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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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Apr
09
2019

Dean Smith would have smiled at Virginia’s championship

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  No one needs any explanation or recollection of the many times and many ways in which college basketball people — within or outside the ACC — knocked the playing style and overall aesthetic of the Virginia Cavaliers over the years. We have gone …

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Apr
09
2019

This Virginia championship contains widespread resonance in the ACC

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  Let me be very clear about this: Fans of a conference should not be expected to root for fellow conference members. SEC fans do that a lot, and Big Ten fans are usually very good about NOT doing that. If you want to …

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Apr
09
2019

Virginia title reminds us why Maryland leaving the ACC remains such a loss

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  We joke about this all the time on #CollegeSportsTwitter, but behind the jokes lies a basic truth: Maryland did not win a title for the Big Ten in 2002. It won a title for the ACC. That is not a Big Ten memory. …

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Apr
07
2019

Will Virginia Win It All? | answered by @mattzemek

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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 : Will Virginia win It All? When I made my picks at the start of the 2019 NCAA Tournament, I thought Virginia would make the Final Four. When the Final Four arrived, I thought Virginia — which I …

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Apr
04
2019

Virginia at the Final Four Part III — not getting left on the island

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  The Virginia Cavaliers — players, coaches, trainers, support staff — are necessarily and completely focused on the Final Four in Minneapolis. They should be. Why would they not be? It’s all business for a team in search of making more history and redefining …

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Apr
04
2019

Virginia at the Final Four Part II — a new era

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  This installment of All Sports Discussion’s coverage of the Virginia Cavaliers at the 2019 Final Four deals with a “quiet” fact, the kind of fact which is easy to miss in the larger celebration of the Hoos’ return to college basketball’s biggest stage. …

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Apr
04
2019

Duke and North Carolina won’t get to torment Tom Izzo at this Final Four

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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 about Duke and North Carolina at the 2019 Final Four begins with a tennis connection. I cover tennis at another Twitter account — @mzemek — and at a site called Tennis With An Accent, which you can follow at  @accent_tennis during …

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Apr
04
2019

Past glories in Minneapolis create a mixed reality for Duke this week

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  Bracket nerds and college basketball historians — from Jim Nantz to your nextdoor neighbor — pay attention to these things. The Duke Blue Devils have repeated their national championship journeys over the years, and anyone who follows Duke closely knows this. In 1992, …

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Apr
04
2019

Virginia at the Final Four Part I — avoiding Ryan Boatright and more

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  The Virginia Cavaliers have reached college basketball’s Holy Grail once again. For the first time since 1984, the Hoos are the Who’s Who of their sport. They will try to reach their first national championship game when they face the Auburn Tigers in …

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Mar
31
2019

Method to the Madness — Virginia’s style meant as much as its victory

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  The bottom-line reality — that the Virginia Cavaliers won and crossed the finish line, finally returning to the Final Four for the first time since 1984 — mattered more than almost anything else for the Hoos, coach Tony Bennett, and their fans on …

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Mar
29
2019

No regrets for North Carolina — and no stern criticism here

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  I wrote earlier this season at All Sports Discussion that if North Carolina was going to do big things in the NCAA Tournament, the young pups — Coby White and Nassir Little — would have to become the big dogs on the Tar …

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Mar
29
2019

Virginia plays the game on Saturday it dreamed of playing again

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  For nearly a full year, the Virginia Cavaliers had to think about the first game they would play in the NCAA Tournament. UMBC. UMBC. UMBC. That was the only thing the national media and a lot of outside observers associated with the Cavaliers. …

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Mar
24
2019

How many ACC teams will make the Final Four? | answered by @mattzemek

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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 : How many ACC teams will make the Final Four? In ACC country, the Final Four is serious business at Duke, North Carolina and Virginia. It would be a dream come true for Florida State and Virginia Tech. …

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Mar
24
2019

North Carolina shows how the economy (of college hoops) works

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  North Carolina played a relatively normal, solid first half on Friday against Iona in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. UNC scored over 50 points, which is exactly what one should have expected in both halves of that game against a badly …

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Mar
24
2019

Florida State changes the script in an “8-seed gulf game”

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  What is an “8-seed gulf game”? The answer is a million times less complicated than you might think. The difference in seeds — a gulf — is eight. That’s it. The Florida State Seminoles have made a long journey over the past two …

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Mar
23
2019

Virginia turned one page — can it turn a few more?

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  Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  Oxygen. We need it to live. The Virginia Cavaliers didn’t seem to be taking in much oxygen in the first 25 minutes of their NCAA Tournament first-round game against Gardner-Webb on Friday in Columbia, South Carolina. The Cavaliers took the memories of …

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