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Matt Zemek

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Name: Matt Zemek
Date registered: August 27, 2018
URL: https://www.patreon.com/Zemek

Latest posts

  1. Know who should coach Georgia Tech in 2023? The current coach — October 10, 2022
  2. 2022 is reminding us why the ACC abolished divisions, and why other conferences should follow suit — October 4, 2022
  3. The moment of truth arrives for NC State and Dave Doeren — September 29, 2022
  4. No pressure, Dave Doeren — this is merely the most important NC State season ever — September 1, 2022
  5. ACC says goodbye to an imbalanced football era — July 2, 2022

Most commented posts

  1. 1995 Nebraska, 2001 Miami, 2013 FSU, 2018 Clemson – Who wins in a playoff? | answered by @MattZemek — 2 comments
  2. Should the ACC drop or modify the permanent cross-division opponent? | answered by @mattzemek — 2 comments
  3. Duke should worry about one thing — and it’s not Zion Williamson — 1 comment
  4. Of Duke, Syracuse or Boston College, which team appears to be the most legitimately good | answered by @MattZemek — 1 comment
  5. Is West Virginia-North Carolina State the best under-the-radar game of Week 3 | answered by @MattZemek — 1 comment

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Mar
22
2019

Orange cloud — Syracuse can’t get out of its own way

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  Death. Taxes. Syracuse living under a cloud in March. Whether it’s the big, bad NCAA, or a failed drug test, or a dubious inclusion into the NCAA Tournament, Syracuse and controversy have been intimately linked in March throughout this decade. This is not …

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Mar
21
2019

A beautiful and ugly loss for Louisville

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  Other than the inability to bother the Minnesota Golden Gophers, the Louisville Cardinals were just fine in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday in Des Moines. Other than the inability to force turnovers or rebound or execute various defenses, the …

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Mar
19
2019

The mysterious magic of the Washington, D.C. regional

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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 …

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Mar
19
2019

The ACC Tournament might not be over just yet

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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 …

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Mar
19
2019

2019 Duke meets a fate opposite 2010 Duke — but could end in the same place

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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 …

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Mar
17
2019

Who should be the NCAA Tournament’s No. 1 overall seed — Duke, Virginia, or another team? | @MattZemek answers

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  ACC QUESTION of the WEEK : Who should be the NCAA Tournament’s No. 1 overall seed — Duke, Virginia, or another team? I will keep this very short and simple, since we will be reviewing brackets on Sunday night and will have much more …

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Mar
16
2019

North Carolina seeks one thing on Selection Sunday — it’s not what you think

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  If the North Carolina Tar Heels had made one shot at the very end of Friday night’s thrilling ACC Tournament semifinal against the Duke Blue Devils, they would be a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, no questions asked. They missed that …

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Mar
15
2019

Virginia loss is easy to brush off — if the next loss doesn’t occur until April

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  Here we go. The Virginia Cavaliers ran into a team with length, power and athleticism. The Hoos didn’t have answers against Florida State on Friday night in the first of two ACC Tournament semifinals. Plenty of people will look at how Florida State …

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Mar
15
2019

The one team Virginia doesn’t want to see in late March

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  In these days before Selection Sunday, you will hear talk about seeds and regions, and to be sure, they do contain a certain amount of value. However, the ultimately important detail about the NCAA Tournament — the one which transcends the seeds and …

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Mar
15
2019

One thing everyone can agree on regarding North Carolina State

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  If you recall the 2014 NCAA Tournament, you will remember that North Carolina State was the last at-large team in the field. The first team left out of that tournament was SMU. The Mustangs were the team — there is usually one every …

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Mar
13
2019

Clemson offers a reminder about full-season college basketball

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  We have written several stories about Clemson Tigers men’s basketball in recent weeks at All Sports Discussion. We wrote about the need to take advantage of opportunities when they arise. We wrote about the need for Clemson to beat North Carolina to improve …

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Mar
12
2019

Wake Forest gets a chance to become “unstuck”

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  Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  Has the decision already been made to fire Danny Manning as head coach of the Wake Forest men’s basketball program? Regardless of the answer, the Demon Deacons at least have the choice to chart a new course if they want to. It …

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Mar
09
2019

Is Brad Brownell underappreciated by Clemson fans? | @MattZemek answers

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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 Brad Brownell underappreciated by Clemson fans? When assessing whether a coach is underappreciated, the main question I ask myself is this: Are fans expecting too much of a coach, relative to the history of the program and …

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Mar
09
2019

Virginia and Tony Bennett sing a special song of six seasons

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  Frankie Valli had The Four Seasons. Tony Bennett – the Virginia men’s basketball coach, not the iconic singer – has The Six Seasons. Go back six seasons ago. Go back to November of 2013 and the start of the 2013-2014 college basketball season. …

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Mar
08
2019

North Carolina State and Clemson, Part II: The Syracuse Principle

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  After North Carolina State lost to Georgia Tech on Wednesday night to throw itself squarely on the bubble, I wrote about the ACC Tournament situation facing the Wolfpack and fellow bubble-hugger Clemson.  The Wolfpack and the Tigers live in a climate of constraints. …

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Mar
07
2019

North Carolina State and Clemson, Part I — bracket pressure

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  The North Carolina State Wolfpack made March more interesting in the ACC… but not in a remotely good way. The first rule of Fight Club for college basketball bubble teams is to not do anything really stupid. Losing at home to Georgia Tech …

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