Adam Mertz at Madison.com caught up with former University of Wisconsin Athletic Director Pat Richter for his thoughts on the upcoming ACC/B10 Challenge matchup between Wisconsin/UNC. I’ll let you decide where Richter stands on the game. (emphasis is mine in bold) UW men’s basketball: For Richter, timing of Tar Heels matchup reeks of Roy Former […]
ACC Teams
Dagger: Maryland at risk to lose entire recruiting class…will find way to blame Debbie Yow?
When the SFN team was researching potential NC State Basketball coaching candidates, the primary criticism that we gathered related to Mark Turgeon was that of recruiting. A quick look at his history of his recruiting indicated that he had never/rarely been able to land elite recruits. Well…that trend appears to potentially be continuing. Link It’s […]
Mark Turgeon joins ACC as Maryland Head Coach
Mark Turgeon convened a meeting of the Texas A&M basketball family at 7:45pm Central / 8:45pm Eastern. Fifteen minutes later the news broke that Turgeon had accepted the vacant Maryland men’s basketball job. SFN welcomed Coach Turgeon accordingly. (Link) Yes, BJD95 is on suicide watch.
ACC Coaching Turnover
We’ve been talking for a while about the correlation between the recent deterioration of the quality of Atlantic Coast Conference Basketball and the weak set of coaches in the league. With Gary Williams’ surprise retirement, the ACC lost one of the best coaches the conference will ever see; but, on the other hand, we lose […]
Where Do ACC Basketball Coaches Come From?
Now that the recent NC State coaching search has concluded and more discussion of the decline of coaching in the Atlantic Coast Conference has continued, I wondered to myself — where did ACC basketball coaches come from? (Other than being delivered by the stork). There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth that State didn’t […]
Who’s Afraid of the Big (Bad) East
After all of the hype of the Big East and all of the talk about the record 11 teams awarded an NCAA bid, only two of the “nation’s best conference” were able to crawl into the sweet sixteen. Here is a break down of the sweet sixteen by conference: Everyone was talking about the league […]
BJD’s 2010-11 All-ACC Basketball Picks
Despite my (largely successful) startegy of avoiding Wolfpack games, I watched some other ACC games. Enough to bore you all with my personal picks for conference honors. Not bored enough? Here are last year’s selctions. Since my viewing hours declined, I “sanity checked” my gut feelings more than usual. I even accepted a handful of […]
Van Pelt & Williams rip Terps fans
Some great stuff in this article out of Washington — The Terps and their crowd Both ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt AND Head Coach Gary Williams getting into the act. Just imagine if NC State had a Hall of Fame Coach who won a National & ACC Title within the last 10 years who was fighting […]
Can’t Miss ACC Action Tonight – The Piano Juggler
Put this entry in the “misery loves company” category. It has obvioiusly been a tough season in Raleigh, but we wanted to shift the focus to our friends from Wake Forest who are having an even more miserable season in the 1st year of the Jeff Bzdelik experiment. I wanted to make sure that ACC […]
Overview of ACC Basketball
The ACC has limped through the first half of the conference schedule. So let’s see if it looks as bad as it feels: We have looked at the NCAAT bubble many times over the last several years. Based on those observations, I’ve developed the following criteria for ranking the teams: IN = RPI <40 and […]
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