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Pitino publicly spurns Sendek

As a follow-up to some of our comments from our most recent Carousel entry I’m not naming a coach and its not my business, but I’ll stick my two cents in, ok? For me, last time around – Billy Gillispie is a terrific coach – I would have immediately hired either John Pelphrey or Travis [...]

Saturday’s Open Entry

Please feel free to share comments and information in this thread today. A few couple items of interest: Is Jeff Capel heading back to the Commonwealth state to coach UVA? This scuttlebutt continues. If you haven’t seen the video of Billy Gillispie being chased then you should check it out by clicking here and/or here. If [...]

ACC Implosion Now Almost Complete

Only Ty Lawson’s toe (why won’t the announcers ever mention it?) and Tyler Hansbrough’s will stand in the way of complete conference humilation, after Villanova’s 77-54 curb stomping of Duke tonight. This game was not as close as the final score indicated. It was like the Magic Johnson-era Lakers against a 12-and-under team from the [...]

2009 ACC Strength of Schedule

It’s time once again to look and see how unbalanced conference schedules affected the ACC season. This is our fourth year with a 16-game conference schedule in a 12-team conference. Our previous looks are listed below, but some of the tables no longer look quite as nice as they did when they were first done. [...]

Sunday Round of 32 Open Thread

BJD95 must be tied up today, so I’ll start one. Strange schedule for today….One game at 12, 4 games at around 2:30 and then three games around 5:00. I deleted a number of comments yesterday and thought about deleting several more. It just seems like we ought to be able to discuss basketball without deliberating [...]

NCAAT Saturday Round of 32 Open Thread (Geaux Tigers!)

Great games late last night – in terms of excitement. Not so great for the ACC, as Wake and BC got demolished and Florida State (much like Clemson) played half asleep for most of the game, and paid the price. 3-4 in the First Round for the “mighty” ACC – with 2 of the 3 [...]

NCAAT Friday Open Thread (Major update @ 11:50am)

Note: The comments in this entry are a consolidation of both BJD and Jeff. Thursday Comments * Not very many upsets so far, but those of us who stayed up late last night were rewarded by compelling endings in the VCU/UCLA and Illinois/Western Kentucky games. Clemson also fought back to make things close after 35 [...]

No post season of any kind for Wolfpack

Despite all the frustration that many State fans are currently expressing — it is weird to think that had the Wolfpack just hit a couple of missed free throws in the last minute of games against Marquette, Florida and Virginia Tech that we would have been guaranteed an NIT bid and would have entered the [...]

NCAA Tourney Thread

Here are your matchups. Unlike in year’s past, I don’t think the committee gave Duke and UNC laughably easy draws to the Final Four. The weakest bracket is the West, where UConn and Memphis should dominate. I don’t like Arizona as an at-large pick, but am really happy that Penn State didn’t make it (pitiful [...]

FSU tried to make history; Congrats Duke – Sunday open entry

Florida State has a legitimate chance to win today if the Seminoles can get a fairly officiated game. The Seminoles are long and athletic and are the type of team that can give Duke fits – especially with Toney Douglas’ advantage in the back court. Of course, we all know how big of an “IF” [...]

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Pitino publicly spurns Sendek

Saturday’s Open Entry

ACC Implosion Now Almost Complete

2009 ACC Strength of Schedule

Sunday Round of 32 Open Thread

NCAAT Saturday Round of 32 Open Thread (Geaux Tigers!)

NCAAT Friday Open Thread (Major update @ 11:50am)

No post season of any kind for Wolfpack

NCAA Tourney Thread

FSU tried to make history; Congrats Duke – Sunday open entry

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