The Hokies (5-1) committed just five turnovers and finished a four-game road swing with three wins.

Iowa had cut Virginia Tech’s lead to 63-59 with just under two minutes left, and the Hokies appeared poised to end a crucial late possession on either a shot clock violation or a turnover. But Hudson corralled the ball and drilled a 3 from the elbow, and Bell sealed the victory with a dunk following a fight for a loose ball with 17 seconds remaining.

It was just the third 3 in 13 tries this season for Hudson.

“If you look at his statistics, it’s not like he’s been drilling it from there,” Virginia Tech coach Seth Greenberg said. “He’s considerably increased his field goal percentage.”

Victor Davila and Jeff Allen each had 10 points for the Hokies, who are now 2-3 in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge — with both wins coming against Iowa.

Anthony Tucker tied a career best with 24 points for the Hawkeyes (2-5), who lost despite shooting 44 percent from 3-point range.

“My thing with this team has been improvement and to continue to grow and accept tough situations,” Iowa coach Todd Lickliter said. “We are going to have plenty of tough situations this season.”

Virginia Tech opened the second half with two baskets in the first minute, punctuated by Davila’s transition slam off of an Iowa turnover, to push their lead back to 38-28.

It looked as though the Hokies were set to blow past the inexperienced Hawkeyes, who once again started four underclassmen, but Iowa rallied to make a game of it.

Devan Bawinkel’s 3-pointer pulled the Hawkeyes back within 45-43 with just under 15 minutes left, and Cully Payne’s 3 made it 51-50 Virginia Tech with 8:19 to go. Jarryd Cole then beat his defender with a spin move in the paint and gave Iowa it’s first lead since midway through the first half, 54-53, with 6:28 left.

It didn’t last long, though, as Virginia Tech went on an 8-0 run and never looked back.

Davila hit a layup in the paint, and Delaney found Terrell Bell for yet another transition dunk to put the Hokies back on top, 59-54. Cole then traveled, and Bell’s long jumper made it 61-54 with just over four minutes left.

“They’re an athletic team. They defended well,” Tucker said. “We just need to do a better job of sustaining our intensity.”

Cole had 10 points and Payne scored eight for Iowa, which was outscored 38-18 in the paint, 16-2 in points off of turnovers and failed to score a single fast-break point.

“When it was existent, it was good. When it was not existent, it wasn’t very good,” Lickliter said of his team’s transition defense. “What a lesson to learn — but we need to learn it.”

The Hawkeyes started out impressively enough, using 3s from Tucker, Matt Gatens and Brennan Cougill to jump ahead 11-3. But Iowa’s first-half execution disappeared as quickly as it had arrived.

The Hokies slowly built a 32-22 lead with 2:02 in the first half, scoring the majority of their points in the paint and off of seven Iowa turnovers.

Tucker bailed the Hawkeyes out late in the half, burying back-to-back 3s to help them close to within 34-28.

Iowa was blown out in its only other game against a fellow major-conference school, as No. 2 Texas blasted the Hawkeyes 85-60 last week in Kansas City. Iowa also lost to Texas-San Antonio by 12 in their home opener, to Wichita State by 17 in Kansas City and to visiting Duquesne, 52-50, on Nov. 17.

Virginia Tech struggled in last weekend’s Philly Hoop Group Classic, losing to Temple 61-50 and needing overtime to dispose of Delaware.

The Hokies head back to Blacksburg on a high note, though. They’ll play five of their next six at home, starting with Sunday’s date with Georgia.

“We went down one, we could have folded. We kind of stayed in there and had enough guys make plays,” Greenberg said.