Virginia Tech men's basketball is in another transition period. The same could be argued for last season, but that was in the sense of an attempt to be more transformative. Last offseason, the Hokies landed Neoklis Avdalas (Greece), Jailen Bedford (UNLV) and Amani Hansberry (West Virginia), Izaiah Pasha (Delaware) and Antonio Dorn (Germany). Ten of the program's 14 players were newcomers. The only returnees from the Hokies' 2024-25 iteration were senior forward Tobi Lawal, redshirt junior guard Jaden Schutt, sophomore guard Ben Hammond and sophomore guard Tyler Johnson. For lack of a better word, it was a very mercenary-kind of team — one whose aim it was to construct an immediate win-now roster. And while they won — the roster improved by six wins from 2024-25 and finished with a 19-13 (8-10 ACC) — it wasn't enough to grant the team its first berth in the NCAA Tournament.…