I first wrote about the Dance Card during the last year of the Herbble. As most people know, The Dance Card is the work of two college professors and self-proclaimed basketball junkies. They have attempted to reduce the Selection Committee process for awarding at-large bids to a mathematical formula (trying to hit the sweet point […]
A month from tomorrow, the ACC Tournament will tip off in Brooklyn. I’m curious how good/bad the attendance will be. But with 15 teams, it shouldn’t be hard to fill the 17,700 seat Barclay Center. I suspect that reasoning along with the desire to spread the ACC’s influence all the way up the East Coast […]
To be honest, not every team has played nine games, but most (including State) have and that’s close enough for me. This entry will be a little longer than normal while we discuss the things around the ACC that I find interesting and I’ll spend a little more time dissecting State’s schedule and performance than […]
(Photo from News & Observer’s web site) Last night might not turn the season around, but boy does it feel good for now. I was concerned that the team might give up after the WF debacle. But they clearly showed plenty of fight in coming back from a big deficit and then holding Duke off […]
(Mandatory Credit: Rob Kinnan-USA TODAY Sports) I think I’ll take a minute to back up and discuss the classifications of “IN”, “BUBBLE”, and “OUT” that I give to each team in the ACC on a weekly basis. Obviously there are no NCAAT bids extended in January or February. So my classification of “IN” is supposed […]
The photo came from N&O last week with no specific photographer being credited. Obviously I didn’t look for a photo from Sunday’s game. After the soul-sapping game on Sunday, I’m not in the mood to dream up a snappy introduction to the weekly conference overview. So let’s jump in straight to the good stuff […]
Normally I kick back on New Year’s Day, watch football, and contemplate the meaning of life; which for the next several months is better known as the RPI Ranking. However, an ugly stomach bug killed any desire for blogging, and hence my late entry to start the basketball season. In round numbers, the OOC games […]
The long-awaited ACC Network will launch by August 2019, with the Atlantic Coast Conference and ESPN agreeing to a 20-year deal and rights extension through the 2035-36 academic year… The ACC’s new grant of rights also automatically extends Notre Dame’s contract with the conference as a member in all sports but football through 2035-36, a […]
I wish that I caught the name of the Selection Committee chairmen that went on CBS to discuss the decision-making process and answer the standard group of critics. I thought he did a great job at shutting up the critics on CBS. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to his explanations. The one thing that I got […]
Usually at the end of basketball season, I like to document the variations in strength of schedule among the ACC teams in two parts: Out of Conference and the variation in conference schedules caused by having a ginarmous league. With the dropping interest in discussing anything related to the 2015/2016 basketball season, I thought that […]
