Apr
01
2013
Following a strong bowl season where the ACC went 4-2 highlighted by wins in the Orange Bowl by Florida State and victories over LSU and USC by Clemson and Georgia Tech, the ACC looked to carry the momentum into college basketball’s post-season. It didn’t quite happen as for the 3rd straight year the ACC didn’t …
Mar
31
2013
Beat a SEC team in a BCS game? Check – Louisville beats Florida in the Sugar Bowl Beat this generation’s top coach and program for a trip to the Final 4? Check – Louisville beats Mike Krzyzewski and the Duke Blue Devils in the Elite 8 and may win the national title. Beat women’s college most …
Mar
30
2013
Remember when the SEC started the SEC Championship game in the early 90s? There were attendance problems, and critics of the game. Now it’s arguably the biggest college football event played outside of the BCS group of games. Some might say it’s bigger than some of the BCS games as it plays to huge ratings …
Mar
30
2013
Just a couple of thoughts after watching Duke defeat Michigan St. 71-61… The Blue Devils are tough, they are really tough. You just don’t wear down a Tom Izzo coached Michigan St. team, but that’s exactly what Duke did. They matched the Spartans physically early. Seth Curry was carried Duke offensively for much of the …
Mar
26
2013
With Gonzaga, Georgetown, and New Mexico out among others let’s rank the remaining teams chances of winning the national title. Now how I rank them won’t solely be based on who the best team, but also on potential matchups and easiest path, especially in the regionals where the games are already set. Here we go… 1. Indiana The Hoosiers …
Mar
25
2013
Well here we are… It’s the Sweet 16. Florida Gulf Coast was the story of the weekend. When you are the first 15 seed ever to make the Sweet 16, you earned and deserve the headlines, but I want discuss how a couple of ACC teams fared though. The conference started with 4 teams in …
Mar
19
2013
I attended the ACC Tournament this past weekend. Through some different things I was working on during the week I had a pass that gave me access to the floor, and allowed to get some shots I wouldn’t have otherwise got. Some pictures I took when I was just roaming around. Here are my 10 …
Mar
18
2013
I have heard alot about the ACC getting the shaft job in this year’s NCAA tournament… Is it true? Well let’s see maybe things aren’t as bad as they look. Here’s a bracket to view… Ok we are going to start with the Duke Blue Devils. Duke – #2 seed in the Midwest Ouch a …
Mar
17
2013
Do you have your bracket filled out yet? We are running a contest here. The winner will have bragging rights on this blog! Anyways here are 10 quick thoughts on the NCAA tournament. 1) Who got snubbed? Well there was… um… well… yeah. I got nothing. For the first time that I can remember I can’t …
Mar
17
2013
One day before Selection Sunday… Where will the ACC teams end up who will make it? Let’s take one last stab at it before Selection Sunday. There is an interesting debate about Duke and Miami as 1 seeds below from the ACCDN. In my ranking system, any RPI win top (100) win is a good win and …
Mar
16
2013
Just a very quick post tonight, but I wanted to put down a few thoughts from today’s action. With a Semi-Finals of Miami vs NC State and Maryland vs UNC, things are wide open now with Duke out. NC State and Maryland are finally playing like the teams we expected to see all year. Our …
Mar
14
2013
It’s the ACC tournament this week. I am going to try and sneak in a few blog posts, but my time may be a bit limited. I’m at the event this year, doing a few things with ACC’s social networking group, so I’m looking forward to that. Check out the the ACC’s tournaments official headquarters …
Mar
12
2013
Greetings from all of us at All Sports Discussion. In Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) country, men’s basketball season is one of our favorite times of the year. Our panelists will be discussing four topics. First, our panelists will predict the players that will obtain first-team all-ACC honors. Second, the panelists will provide their ACC defensive …
Mar
11
2013
Plenty going on today, the ACC released their All-ACC Team, All-ACC Defensive Team, and All-ACC Freshman Team. Good stuff there… Now we want to take a look at how the ACC teams are doing heading into the ACC Tourney at how it could affect NCAA tournament. In my ranking system, any RPI win top (100) win is a …
Mar
10
2013
The week before the ACCT… If things work out I should be there for some of the games. How are the ACC bloggers feeling about things going into the ACC and NCAA tournaments? DukeSportsBlog says for Duke to reach their full potential they need Mason Plumlee to play at a high level, like he did …
Mar
09
2013
Before we dive deep into basketball over the next few weeks, I had few more thoughts on the ACC football schedule for 2013. Recently I wrote about the 5 things I like about the schedule, now lets take a look at the 5 things I don’t like about the ACC Schedule this year. 2nd and 3rd Week …