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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
06
2019

Virginia Tech can make very good use of its loss to Florida State

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  Fans of the Virginia Tech Hokies talked about it all season: “We could get a double-bye in the ACC Tournament.” It was a big deal. It deserved to be. The ACC Tournament is the Cadillac of conference tournaments. It is the most prestigious, …

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Mar
02
2019

Can the ACC get three No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament? | @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 : Can the ACC get three No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament? The short answer: Yes, it can. The other short answer: It can, but it probably won’t. The slightly longer answer: It probably won’t, but it’s still …

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Mar
02
2019

Florida State and Virginia Tech reflect the new-look NCAA Tournament

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Each NCAA Tournament isn’t entirely new. Once in a great while, North Carolina or Kentucky might fall to the NIT, but only once in a while, and when that happens, plenty of other blue-blood schools take part in America’s biggest Dance. Each NCAA Tournament does involve a lot of familiar faces. No one is making …

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Feb
25
2019

The moment of truth arrives for Clemson

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  No more second chances. No more margin for error. No more possibilities to use losses as teachable moments. No more “Get ’em next time!” speeches. The Clemson Tigers have been backed into a corner. This is the fight of their season, the fight …

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Feb
23
2019

Can North Carolina win the national championship? | @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 : Can North Carolina win the national championship? If you were to form a list — let’s say, 10 teams — that could realistically win the national championship, North Carolina would be on it. I don’t think we have …

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Feb
21
2019

North Carolina needs the young pups to become the big dogs

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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 Tar Heels will gladly take a win over the Duke Blue Devils, especially in Cameron Indoor Stadium, anytime they can get one. Winning at Duke — as it often does for UNC — gives the Tar Heels a noticeably better …

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Feb
21
2019

Duke should worry about one thing — and it’s not Zion Williamson

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  Many people are understandably worried about Zion Williamson. The Duke Blue Devils could worry about Zion if they choose to, but with Mike Krzyzewski using the word “stable” to describe the possible No. 1 pick in the upcoming NBA Draft, it seems that …

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Feb
20
2019

The Moment Everything Changed For Florida State Basketball this year.

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  The highest NCAA Tournament seed Leonard Hamilton has attained at Florida State is a No. 3 seed. In order to notch that seed this season, the Seminoles either have to win at North Carolina this Saturday and win the rest of their regular-season …

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Feb
18
2019

Virginia is the Rafael Nadal of 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.  Some of you might know that at my other Twitter account, @mzemek, I cover professional tennis for Tennis With An Accent, found at tennisaccent.com. Our story on the Virginia Cavaliers’ 64-58 win over the Virginia Tech Hokies on Monday night in Blacksburg begins …

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Feb
18
2019

Is Duke-North Carolina really college basketball’s best rivalry? | @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 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. …

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Feb
17
2019

Jonathan Kabongo — A Peripheral Hokie Who Could Become More Central

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  Our story begins in Lawrence, Kansas. Yes, Lawrence is not an ACC locale, but trust me — I know where I am going with this. If you have paid any attention to the Kansas Jayhawks in recent weeks, you have noticed how few …

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Feb
13
2019

Chris Mack Confronts the Boomerang Principle at Louisville

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  This story on the Louisville Cardinals’ collapse against the Duke Blue Devils begins in a soup kitchen. For 10 years as a once-a-week volunteer and then for four years as a five-day-a-week assistant manager, I spent time at a Catholic Seattle soup kitchen. …

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Feb
11
2019

Virginia-North Carolina was all about pendulum swings

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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 …

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Feb
10
2019

Chris Mack and Leonard Hamilton create a highly complicated story

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  Assessing coaches is one of the toughest things to do in college sports. Naturally, there are and will be plenty of situations in which it becomes very easy to evaluate a coach — Kevin Stallings at Pittsburgh as a portrait of failure, Mike …

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Feb
10
2019

Clemson walks through the open door and says thank you

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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 were raised properly, your mama told you to say “please” and “thank you” in various social situations. Instilling good habits and good manners is one of a parent’s many jobs. Conditioning children to express gratitude and appreciation is one of the …

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Feb
09
2019

What did we learn from the Duke-Virginia rematch? | @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 : What did we learn from the Duke-Virginia rematch? Good questions generally require complex answers, and I have had to answer a lot of good questions over the past several months in both football and basketball. This week’s …

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