It is hard for me to stay on top of the performances of all of the ACC Basketball teams so early in the season. So, I like to have a little help setting the table on early season developments to get prepared for conference play. Rush The Court has five ACC articles for you today […]
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Wednesday Woolgathering
NC STATE BASKETBALL Joe Giglio (N&O) Late rally not enough, N.C. State falls to Michigan 79-72 On Tuesday, the Wolfpack cut Michigan’s double-digit lead down to five points twice in the final 90 seconds. “We’re a better basketball team today than we were one week ago,†Gottfried said. “I think they are a legitimate top-3, […]
ACC adds Louisville
Per Pat Forde at Yahoo!, Mike & Mike on ESPN and WRAL, et al, the ACC has approved the addition of Louisville for 2014. Others lobbied, but the consensus seems to be that the ACC could always add UConn and Cincinnati later. There are now more former Big East members (6) than charter members (5) […]
ACC files lawsuit against Maryland
This is going to be fun! Link The ACC filed a lawsuit against Maryland in North Carolina state court after the Terrapins announced last week their intentions to join the Big Ten conference. The case was filed in the Greensboro courthouse Monday, a state court clerk confirmed to The Chronicle. The lawsuit, which the clerk […]
The day after Maryland – how should the ACC respond?
There are some great articles and discussion related to the big changes in the ACC that we wanted to elevate from our message forums to the front page of the blog this morning. Those of us who are ‘ACC purists’ are still bewildered by the decision and the speed at which our northernmost founding member […]
Sunday Expansion Thoughts
I’ve long-believed expansion/re-alignment wouldn’t end until there were four 14- or 16-team superconferences controlling the football universe, i.e., TV/BCS revenue. The proliferation of college football on TV over the past 20 years has shifted the landscape such that traditional cultural and geographical alliances simply don’t matter, and conference names have little to do with affiliated […]
ESPN: 2012 looking a lot like the late 1980s
Our message forums found this article on ESPN’s today discussing how some of the relevant college basketball programs in the year 2012 were also quite prominent in the late 1980s – like NC State, Indiana, Michigan, Louisville, Arizona, Syracuse, Duke Kansas, and UNLV. The piece says the following about the Wolfpack: Why they loved the […]
Sordid history of ACC letting UNC off the hook on unsportsmanlike behavior — UPDATED with news of suspension
So, the ACC is reviewing the controversial play discussed here and embedded below? Where have we heard that before? I hope you will forgive us at SFN if our experiences on this topic leaves us more than just a little cynical. Please wake us if the real story here ever develops by conference brass in […]
Thursday Compendium
NC STATE FOOTBALL CFN.com CFN’s Take: NC State vs. Florida State Why NC State Might Win: The Florida State D is outstanding, but the last two weekends have shown that it’s not infallible. The Seminoles showed creases in wins over Clemson and South Florida that the Pack will attempt to exploit. The unit is coming […]
ACC changes up football & basketball schedules
It looks like the Atlantic Coast Conference has ultimately ‘saved’ the tradition of NC State and UNC-CHeats playing an annual home-and-home basketball series. Teams will play two “primary partners” in an 18-game schedule. The two partners will play home & away annually; and the other 14 games are home & away games with 2 rotating […]
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