Thanks to a sports injury I was laid up in bed with nothing to do for the better part of a week. During that time I had some time to watch basketball, both good and bad, and reflect on the state of the Wolfpack basketball program. Since the Pack’s 2014 Epic Fail in the round […]
College Basketball
Big Four S16 streak snapped
The Big Four fails to send team to Sweet 16 for first time since Black Sunday happened in 1979! Wow. Good news is that Virginia advanced to keep the ACC’s streak of 35 straight years of having a S16 team. Link Tobacco Road hasn’t seen a springtime drought like this in more than three decades. […]
Byting college BBall’s decline + Sunday’s Tourney preview & open thread
We can’t talk about EVERYTHING of interest to you on the blog, so please don’t overlook our growing message forums linked here. Lots of great NCAA Tournament and college basketball conversation available there. If you ever wondered about the deterioration of college basketball then trying to watch some of yesterday’s games should jolt you into […]
Saturday’s NCAA Bracket and television schedule
I thought I would open a quick entry to set the stage for today’s NCAA Tournament but we’ve got plenty of updated “Wolfpack Discussion” and “NCAA Tournament Talk” availalble by clicking here, including some news on Buzz Williams’ move from Marquette to the ACC (link). You can click here for BLS’ set up for today, […]
Shaka Smart #1 candidate at Wake Forest?
In case you missed it – Wake Forest and Jeff Bzdelik parted ways yesterday and the Demon Deacons have now joined Boston College and Virginia Tech as the Atlantic Coast Conference institutions searching for a new head basketball coach. (If you want to follow various coaching carousel discussions as well as a variety of other […]
And The Bubble Bursts…(major 3/18 update)
One of the entries that I’ve enjoyed most over the years is dissecting the talking heads and their inane “analyses” of teams that were wronged by the Selection Committee. But even Dickie V couldn’t find a mid-major to champion this year. Everyone was so upset over Louisville and Kentucky’s seeds that they apparently had no […]
Bubble Talk
JUST IN: #Selections Committee is down to 8 teams! They’re evaluating who’s the last 4 in and who’s the last 4 out. #soclose — NCAA March Madness (@marchmadness) March 16, 2014 Click here for CBS’s current projected NCAA Tournament bracket. Click here for ESPN’s current projected NCAA Tournament bracket. Click here for USA Today’s most […]
Want NCAA Tourney bids? Play in a thin league #ACCHate
I’ve been working hard today to try understand the current lay of the land regarding NC State’s potential to earn an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. A very important topic to discuss is the impact of the DEPTH and the strength of your conference on your performance. When I did the work to carve […]
A Closer Look at Unbalanced Schedules
Ever since the ACC dropped the round-robin regular season schedule, the actual strength of each team’s conference schedule varies based on which teams are played twice. One month into the regular season, we took a quick look at what was happening based on calculations posted at cbssports.com. But last Monday, CBS took the conference SOS […]
Last Look at the Bubble
Well we’ve reached the end of the regular season and this will be our last bubble/conference update of the year. Doing these weekly updates has skewed my normal outlook on the season. Other than State wins, I found myself pulling for whatever outcome would lead to an interesting conversation. Obviously, I shouldn’t have wasted the […]
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