Feb
24
2021
is This article is by college football writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. A few weeks ago, I made the point that the strength of ACC basketball in 2021 would be judged not by the top two teams, but by teams 3 through 6. How has that tension point …
Jan
24
2021
Give this article’s author and our esteemed friend and college football writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire a follow How good is 2021 ACC basketball? We don’t know the precise answer, but we do know that Duke and North Carolina aren’t carrying the freight for the conference. Typically, when ACC basketball is at its best (or close to it), …
Apr
02
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing. Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. ACC QUESTION of WEEK : Who is the best ACC basketball coach of the past decade? The Duke Blue Devils won two national championships in the past decade. I know that many fans will look at that …
Mar
05
2020
Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. If you are at least 40 years old, you very probably remember the 1993 Florida State-Notre Dame football game, one of several “Game of the Century” regular-season mega-events in college football’s 150-year history. The first “Game of the Century” many historians point …
Feb
23
2020
Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. ACC QUESTION of WEEK : Where does Leonard Hamilton rank among all-time ACC coaches? Florida State basketball fans know this, but others in the ACC and around the United States might not: Leonard Hamilton has the fifth-most wins — 357 — of …
Nov
01
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. John Chaney, the legendary former basketball coach of the Temple Owls — quite possibly the best coach in the history of college basketball who never made the Final Four — used to have his players practice before six in the morning. It was …
Aug
10
2019
Times don’t always change for the better. Fifty-three years ago, when Jim Crow still plagued the old South, the city of Fayetteville, N.C., demonstrated it was ahead of the times down the slow, painful march to the new South. The segregated city gave a parade and key to the city to Jimmy Raye, an African-American. …
Jun
22
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. ACC QUESTION of the WEEK : Is Virginia’s 2019 basketball title like Clemson’s 2016 football title? This is a very interesting question to wrestle with, for so many reasons. It is a cross-sport comparison. It involves two programs which have substantially changed their …
Mar
19
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. @hokiesmash_ASD, one of the co-founders of All Sports Discussion, hopes his Virginia Tech Hokies will make the Washington, D.C. East Regional a week and a half from now, on March 29. Whether the Hokies actually make D.C. will depend on them, but for …
Mar
19
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. The ACC Tournament ended on Saturday, March 16. This is an empirical fact. We saw it with our own eyes: Duke defeated Florida State in the ACC final. There was a celebration. There was a trophy ceremony. Players were happy. No games were …
Mar
19
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. “Duke always gets the calls.” It is a tale as old as the Scriptures… even if it’s wrong. Some ideas are so deeply baked into the national imagination that it is impossible to extract them from the minds of millions of Americans. One …
Feb
18
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. ACC QUESTION of the WEEK : Is Duke-North Carolina really college basketball’s best rivalry? Some questions seem simple but demand a more complex answer. Some questions seem complicated but don’t require a complex answer. Some questions are complicated and demand an accordingly complicated response. …
Feb
11
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. One day you’re the insect, the next day you’re the windshield. Such is life itself, and ACC basketball is part of the grand theater of this always-fascinating human existence. Just ask the Virginia Cavaliers, who have lived on both sides of life’s divide …
Feb
10
2018
Last month the Syracuse Orange took their first ACC road trip of the season to Wake Forest. The Demon Deacons weren’t gracious hosts, as Syracuse left Winston-Salem, N.C. with a 73-67 loss. This Sunday, the Orange looks to return the favor as the Deacons visit the Carrier Dome for a 1p.m. contest. Syracuse (16-8, 5-6 …
Dec
01
2016
The Kansas Jayhawks are rolling right now. After losing an instant classic 103-99 to Indiana in OT in the first game of the season, the Jayhawks beat Duke in Madison Square Garden to kick off a six-game winning streak. In their most recent game against Long Beach State, the Jayhawks destroyed the 49ers 91-61. Sophomore …
Jun
28
2016
Alliance Will Include A-10 and CAA (orignally posted here) Teleconference Transcript (June 28, 2016) GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast Conference and BIG EAST Conference, announced today the formation of a men’s basketball officiating alliance, which also includes the Atlantic 10 and Colonial Athletic Association, who have collaborated with the ACC in previous years. …