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Starting Sunday afternoon, Mike Jones’ Old Dominion basketball team — 0-5 away from home — hopes to get off the schneid with back-to-back-to-back games at William and Mary, Richmond and George Mason. Followed by a home date against James Madison. It’s an opportunity for the Monarchs to pick up a few in-state bragging points before Sun Belt play begins.

Saturday night live: Virginia is a better team than Virginia Tech and is playing at home. But for a series in which Tech has won 23 of the last 25, odds favoring the Cavaliers by 9 ½ or more points seem a bit generous.

Future watch: Virginia is striving to reach the ACC championship game while these appendages to the regular season still exist. With a 12-team — soon to be 16 — national playof

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