I know VT is presently injury-depleted, but too bad. This team (I think) might be the best VT team ever, and certainly the best team CBW has had. So in that light, what ending point makes the season a success?

Just making the tourney field with a half-decent seed is not enough. VT has to do something they have not yet done (in modern times).

I say Sweet 16, AND at least semifinals of the ACC tourney. Or, if the Sweet 16 is a fail, WINNING the ACC tourney would also make it a season for the ages.