston College had other plans.

The Eagles took Biggs out of the Hokies offense and knocked Virginia Tech out of the ACC women's basketball tournament with a 62-49 victory in the opening round on Thursday at Greensboro Coliseum.

"It would've been nice, there's a lot of great players that would have been nice company, and that would've been awesome," Biggs said. "But I really thought we could make a run in this tournament and that would've been even more awesome really."

The Hokies (15-15, 4-10 ACC) had hope because they had beaten BC, 69-64, in Blacksburg on Feb. 21. In that game, the Hokies got all-ACC center Carolyn Swords into foul trouble and took the Eagles out of the inside game.

This time the Eagles (16-14, 6-8 ACC) held Biggs to just four points -- six shy of 1,000 for her career -- and fellow senior Utahya Drye to eight points.

Nikki Davis led the Hokies with 10 points, but had five turnovers and one assist.

Brittany Gordon, who scored 14 points and pulled down 11 rebounds in the first meeting with BC, had six points and four boards, as did Shanel Harrison.

The loss leaves Tech uncertain as to its future. With a .500 record the Hokies are eligible, but not an automatic pick, for the WNIT.

The Eagles play No. 2 seed Florida State in today's second quarterfinals.

Gordon had been key, not only for her numbers, in that first game with great interior defense against Swords and Stephanie Murphy.

But not Thursday. Swords had eight points, four boards and four fouls. But Murphy attacked for 18 points and eight rebounds. Gordon said the difference wasn't in the way the Eagles played.

"I hit a few back screens and I wasn't getting around them," Gordon said. "I wasn't as aggressive as I was supposed to be."

The same could be said of all the Hokies. Tech went to the free throw line four times in the first half and didn't go to the line for the first 10 minutes of the second half.

"They were mixing up their defenses, they played a little zone and we were a little stagnant," Tech coach Beth Dunkenberger said.

The Eagles had played primarily man-to-man defense in the first meeting, but played a variety of zones Thursday including a box-and-one against Biggs.

"They definitely kept an eye on her," Dunkenberger said.

The Hokies didn't have a counter. Davis took a tumble in the first minute and sat out nearly six minutes before returning with a sleeve on her left knee. Meanwhile the Hokies could not hit a shot, going 6-for-31 in the first half, and BC pounded the ball inside until they got a solid lead.

The Eagles were up 13-2 in 5 ¹₂ minutes and built a 17-point lead with a 3-pointer by Kelsey Reynolds with 6:34 to play in the first half. Drye said the Hokies were out of position on defense and Harrison said they were out of sync on offense.

Boston College coach Sylvia Crawley said the Eagles had simply corrected their errors from the first game. They were playing better one-on-one defense, leaving other Eagles available to snap up rebounds rather than having to help on defense. That stopped the Hokies' transition offense.

Tech was down 29-17 at halftime and made a few forays into single-digit deficit territory in the second half.

"We were settling for too many outside shots [in the first half]," Drye said. "We looked good when we finally started ... to attack the basket and got to the foul line."

The Hokies upped their shooting percentage to 47.6 percent in the second half, and got to the foul line 16 times in the second half. But it was far too late.

"At the end of the season every game could be your last," Drye said. "You'd hate to go out like that. I feel like we dug ourselves a hole and couldn't get out of it."

VIRGINIA TECH (15-15)

Davis 4-9 0-0 10, Biggs 2-9 0-2 4, Harrison 2-8 2-2 6, Drye 3-14 2-2 8, Gordon 1-1 4-4 6, Redick 0-2 0-0 0, Wilson 0-1 5-6 5, Fenyn 2-5 0-0 4, Hadley 1-1 1-2 3, Logan 0-0 0-0 0, Grey 1-2 1-2 3. Totals 16-52 15-20 49.

BOSTON COLLEGE (16-14)

Thoman 1-3 0-0 2, Picco 2-5 0-0 6, Johnson 4-6 1-2 10, Murphy 7-12 4-5 18, Swords 2-4 4-6 8, Brown 1-7 2-2 5, Reynolds 1-4 0-0 3, Shields 1-4 0-0 3, Gill 2-7 2-4 7. Totals 21-52 13-19 62.

Halftime -- Boston College 29-17. 3-Point Goals -- Virginia Tech 2-11 (Davis 2-5, Harrison 0-1, Redick 0-1, Grey 0-1, Biggs 0-3), Boston College 7-18 (Picco 2-5, Brown 1-1, Gill 1-1, Johnson 1-3, Reynolds 1-3, Shields 1-4, Thoman 0-1). Fouled Out -- None. Rebounds--Virginia Tech 32 (Drye 9), Boston College 37 (Murphy, Brown 8). Assists -- Virginia Tech 5 (Wilson 2), Boston College 13 (Thoman 7). Total Fouls -- Virginia Tech 16, Boston College 16.