Tag Archive | "ACC Basketball"
2009-10 ACC Hoops – A Jumbled Freaking Mess
Over the past couple of weeks, things finally settled down enough for me to watch more ACC basketball. I leave my esteemed comrade VaWolf to give you the best ACC analysis by the numbers anywhere, but here’s how I see things. First, every single ACC team is fatally flawed. Most in multiple areas. [...]
Continue reading...J.P. Giglio and Robbi Pickeral – Summer Hoops Preview Series (7/23 Update)
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Giglio won’t get down to NC State until tomorrow, but you should start reading his (with assists by UNC acolyte Robbi Pickeral) excellent “slow season” series today. First up, the overall preview: The 2009-10 ACC basketball season promises to be different. For the first time in the expansion era, there is not one, overwhelming favorite to [...]
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...2009 ACC Strength of Schedule
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...The Great Traveling Conversation, Part One
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
I’ve been dying to get around to putting this on the blog for over a month now…and, I promise you that we will be focusing more and more and more on this in the future. This basketball season has finally seen attention being given to one of my biggest pet peeves in all of college [...]
Continue reading...The Point Guard Drought, Contextualized
Friday, January 30, 2009
NC State’s last all-ACC point guard, as you all know, was Chris Corchiani (1990-91). Here is what we believe to be a comprehensive list of other programs’ PG representatives on 1st, 2nd, or 3rd team all-conference, in the post-Fire era: Boston College (1) – Tyrese Rice* Clemson (2) – Terrell McIntyre, Chris Whitney Virginia Tech (1) – [...]
Continue reading...OTR: Predict Pack’s ACC Record (with bonus imbalanced schedule stats)
Friday, January 9, 2009
It’s that time of year again! Time for you to go ‘On the Record’ with your Wolfpack perspectives and knowledge. State opens the season tomorrow with an extremely difficult task on the road at Clemson (we’ve got your pre-game discussion) And, the schedule doesn’t necessarily get THAT much easier. You can view the imbalanced nature of [...]
Continue reading...Has realignment worked?
Friday, December 12, 2008
Long article and a good read. When the ACC begins negotiations next year on a new TV contract, the league will be in year six of its move to a 12-team, two-division superconference. In many ways, the strength of that next deal will serve as a referendum on the ACC’s expansion, which added Miami, Virginia Tech and [...]
Continue reading...League will NOT expand schedules…more
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Despite a lot of talk recently, the leaders of the Atlantic Coast Conference decided yesterday not to consider a proposal to expand the number of conference games played in both football and basketball. The Charlotte Observer provides an update of league meetings in this article. ACC schedules will not expand to nine conference games [...]
Continue reading...More Thoughts On An 18-game ACC Schedule
Friday, May 9, 2008
It seems pretty clear that the ACC will go to an 18 game basketball schedule if (and only if) the networks agree to pay handsomely in the next TV contract. Increasing the regular season will obviously push more conference games into December and it seems to me that this change would be [...]
Continue reading...ACC Eyes Expanding BBall Schedule; Guess who is interviewed?
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
The ACC’s total of 19 NCAA tournament wins from 2006 to ‘08 is an all-time low for a three-year period since 1979-81, which was before the tournament expanded to 64 teams. The Big East, Pac-10 and Big Ten all play 18 conference games and got higher percentages of their members into the NCAA tournament in [...]
Continue reading...ACC Strength of Schedule
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
If you’re new around here, this will be the third year that we’ve examined the ACC regular season schedules to see who got the easier/harder regular-season schedules. In the aftermath of ACC expansion and unbalanced schedules, it’s always been obvious that the schedules will vary in difficulty and I was curious to see [...]
Continue reading...Phantom Call Gives Duke Final Two Points
Saturday, March 1, 2008
As both replays in this entry indicate, there was the slightest bit of contact during the first part of Nelson’s drive that was obviously initiated by Nelson’s hook. No whistle blew at the time of the contact. The whistle didn’t blow (and a foul wasn’t called) until a part of the play where [...]
Continue reading...Clemson Sets NCAA Record for Futility, Officiating Takes the Spotlight (Updated 3:15 pm)
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Preface – Poor Oliver Purnell. Now he knows how Rick Barnes felt. And, we just happen to have a great little reminder for him of how Frank Haith felt last year that you can see by clicking here. We are updating what was once the ‘open entry’ for Sunday with more fallout from Sunday’s Clemson-Carolina basketball [...]
Continue reading...Making Sense of the ACC
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
ESPN.com’s expanded ACC standings. I probably should have added a question mark to the title, because it’s a difficult task. One thing is abundantly clear – Duke and UNC are significantly better than everyone else. I expect them both to be no worse than #2 seeds in the NCAAT. Damn it. After that, it’s less clear. My [...]
Continue reading...OTR: ACC Record & NCAAT Chances [Updated (10:10am) w/ SOS Links]
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Note: If you are somewhat new to SFN and have recently become a reader because of our feature in the NC State Alumni Magazine then please don’t hesitate to click here for somewhat of an opening message. If you were to click on the “Archives” tab just above the headline to this entry then you would [...]
Continue reading...Open Thread Friday
Friday, January 4, 2008
Thought that we would open a thread for the day for your enjoyment. We’ve had a ton of activity and great entries over the last week…so, we implore you to surf the site and take a look at some of the great entries and fantastic conversations in some of the entries that exist). Additionally, we [...]
Continue reading...Hess Holds Back on Roy
Friday, December 28, 2007
I fear the day that I am going to have to search our archives for the following quote from today’s Charlotte Observer in regards to the UNC-Nevada game last night. But, I just have a feeling and didn’t want to ignore this opportunity. Referees aren’t enforcing the NCAA’s “bench decorum” mandate designed to punish angry [...]
Continue reading...The Bloodletting Begins (Again)
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
It is ACC-Big 10 Challenge week, and that means it is time for another beat down of big boys from the midwest. The ACC has won each of the previous eight challenges and leads the overall series by a whopping 48-27. Make that 49-27 after Wake Forest won on the road at Iowa last night. * This [...]
Continue reading...Green, Jr: NC State 1974 = The Best
Monday, February 12, 2007
SFN highlighted the public voting on the topic of the best ACC National Basketball Champions in this entry earlier this morning. But, we thought that it was important to blog the piece from today’s newspaper that prompted the poll. Anytime that a member of the Green family ranks NC State ahead of Carolina in anything you [...]
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