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Basketball Bytes – Hansbrough fouls even in celebration (11:15 updated w/ column on Roy)
So much going on out there that we couldn’t ignore it all and thought you would appreciate a comprehensive entry following-up on a lot of topics. This couldn’t be more classic. The picture to the left was taken by the N&O/Charlotte Observer’s Robert Willett after Monday night’s NCAA Championship game and served as the front page for [...]
Continue reading...Coping With Another Hole Title (Updated 9am Tuesday)
Monday, April 6, 2009
“Our fans are comparing ourselves to Duke and North Carolina. Every program in the country doesn’t do well when you’re compared with those two on a day-to-day basis. I understand that our fans want to be able to compete with them; we all do. But you can be real good on a daily basis and [...]
Continue reading...Saturday’s Open Entry
Saturday, March 28, 2009
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 you happen to have [...]
Continue reading...ACC Implosion Now Almost Complete
Thursday, March 26, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday Round of 32 Open Thread
Sunday, March 22, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...NCAAT Saturday Round of 32 Open Thread (Geaux Tigers!)
Saturday, March 21, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...NCAAT Friday Open Thread (Major update @ 11:50am)
Friday, March 20, 2009
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 minutes [...]
Continue reading...(Updated) NCAA Day One Open Thread; Barnes vs Tubby in NC; Tubby emerges as UVA’s #1
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Evening Sessions Maryland’s win over California today was really big for the conference. Gary Williams has now won his first round game in nine consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances. Wow! (And you were told how you should be happy with four first round NCAA Tournament wins in a decade.) How tough is playing basketball [...]
Continue reading...NCAA Tournament Teams That Get All The Calls – Carolina, Connecticut and Chattanooga?
Thursday, March 19, 2009
During our ACC Tournament viewing party, the subject came up of how much more North Carolina goes to the free throw line than their opponents. One of the excuses we had always heard was that their talent level discrepancy leads to the free throw discrepancy (and absolutely nothing to do with biased officiating…) This led us to wonder about a team like Memphis that utterly dominates Conference USA and is head and shoulders above the rest of the league, what sort of free throw advantage do they have?
Continue reading...Selection Sunday Bubble Thoughts
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln As I pondered the post-selection thoughts by the ESPN talking heads, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the advice given by our 16th president. Ole Digger seems to have taken this advice to heart, while [...]
Continue reading...NCAA Tourney Thread
Sunday, March 15, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Pre-ACCT Bubble Watch
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
This has to be one of the most boring bubble watches that I have ever put together because the groups seem so obvious: UNC WF, Duke, FSU, and Clemson are absolute locks for the NCAAT. I haven’t done a great deal of analysis on tournament seeding, but my gut says that UNC is [...]
Continue reading...Bubble Review
Friday, March 6, 2009
I always enjoy looking at the ACC just before the ACCT starts and discuss who needs to do what to get an at-large bid to the NCAAT. As a precursor to that discussion, this looks like a good time to summarize what we have learned over the past several years about moving off [...]
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
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