A Virginia Tech victory over seventh-ranked Duke was only the beginning of an unpleasant experience Thursday for the family of Blue Devils' star J.J. Redick from Roanoke.

Redick's father, Ken, said he was among a group of Duke fans who were harassed after the game and that he was not satisfied with the reaction when he raised the issue with Tech athletic director Jim Weaver.

"I stopped him and said, 'There's no security behind the bench,'" Ken Redick said, "and he said, 'just like you provided coach [Seth Greenberg] at Duke.' I thought it was a telling statement. It was like, 'To heck with you guys.'"

The reference was to a Jan. 30 game in Durham, N.C., where the Hokies' coach, Greenberg, was ejected with 4:39 remaining in a game the Hokies would lose 100-65. Greenberg said he was nearly poked in the eye by students waving their hands at him.

After the horn sounded Thursday night and fans began rushing the floor after a 67-65 Hokies' victory, eventually the celebration spilled over into the area near the Duke bench.

By that time, the Blue Devils' team had left the floor, but family members and Duke fans remained in their section behind the Duke bench.

"This crowd thought it would be a blast if they kept us land-locked there," Ken Redick said. "They were cursing us and taunting us. About 10 minutes went by and they started throwing things. One person picked up a chair and acted like he was going to hurl it into the crowd."

Weaver was dealing with an unrelated matter and did not cross paths with Redick until sometime later.

"Talk to him [Redick] because he has all the answers," Weaver said when contacted earlier Friday afternoon.

Weaver said he had spoken earlier with Duke athletic director Joe Alleva. Alleva was not available for comment, but Weaver indicated that he did not expect further discussion.

He also said he had reviewed the postgame scene with assistant athletic director Sharon McCloskey.

McCloskey said she went directly to the Duke bench area after the game, fearing that students might run off with bench chairs, as happened after a victory over Virginia two seasons ago.

McCloskey said she did not see a chair being brandished at the Duke fans.

"That's why I was there, to look after the chairs," she said. "The students started chanting something. They may have been saying 'just like football.' I know there was a Duke fan in the front row who kept yelling, 'What have you ever won?'

"I can't say there wasn't any cursing. I just didn't hear it. As the crowd started getting closer and closer, I told one of the ushers, 'Go get an officer.' Of course, [the fans] weren't listening to me. Once the policeman got there, they were like, 'OK, see ya.'"

Ken Redick's major complaint was what he perceived to be dismissiveness on Weaver's part. When they had a second exchange and Weaver asked who he was, Redick responded, "a concerned parent."

"This Duke fan, if he wasn't literally in my face, he was the next thing to it," Weaver said. "There were some Hokies back in the hallway and I said, 'Boy, this person seems like a tough, or a sore, loser.' And, one of the Hokies said to me, 'Well, that's Mr. Redick.'"

Duke sports information director Jon Jackson was at the game, but was not a witness to the postgame scene. However, he said he had spoken to other fans in the Duke section who had verified Ken Redick's story. Jackson said that Duke had brought the incident to the attention of the ACC office.

Duke officials and Redick agree that Tech did a good job of getting the Duke team off the floor. However, when one police officer accompanied Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski off the floor and another officer joined the players, there was nobody left in the bench area.

"I apologized to Joe Alleva if any of our students used any profanity," Weaver said, "and I told him, 'We took the two police officers from behind the bench, as well as the officer who escorts the coach. In the future, maybe we need to keep the police officer there.

"But, I've got to tell you, this is the first time in eight years that we've had any kind of complaint from the visiting team, so that's something we never would have anticipated."